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injest:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on March 30, 2008, 04:39:04 pm ---U.P.S.
UPS found my package and promptly re-shipped it to my home address, like normal and left me a message saying "hey you weren't home when we came by.."
Luckily, I had gone home for lunch and when I found the little yellow note, I promptly called UPS and went absolutely ape-shit. I was shouting at them on Friday. Monday, I was literally screaming at them for their incompetence.
I got the supervisor who was supposed to call me Monday and never did on the phone and sounding sullen - like all this was MY fault - asked what delivery arrangements I wanted.
"AFTER 5 pm TODAY." I replied.
She agreed.
I left work at 4:30 pm, got to my home by 4:48 pm and had just enough time to use the bathroom before the doorbell rang.
Yep, UPS having no clue what AFTER 5 pm meant. They docked the delivery of my package at 4:53 pm.
Imagine if I had - yet again - taken them at their word and arrived at my home at 5 pm?
>:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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ummm....you would have been even more displeased??
;D ;D
is that not so irritating?? seems customer service is a dying concept WE are now the ones that have to bend over backwards for THEM!
delalluvia:
My mother has been very ill and is now recovering.
She was in the hospital for 3 weeks and is now in rehab and has been for a week.
During the first week my mother was in the hospital and doing so extremely badly, I didn't think she'd make it, I was there every single day after work and on weekends because my sister had strep and we didn't want her near anyone. After my sister recovered, she and I started alternating days visiting my mother as her health was precarious and would improve then degenerate sometimes within an hour.
I don't have to tell you guys how exhausting emotionally and physically this situation is.
PLUS, we're also checking on her home every few days to make sure it isn't broken into, paying her bills, keeping up the lawn, keeping the relatives informed, haranguing the doctors and nursing staff, etc. and since the hospital is across town from where we live, I don't have to tell you guys how my gas bill has skyrocketed till I can't really afford it.
FINALLY, thank the gods, she recovered and is now in rehab. After a week of alternating days visiting her, last night after sitting there a few hours, listening to my mother complain about the staff, watch her eat dinner and watch TV, perfectly normal, I decide she's fine and I tell her that instead of seeing her Saturday, I'd see her Monday. She said OK. I was taking a day off.
My sister just called. Among the conversation tidbits of her visit to mom, she said, "Oh, when you go there tomorrow, tell mom X."
Me: I'm not going tomorrow. I told mom I'd see her Monday.
Sister: God you're such a bitch!
Me: Me? Why am I a bitch?
Sister; Can't even spend a few hours with your own mother!!
Me: I HAVE been spending time with her.
We went on in the same vein for a few minutes, but basically I told her that mother wasn't sick anymore, was coherent and able to attend to her own affairs at the rehab place and so constant attention by us wasn't really needed and she was perfectly free to take a day off if she wanted to as well, no one was making her go. She changed the subject.
Jeez, like I was Satan incarnate because I wanted a day to myself. She just wanted to call me names, I reckon. >:( >:( >:(
injest:
Jeez, now there is a supportive sister! Don't let her put her issues on you Del. You will be able to be much more 'there' for your mom Monday having had some time off. It is important when you are a caregiver to take care of yourself too.
You are NOT doing anything wrong by taking a break. The worst is over.
{{Del}}
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: injest on April 11, 2008, 10:40:01 pm ---Jeez, now there is a supportive sister! Don't let her put her issues on you Del. You will be able to be much more 'there' for your mom Monday having had some time off. It is important when you are a caregiver to take care of yourself too.
You are NOT doing anything wrong by taking a break. The worst is over.
{{Del}}
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Thank you, Jess. I can't tell you how much I wanted to PM and tell you what was going on and how bad it was when I was going at it alone without help (the tarot card reading I did at the first of the year was haunting me as well), but in the end I didn't because I wanted BM to be a refuge for me to take my mind off of things.
Thanks again {{{{Jess}}}} :-*
injest:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 11, 2008, 10:56:04 pm ---Thank you, Jess. I can't tell you how much I wanted to PM and tell you what was going on and how bad it was when I was going at it alone without help (the tarot card reading I did at the first of the year was haunting me as well), but in the end I didn't because I wanted BM to be a refuge for me to take my mind off of things.
Thanks again {{{{Jess}}}} :-*
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You can pm me anytime, Del....Even if you just want to vent. :-* :-*
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