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[li] They weren’t even close to the place we put our garbage,[/li][li] They all had big giant FedEx labels on them[/li][li] I’ve put stuff in this spot for shipping before.[/li][/ul]
I mean, how the fuck can you be so stupid and willfully careless to not notice? Thankfully I yanked them all out of the dumpster just now; they hadn’t thrown them out. But I shiver to realize that there was a $967.00 check in there which I was responsible for!
Fuck! We go out of our way for them, we give them free t-shirts, we offer leftover food, cards at Christmas. I listen to her stupid stories about her grandchildren because she’s old and lonely and wants someone to talk to. And after all that, they couldn’t be bothered to wait and ask us if it was really garbage?
Aaaargh!
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Maybe a sign on the wall above the area where you set them saying “Packages to be shipped, do not throw away” or “Outgoing packages, not trash”? Show her the sign, and let her know there was a misunderstanding with some important packages recently that was, fortunately averted, and so now you have the sign up to be perfectly clear. Let them know not to throw away anything found remotely near those signs? Good luck.
It was a BBC TV show. Run, do not walk, to the nearest video rental. I’ll wait till you get back…
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Oh, hi. What you are now holding is hall of fame comedy. John Cleese is the irascible but unloveable innkeeper Basil Fawlty. Just sit down and watch. You’ll thank me later.
The first rule of any cleaning person I’ve ever dealt with has been “Do not throw anything away unless it is in a trash can.” I used to work at a place where the cleaning people were so vigilant about this that the few times I had, say, a large box that wouldn’t fit in the trash can, so I left it on TOP of the trash can, they’d politely move it aside, empty the trash, and place it back on top of the trash can.
My cleaning lady doesn’t throw a damn thing away. She’ll neatly line up old candy bar wrappers and wine corks, but she’ll never throw 'em away. I sometimes wish she would, but then realize that if I were ever to win one of those “Win $1 million instantly!” contests from inside a candy wrapper, THAT would be the one that she’d throw away.
Exactly. Second rule is don’t move anything on the desks. Clean around the crap laying there. If things get mixed up and into the wrong pile, they might as well have been tossed in the trash.
Ha! I wrote exactly that on a styrofoam cup that would get tossed from my desk. It was really more of a joke than anything as I started to store it in a cabinet to prevent its tossing.
Reminds me of the time I went by bus to a indoor aeromodelling contest a few hundred kilometers from here. Since this kind of model planes are relatively big and weight next to nothing I arranged them inside a large, reinforced, cardboard box covered in transparent adhesive vinyl, it had VERY FRAGILE!!! writen in 6 cm block letters on all sides.
When I got to my destination I came down the bus and I started looking for the box, it wasn´t there!, months of patient work missing! ACTIVATE PANIC MODE!!!, I asked the guy in charge of the luggage and after a few moments of explaining what I was looking for his face lighted up and in a triumphant tone said: “ahh!, the EMPTY box, right?, I threw it away.”
Gasp!
What you mean empty, WHAT YOU MEAN THROWN AWAY!!!, you think I´d carry around a large empty box with my luggage marked VERY FRAGILE just for giggles, what kind of… rant-rant-rant-cursing-rant-fussing-rant, etc…
I found it on a dumpster on the back of the bus station, by miracle everything was intact, but for a few minutes murder was an appealing option.
How long had he had the job? Who the fuck ever told him it was acceptable to throw away ANYTHING from the luggage compartment? Did you report him? He should have been fired on the spot.
No idea
I guess no-one told him otherwise
I didn´t, it was, too late, or early (5 AM), cold and I just wanted to get my stuff togheter and get a couple hours of sleep, I was not in the mood to get involved any further.
Perhaps, but I wouldn´t have pressed that, it was a monumentaly stupid mistake, but I got my things in one piece in the end, so no foul, no harm. Although the bloke´s actions put me on a momentary fit, I don´t think that granted him being fired, from my POV.