View Full Version : Some fuckhead stole my Arrested Development Season 2 DVD!!!
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Werbal_Kint
10-17-2005, 03:58 PM
Why'd you have it sent to your old job?
Amazon ships UPS. They are completely removed from the Brooklyn post office.
If you complain to Amazon, they're just going to tell you to call UPS.
Brad Millette
10-17-2005, 04:07 PM
This is truly bizarre.
Brad Millette
10-17-2005, 04:14 PM
For your mistake?
Good luck with that.
Suttytx
10-17-2005, 04:24 PM
You had a personal delivery sent to your place of work.
There's your first no-no.
It means your fucked.
I'm not trying to be antagonistic, but if the package arrived to the address you gave, UPS isn't liable anymore.
I'd find a new shipping address if I were you.
otisthecat
10-17-2005, 04:45 PM
meals for free when the restaurant fucked up my order, etc.But they didn't fuck up, they sent it where you told them to. If you knowingly had them send it to a place you don't work at and they couldn't possibly hand delivery it to you even if they tried, why should UPS have to replace your product?
gravedigger
10-17-2005, 04:50 PM
Damn you, Amazon, for delivering perfect service! You stupid fucks should be ashamed of accurately and promptly filling a customer order.
neaux
10-17-2005, 04:51 PM
I got three packages from Amazon last week and it was ALL sent by USPS. I'm surprised they weren't stolen as the mailman just left my packages sitting on TOP of my mailbox.
Jacob Singer
10-17-2005, 05:28 PM
"It's a write-off for them."
"How is it a write-off?"
"They just write it off."
"Write it off what?"
"Jerry, all these big companies, they write off everything."
"You don't even know what a write-off is."
"Do you?"
"No, I don't."
"But they do. And they're the ones writing it off."
"I wish I had the last twenty seconds of my life back."
gravedigger
10-17-2005, 05:33 PM
Seriously, this thread totally pisses me off. What a giant load of horseshit.
Suttytx
10-17-2005, 05:35 PM
From Diva's above post, it appears to be a pattern, whether it be Amazon, a restaurant, etc.
Similar to scamming/spamming her friends to get a free iPod.
I kid, Diva...sort of.
Vader
10-17-2005, 05:47 PM
From my experience UPS just wants some bastard to sign that tablet that makes your sig look like a retarded bear gave it a shot.
I did have that little "We came by, you weren't home, we have your package hostage" slip left on my door and by the time they came back the damn motocross tickets I was waiting for arrived two days late.
"My bad". I just remembered FedEx was in that ticket fiasco. Not that friendly brown car.
Mad Man Mundt
10-17-2005, 06:09 PM
Every time UPS has sent me a package from Amazon.com no one ccould sign for it but the addressee. I asked if I could have a neighbor sign and they said no. Little bit of a pain, but nothing got ripped off.
B.G. JackONeill
10-17-2005, 06:44 PM
You had a personal delivery sent to your place of work.
There's your first no-no.
Your avatar is the second no-no of the day.
I keed. I keed.
TO DIVA:
I'm with you Diva. I lost a package once with Amazon. My thing was that I never received it nor did anyone else sign for it. Amazon, after the delivery window was up, refunded my money.
But, I don't recall what the protocol is for a package to which someone else signed for.
Did Amazon charge your credit card? If not you could do a stop payment and tell Amazon that you want your DVD sent to you before you lift it. A bit of a hostage thing, but might work.
Try stopping payment on your credit card if the opportunity is there.
Matt Goldberg
10-17-2005, 06:57 PM
Why didn't you just pick it up at a store last week?
Suttytx
10-17-2005, 06:59 PM
That's outrageous, Matt.
Tom Fuchs
10-17-2005, 07:21 PM
Living in the suburbs advantage #1: Packages left at your doorstep with no fear of them being stolen. However, Amazon is really really easygoing with their frequent customers, so if you complained to them you'd probably get what they want.
Ludwig
10-18-2005, 12:16 AM
The package was address to me, regardless of the work address.
There's one thing I've learned in life, if you complain enough, you'll get what you want. I've gotten free phones from my cell phone carrier, meals for free when the restaurant fucked up my order, etc. I may be fucked but I'm not going down with out a fight.
But you would be complaining over what amounts to a non-issue. I would think that it was folly to have it delivered to your EX place of employment, unless it was an excuse to go be social with old freinds. Even then, wouldn't this be something to take up with your friends at work? Someone at Amazon may get their wrist slapped if you follow this through to conclusion Sabrica. Everyone loses when people behave with this much entitlement.
Nick Nunziata
10-18-2005, 12:20 AM
Did you order it from the CHUD link?
Kevin Matchstick
10-18-2005, 12:30 AM
Man, everyone certainly has opinions about this. Here's mine:
That sucks.
