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[shadesong]

He has to die.

The idjit student worker, I mean. Seriously.

So I'm shipping a box via FedEx, and I print the shipping label, and go to grab it and one of the clear FedEx pouches that you affix to the box.

No pouches.

I look up - no FedEx envelopes or boxes, either. So I ask him if he packed them. Yes, he did. Where? This box.

I go through the box. Lots of envelopes and boxes. No pouches.

I ask him where else the FedEx stuff might be - he says nowhere, that's all there is. I point out the lack of pouches. He points to the envelopes. I explain what a pouch is. I point to where on the shelves the pouches were.

He says, "Oh, I didn't pack anything from that shelf."

I say, "Well, there were 40 of them right there yesterday - are you *sure* you didn't pack them?"

He's sure.

I'm sure he's a goddamn moron.

So I taped the label on and hope that'll do for now. Nothing FedEx should've been packed *anyway* - I FedEx stuff 2-3 times a week. That should've been pack-at-the-last-minute stuff. *growl*

Another source of move-related frustration: Mary Jane is not doing any of her own packing. She's making the student workers do it.

Lazy, I tell you.

*sigh*

And I just realized that this is our lunch-with-the-girls day. Joy.

Comments

[yendi]

:-( *hugs* Sounds majorly sucky, love.

Would it be acceptable to pack the student worker in the box? He's dumb enough to probably not realize it at first. And then have the box sent to storage somewhere. Like Mary Jane's basement, maybe.

"The girls"=Mj, E, and J? My heart goes out to you. Can you buy earplugs, maybe?

[mfree.livejournal.com]

I think Chechnya would be a far, far better address...

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Those girls. *heavy sigh*

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

She's making the same student workers who can't find their butts with both hands pack her stuff? The world is a wonderful place, I'm sure that it will reward her efforts with all she had hoped for, and so much more.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Ah, no - she's lazy, not stupid. The afternoon student worker is smart. That's the one she's having pack her stuff.

ok so i'm the practical sort

[dorei.livejournal.com]

It's the double virgo in me.
Have you considered printing the fed-ex labels on avery label paper? Then you can just peel and stick and won't have to worry about stoopid people.

Re: ok so i'm the practical sort

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I could, but FedEx is picky picky picky - it has to be done Their Way, with the pouch. Our FedEx guy is cool, though, and knows we're moving - I'm sure he'll understand.

Re: ok so i'm the practical sort

[dorei.livejournal.com]

How odd ... I used to do it all the time with FedEx ... never had a complaint. Well, we ARE wild and crazy in northern VA, I guess. It's living so close to that hotbed of loose morals known as D.C. Maybe they should change the name to the "Red Light District of Columbia?"

Re: ok so i'm the practical sort

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's because of the bulk that we constitute - I work at a university, and *everyone* is shipping things *every* day. We have to do it all online at fedex.com now, too.

Re: ok so i'm the practical sort

[ariadnesthread.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm in NoVA, too. We slap FedEx labels on all sorts of recycled boxes and send 'em off to Europe, and nobody gets snarky at us....well, they do if we forget the customs form. They (US customs) have grown nasty on the declaration form issue. These are usually back-breaker boxes full of training materials, too. I'm sure FedEx hates us for them, even though they make scads of money. We've supposedly shifted to RPS for overnight stuff, but I've yet to see an RPS label up here on my floor.

I will say one thing--the postal service in rural Maryland has gone to hell in a handbasket. My parents' mail now goes through the Capitol Heights big postal sorting center (I think maybe it used to go through Brentwood, the anthrax victim), and they're having real problems now. Stuff Mom has ordered--stuff like jewelry--that has been sent mail instead of UPS is not arriving. At all. Or, in one case, the package arrives, clearly resealed, and the item is missing. The postmaster in their podunk has complained to the district supervisors, but he's seen no positive changes yet. Very annoying, and costly to us all (since most of those packages were insured, we all pay the premiums).