It’s been SEVEN years but

[Larra]

Sending virtual chicken soup for you! Bad timing with the movers, though it will be good to get things done.

 

[southernlady]

Sending virtual chicken soup for you! Bad timing with the movers, though it will be good to get things done.

I’m using cough syrup and Mucinex, the only medications I can use.

 

[hilary1617]

Hope you get good rest and hydrate well today and that tomorrow you feel a bit better! Hope that the move-in goes smoothly!

 

[southernlady]

Our stuff got here yesterday. They were supposed to call an hour before arrival and call my husband. They called MY phone (we told them 5 times to call his), and they were in front of the house when they called. So it was a mad scramble to crate critters, we managed to crate 7 out of 8 so we had to keep a very close eye on the front door at all times.

Now I have absolutely nothing against LEGAL immigrants but at least have a basic understanding of English please. One had almost no clue what was said, the other maybe 20%. I spent several trips upstairs rearranging where stuff had been put cause they stuck it in the wrong room. How hard is to the room on the left or the room with the closed door, HARD?

They also had delivered a load ahead of us, they failed to deliver some of their stuff so we ended up getting two outdoor chairs. They tried to give us some of their stuff so next delivery. Honestly they needed some type of divider between sections. I understand having more than one delivery on a load but they need a better solution of keeping loads separated.

I’ve started unpacking.

Had help in my first box, it was the cut glass I inherited from my great aunt. That’s Pollux, my female ginger peeking out of all the paper I was creating for her to play with.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Our stuff got here yesterday. They were supposed to call an hour before arrival and call my husband. They called MY phone (we told them 5 times to call his), and they were in front of the house when they called. So it was a mad scramble to crate critters, we managed to crate 7 out of 8 so we had to keep a very close eye on the front door at all times.

Now I have absolutely nothing against LEGAL immigrants but at least have a basic understanding of English please. One had almost no clue what was said, the other maybe 20%. I spent several trips upstairs rearranging where stuff had been put cause they stuck it in the wrong room. How hard is to the room on the left or the room with the closed door, HARD?

They also had delivered a load ahead of us, they failed to deliver some of their stuff so we ended up getting two outdoor chairs. They tried to give us some of their stuff so next delivery. Honestly they needed some type of divider between sections. I understand having more than one delivery on a load but they need a better solution of keeping loads separated.

I’ve started unpacking.

Had help in my first box, it was the cut glass I inherited from my great aunt. That’s Pollux, my female ginger peeking out of all the paper I was creating for her to play with. View attachment 2997

So…as a person who LEGALLY arrived in a foreign country (Germany) with a German vocabulary of only those words which had found their way into the Yiddish-English expressions used by friends’ parents, I’m gonna go for “somewhat offended” here.

Liz, unless YOUR 20% of their language allowed you to question—and understand their responses—to your questions, you probably have no idea what their status is here. But one thing some folks reading this may be learning is that these guys came from a location where life was so tough, they traveled and entered a strange country (maybe legally, maybe not) willing to seek work doing jobs that English-proficient citizens and immigrants won’t do because it’s too hard and doesn’t pay ****.

And, as usual, the probably wealthy owners of moving (and construction, landscaping, roofing, agricultural, car wash, restaurants, factories, etc companies) are legally required to check the SS#s of those they hire and they don’t. (This is how my neighbor, in SoCal learned that she had—per SS records—been working in a shoe factory in Texas for YEARS.)

There is a lot of BS hype being circulated from the highest level of government right now, promoting the Us vs Them polarization that wins the votes of people who believe their “leaders.” But here in Commie California, we see who is working in the fields and who is standing outside of Home Depot willing to do dirty, heavy work and who shows up to clean our toilets when we call any home cleaning company and who mows our lawns and who crawls under our house and sits there in a back-breaking position for three days to do earthquake stabilization work…almost all with limited English skills.

But we can probably agree on one thing…Pollux is a cutie.

 

[southernlady]

I’m making the assumption they are legal. I’m not assuming they are illegal. They were of Hispanic background. Charles said that’s why they ignored everything I told them. Guess I’m not assertive enough. I can understand limited skills but left and closed door?

I really would have been pissed if they had dropped my China cabinet which was hand made in the 40’s by the same person who made one for the DuPont family. I could see it was leaning dangerously.