...REALLY?
Jan. 22nd, 2009 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asimplechordCapslock and bold cannot adequately express my irritation.
1. SEARS' delivery service is retarded. Oh, excuse me, "logistically challenged" is more PC? FINE. I specifically scheduled delivery of our new fridge during business hours yesterday because the loading dock closes before 6pm. Getting a call at fucking 7:15pm from an ever-so-helpful customer service associate asking if I could just go down and open the doors? Useless. No, I can't open the doors. THAT'S WHY I SCHEDULED THE DELIVERY DURING THE DAY. The window for delivery was 3:45-5:45pm, and I TOLD the person who scheduled it that that was cutting it close, because if they were delayed, they wouldn't be able to deliver. Yes, I'll reschedule. Thankyouverylittle.
2. The people who designed the layout in our new TC room were NOT the people who will use it. The TC hood was ordered by yet another party. So, yeah. No convenient place to put the CO2 tanks, only one place to put the CO2 incubators - because they have to be powered by an outlet on the emergency generator - and the hood's fittings are right-handed. Which would be fine, b/c everyone but me is a rightie, and I am ambidextrous. But all the gas, air, and vacuum fittings (fittings, not just pipes, which could be plumbed)? Are on the left wall. We can either replumb the entire room, try to exchange our hood and wait on a new construction/delivery schedule, or string Tygon tubing across the room and into the front of the hood.
Which is a decision I cannot make without The Chief's input. And he is... out of town for the week.
3. The UV light in our old hood went out. I have learned through painful experience NOT to try to replace them myself. FIXT (facilities' repair) will do so. I requested a replacement. It took a week for my request to be filled. Unfortunately, The Idiot, who has difficulties understanding spoken English, was using the hood when the repairman arrived, and asked him to just leave the bulb - he'd replace it.
He did. He broke it. And now he wants someone to come fix it. He said he thinks it is the fuse, not the bulb. Which, okay, fine. If he had let the repairman do his job, that would have been checked and fixed, and we'd be fully functional now.
The Idiot came and asked if I called and asked the repairman to come back. Why, yes. But since it took A WEEK for him to get around to us the first time, I'm not optimistic that he'll be running right back to deal with this.
Why, yes, I love dealing with these problems over and over again. It's not like I have, you know, EXPERIMENTS TO DO or anything.
/sarcasm
I am going to go havealcohol chocolate lunch, and ponder Bden/Shane D/s porn that Tabby planted in my brain. My happy-place for the day.
1. SEARS' delivery service is retarded. Oh, excuse me, "logistically challenged" is more PC? FINE. I specifically scheduled delivery of our new fridge during business hours yesterday because the loading dock closes before 6pm. Getting a call at fucking 7:15pm from an ever-so-helpful customer service associate asking if I could just go down and open the doors? Useless. No, I can't open the doors. THAT'S WHY I SCHEDULED THE DELIVERY DURING THE DAY. The window for delivery was 3:45-5:45pm, and I TOLD the person who scheduled it that that was cutting it close, because if they were delayed, they wouldn't be able to deliver. Yes, I'll reschedule. Thankyouverylittle.
2. The people who designed the layout in our new TC room were NOT the people who will use it. The TC hood was ordered by yet another party. So, yeah. No convenient place to put the CO2 tanks, only one place to put the CO2 incubators - because they have to be powered by an outlet on the emergency generator - and the hood's fittings are right-handed. Which would be fine, b/c everyone but me is a rightie, and I am ambidextrous. But all the gas, air, and vacuum fittings (fittings, not just pipes, which could be plumbed)? Are on the left wall. We can either replumb the entire room, try to exchange our hood and wait on a new construction/delivery schedule, or string Tygon tubing across the room and into the front of the hood.
Which is a decision I cannot make without The Chief's input. And he is... out of town for the week.
3. The UV light in our old hood went out. I have learned through painful experience NOT to try to replace them myself. FIXT (facilities' repair) will do so. I requested a replacement. It took a week for my request to be filled. Unfortunately, The Idiot, who has difficulties understanding spoken English, was using the hood when the repairman arrived, and asked him to just leave the bulb - he'd replace it.
He did. He broke it. And now he wants someone to come fix it. He said he thinks it is the fuse, not the bulb. Which, okay, fine. If he had let the repairman do his job, that would have been checked and fixed, and we'd be fully functional now.
The Idiot came and asked if I called and asked the repairman to come back. Why, yes. But since it took A WEEK for him to get around to us the first time, I'm not optimistic that he'll be running right back to deal with this.
Why, yes, I love dealing with these problems over and over again. It's not like I have, you know, EXPERIMENTS TO DO or anything.
/sarcasm
I am going to go have
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Date: 2009-01-22 11:37 pm (UTC)But you have my sympathy. My profound, heartfelt sympathy.
We have no clocks. The central system that runs our clocks is broken. In classrooms where we do have ceilings (in some, we don't) and heat (in most, we don't) and a working internet connection (ftw!), we still have no clocks. They are leaning against walls, door frames, and lurking where they are most likely to get stepped on.
They have not, to the best of my knowledge, started melting.
I think I would strangle The Idiot.
Oh yes. Heartfelt sympathy.
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Date: 2009-01-22 11:39 pm (UTC)(Goes without saying that I did not show your LJ page, just the photo...)
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Date: 2009-01-23 01:26 am (UTC)I don't get it - it doesn't seem like delivering appliances should be that hard, you know? Where does the difficulty lie now that mapquest or googlemaps has removed some of the danger of getting lost in BFE?
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Date: 2009-01-23 01:46 am (UTC)I have a pretty good sense when a class period is getting toward the end, but I taught for one day without a watch or a clock, and... yeah. It was strange.
Every room? No. I'd feel better if one were working somewhere on campus, though.
I don't know what's up with Sears. They used to have great customer service. Apparently now not so much. And delivery? *flings hands open in confounded despair* No idea. The fridge I *did* get (different company): sent on a truck with one lanky early twenty-something to deliver it. He managed to collapse *under* it, on the porch stairs, and I had to run down the street and send neighbor's younger son into bathroom to get older son out of shower to come help.
I despaired of ever getting a fridge there for a while.
Good luck to you.
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Date: 2009-01-23 02:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 02:09 am (UTC)My watch died right before the semester started, so I taught for a day using only my cell phone as a guide. Really weird.
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