@@beez1717 not really... just think that since he had everything documented that they could have someone really cheap and without experience do his job instead of him (likely with his seniority)
Story #3 is why you never mess with the person in charge of keeping your things running. There's the manual, and then there's years or decades of actual experience with how things work and the manual doesn't tell you about.
for anything military, lets put it this way, everything is done by the lowest bidder. think about that whenever an ad claims something is military grade
Lowest bidder, absolutely. Mil. Spec. or Military Grade is just that. A Grade on a piece of paper. Looks GREAT on paper but it's not gonna happen with Military Contractors. It takes a Capitalist Company that can charge enough to actually pay for the R&D to truly meet that Grade. So yes, Mil. Spec. that's available on the Civilian Market is generally damn near indestructible.
@@em1osmurf astronauts were NASA not military and had all gear checked 100 times with back ups for back ups so if course they rarely die its way more expensive and fatal if even one thing fucks up
@@johnderekmitchell1510 yep for sure. In Afghan with the USMC we had steak arrive one day - big deal as we were quite remote and this was a real treat. Side of the packaging was "CAT D meat. Not fit for human consumption"
The movers in charge of bringing my sister and her husband stuff back from Guam when he got out of the Navy destroyed so much of their stuff it wasn’t even funny. Though, to their credit, from what I understand they pretty much sucked it up and paid for it all.
Not gonna lie, Bal-Mart sounds like an actually decent name for a sporting store. Just edit it a little to avoid the lawsuits from Wal-Mart. Maybe Ball-Part
Moving companies are just like any business, it depends on who runs the place. There are good ones who will do right by you, and there are shady ones. Source: me; i used to work for a moving company who still has a contract with the military. We did the work honestly. Screw ups happened because, you know, humans (never like that though, that was pure stupidity/negligence), but we always did right by the customer.
I have always said it doesn't matter so much if something happens, what matters is how the company handles it when it does. My favorite was when my car died. It was going to be in the shop for a few days so I needed to rent. We had just had a blizzard and bitter cold temps so the rental company had a rush. I was waiting to get picked up when the manager called me and told me he had a problem AND a solution. The check engine light went on when he was driving to pick me up so he couldn't let me take the car. There were no more on the lot but they were getting more from a nearby city later that day. He could pick me up and take me to work, then deliver the car to me at my work in the afternoon. You bet I used the same rental company from then on.
I moved from South Carolina to Alabama and the moving company we used took 3 EXTRA weeks to deliver my stuff and also broke the frame to my bed which was an antique. Long story short they had to pay me almost $10,000 in damages for the bed frame and also for the lateness. They learned the hard way not to mess with someone with nothing better to do.
Last story: and that, dear boys and girls, is why you don't mess around with the maintenance people. You have no idea what goes on when the doors are locked up. By them terminating him, he literally saved other employees from being injured due to management negligence.
Our problem with the military movers wasn't quite as bad. They had us packed up by 11, and said they would meet us on base at 1. Finally show up at 8:30 that night and were just going to do a drop and run. I refused to sign anything until they at least set up the bed and crib. My husband had surgery at 5 the next morning on his wrists. So here I was with a three month old baby, a husband who couldn't do anything, and a house full of boxes. The movers went through our boxes and took several mementos of ours from tours overseas. We did file an official complaint, but never did get our stuff back. The company was also blacklisted after that though.
The last story tells how companies today treat good employees badly to get a higher profit. The lady could have been killed because the company refused to buy new equipment because not wanting to spend money to keep profits up
Matthew Santoro, a youtuber, had his shipment from Los Angeles to Toronto stolen. Everything he owned. A few days later, the truck was located, and everything was there. They determined that it was in inside job, because of where the truck was when they found it.
I feel like I've heard that last story regarding the notebook before! If what I remember is right they tried to Sue him later regarding the notebook but it was thrown out in court because that notebook was legally his, And therefor they could not sue him for disposing of his own personal property. I also think they had to reimburse him for the wrongful firing
I had a really bad experience handling a moving company that claimed to be of international standards. This company won the bid during the tendering process. They turned out to be mostly unprofessional, cancelling appointments at the last minute, not showing up to appointments, things are broken or damaged when received, once they even sent a container to a wrong location that is a hundred miles away. Just horrible.
