Bad Manners and Brimstone

Is this your car or a rental? Sorry if this sounds obvious, but if it's yours, only gave them the car key. Remove all others from the keyring.

When we bought our new car, the dealer got each of us a full-service key (opens all doors, trunk, glove compartment, etc.) and one other key just for that specific use.  It only starts the car and locks and unlocks the car door, nothing else.  We put it on a tag marked with our car's license plate number and no other keys at all.  We carry it in the change drawer on the dashboard so we never have to worry about forgetting it.

It sounds like heinously poor scheduling!   The managers seem to want you to be two places at once and that never works!   I will tell you without a moment's hesitation that if I were a customer at your place and were treated as you decribe, I'd never go back.   Customers have to have some sort of reasonable expectation of being assisted when they're there!

Your company's reluctance to hire another worker to fill in the gaps may end up so reducing your customer base that it will no longer matter.  All your customers will have found new, better organized places with which to do business.

I had a similar situation a few years ago. I emailed Amazon and they replied that they could forward my thanks to the sender but could not reveal who they were.

I've never heard of such a thing!   To me that just sounds bizarre!   I'd certainly want to know who I was thanking.

...  I heard one today in which a childfree couple was told -- in front of the 15 children of the husband's siblings -- that they will be expected to give gifts to all the children because it's their duty as the non-parents with more money to burn.  This action was rude on its face, but it makes me wonder what should be expected of people in their situation.  ...

Very sadly, even if I had fully intended to give each of the fifteen children very generous gifts, being told I WOULD be doing so would flip that table right over.   None of the fifteen would be receiving a gift from me.   If brother complained I'd say "Au contraire!   We need to save our money! We don't have fifteen children to take care of us in our old age like you do!"   

The staffer still works there?   

My family used a fake tree that my parents bought 40+ years ago (I'm Jewish, but mom was Episcopalian and she really liked Christmas so dad was cool with it.) We usually put it up in the week before Christmas and took it down a few days after. There were enough real trees outside that mom never wanted to cut one down.

When our kids were young we had some Jewish neighbors across the street who had kids our kids' ages.   They were quite happy being Jewish, but loved their friends' Christmas trees.   So they bought an artificial tree, set it up and hung non religious ornaments on it and called it their Hanukkah bush.

I'm with you.