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Apr 25, 2015
10:43:10am
My wife saw this on FB:
This is going to be a vent/advice post not about babies.

I just moved up to UT with my kids this week (my husband had been here for a little over a week for his new job). Since it was just me and my dad to pack up the moving truck I of course contacted our Elder's Quorum for help. First off, the president never responded to me, I had to have my husband email him to finally get a response. We only needed around 5 guys for 1 1/2-2 hours Sat morning.

Saturday morning arrived and we ended up with 4 guys and one lady (who kept trying to take over, telling people what to do, even when I said no that is not what we want done!) One man told my dad he was an expert at packing trucks and so he could take over. My dad let him since he was so confident. Unfortunately he was either lying, over-estimating himself, or just didn't care about our stuff.

After everyone left my dad and brother had to repack the truck as much as they could because they didn't use any of our tie downs or furniture covers! (At this point they had already broken one of our nice bookshelves in half) On Monday we drove up here to UT and unloaded the truck. As each thing came off I kept seeing more and more things damaged, and all of them were our nice things that we bought new! Our entertainment center that we got for an anniversary gift a year ago has huge gashes in its' legs, other bookshelf backing ripped, my girls dressers which my MIL gifted to us last Oct gashed, my nice glider to rock/nurse in has a big hole in it, and then our brand new head board that we got for Christmas has deep gashes in it as well!

The only items not injured were the things we either bought second hand or were given to us second hand. All because the guys who came to help were in such a rush to finish they just threw our stuff on the truck without any care! Which is super frustrating since it went so fast and was first thing in the morning so it wasn't hot.

In my mind, if you volunteered to help then you need to treat that persons stuff the way you would want your stuff treated! Every time I have found something new I just keep getting more and more mad! My poor husband is kind of sick of hearing my rants, but I just don't know what else to do! We have very little money and cannot afford to replace anything right now.

I want to write the Elders Quorum President and just say that they really need to be careful because so much of our stuff was damaged! And then another part of me wants to write the ward clerk and request payment to replace/repair everything they damaged (which I'm not going to do, just wish I could *wink emoticon* ) but then I think it's just not worth it! What would you do if you were in this situation?
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