Moltisanti
10-18-2005, 12:49 AM
Anyway, I called UPS and they said someone named Arora signed for it.
Hey Diva, did UPS say if this person also used the last name of "Borealis?" Because I once knew a hooker by that name. I don't know if she liked "Arrested Development" but she was always stealing things, mainly my heart.
Straxboy - An Anthony Hickox Film
10-18-2005, 05:41 AM
If one complains hard enough, is one able to get a film reshot so that one understands it ?
Dan Whitehead
10-18-2005, 07:27 AM
How is it my mistake? I didn't sign for the package. UPS is responsible for delivering the package to me. I didn't authorize anyone else to to sign for it.
But...you gave them an address where you no longer work. It wasn't a mistake - worse, it was on purpose. You knew you weren't going to be there. You trusted the people there to sign for your package and keep it safe for you. They didn't.
The idea that Amazon or UPS should compensate you when they're the only parties involved that have acted exactly as they should is completely fucked up.
The people at your old job should take some small blame for letting someone walk off with it, though it's hardly their priority to guard your property just because you still use their office as a mailbox.
Ultimately it's all down to you for using such a bizarre and pointless way of having something delivered.
I'm pretty sure you need to specify on your order if UPS needs your signature to deliver the package. Otherwise it's assumed they'll leave it with anyone at the location. This is especialy true for deliveries to businesses where it would be ridiculous to get different employees to sign for packages every day. All packages are signed for by the receptionist where I work. It's just common practice.
Rich Straceski
10-18-2005, 09:57 AM
I don't have any big complaints about UPS, but it does kind of suck that someone out there took something that wasn't theirs. Argh!
I wanted to chime in about the mail in Brooklyn. It definitely is kind of shaky. I've never gotten more mangled magazines in my life or missed issues. There's proably other stuff I'm not even aware of. Argh! Argh!
devincf
10-18-2005, 12:38 PM
Your poster may be too wordy.
Dan Whitehead
10-18-2005, 01:39 PM
Here's the deal. My old job is a small not-for-profit with a staff of about 10 people, half of which are my good friends and the rest are acquaintances. I stop by that office at least once a week to meet up with my buddies. As I said in my first post, I have sent packages there before and everything was kosher. The problem this time is that the receptionist was a fucking moron and left it sitting out unattended.
Just because you've done this before doesn't mean that this organisation is obliged to safeguard your mail. The "fucking moron" receptionist has a job to do that doesn't involve looking after your property.
In any case, now that my anger over some douchebag stealing my stuff has subsided, really no harm was done as I didn't spend any money on this. And to top off my day, this morning I woke to find that someone offered me $300 for some free gym passes I got from my summer job and had put up for sale on craigslist. So I will get my DVD set and all will be right with the world.
So you didn't actually lose any money in this situation, which was your fault, but you were still willing to try and squeeze a refund out of the company which you acknowledge wasn't at fault...and you've also managed to sell something you got for free for $300?
Diva, you know I've got no problem with you, and I hesitate to say any more because these sorts of threads have a history of turning ugly for you, but...you really aren't coming across very well in all of this.
That's the nicest way I can think to say it.
These actions don't really fit the "small, not-for-profit" mindset, you know?
mongycore
10-18-2005, 01:42 PM
or they showed but didn't ring the fucking doorbell!
bastard fucktards never ring the bell evar on this side of the world. I'm glad newegg, while adding ups as an option, keep fedex as a shipping option...
if I had any sense...maybe after the ups guy drops off f.e.a.r. I'll just follow the truck and pick up the packages he drops off for 'safe keeping'. it'll be like christmas...I've been good this year.
devincf
10-18-2005, 02:58 PM
You should get a personal secretary, since Nidhi's job description doesn't cover that, and it'll be fucked up if she gets in trouble over this.
devincf
10-18-2005, 02:59 PM
Also, she's not a fucking moron. I wonder what she thinks of you saying she is. I'll ask.
devincf
10-18-2005, 03:13 PM
It doesn't matter if she keeps her job, it's fucked up if her boss so much as has a word with her about whether or not she is taking care of the packages of people who don't even work here anymore. You should get a PO Box.
devincf
10-18-2005, 03:15 PM
Anyway, there's a reason I lock my door here. And now there's not just TOP in the office, but a campus chapter.
gravedigger
10-18-2005, 03:19 PM
1. Regardless of whether it is her job to safeguard my property, I spoke to her and she said that she would. She fucked up and has acknowledged it as such. I get wrong mail delivered to my house all the time. I don't have to, but I make sure it gets delievered to the right house, sometimes by personally walking it over the right building. It's just common sense not to leave things unattended.
