How can the movers be so stupid?

by: Scout'sWife

Sat Aug 01, 2009 at 04:05:14 AM EDT

( - promoted by DonQuixote)

Well, moving day has come and gone, but boy was it a doosy. The day tarted out badly as my husband and I put the kids in their car seats. My cell phone rings letting me know that the movers need to be signed in at the front gate. So I drive to the gate and wait for 20 minutes. My husband calls to tell me that the truck has arrived at our apartment. Ok...why was I waiting? Oh well, I'll take the kids to daycare.

Scout'sWife :: How can the movers be so stupid?

Halfway to daycare I get another phone call. The truck only brought some of the movers. The other movers are still waiting to be signed in at the Chicago gate (the gate for big trucks, across post from the main gate, where they had told me to go the first time). Now I'm getting a little pissed off. I turn around, go to the other gate, and find the movers. Then we stand there, for 20 minutes, in the cold, with both kids. All this to sign two strange men on post.

Once that was done, I finally went to put my kids put into daycare. At this point they are an hour late, which I still have to pay for, and they've missed breakfast. I'm just hoping that the day will get better.

After dropping off the kids I stop for some much needed coffee and then head back to the house. I get there to discover that there is only one mover packing us up. Wait, didn't I sign two guys in? Where are they? They are my responsibility until they get off post and they didn't even come to my house. I had to call the Transportation office and report the moving company. The day isn't really getting any better.

The other two movers are finally found at another job and rejoin their friend at about 1300. They tell us that they will be done packing in one day which is really nice. My husband goes and signs the moving truck on post around 1400. I pick the kids up at 1700, we do dinner, try to occupy the kids. It gets later, and later, and later.

At 2100 they are finally moving all the furniture and boxes out of the apartment. The problem with that is they ran out of room in the first truck at 2030. Had to get a new truck. So all of our possessions are sitting in front of the building, waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting. Thank goodness it wasn't raining, because all of our stuff would be ruined.

The truck finally shows up at 2230 and they load it. Little did I know that when they told me the packing would be done in one day, that they would be there until 2300 at night. Plus my husband still has to sign the truck out. He finally gets home around midnight, after going to almost every gate on post and waiting on the movers.

With all the problems that we had with the movers I have to admit that they packed our stuff well. Everything was wrapped nicely and seems to be secure. They even wrapped every piece of furniture in cardboard so that it was protected. I just hope that everything makes it to Ft. Knox safe and sound.

Tomorrow is another day.

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How can the movers be so stupid? | 2 comments

Household goods movers are notoriously problematic (0.00 / 0)

This industry has one of the highest complaint ratios of any industry. If I wrote up the issues with my movers from ME to AZ last year (07/08) it would take five pages.

Prepare yourself that something will be broken. It is inevitable that at least one thing gets broke and it is just a matter of what. It is usually something that is worth just under the amount of their minimum (deductible).

Good luck and you will finally feel relieved, relaxed and less stressed in a month or so when all is in and settled and life normal again.

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer

by: DonQuixote @ Sun Aug 02, 2009 at 11:28:22 AM CDT

You have to wonder.... (5.00 / 1)

WHY military moves just never seem to go smoothly is beyond me!Thank you for joining our site. Please keep writing!!

"Let future generations understand the burden and blessings of freedom. Let them say we stood where duty required us to stand."

by: untiltheyallcomehome @ Mon Aug 03, 2009 at 03:57:56 AM CDT