Rude Secruity + Poor Management
We travelled from South London with eight kids to attend the over-5s event held during summer holidays at Rollernation. For all of the kids, it was their first time in the rink, and they were extremely excited.
We learnt on arrival that under-5s are not allowed in the venue, meaning one of the new mums in our group would be unable to watch her children in action in the bays, even from the sidelines, due to the venueâs insurance. We missed this completely on the flyer and, as we paid on arrival, acknowledged that it was in fact on the website booking page, an oversight on our end.
Nonetheless, the security guard was extremely rude when explaining this to us. He clearly does not know how to talk to women or behave around children, and this was our first negative encounter. His tone was dismissive when we tried to understand how the situation could be resolved, which was disappointing.
While in the rink, one of the kids was struggling with her technique, so another mum took her for a walk. I started to prepare some snacks for her to eat on their walk, and the same security guard came over to say no food was allowed to be consumed in the building. I explained that a member of staff had bag-checked me on arrival, and that she was not consuming food in the building, I was simply preparing food for when she left. He was rude and dismissive and continued to repeat himself, even though I had said no food was being eaten on site. This upset my niece greatly to witness.
As we were leaving the building, we had eight under-8s to prepare at the close of the event. He came over to rush us out, showing nothing but aggression, passive anger, and a disgusting, patronising undertone. We had such a fun experience with the kids trying something new and buzzing. Yet again, he used a dismissive and antagonistic tone while we were trying to leave. Once outside, we had to collect the buggy and remaining belongings before heading off, doing all we could to move quickly. He made rude and derogatory comments to us as mothers in front of the kids. Two of us confronted him, explaining, âThese are kids watching how to talk to women, we are someoneâs wife, daughter.â He showed no awareness of how egregious his actions were.
Once we got outside, he shut the gate, and two staff members from the venue apologised on his behalf, explaining they had never seen such behaviour. They said we handled it well, as one mentioned she would not have been as graceful. The manager came out and initially told us he was âjust doing his jobâ, a true indication of how leadership trickles down to staff hires. The staff overall were lovely, but there is no regard or grace for accommodating children on site, no regard for maintaining repeat customers, and how staff talk to parents and behave as such in front of kids. This was so sad to experience and brought one of the kids to tears. With this being the last rink we have in London, new management and staff training, especially with security who have emotional intelligence, is essential.
We will not return as a group, sadly.
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