I believe it's also common sense to have items you have purchased be delivered to somewhere you have a physical attachment (i.e. your residence or CURRENT place of employment). You are the person who fucked up in all of this and it's rather petty and stupid that you're trying to pawn the responsibility off on the receptionist at your old job and UPS.
Moltisanti
10-18-2005, 03:23 PM
I don't know if Nidhi is at fault here but if you ask me she has always been bad news. All that toner that went missing a few months back? Probably Nidhi.
Dan Whitehead
10-18-2005, 03:49 PM
1. Regardless of whether it is her job to safeguard my property, I spoke to her and she said that she would. She fucked up and has acknowledged it as such. I get wrong mail delivered to my house all the time. I don't have to, but I make sure it gets delievered to the right house, sometimes by personally walking it over the right building. It's just common sense not to leave things unattended.
This wasn't wrong mail.
It's also common sense not to have things delivered to a place where you neither live nor work and then react with anger when eventually something goes missing.
2. You do realize we live in a capitalist society, right? There's a law of supply and demand. If I have goods that somebody wants, and they are willing to pay for them, that's just business. I didn'tforce anyone to buy anything against their will. In fact, those passes are worth $50 a pop and I sold them for $20. Everyone wins.
Hey, good luck to you. It's just the combination of crowing about it in a thread where you've basically admitted to trying to bilk an undeserved refund from a company for something they didn't do.
It's not pleasant.
3. My stance on corporations has always been one of disgust, so trying to get a $20 DVD off a corporation that makes milllions in profits doesn't seem all that bad to me.
Draw your moral lines where you like - though I notice your disgust at corporations doesn't prevent you from ordering their DVDs, using their websites or their courier services. You could have sold your Amazon vouchers on craigslist and taken your business to a local independent DVD store if you were making some sort of anti-capitalist statement. Even though you were just singing the praises of capitalism.
Guess capitalism is only good when it nets you $300 profit?
4. Well, people are complex creatures. No ones inherently good or bad. The good charitable work I do, and have done in my life, far outweighs anything bad I've done.
Like I said, draw your lines where you will. I just had an idea of who you were based on our previous conversations on and off the boards, and this thread flies in the face of who I thought you were.
I didn't think you were a saint, but I never took you for someone so...selfish?
Don't know if that's the right word, but it seems like you're embracing the yuppie "mine all mine" mentality while waving the anti-corporate fuck-the-system flag.
I'm okay with myself, so why should I give a fuck how I come across on these boards?
You shouldn't. And, on the basis of this thread, you clearly don't.
You posted the thread, you made all this public, so you clearly wanted some reaction.
I'm just saying, is all.
My opinion of you is dented. Whether you give a fuck or not is no longer relevant.
Eileen
10-18-2005, 04:22 PM
Devin's suggestion of getting a PO Box is the way to go Diva.
Regarding the receptionist, even if she does not get in trouble she now has to deal with the fact that others in the office may start viewing her as incompetent.
Overlord
10-18-2005, 04:28 PM
Great thread.
It sucks you didn't get your DVDs. You've always come across as a nice person on the boards, and you do have my sympathy. I'm guessing somebody at your previous place of work saw the package, realized you weren't around, felt no sense of loyalty, and swiped it.
However, if you weren't personally involved in this, you would think that you exercised poor judgment, are refusing to take responsibility, and are paradoxically exploiting while at the same time professing to revile the capitalist paradigm. If you hated corporations so much, you wouldn't continuously utilize their services. If you weren't going to use your gym passes, why not donate them? You appear to have behavioral patterns that contradict your professed beliefs.
TV has nothing on this place. Endlessly entertaining.
Suttytx
10-18-2005, 04:46 PM
You know what type of people have online purchases sent to places they have no attachment to (i.e. not a place of resident nor employment)?
Identity thieves.
So, who's credit card number did you really use?
Ludwig
10-18-2005, 05:20 PM
If one complains hard enough, is one able to get a film reshot so that one understands it ?
This gem got kind of buried so I wanted to bring it back to the top. Elitist Battle Royale scummery at it's finest!
Diva, we've had our ups and downs, but you are behaving like a spoiled princess over this. Had you taken proper responsibility in this matter at the beginning, none of this craziness would have happened. The whole "Boo hoo the world just fucked me out of my DVDs" angle is retarded. Why not have it delivered toa friends house? get a PO box? Get it sent to your school? Your current job (if you are still there)? That you even thought to accept an apology from the receptionist despite this being 100% your fault is incredibly shallow and mean-spirited.
Burke
10-18-2005, 07:07 PM
If it makes everybody feel any better we will all be paying for the "mistake" that was made by the "company" as they average in the price of replacing something that shouldn't be replaced into the prices that we all pay.
Yep it's consequence free living.
Ahoatam
10-18-2005, 07:18 PM
3. My stance on corporations has always been one of disgust, so trying to get a $20 DVD off a corporation that makes milllions in profits doesn't seem all that bad to me.
