I suck at ranting, so I will just give the details and steam a little. :mad:
My in-laws have mold. They also have a really big house that was full to bursting with their stuff. They’ve been moving out of their house so that it can be cleaned for three months, and they aren’t done. So, they had hired my sis-in-law’s boyfriend to move during the day when they are working.
Last night my husband went over to lend a hand and get some of his things (we’ve been trying to get anything that was his from when he lived there so that they don’t have to move it.) One of the things he planned to get was a desk from his childhood that we finally have room for. This was one of the last links to his childhood, and he loved it. It was for our oldest son.
Apparently SIL’s dimwit boyfriend didn’t want to carry it down the stairs, so he threw it over the balcony. It’s destroyed.
MIL had an antique desk that she also loved. He couldn’t figure out how to get it through the door. So he and a friend of his took a pickaxe to it. It’s destroyed.
They found both desks in the dumpster last night. :mad:
And, even though this jackass pissed off his son and probably made his wife cry, FIL has decided that (for reasons I can’t go into), they can’t fire SIL’s boyfriend. They need him to finish the job. :mad: :mad: :mad:
Was there no prior indication that the boyfriend-in-law was a destructive neandertoad? I’m thinking anyone who thinks a pickaxe is a standard moving tool might have other, more visible, indicators of defectiveness such as a protruding brow ridge or an affinity for domestic beer.
Um… I certainly don’t know enough about the situation to judge… but if I found out that an employee of mine was needlessly destroying my possessions for his own convenience, I’d fire the sucker on the spot. What the hell?
I think a little axe handle “suprise” wouldn’t be too extreme a reaction for this kind of crap. I’m not in a really great mood right now, so maybe that’s an overreaction on my part, but I’d want to hurt the stupid son of a bitch.
What sort of thought process does it require to deduce that there is NO WAY to get an antique desk out of a room, so it Must Be Destroyed? How did he suppose it got in there in the first place? Either it was assembled in the room (not common for antique furniture), or the great big hand of God plopped it down in there, or – shocker – there is some way to get it out that requires a little extra effort and thought.
Sorry, Cessandra. Both the desks he destroyed are obviously priceless to you, but he should still have to pay.
There is a way to get big bulky furniture in and out of a house when they don’t fit through the door: There is a certain type of machinery that you attach to the roof and then, with ropes, lift the furniture out of (or into) a window. It’s done in NY all the time. It’s common to walk down the sidewalk under a piano precariously dangling four stories above your head. Sure, it costs money. If your in-laws are too cheap to hire professionals, they are not blameless, I daresay.
Susenderzzz, don’t assume they’re cheap. Maybe they just thought it’d be a nice thing for their daughter if they hired her SO. Maybe they just didn’t realize he had the brains of a dead squirrel. (No offense to dead squirrels intended)
Suspenderzzz, my in-laws are anything but cheap. They are THE most generous people I know, and while I can’t say for sure, I’d bet anything that hiring this jerkoff was them trying to do something nice for their daughter. He hasn’t been around all that long, and had been doing a really great job so far, so they really didn’t have any way to know he was a complete and total fucktard.
My husband is seriously considering a lawsuit over his desk. It was only worth about $150, but it’d make dh feel a little better. Still, there is NO WAY to get back what he has lost. This is the desk he sat and did his homework at as a child. You can’t replace that. :mad:
Speaking of which, I’m sure they’ll have a few things to share with her as well. “So dear, it seems you’re dating a mouth-breathing neanderthal. Could you have at least told us of his ‘OG SMASH’ tendencies?”
I dunno.
They won’t fire him?
Then do you really have a case against him? Or would the courts place it on your in-laws as they were his employer? IAMAL, so I have no idea.
You might end up paying way more in time and money dealing with the courts.
You might want to do it to make a point, but you have to ask yourself if it’s worth it.
I know your in-laws were trying to be helpful, but if something needs to be done right, it’s best to hire a professional.
Cessandra: No comment on the situation, but how 'bout this? Maybe you can have the desk “restored”? Sure, it won’t be original; but it would still be a touchstone. And you can spin it to your husband as “restored” instead of “not original”. It might be a good compromise.
I didn’t advocate strictly wine. I could see my way clear to associating Guinness with opposable thumbs, but I’m thinking boyfriend-in-law likes to drink warm Strohs before crushing the can on his sloped forehead and bashing up some furniture he has been entrusted with.
What kind of domestic swill does your proto-clan favor?
See, Ayla would have designed some sophisticated block-and-tackle apparatus out of herbs and skins (perhaps with a fusion-powered espresso machine on the side). This guy’s got Flathead written all over him.
