{"id":55976,"date":"2014-04-18T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=55976"},"modified":"2014-04-18T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T08:01:44","slug":"cape-philharmonic-orchestra-sweet-service-and-myciti-bus-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/cape-philharmonic-orchestra-sweet-service-and-myciti-bus-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Philharmonic Orchestra Sweet Service and MyCiTi Bus Sour Service Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cape<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra for its 100 years of delighting lovers of classic music and for bringing in international artists as well as conductors. \u00a0The Orchestra receives no financial support from the City of Cape Town, to reflect what a treasure it is for our city, and is dependent ion handouts from the Lotto and income generated through its concerts.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to the MyCiTi Bus ticket office in Gardens, and its staff member Martin Thabe, who took half an hour on Saturday 5 April to assist a small number of passengers to purchase their cards or to top them up. \u00a0In my instance, I had to enter 1111 as well as my PIN 5 times, because he forgot to tell me to press the green button after entering the PIN. \u00a0He refused to say ‘please’<\/em> when he instructed me to follow his numerous instructions, and he blamed the ‘system<\/em>‘ for being inadequate to deal with the transactions. \u00a0I had to beg for a receipt of the card purchase, which he did not issue proactively! \u00a0The slow service caused a new phenomenon of ‘MyCiTi Bus rage<\/em>‘, two commuters being beside themselves with anger in having to wait so long, and fighting about their places in the queue! \u00a0There was no response to the slow service from MyCiTI Bus after it was reported on Twitter! \u00a0There was no manager nor security on duty, to protect the commuters against other outraged passengers!<\/p>\n

The\u00a0WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards<\/strong>\u00a0are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.\u00a0 Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at\u00a0\u00a0whalecot@iafrica.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the\u00a0WhaleTales\u00a0<\/strong>newsletters on the\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: \u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra for its 100 years of delighting lovers of classic music and for bringing in international artists as well as conductors. \u00a0The Orchestra receives no financial support from the City of Cape Town, to reflect what a treasure it is for our city, and is dependent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,5794,22607,248,21],"tags":[1241,32378,24869,12526,1587,32373,1771],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t