This is not a story from a shady mover but a specific employee. My ex started coming home with lots of neat stuff. His story was the guy they were moving said he didn't want it. I found out he was stealing things like decent jewelry, a GPS, etc. I told him he had to give it all back. I told the owner of the moving company in an anonymous call. He fired the guy and called the cops. I left him before it all hit the fan.
My grandparents dealt with a really shady moving company when they decided to move from California to Indiana. The company was supposed to be moving my grandfather's personal truck, a bunch of plants, and some other items, to be delivered in a week. It ended up taking MONTHS before they got their things. During that time all the plants had died and rotted leaving behind a horrible smell. The truck also came with a BUNCH of extra miles on it, reeking of cigarettes (my grandparents did not smoke). They had to take the company to court over it all to get reimbursed the moving costs which they had prepaid, the damages, plus some extra. In the end the company ended up shutting down.
Yep, lots of horrible moving companies. When our office closed (not military), Out of about 20 families who used a moving company to move to another office, almost everyone had trouble. My hubby and I used a moving truck and moved ourselves and we were one of the few with no problems or losses.
We’ve moved so, so many times! A few years ago we finally hired a moving company because we’re getting older and finally making enough money. They broke our $2,000 tv, scratched up a bunch of stuff and then offered us like $200. It was ridiculous! We did the next move on our own.
Respect is the standard for interactions, but it may be lost. In the end you don't know the stranger so you begin with courtesy and see if they deserve to lose it.
Vets should know that threatening to report them to the Veteran's Affairs Department which would result in them losing their contract can be effective.
Moved across the US about 2 years ago. The moving company showed up late with a smaller truck than we paid for, broke the furniture and stole my son's bike. Movers are creeps and I'll use Uhaul from now on!
Cheating people is a disgusting thing too do in there first place, but cheating an armed forces veteran (and a disabled one at that!) stinks to high heaven. 😠👎🏼 Good on this man for not only getting Justice for himself but possibly for others as well. 😤👍🏼
In MG's place, I'd have surrendered the box cutter and badge. When asked for the notebook, I'd tell them "Sorry, my notebook falls under personal effects. You can't have it, I have big plans for it."
A company having a military moving contract is gold. Military people transfer almost everyday. Shout out to SUDDATH VAN LINES!!!! THANKS MUCH FOR MY MILITARY MOVES!
Hired a local company to move us while I was pregnant. I had made some pizza eggrolls for lunch in the wok my hubby bought me in Philly's Chinatown - my pride & joy. Hubby has to go to work just as the movers were clearing the kitchen, and I was herding our 3 sons at this point, so I wasn't in the room while they packed the kitchen off. Fast forward to the next day. I'm setting up the kitchen & can't find my wok. When hubby got home, we looked through every box, then called the moving company to file a report about missing items (the wok & all the utensils). They gave us a claim number, & said they'd get back to us. 2 days later, we get a bill for cleaning out their truck. Seems someone decided that they liked the wok So much that they put it in the cab STILL FULL OF OIL, presumably so I would think it was just lost somewhere in the jumble. The main office manager was Not too happy when she put 2+2 together and realized it would cost the company over $300 if I decided to go to small claims court over this. $150 cash and a small shipment of Omaha steaks later, my hubby went back to Chinatown & bought another wok set for $25 - same as the last set. Oh, and the crew that packed our house? Seems we were the 5th claim against them, but the only one with proof that they'd taken stuff. Can you say "No Unemployment", boys and girls??????😁
The story about the maintenance guy really resonated with me. I used to work in a position that had a lot of the regular maintenance and checkups to do every week and every month just so the main factory production could run (not electrical work, just mechanical and line maintenance/changing of production equipment to fit the work orders) and I can tell you, that like 60-80% of our work was "invisible" if it was done right and on time. There was like 8 of us for 3 shifts that handled one big department that spread over a large-ish building. A lot of walking, a lot of stuff regularly breaking down (especially the labor intensive to maintain, automated machines that needed regular cleaning and maintenance). At first we had a pretty good time making it all work, keeping the maintenance covered. Our supervisor told us that if our work is done and everything is working, we can wait for things to go wrong and do minor things that are low-priority and mostly low-effort or sharing our knowledge with each other, which meant a lot of talking and a joking atmosphere, we were a bunch of goofballs but we worked together rather well and stuff was done right. Well, that did not appeal to regular line workers who constantly reported us to higher management for "slacking off" even though we were paid better than they are. So we got increasingly more and more responsibilities from the management that the supervisor was ordered to pass down onto us. Anything that was not clearly defined for regular line operators fell onto us. It got ridiculous. Then when the most important and labor intensive machines broke down and required hours to fix correctly by more than one person (they were working pretty abysmally even when every maintenance was done on time), the rest of our responsibilities went unchecked and unfinished. We ended up busting our butts most days, rarely having time for a regular break or staying overtime just to make it all work. We kept telling management that we need more people, our supervisor was trying to push for more people as well but was always denied, because management did not see the problem (because we tried to fulfill our responsibilities at great sacrifice to us personally so all the stuff worked as it could and should). At some point I had enough and calmly informed my supervisor that if things dont change within a month or 2 that I am walking away. And so I did. I heard form a friend that still works there as a production line supervisor that the department has had many line re-allocations (physical moves around the building to use space "more efficiently" or whatever), our team got even more spread out and separated into different subdivisions, but apparently now it can all work with less people at similar efficiency. Some of the guys I worked with have since left the company as well, I am not really sure what changed so much that the work got better, neither is my friend. It all seems as fucked up as ever to her.
