What's bugging you? (2016)

[LouisEly]

When you know that a package you have to sign for is arriving on a certain day, and you know you can work from home that day, and you are home all day, but the FedEx delivery driver makes no effort to knock on your door to get a signature and just leaves a door tag. He/she can get into the building, but instead of taking the elevator up to your floor to get a signature, just puts a tag on your mailbox. (There are no buzzers to individual units.)

 

Then pulls the same crap the next day. (UPS will take the elevator and go right to your door, but FedEx... not so much.)

 

Then FedEx tells you that you have to pick up your package at their main facility... in East St. Louis, IL.

 

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[homer]

When you know that a package you have to sign for is arriving on a certain day, and you know you can work from home that day, and you are home all day, but the FedEx delivery driver makes no effort to knock on your door to get a signature and just leaves a door tag. He/she can get into the building, but instead of taking the elevator up to your floor to get a signature, just puts a tag on your mailbox. (There are no buzzers to individual units.)

 

Then pulls the same crap the next day. (UPS will take the elevator and go right to your door, but FedEx... not so much.)

 

Then FedEx tells you that you have to pick up your package at their main facility... in East St. Louis, IL.

 

I actually the same issues with UPS but not Fed Ex.

[jerichoholicninja]

The UPS guy where I worked said that UPS allows only a certain amount of time per day that their truck can be in park. I would imagine FedEx has something similar so they're not going to do anything that takes them out of the truck for awhile. That also explains why around Christmas I've seen the UPS guy in our neighborhood literally throwing packages from the truck.

[LouisEly]

If that's the case, then why would UPS (who I see more packages from than FedEx) bring packages to my door but not FedEx? Also, how can that be a hard and fast rule when you have high population density areas (downtown with apartment/condo buildings) and low population density areas (small towns, outer suburbs/exurbs)? They have to know that delivery downtown in larger cities is markedly different than in Delafield or Whitefish Bay.

 

In Madison it was the same thing - UPS would go into the building and put packages by your door, but FedEx wouldn't come into the building. I think FedEx is more stringent on signing for packages than UPS.

 

I suspected that Christmas was part (or all) of the issue - the driver may have just wanted to get his/her deliveries done quicker to be able to go home earlier. Which constitutes laziness and failure to do your job.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

I'm a UPS driver, and there is no certain amount of time a vehicle can be parked. In NYC the trucks are parked in the same spot all day long. UPS does know everything we do during the day. They know when the truck is idling, speed, backing, distance travelled, speed travelled, seatbelt on, door open, when I'm using hitting keys in my computer. If people think they are micromanaged at their jobs, then they have no idea how much worse it could be. In most cases the driver decides if the package is safe to be left. The Fed Ex driver in my area leaves packages at most of the businesses without a signature. UPS doesn't allow packaged left at businesses without one. I deliver in northwest Milwaukee, and I won't leave a package at an apartment unless the shipper designated it to be left unsigned.

[nodakfan17]

ESPN

 

There is one "free" college football game on ABC today (Florida v. Michigan). I know they own the broadcast rights to just about every bowl, but I wish they'd put a few on ABC. They can keep the playoff bowls for their subscribers. I'm sure there's a way to watch them using an ESPN app, but I don't want to mess with that.

[nodakfan17]

The Fox NFL Pre-Game Show is basically a 1-hour commercial for Draft Kings and Fan Duel.

[jerichoholicninja]

Crappy New Year to me.

 

Right now my basement laundry room is filled with crap, literally. Thank god that's as far as it's gotten.

[LouisEly]

I'm a UPS driver, and there is no certain amount of time a vehicle can be parked. In NYC the trucks are parked in the same spot all day long. UPS does know everything we do during the day. They know when the truck is idling, speed, backing, distance travelled, speed travelled, seatbelt on, door open, when I'm using hitting keys in my computer. If people think they are micromanaged at their jobs, then they have no idea how much worse it could be. In most cases the driver decides if the package is safe to be left. The Fed Ex driver in my area leaves packages at most of the businesses without a signature. UPS doesn't allow packaged left at businesses without one. I deliver in northwest Milwaukee, and I won't leave a package at an apartment unless the shipper designated it to be left unsigned.

If you are delivering to a secure-access multi-level apartment building and you have access to the building, will you go up to the actual apartment unit and knock on their door or will you just leave a tag at the mailbox?

[LouisEly]

The Fox NFL Pre-Game Show is basically a 1-hour commercial for Draft Kings and Fan Duel.

ESPN Sunday mornings are basically a 3-hour commercial for Draft Kings and Fan Duel.