If it makes everybody feel any better we will all be paying for the "mistake" that was made by the "company" as they average in the price of replacing something that shouldn't be replaced into the prices that we all pay.
Yep it's consequence free living.
That's the part thats missing. The corporation isn't go to pay for it, Diva. By convincing them to pay for your mistake, you will add to their overhead, and that cost gets passed on to other consumers.
I'm all for holding people accountable, but guess what? No one at Amazon or UPS did anything wrong in this case. I didn't do anything wrong either, but I'm going to pay for it when I get Episode III rush delivered to my door. So thanks.
JGButler
10-18-2005, 07:41 PM
I find it funny that at the beginning of this thread you were just considering using Amazon as a scapegoat but as you went on you started talking like they were actually at fault. Kinda like you convinced yourself along the way. I agree it's a bummer situation but there's really no one at fault here but you - and I say that in the nicest way possible. Cut the losses...buy it again.
Ken Savage
10-19-2005, 10:18 AM
It doesn't matter if she keeps her job, it's fucked up if her boss so much as has a word with her about whether or not she is taking care of the packages of people who don't even work here anymore. You should get a PO Box.
Pretty much what I was going to say. It sucks getting blamed for things that are not your fault, I bet you have been in that situation before so stop and have a think about how it made you feel.
Nick Nunziata
10-19-2005, 10:39 AM
Yeah, she didn't use the CHUD link.
moovyphreak
10-19-2005, 12:07 PM
Amazon ships UPS. They are completely removed from the Brooklyn post office.
If you complain to Amazon, they're just going to tell you to call UPS.
They don't always ship UPS. I have received packages through them via the U.S. Postal Service.
Also, a few years ago, I bought the Sopranos: Season 2 boxset around Christmas and left it on my shelf unwrapped until the following February. When I opened it, the case inside was broken, so the DVDs would not stay in place. I called Amazon and they replaced it after I explained the situation.
Capt. Eucalyptus
10-19-2005, 12:37 PM
Yeah, she didn't use the CHUD link.
Burn her, BURN her I say! HERETIC!!!!!
gravedigger
10-19-2005, 12:51 PM
Are they sending the new package to your old job also?
Gabriel Williams
10-19-2005, 12:58 PM
Na, that'd be stupid.
Richard Dickson
10-19-2005, 01:12 PM
I know my part in all this but that does not excuse the fact that some fuckhead stole my stuff.
Diva, I'm usually with ya, but this is like leaving your keys in your car every day and then being shocked when somebody finally steals it.
Brendan
10-19-2005, 01:18 PM
Just think... if you had of gone to a store and bought it in person this whole problem could have been avoided. But I guess that would have been the easy and smart thing to do.
Brad Millette
10-19-2005, 01:19 PM
I'm imagining a small bird continually ramming itself into a plate glass window.
Matt Goldberg
10-19-2005, 01:53 PM
No it's not. It's like leaving my keys with a friend who left it the car unattended. Again, I'm partially to blame for entrusting the key to my friend. But I wasn't the one who left it unattended.
But if your friend has the key, who cares if the car is unattended? The whole reason we have keys is so we can leave things unattended.
So you pinched another one out of Amazon?
That's so ghetto.
I'm imagining a small bird continually ramming itself into a plate glass window.
I'm imagining the window breaking because the bird's skull is so goddamned thick.
Brad Millette
10-19-2005, 02:17 PM
We've moved from anger and stupidity into martyrdom and indignance. This thread is now complete.
Graham
10-19-2005, 02:23 PM
You all can cast me as anti-Christ all you want.
Sorry, Diva, but Damien Thorne ONLY uses FedEx: so stop flattering yourself!
Anti-Christ is far too glamorous.
This kind of behavior is straight outta the trailer park.
Werbal_Kint
10-19-2005, 02:37 PM
FedEx: When Rosemary's baby absolutely, POSITIVELY has to be there overnight!
Brad Millette
10-19-2005, 02:43 PM
If it makes you feel any better, I don't think I ever respected you.
Save that for Montel.
"You don't know me! You no better than me!"
Most of the disgust here stems from your lack of remorse. You're embracing your petty sense of entitlement.
Nick Nunziata
10-19-2005, 02:53 PM
Lost in all this discussion and hate is a person who is watching Arrested Development Season Two in Brooklyn going "I don't get it. Why is a hook hand so funny?".
Overlord
10-19-2005, 03:08 PM
We've moved from anger and stupidity into martyrdom and indignance. This thread is now complete.
BWAHAHAHAH.
Some of the other comments (the Montel one in particular), are also sublimely hysterical.
Diva, you need to step back and laugh at yourself a little bit. Or slap yourself. Or, whatever.
