Leslie Hernandez

Review of The Continental Club

On March 14th and between 9:30- 11:30 am I experie...

On March 14th and between 9:30- 11:30 am I experienced something pretty terrible outside of the Continental Club. I parked my car in a street spot in front of the Continental Club and noticed it had been vandalized. After speaking to the staff of Warby Parker and a group of pedestrians, it was determined the act was caused by an employee from the Continental Club.

The person who vandalized my car wrote horrible and rude messages on all my windows in a permanent sharpie marker. To top it off, he also taped all my doors shut. He was upset because I parked my car in the wrong direction and decided I deserved this punishment. The staff at the Continental Club did not want to come out to speak with me and after a few phone calls the manager came out. She was very rude and insisted numerous times no one from her business would do something l like this -- she almost convinced the pedestrians they were wrong. After a lot of back and forth explaining the situation, one of the employees finally admitted he vandalized my car. The manager gave me a very unauthentic apology and gave me every excuse she could think of.

I called the police and filed a report. Since there were no permanent damages to my vehicle, I'm not able to press any charges against this individual. The police forced him to clean my windows and remove the tape from the doors. He paid me $15 for a carwash but it doesn't take back what he did and the time I took away from work to deal with his behavior.

I'm local to Austin, a small business owner and I was appalled by the treatment I received -- I would be ashamed if someone who worked for me did anything close to this. Besides being disappointed with this experience, I never felt so disrespected.

Careful of visiting the Continental Club or at least don't park outside or near them, they take no responsibility for their employee's actions. I was in the area for work reasons and the next day I saw the same employee going back to Continental Club. He's old enough to be my grandfather and should know right from wrong -- I wouldn't be surprised if he did this again or something worse. He did apologize and said he regretted his actions but there is a big difference from regretting your actions and regretting you were caught.