Story #3: Yeah. Know your rights. This was HIS notebook and HIS notes. Even if they tried they could not have taken those. Because it's HIS! But well done anyways!! I think I would have burned that thing or shredded it. So it's 100% non saveable 😅
6:13 OP has the patience and ideals of a practised sniper, a steady hand, calm demeanore, and a glare of steady gaze on their target, waiting for that golden opportunity for the perfect shot
Moving company stole my grandmas old vintage and antique Christmas decorations, that you can’t replace and they do the make them anymore. Christmas decorations from the 1940s/1960s gone after we moved the first time. T
Okay, here is my moving company story. I wasn't a veteran but moved many many times for private companies. I had many moves where they were holding me hostage (Pay a price that was expected but before they opened the doors to the truck, they insist that I pay them an additional "tip amount per employee", multiple hundreds of dollars or they wouldn't take anything off the truck.). I didn't feel I had a choice. They already were more that 8 hours delayed and got to my new assortment after 9pm. Side they wouldn't move anything in, until they got cash plus the ransom, by the time they moved everything in, it was after midnight. I didn't know whether I should file a police report but they made me nervous that they would come to my place and rough me up or my stuff. This was a long time ago before camera phones or the internet. If this was these days, I would have started my video recording on my iPhone at least to have a audio recording of the shake down. That was only one issue I had with movers so I wasn't surprised when I heard this youtube video of other people haven't gotten screwed by movers
I did that. We had a book with all of the steps that went into doing everything that was compiled by my friend I trained. I didn’t need it, so I took it home and destroyed it. When I finally quit because I couldn’t take HR harassing me anymore, they no idea how to do anything. It was glorious. Be careful who you fuck with.
Here's a story of how Reddit got so big it was because in 2009 it's rival Digg changed their algorithm from topics to power users and everyone hated it and moved to Reddit Shirl afterward. I'm not sure if Digg is still up but boy oh boy hahaha. I heard it may had changed to add some more ad revenue.
It's moving companies in general. TH-camr Matthew Santoro was abused by a moving company when he left the US to move back home to Canda. It was a complete mess because they removed a lot of his expensive items. I've always used U-Haul. And unless I'm moving to a shoebox flat, I'll always do everything by myself.
Why the hell would you fire the one person who knows how to keep your store running? Moronic move. They deserved all the fall out. And that notebook was HIS property, not theirs, so they had no right to demand it.
I would have instead taken said notebook to my vehicle, and then when they asked for it tell them "my personal property is not company property, i showed you my personal notes so you could see how needed my work is, as you have just fired me, i have no reason to give you MY personal notes. that notebook is akin to thousands of hours of work, and as i know you guys are being told to cut costs, you can't afford to buy it from me.. So this will go one of 2 ways: rehire me under a contract, or you will have to replace *counts off list of run down machines* and raise costs substantially."
Moving companies as a whole tend to be shady. I've had to move a few times and there is ALWAYS a box or more that gets "misplaced", likely into the home of one of the employees. Always.
1st one: The military will give the highest price for the least work, but if they catch you trying to screw them, you're toast. This is why my cousin (US Army artillery crewman) Had all his stuff flown from Germany to Texas, then drove a U-Haul to Colorado. I gather most of his friends do the same wherever possible, as the Army pays for the rental.