 

I hate September-December because there are basically no highlight shows on Sunday mornings that recap the baseball/college football/college basketball games from Saturday. Half of SportsCenter is a preview of the NFL games that day.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

I'm a UPS driver, and there is no certain amount of time a vehicle can be parked. In NYC the trucks are parked in the same spot all day long. UPS does know everything we do during the day. They know when the truck is idling, speed, backing, distance travelled, speed travelled, seatbelt on, door open, when I'm using hitting keys in my computer. If people think they are micromanaged at their jobs, then they have no idea how much worse it could be. In most cases the driver decides if the package is safe to be left. The Fed Ex driver in my area leaves packages at most of the businesses without a signature. UPS doesn't allow packaged left at businesses without one. I deliver in northwest Milwaukee, and I won't leave a package at an apartment unless the shipper designated it to be left unsigned.

If you are delivering to a secure-access multi-level apartment building and you have access to the building, will you go up to the actual apartment unit and knock on their door or will you just leave a tag at the mailbox?

 

If you have a buzzer at the main lower level entry door I will ring that, and if no answer I would leave the tag at those buzzers. If there are no buzzers I would go up to your apartment door. I'm just going to get that package back again the next day, so really I'd love to get rid of it.

[AKCheesehead]

When you know that a package you have to sign for is arriving on a certain day, and you know you can work from home that day, and you are home all day, but the FedEx delivery driver makes no effort to knock on your door to get a signature and just leaves a door tag. He/she can get into the building, but instead of taking the elevator up to your floor to get a signature, just puts a tag on your mailbox. (There are no buzzers to individual units.)

 

Then pulls the same crap the next day. (UPS will take the elevator and go right to your door, but FedEx... not so much.)

 

Then FedEx tells you that you have to pick up your package at their main facility... in East St. Louis, IL.

 

Sometimes you have got to love small towns. In the town where I live, the fed ex driver also knows where many people work. And they know what you drive, too. As such, sometimes you might find your packages in your vehicle when you leave work in the evening.

[RobDeer 45]

A family member throwing out facts that are false and then never being able to admit they are wrong. Real fun.

[JimH5]

A family member throwing out facts that are false and then never being able to admit they are wrong. Real fun.

 

I think it's different when it's a 35-year-old cousin vs. an 80-year-old father-in-law. Sometimes you fight to be right, and other times you swallow your tongue and keep peace.

[fondybrewfan]

Ever since the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel went to a pay site several years ago all you had to due to get around it was block the cookies. Now all of a sudden that is not working and I can't read any more articles. Darn.

[logan82]

Delete your cookies. Problem solved.

[1992casey]

When Time Warner's internet goes down, its call center also goes down. It appears that the call center uses TW's internet phone service.

 

Also, today I patiently waited at a green light so a pedestrian with a cane could finish crossing. While I was waiting, the vehicle behind me zipped around me to the right, with zipped being the operative word. I generally get impatient when I can't get through a green light, but a case like this is an exception. If I had had to wait for another green light (which I didn't), so be it.

[TheEndless7]

A 'Caution Countdown Clock' at racing events.

 

Always been more of an open-wheel snob but do like all forms of motorsport. But seriously? A timer counting down so you throw a caution if one hasn't happened? What ever happened to racing!?

[nate82]

When Time Warner's internet goes down, its call center also goes down. It appears that the call center uses TW's internet phone service.

 

Probably more along the lines of their call center getting slammed with the sudden increase in traffic that makes it go down. That extra bandwidth when this happens is probably more than what their call center network can handle and the overflow switch is probably acting like a person trying to breathe in a vacuum when trying to switch the calls to the next available call center with bandwidth.

[RobDeer 45]

I had to put my 12 year old dog down last week because of cancer. He was my first dog. Way tougher than I ever thought it would be but finally starting to be able to laugh and smile about memories I have with him. I'm going to miss him a lot.

[hawing]

Oh, that's tough, RD45. (Not that you need to be told) You have my sympathy.

 

One of our cats has a growth on his liver that experts at the UW Vet School couldn't conclusively identify last August, but they expect it to do him in. So we are aiming to be happy with every day we get with him. He's steadily losing weight but still is cuddly and perfectly able to wake us up when he's hungry.

But my point is I understand what you've been through, since we'll have that kind of loss sometime again ourselves.

[jerichoholicninja]

I hate being sick. The feeling like crap wasn't enough but I've spent the last 3 days laying around watching TV and I feel like a completely useless human.

[Patrick425]

It's one thing to still have your Christmas lights up on January 31st, it's another thing to continue to have them plugged in and lit every night!

[1992casey]

One of my friends keeps Christmas going until the Packers season is over.

[MrTPlush]

It's one thing to still have your Christmas lights up on January 31st, it's another thing to continue to have them plugged in and lit every night!

 

There is a bank(I think) in Kenosha that still had a huge Christmas display up outside a week or so last I checked. Think it might be time to take it down.

 

I don't typically mind if someone keeps white lights going around their porch in the winter since it looks kinda nice, but Christmas decorations and colors need to get stuffed in the garage.