Package stolen from my door step

[surferdeac]

:lol: :lol:

 

[Turumbar82]

Well it turns out there were no thieves involved. I just happened to have an new UPS man who is illiterate and can't tell the difference between "43" and "02". He delivered it to a building about 200 yards away from my apartment building.

Now, I'm waiting for my package today thinking it will probably go to the wrong address again lol

 

[ryjan]

Well it turns out there were no thieves involved. I just happened to have an new UPS man who is illiterate and can't tell the difference between "43" and "02". He delivered it to a building about 200 yards away from my apartment building.

Now, I'm waiting for my package today thinking it will probably go to the wrong address again lol

Wow.
I take back that rambo knife thing then.

 

[Turumbar82]

can't the rambo knife thing apply to the UPS guy now?

Or maybe I should just get him a reading tutor.

 

[Old BF Shred]

can't the rambo knife thing apply to the UPS guy now?

Or maybe I should just get him a reading tutor.

Or glasses! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[dmcguitar]

so now do you still get another free shipment of cables from MF? remember Karma... if they didnt ship em out yet you might wanna let them know.

ive seen ups deliver to the wrong address a few times... or leave it with neighbors cause they are trying to help... you just need good neighboors that'll let you know.

 

[Turumbar82]

I think Musiciansfriend has already shipped out the other cables so I'm going to return them to them since they were nice enough to send them to me so quickly.

 

[emperor_black]

One time, I was at home waiting for a guitar. I kept re-loading the UPS tracking page to see if there were any changes. Around 5 PM, the page showed up "No answer at door". I was so pissed off. I went out of my way to stay at home all day and this! I called UPS and they said it often happens that the UPS person knocked on the wrong door.

I call it BS. When a lazy UPS driver has been wasting time smoking/chatting on the phone and has no time to deliver all the packages, for some, he'll mark as customer not available even without going to the door. He'll tell his supervisor that he must have knocked on the wrong door. Those scums!

 

[Old BF Shred]

I call it BS. When a lazy UPS driver has been wasting time smoking/chatting on the phone and has no time to deliver all the packages, for some, he'll mark as customer not available even without going to the door. He'll tell his supervisor that he must have knocked on the wrong door. Those scums!

While I don't doubt that this can/does happen, I can only tell you what a friend, who is a UPS driver, goes through. UPS, like so many greedy American companies, has cut back so far on help, that my friend works 11-12+ hour days quite often. And even then barely makes all the deliveries for that day.
It disgusts me how American corporations have made the employee out to be the enemy, while they "steal" millions in bonus money for themselves. On the other hand, many of the unions don't help the situation by demanding way more than they have a right to. Too much greed from their end of the deal as well. And the "average Joe" worker gets stuck in the middle. :shock:

Sorry for the soapbox rant here, but it is not always the UPS drivers' fault. And if they don't run themselves into the ground, the company threatens to get someone who will, to replace them. :twisted: :twisted:

Like I say, this is based on what I see my friend go through, so I'm not just making it up.....
God help America! It will likely get worse before it gets better!

 

[emperor_black]

I call it BS. When a lazy UPS driver has been wasting time smoking/chatting on the phone and has no time to deliver all the packages, for some, he'll mark as customer not available even without going to the door. He'll tell his supervisor that he must have knocked on the wrong door. Those scums!

While I don't doubt that this can/does happen, I can only tell you what a friend, who is a UPS driver, goes through. UPS, like so many greedy American companies, has cut back so far on help, that my friend works 11-12+ hour days quite often. And even then barely makes all the deliveries for that day.
It disgusts me how American corporations have made the employee out to be the enemy, while they "steal" millions in bonus money for themselves. On the other hand, many of the unions don't help the situation by demanding way more than they have a right to. Too much greed from their end of the deal as well. And the "average Joe" worker gets stuck in the middle. :shock:

Sorry for the soapbox rant here, but it is not always the UPS drivers' fault. And if they don't run themselves into the ground, the company threatens to get someone who will, to replace them. :twisted: :twisted:

Like I say, this is based on what I see my friend go through, so I'm not just making it up.....
God help America! It will likely get worse before it gets better!

