Hello Monday. Hello all of you lovelies! Did you get a good amount of rest and productivity in this weekend? I hope your to do list is a little shorter.
One big thing we crossed off of ours was the fridge replacement. That is the actual act of replacing the fridge. The boneheads that did it? Let's just say there is now an insurance claim opened with the delivery people's company and Home Depot gave us $50 back for the scratch they inflicted while jamming it into our kitchen. (We inspected it prior to them bringing it in and it was totally fine.)
I took some notes as they installed. Beware, lotsa language. (But you should assume that any given day.)
I swear to God, if one more delivery person feels the need to tell me how effing small my kitchen is, I'm going to throat punch them. I know it's small. Do I need it pointed out every. single. time? No. You're taking what is supposed to be a great thing and making me feel like crap about where I live and saying it in a manner like I chose to make it that small. "This is a big fridge for such a small kitchen." No, it's a normal sized fridge by today's standard. Let me just get the wrecking ball, your highness.
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Um, shouldn't you show up with a measuring tape? Why do you need to borrow ours? We are in a pandemic I don't want you touching more than you need to of ours and you should need nothing from us but to sign for it once it's inspected. Nope. Needed our measuring tape, hammer and screwdriver to take off the door (which they didn't even know how to do) and then tried to steal the measuring tape. This wasn't an 'oopsie', they had to use it inside and then the other guy took it to his truck. The Mr asked where his measuring tape was and the guy said the other guy must have it. He was more than shocked and actually looked a little pissed he asked for it back.
We are over a year into the pandemic. If you don't know that masks go OVER YOUR EFFING NOSE, then natural selection needs to have its way with you. There is zero excuse for this. If anyone is butthurt by the natural selection comment, go somewhere else.
Also, thanks for coughing in the house so I now have to disinfect it top to bottom.
Oh good, you've taken a fridge that we have moved in and out of the kitchen at least three times with zero issue and used it to put gashes in the entryway, took out the corners on one wall and scraped along the white wood banister because the two of you share a brain cell. I am not lying when I said I had to walk away. I felt jail time coming on because at that point I didn't see the fridge, I saw all of the shit I was now going to have to repair.
You know what else would be fun? If you were too dense to tilt the damn fridge as you were taking it out and bent our f**king outside light!
Do we have a pen to sign paperwork?? You've got 7 stops today, you didn't think to put a pen with the paperwork 5 stops in? Wouldn't a smart person clip it to the... never mind, I answered my own question and that was referring to the 'smarter' of the two which wasn't saying much.
And finally, the fridge that we inspected in full sunlight before they even bothered to bring it in? They managed to scratch the front door.
You cannot make this crap up. I don't know what bad karma stars we were born under but this happens every. single. time. Y'all who have been here long enough know that's a true statement and some of you probably get excited when you hear we're getting a delivery with popcorn in hand because you know a story is coming with it.
So my only option was to tap out.
It looks just like the old one so nothing thrilling.
Hope you had a better weekend?
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I have dealt with some delivery people who I was less than pleased with but this is the first time I can honestly say I wanted to throat punch somebody. When he gave me that surprised, and slightly insulted, look when I asked him to return my own tape measure I nearly lost it. I have never felt so compelled to flip off 2 people leaving my house before either (the door was closed, but it still felt good).
ReplyDeleteYou guys have the worst luck. I'm sorry you had to deal with all of this. Again.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to understand why this happens to you.
ReplyDeleteDo you have one appliance/repair store you use?
One electric/plumbing/hvac? Or lots? Are you using chains? Are these people employees or subcontractors?
We have used the same places for over 35 years, through two houses. Same computer guy, same hvac/plumbing/electric, same appliance/service, same car dealership. I know most of the guys by name. They certainly know us, our house, our cars, our kids and their stuff too. My mother has been in our town for over 20 years, she uses the same places. They know her, they know that is my mother.
Ditto with most of our medical/dental people, mostly the same for a very long time. (We have been with our dentist since he started his practice, we remember his son being born, his son is now his partner. His son is the same age as our oldest).
We are not in a tiny town. We are in eastern Midwest, Indiana.
I do not price shop. I am very loyal. (I also do not have problems.)
The only ones I have not been able to keep long term are woodworking guys and handyman. They eventually die on me. (They are usually retired guys). But I absolutely love them while I have them.
ARGH!!! I am SO sorry this was such a nightmare! I'm finding the delivery people for some of these places are getting worse and worse. When we had our bed delivered it was a bit of a nightmare and they weren't the least bit friendly and were irritated the bedroom was upstairs. The guy who put up our blinds on the patio door was contracted through the big box store and he did a terrible job. The window guys from last year actually put some doohickey in the track to make them work right. What a nightmare! And to not come with your own tool box is absurd!!
ReplyDeleteI am sorry you had such an ordeal with Thing One and Thing Two. We had the opposite when our last refrigerator came a few years back, it was pouring rain, they had to bring it upstairs because that's where our kitchen is, and they were so absolutely gentle with it, and nice to me. I tipped them well, they were from Lowe's...the trouble with the refrigerator itself is another story, but these guys were good. I hope you are compensated for all the dings and the light fixture...wow.
ReplyDeleteHappy new fridge! I'm sorry for all the bad luck. Just sucks
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain. Approximately one million years ago I had a consultation with a representative from a window treatment business and placed my order for blinds for a large bay window, a bathroom window, and one other small window. Mind you, installing custom window treatments is literally all this business does. Tomorrow an installer is coming to do what I sincerely hope is the final "correction" after a comedy of errors involving them installing valances that were way too long and had no end pieces, several rounds of them insisting the valance style we wanted was "impossible" (we have more than enough room actually), coming back to re-measure, and returning with new valances that were still the wrong length (and in the case of one, also the wrong color). I made at least two trips in person to their showroom with photos and measurements and I believe tomorrow's visit by the installer will bring the total amount of times they've been here to at least five. Guess I know who I'm not using for future window covering needs.
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