Also, you need to look up the definition of the word hypocrite, because I don't see how this applies: "If one incident can cause you to reverse your opinion of someone, I'll call you out as a hypocrite."
Moltisanti
10-19-2005, 03:15 PM
Lost in all this discussion and hate is a person who is watching Arrested Development Season Two in Brooklyn going "I don't get it. Why is a hook hand so funny?".
Before that took place at some point the phrase "Arrested Development Season Two unopened for only $15, is it hot?" must have been spoken.
Dan Whitehead
10-19-2005, 03:15 PM
There are people in this thread who have said they've lost repect for me because of this. If one incident can cause you to reverse your opinion of someone, I'll call you out as a hypocrite.
That would be me, I guess. The incident in question didn't reverse my opinion of you. It just made me think less of you. Not the same thing.
This thread, on the other hand...yeah, that has pretty much reversed my opinion of you.
Feel free to call me out as a hypocrite. I'm dying to see how that works.
The one thing I've learned in life is that you can't force anyone to give you something if they don't want to or are unable to (barring physical force, guns, etc.). I totally didn't expect Amazon to replace my goods, and despite my anger yesterday, I certaintly didn't blame them for this, but I thought I'd ask anyway. The worst thing that could happen is that they'd say, "No." It turned out they said, "Yes."
You had no right ot ask them for anything because, like you said, it wasn't their fault.
Businesses want satisfied customers. I worked at 7-11 as a teen and remember when some lady tried to return a gallon of milk that was clearly labeled "Circle K", our competitor. My manager said that the customer was always right and I refunded her the money. Amazon didn't have to replace my package, but they did. I respect them for that and will certainly recommend their services to my friends.
So you're comparing yourself to a senile old woman returning something she really shouldn't have? Brilliant.
It's good that you respect Amazon for indulging your spoiled nature.
Tom Fuchs
10-19-2005, 03:20 PM
Businesses want satisfied customers. I worked at 7-11 as a teen and remember when some lady tried to return a gallon of milk that was clearly labeled "Circle K", our competitor. My manager said that the customer was always right and I refunded her the money.
7-11: Hiring Autistic Managers Since 1983.
Burke
10-19-2005, 03:20 PM
Businesses want satisfied customers. I worked at 7-11 as a teen and remember when some lady tried to return a gallon of milk that was clearly labeled "Circle K", our competitor. My manager said that the customer was always right and I refunded her the money.
Those few sentences pretty much sum up what is wrong with the world today vis a vis "living with hard truths" and "taking responsibility for one's actions."
otisthecat
10-19-2005, 03:22 PM
I'm not remorseful because I don't think I've done anything wrong.You talked shit on a receptionist for not keeping track of your personal mail at a place you don't work, and then had a company who isn't at fault cover the cost of replacing the item. Yeah, not sure what you did wrong at all.
gravedigger
10-19-2005, 03:37 PM
I don't think
That explains it.
Matt Goldberg
10-19-2005, 05:42 PM
Don't play semantics. You know what I meant. The point is I asked someone to hold a package for me and she said yes. Regardless of the fact that I shouldn't have given her that responsibility, she took it. In my mind, that is not equivelant to me leaving car keys inside of a car unattended.
If you're going to use an analogy, then use it correctly.
Slater
10-21-2005, 02:52 AM
You know, I purposely stayed out of this thread, because I'm always one of the first guys to start dumping on our Resident Duddits, and it seemed like y'all already had things covered. I figured I'd just sit this one out.
And like some sort of negative karmic retribution, today Amazon ships me a faulty Arrested Development Season Two boxset that's missing the first disc.
The moral is clear: I have been shirking my duties, and God is PISSED.
Matt Goldberg
10-21-2005, 02:58 AM
Karma's a bitch.
Samurai Mike
10-21-2005, 05:46 AM
Meanwhile, somewhere in Pakistan, a shivering orphan sits amongst the pile of rubble that was once his home, opens up a food parcel he lined up for and fought for hours to get, and thinks, "WTF?!".
Slater
10-21-2005, 08:21 PM
And by Amazon, you mean "My own stunning lack of integrity."
Hewlett
10-21-2005, 08:26 PM
In other news, the new package arrived at my apartment today. Thans, God! And by God, I mean Amazon.
They were actually able to deliver it to your apartment? Imagine that...
Matt Goldberg
10-21-2005, 08:45 PM
Hey, if the worst thing that happens to me in this world is that a DVD gets stolen, I think I'm doing okay. slater, on the hand, seems to have bad shit happening to him all the time.
Oh, that Diva. Always missing the joke.
Brendan
10-22-2005, 01:19 PM
http://img417.imageshack.us/img417/594/pierpressure590zb.jpg
"And that's why you don't send your packages to a place you don't work."
Matt Goldberg
10-22-2005, 09:09 PM
Brendan wins.