On that first story about the moving company that screwed over a veteran, I want to have many more people that did that too. I hope they bunch of them ended up in jail. That just pisses me off when some companies do this stuff and some people.
I come from a military family, and I have some moving horror stories. The most infamous is when my dad was returning from Korea after finishing a tour of duty there patrolling the border. Since family weren't really allowed he went on his own and lived there for a year. On his return trip to the US his belongings were all packed up in a number of crates, among these were a computer ( a Gateway or a Tandy not sure which now ) and several family heirlooms ( handmade quilts ). He arrived back to the States and we waited for his shipment... and we waited.... and waited... several phone calls and we discovered it was lost. Then several months later the shipment arrived at our house with his belongings... but it was a single box with dirty, mildewed clothing, broken plates, and it all smelled of bad kimchi. Everything else was gone! After a long argument with them that led to the involved of JAG and Interpol. The company had been hiding the fact that someone was breaking into their warehouse and stealing crates, then selling the items at the local markets in Busan ( known as Pusan at the time ) and Seoul. The company paid us for the lost items, I'm not sure how much since it was the 90's and I was still fairly young then. But I do know that there was a lot more fallout from it from the investigations that were launched.
RE the first story, my dad is retired military and we had a similar experience with a moving company. This was back in 1987, when we moved from the midwest to the northeast. My father contacted the company that was contracted with the government for the move and they came and got our belongings. They were supposed to send it out after we got to our new location and found a place to live. My dad was finishing up his job so he was supposed to follow the moving truck to our new home. Well, we got there, mid June, found a new home and waited. And waited. AND waited!! When my mom called my dad and told him that the stuff had not yet arrived, he contacted the moving company to find out what the delay was. They told him they were sending it out "soon." My dad came out at the end of June and we STILL did not have our stuff, only a promise of "soon." They finally told us that they were waiting until they had a full truck to make the drive, since we didnt have that much stuff, something NOT mentioned back in June!! My dad had tried to access our stuff before he left but was denied since "they don't let people into their storage facilities." My parents were furious, to say the least. We had a place to live but no furniture, no beds, no pots or pans or plates, NOTHING!! My parents had us make do with pallets made of blankets to sleep on and we purchased lawn furniture for the living room. Meanwhile, my dad was working with his former bosses to get our stuff released. We ended up finally getting our stuff in September, three months after moving halfway across the country!! They had stored our stuff in an unheated, uncooled warehouse. My mom's good cherry table was damaged since they had wrapped it in a plastic sheet to "protect" it and the plastic had adhered to the table's finish in the summer heat. They had also broken off one of the legs and tried to nail it back on to a table made completely with wood pegs instead of nails. The needed repairs would be expensive to say the least. They also broke a lot of our dishes through their carelessness including a huge crockery bowl that my mom used for bread baking and lost a bunch of other stuff that they never did locate. With all of the damage and lost stuff, my dad contacted his former bosses and told them what happened. They were furious as well and told him not to worry, to document the losses and damages and to let them know what the totals were and they would take it from there. We ended up getting a check for less than the amount of our losses from the moving company but in the end, this whole debacle cost the moving company an extremely lucrative contract with the government. Serves them right!!
Last story my mother always say that her parents use to say cheapest become dearest mean the more you try to cut corners to save money the more expensive it becomes
..When I was young, my family moved around quite a bit. My Dad's job was not military, but was a government job. The motto of his job back then was, "move to improve." On one of those many moves, the moving company brought boxes with already marked check box areas to indicate where the items came from. (bedroom, living room, kitchen, garage, etc) When we received those boxes, EVERY box was labeled, "miscellaneous." Unfortunately, they truly were. Each box was very random like containing a pot from the kitchen, a pillow from a bedroom, and a light shade from the living room. I remember my Mom telling me it was like Christmas to where every box contained unknown surprises. The. Longest. Unpacking. Ever!!
Wife of a retired military vet. here. We general had good movers. But the two who were bad were really bad. The first, I and my children decided to move closer to my parents while hubby served in Cali. then overseas. The people who packed up our belongings stole some meds I really, really needed. And being dumb and naive I didn't call the police. These meds were already packed up in my personal stuff, btw. Then they didn't pack my coat closet with a lot of other stuff in it. For some reason I didn't check the rest of the house, probably because along with taking care of 2 young kiddos, I was also taking care of my elderly FIL who was in the beginning stages of dementia and required a lot of attention. But come to find out they left a bunch of stuff in the kitchen, mostly cleaning items, but still. Plus some cherished things from my daughter's nursery.