I agree with you 100%. There are good drivers and bad drivers out there. I pity for your friend. Like my wife's company for example. She's into support and she closes like 200% more tickets than the other guys does. Yet, there are only 3 employees and she's asked to come in sharp at 9 AM. If she's late by 5 mins, she gets a big lecture.

 

[ryjan]

I used to work for nazi's like that. Now I work for a small private company that still believes in a 2 week sallary christmas bonus and taking friday afternoons off for company sponsored golf and happy hours. I dont make a ton of money, but I can pay my bills and the benifits rock!

 

[mikey383]

I call it BS. When a lazy UPS driver has been wasting time smoking/chatting on the phone and has no time to deliver all the packages, for some, he'll mark as customer not available even without going to the door. He'll tell his supervisor that he must have knocked on the wrong door. Those scums!

While I don't doubt that this can/does happen, I can only tell you what a friend, who is a UPS driver, goes through. UPS, like so many greedy American companies, has cut back so far on help, that my friend works 11-12+ hour days quite often. And even then barely makes all the deliveries for that day.
It disgusts me how American corporations have made the employee out to be the enemy, while they "steal" millions in bonus money for themselves. On the other hand, many of the unions don't help the situation by demanding way more than they have a right to. Too much greed from their end of the deal as well. And the "average Joe" worker gets stuck in the middle. :shock:

Sorry for the soapbox rant here, but it is not always the UPS drivers' fault. And if they don't run themselves into the ground, the company threatens to get someone who will, to replace them. :twisted: :twisted:

Like I say, this is based on what I see my friend go through, so I'm not just making it up.....
God help America! It will likely get worse before it gets better!

I agree with you 100%. There are good drivers and bad drivers out there. I pity for your friend. Like my wife's company for example. She's into support and she closes like 200% more tickets than the other guys does. Yet, there are only 3 employees and she's asked to come in sharp at 9 AM. If she's late by 5 mins, she gets a big lecture.

My work just informed me that I will have to now tackle TWICE the amount of work for the same pay. ******** if you ask me. They fired half of the work force and now want the other half to pick up the slack.

 

[surferdeac]

My work just informed me that I will have to now tackle TWICE the amount of work for the same pay. ******** if you ask me. They fired half of the work force and now want the other half to pick up the slack.

its complete and utter BS i agree.

I work in private sector small business general contractor/builder (self employed)
I live in Massachusetts (taxachusetts) and what is happening around here is your seeing your tax rates as well as insurance rates increasing (you "legally" need workmans comp/general liability to work/contract build for people, unless you are woking for someone else and they pay it for you) they base this amount on how much you make anually on avg. The problem is that small businesses are cutting their service rates "in order to keep on working" but insurance companies aren't budging in how much they are charging people. They are killing the small business owners and aren't really giving anybody breakes even when some of the private sector is dropping their service rates 20-40% to stay competitive and to stay busy.

On top of that BS you see HEalth insurance companies in this state at least like (Blue cross blue shield in particular) raising the freakin premiums 33% higher from last year accross the board.

Thank god i am not in debt or have much overhead

hey i don't mind cutting back, charging less for my services, being financially frugal (i have kinda always been like this; at least my old man taught me to be this way), but i expect the same from the state and local government as well as insruance companies. when you see the that the bang for your buck is decreasing and some many people working for the state and or federal governments as well as insurance companies aren't willing to make the same sacrifices (seem to be firing some people while giving others raises) as everyone else working in the private sector than i see a HUGe Pile of DUNg heading towards a gigantic fan and its not going to be pretty.

I am getting fed up with busting my ass only to find that all of my hard earned money is going into the pockets of people who are going through it like **** through a tin horn all the while our government keeps on printing up money and making our dollar worthless

whatever happened to small government and not being owned/endebted to the state and federal govenrment. they aren't willing to make the same sacrifices that everyone else is going to have to make.

Sometimes i feel almost as if our government wants our currency to become worthless so they can be at the forefront of creating this "new global currency idea"

 

[ryjan]

Sounds like you live in the etirely wrong state with your political views :lol:
I'm all for breaking out the torches and pitchforks and marching to Washington! Who's with me?

 

[emperor_black]

i pity you guys!