Overlord
02-07-2006, 07:42 PM
This thread should be bronzed.
Werbal_Kint
02-07-2006, 07:51 PM
This thread isn't old enough to be retro.
JGButler
02-07-2006, 07:58 PM
Yeah, give it at least a year
Greg Clark
02-07-2006, 08:18 PM
Regardless of the time frame, there is no one on this MB that can honestly say that my posts in this thread is in any way comparable to anything copperlocke or olivemarie has posted.
Besides if we are gonna laugh at my stupidity, any real Chewer knows to bring up the Battle Royale thread.
Which I still have never read. Someone pull that back out of the ether!
JGButler
02-07-2006, 08:24 PM
No I can't play along with that one - I still haven't seen BR
Brad Millette
02-07-2006, 08:28 PM
http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75922
Carlton Stevens
02-07-2006, 08:44 PM
Regardless of the time frame, there is no one on this MB that can honestly say that my posts in this thread is in any way comparable to anything copperlocke or olivemarie has posted.
Having to dig deep within the recesses of the CHUD Masters of Lunacy to maintain some sort of credibility should flare up a red light right about now.
Brad Millette
02-07-2006, 08:45 PM
And so Herpes said, "Yeah, but at least I'm not AIDS!".
Overlord
02-07-2006, 11:02 PM
That Battle Royale thread is a classic.
Time to dust off the old DSM-IV handbook.
Jason P. Thompson
02-07-2006, 11:05 PM
No need to throw salt in old wounds here.
Ahoatam
02-07-2006, 11:16 PM
I guess lemon juice is out too...
devincf
02-07-2006, 11:29 PM
Diva cost the receptionist her job.
kingcujoI
02-07-2006, 11:42 PM
Diva cost the receptionist her job.
Seriously???
Moltisanti
02-07-2006, 11:46 PM
Poor Nidhi.
Seriously???
No. She was fired months after this incident for not showing up for work and/or coming in late all the time. A friend of mine told me the Executive Director resorted to sitting at the receptionist desk so that she would be there when the girl showed up late for work.
Moltisanti
02-07-2006, 11:54 PM
Ohhhh Doctor! I bet Nidhi had egg on her face that morning. When will Nidhi learn? I bet she thinks its Nidhi's world and we're just living in it.
kingcujoI
02-07-2006, 11:56 PM
No. She was fired months after this incident for not showing up for work and/or coming in late all the time. A friend of mine told me the Executive Director resorted to sitting at the receptionist desk so that she would be there when the girl showed up late for work.
I still blame you.
OCallaghan
02-08-2006, 12:15 AM
The one thing I've learned in life is that you can't force anyone to give you something if they don't want to or are unable to
There's one thing I've learned in life, if you complain enough, you'll get what you want.
Hmmmmm.
Overlord
02-08-2006, 01:12 AM
Hmmmmm.
Priceless.
When I have the time/energy, I'm going to make a list of all the different coping mechanisms on display: denial, rationalization, anger, dismissal, transference, acceptance, etc., cross-referenced by pertinent quotes.
Brad Millette
02-08-2006, 01:17 AM
Do you think Diva's two brain cells have run out of card games to play by now?
billz
02-08-2006, 01:30 AM
Originally Posted by Diva
The one thing I've learned in life is that you can't force anyone to give you something if they don't want to or are unable to
There's one thing I've learned in life, if you complain enough, you'll get what you want.
Hmmmmm.
But that's two things. And they're kind of different.
Oh.
Gabriel Williams
02-08-2006, 08:09 AM
I can't be bothered to read through this damn thread again, but did someone suggest watching SNIPER?
If Moltisanti posted, that's an affirmative.
Sniper is his tussin.
Werbal_Kint
02-08-2006, 08:58 AM
Let's not forget the Spoil Classics for Diva (http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75988&highlight=Spoil+classics) thread that her Battle Royale comments spawned.
Gabriel Williams
02-08-2006, 09:01 AM
That is a great thread. Almost as good as this one, but not quite.
Brad Millette
02-08-2006, 09:33 AM
Oh, I couldn't resist that thread.
Overlord
02-08-2006, 12:11 PM
Let's not forget the Spoil Classics for Diva (http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75988&highlight=Spoil+classics) thread that her Battle Royale comments spawned.
That thread is......too....funny...
Choice comments:
Grapes of Wrath: Why are movies about the Depression so sad?
Casbablanca: MOROCCO and MARACAS sound similar but are different words. What other words sound the same but are different?
Seven Samurai: Why didn't they use guns or something?/Why did they all have to die?
The Abyss: Would Amazon.com deliver to an abyssal trench?
flyarz
11-30-2006, 08:59 AM
Question for everybody: Diva went through and edited out EVERY POST of hers. Does that make you think she's (a) very stupid or (b) slightly stupid?
Also, please note that she did this on Thanksgiving. You know, in case that will factor into your opinion.
Death Surge
11-30-2006, 09:56 AM
She hit the infamous "Battle Royale" thread as well.
Sad really.
Overlord
11-30-2006, 12:20 PM
I must contribute to this thread's posterity: these will be out of context, but here are the essential Diva posts for understanding this thread:
Because the mail in Brooklyn is shaky at best and I figured the fact that they have a receptionist would ensure that I got the package. Usually, my friends (I have several who still work there) either grab my packages and hold them for me or tell me it has arrived so I can swing by and pick it up. They have a new receptionist, but she knows who I am. Who leaves packages just laying around anyways? I e-mailed the Executive Director to complain.
Well, I'm complaining to UPS then. Someone is replacing my package.
How is it my mistake? I didn't sign for the package. UPS is responsible for delivering the package to me. I didn't authorize anyone else to to sign for it. Anyway, I called UPS and they said someone named Arora signed for it. There's no one by that name that works there. So that's a plus in my direction. UPS told me to call Amazon and ask for a "tracer". I have no idea what that means.
The package was address to me, regardless of the work address.
There's one thing I've learned in life, if you complain enough, you'll get what you want. I've gotten free phones from my cell phone carrier, meals for free when the restaurant fucked up my order, etc. I may be fucked but I'm not going down with out a fight.
Here's the deal. My old job is a small not-for-profit with a staff of about 10 people, half of which are my good friends and the rest are acquaintances. I stop by that office at least once a week to meet up with my buddies. As I said in my first post, I have sent packages there before and everything was kosher. The problem this time is that the receptionist was a fucking moron and left it sitting out unattended.
As for why didn't I just go to a store. Well, I received a gift certificate to Amazon for my birthday back in May and was willing to wait until October to get my hands on this DVD. So thanks for the tip B.G., but I can't hold Amazon hostage by putting a stop on my credit card.
And while I agree that Amazon and UPS are not at fault here, it never hurts to ask. Despite what some may think of me, I'm not a scammer. I don't make up elaborate stories to con people out of stuff. I simply ask for things. And if they say "no" then fine. No big deal.
UPS in Brooklyn is just as ridiculous as the postal service. I've taken off work to wait for packages only to have UPS never show or they showed but didn't ring the fucking doorbell! I'll see a sticky on my front door and damn the delivery person to hell. We just had a new buzzer system installed in the building so no matter what room I'm in, I can hear that fuckng thing, so they can't use the excuse that the buzzer doesn't work (which it didn't previously).
In any case, now that my anger over some douchebag stealing my stuff has subsided, really no harm was done as I didn't spend any money on this. And to top off my day, this morning I woke to find that someone offered me $300 for some free gym passes I got from my summer job and had put up for sale on craigslist. So I will get my DVD set and all will be right with the world.
1. Regardless of whether it is her job to safeguard my property, I spoke to her and she said that she would. She fucked up and has acknowledged it as such. I get wrong mail delivered to my house all the time. I don't have to, but I make sure it gets delievered to the right house, sometimes by personally walking it over the right building. It's just common sense not to leave things unattended.
2. You do realize we live in a capitalist society, right? There's a law of supply and demand. If I have goods that somebody wants, and they are willing to pay for them, that's just business. I didn'tforce anyone to buy anything against their will. In fact, those passes are worth $50 a pop and I sold them for $20. Everyone wins.
3. My stance on corporations has always been one of disgust, so trying to get a $20 DVD off a corporation that makes milllions in profits doesn't seem all that bad to me.
4. Well, people are complex creatures. No ones inherently good or bad. The good charitable work I do, and have done in my life, far outweighs anything bad I've done. I'm okay with myself, so why should I give a fuck how I come across on these boards?
No it's not. It's like leaving my keys with a friend who left it the car unattended. Again, I'm partially to blame for entrusting the key to my friend. But I wasn't the one who left it unattended.
Don't play semantics. You know what I meant. The point is I asked someone to hold a package for me and she said yes. Regardless of the fact that I shouldn't have given her that responsibility, she took it. In my mind, that is not equivelant to me leaving car keys inside of a car unattended.
Sending a package to a place of business, even if I don't work there, is not a crime. Was it a stupid decision? Maybe. But its certainly not something to hold someone in contempt for.
I didn't have some random receptionist "keep tack" of my belongings. I asked an acquaintance if she would look out for my package. She said yes. I didn't force her to say that. She accepted that responsibility on her own volition. It may be irresponsible on my part to entrust her with that responsibility, but no wrongdoing has occured.
I may have talked shit about someone on a messageboard, where nobody knows who she is, to vent my anger, but I never made her feel responsible for the loss of the package nor did I make anyone in the office feel that she was to blame. And after my anger subsided, I admitted in here that I overreacted and that blaming her for this was wrong.
In addition, I also admitted that Amazon and UPS weren't to blame. In my post about the stickies, I ended with a smiley because I realized how ridiculous it was to hold them responsible. I had already e-mailed Amazon by then, but knew I was fucked. To my surprise they responded and offered to reimburse me. I didn't make them do it. I didn't threaten them with a litigation. I simply asked.
If people really think all that puts me in the wrong, then there's nothing else to say. I don't see it that way, the receptionist doesn't see it that way, and no one in the office sees it that way. In fact, no one I've spoken to outside of CHUD sees it that way. No one deserves to have their property stolen and nothing you guys have said has shown how I'm responsibile for that act. I'm not going to feel guilty for getting upset that my personal belongings were stolen. I do feel remorse for not using the CHUD link to order my stuff. Sorry, Nick!
Hey, if the worst thing that happens to me in this world is that a DVD gets stolen, I think I'm doing okay. slater, on the hand, seems to have bad shit happening to him all the time.
In other news, the new package arrived at my apartment today. Thans, God! And by God, I mean Amazon.
You all can cast me as anti-Christ all you want. But no one in this thread is a saint. We're all hypocrites. The difference is I don't pretend not to be. Judge me all you want to. I certainly won't lose any sleep over it.
Suttytx
11-30-2006, 12:29 PM
Diva, why the edit of an almost year old thread? It was one of the best.
Edited - Nevermind. Just read the meltdown thread for your explanation. No offense, but very, very lame.
Johnny Daywalker
11-30-2006, 05:25 PM
I shed tears of laughter reading this thread. Deleting the posts makes you seem more pathetic Diva.
Mattioli
11-30-2006, 05:46 PM
I'm sort of sad to have read Diva's actual posts. Having all of her posts read "..." really got the ole' creative juices flowing. I had to improvise and, in my head, alot of what she said apparently involved "pie" and different types thereof. Sure, it didn't make a whole lot of sense, but it was far more entertaining than the reality.
I've enjoyed the unbelievably ridiculous outrage over the editing of my posts. It is irony defined that I am called pathetic for my actions when it's infinitely more pathetic that people searched the archives and cut and pasted my posts back into the thread in order to reconstruct it for the sole purpose of laughing at another person's expense. When I edited my posts I knew people would bitch and complain that their source of amusement was defiled, but you all far exceeded my expectations to how far you would go to get it back. Truly amazing. Really. You should be proud.
Richard Dickson
11-30-2006, 10:06 PM
Diva, you're Sissyphus at this point. Bow out gracefully.
RathBandu
11-30-2006, 10:15 PM
Also, not to bring up old shit, but I remember a time when Diva led the charge against another Chewer for editing their content of their posts in order to make themselves look less stupid, and then proceeded to crack jokes against that Chewer whenever "great moments in CHUD history" came up.
"Rath's brother." It was stupid, juvenile, immature, and I deserved every ounce of crap I got over it, but oh, the irony.
Schwartz
11-30-2006, 11:04 PM
I've enjoyed the unbelievably ridiculous outrage over the editing of my posts. It is irony defined that I am called pathetic for my actions when it's infinitely more pathetic that people searched the archives and cut and pasted my posts back into the thread in order to reconstruct it for the sole purpose of laughing at another person's expense.
No, the first one is much more pathetic.
Johnny Daywalker
12-01-2006, 04:07 AM
Also, not to bring up old shit, but I remember a time when Diva led the charge against another Chewer for editing their content of their posts in order to make themselves look less stupid, and then proceeded to crack jokes against that Chewer whenever "great moments in CHUD history" came up.
"Rath's brother." It was stupid, juvenile, immature, and I deserved every ounce of crap I got over it, but oh, the irony.
You tell her Rath.
I've explained myself quite adequately in THIS THREAD (http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94499). Feel free to continue the discussion there.
Sammy Jankis
12-01-2006, 12:05 PM
I think I managed to miss the deer thread. Is it still intact? Someone have a link for a lazy person?
gravedigger
12-01-2006, 01:04 PM
It's right near the top of the page in the culture forum, Sammy. Can't miss it.
Jared Melton
12-01-2006, 01:08 PM
There you go, Sammy. (http://www.chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86377)
flyarz
12-01-2006, 01:36 PM
Diva: I agree that you didn't break the law. I just think editing your own posts with your bare hands when they didn't have to be edited at all says something about your character. Obviously, this is in disagreement with the minority of people who say editing your posts was necessary.
Sammy Jankis
12-04-2006, 10:04 AM
I didn't realize the deer thread was so new. I don't really see anything bizarre about that one. Without the other issues feeding it, that deer thread would fade away.
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