Yes, I've dealt with All My Sons Moving & Storage. They are really slow. They quote you one price then when they use up your time they make you pay a lot of money before unpacking your items. For me I made a mistake of telling them that the tip I was planning to give them would have to pay for the extra cost, so the moves purposefully damaged my workout equipment. One of the movers told me the company does this on purpose. Please if you're in Atlanta, Ga never use this company. @AllMySonsMoving&Storage
I love the 3rd revenge, that was genius! As far as moving companies and there unethical practices. This is a regular issue. I had a company move me from Hartland, WI to Waukesha and during the move they rammed my couch into the hallway wall leaving a whole the size of a basketball. They tried to say it was there before they moved me, but they didn't know I video recorded the final walk through in which the wall was shown because a picture had been hung on the wall and I made a comment of having fixed the push pin holes. My ex-landlord took them to court and they ended up having to fix the wall AND have the carpets steam cleaned because of there boots damaging the carpet.
Anything contracted for the military is horrible. I had an oral surgeon the Army sent me too. He put me out without telling me. I woke up in a completely different place than I was put asleep. On a follow up he flushed put the wounds without telling me and i nearly passed out. Just the worst!
Regarding moving companies: My family and I have moved around a fair bit, and typically just downsized all our crap to the point we could move ourselves. Our recent move however was a different story. I had an entire granny-flat worth of various furniture and geek related crafting tools/supplies that I didn't want to get rid of. So, combined with the regular household stuff a typical 3-person family has, we decided to get a mover for all the large furniture and my horde of geek stuff. I was a bit worried, as I've heard all kinds of horror stories, and when the movers came, it seemed like just a pair of random Joe's with a modestly sized truck, coupled with a mild language barrier, as it was obvious that English wasn't their first language. Turns out, I had nothing to worry about. They were fast, friendly, and went above and beyond to ensure nothing was damaged, despite the crazy amount of stuff they managed to Tetris into the back of the truck, even my super fragile display boards for my assorted geekery. If I remembered the name of the company, I'd give them a shout out, but it was a year ago now, and we've not kept and documentation from them. Still, awesome guys who did great work. 10/10, Would recommend to a friend or work colleague.
Not a bad moving company specifically, but just a bad time trying to move overall. My dad and I (I'm 16) moved down to Australia from Norway a good two years ago. We had a moving company ship our stuff from Norway over to Australia. It was meant to be over a course of two weeks. We didn't get our stuff for SIX. MONTHS. It was all problems with payment, or paperwork, and stuff like that. The reason was, my dad was working through an external agent, and had to funnel the money through him to get to the moving company. The agent? Didn't deliver the money to said moving company, and took it for himself. So the company didn't move our stuff, because they didn't have their payments. Luckily, the company was understanding, and was well aware of the problem, and moved our stuff anyways, with the understanding that it wasn't my dad's fault they didn't have their money. Yes, the agent was arrested.
I loved the story of the maintainance guy. People could argue about how he just let things run so long instead of letting the company take care of it properly. But waste not a preach for deaf ears and whatnot I guess. The outcome was deserved in the end.
I don't know if a moving company with the military is different than a normal one but they don't pay the value of lost items. They pay by the weight. When I moved across country the moving company lost part of my bedroom set. When I went to make a claim they told me it's paid by the weight of the item, not the value.
My MIL worked with a Moving Company for years. The family-owned company was very, very well run (also expensive). They had military and Johnson & Johnson contracts all the time because they were such a reputable company.
That last one with WM, can confirm. Worked for the corp for 12 years, three different locations. Nobody is irreplaceable. Nobody. It doesn't matter how kind you are, how well you do your job, if they want you gone to cut costs, you better start looking for work elsewhere like yesterday. :/
Even if they ordered him to leave the notebook behind, MG has the option to NOT give it to them... It's his private property. MG has written his own manual.
If a company who has contacts with the government starts messing with u, always go to the news, my mum was having trouble with a government agency and ended up on the news talking about it and suddenly they had everything she needed
Here’s some friendly advice from a great grandson, Grandson, Nephew, and Brother to a US Marine.... Don’t EVER FUCKING PISS OFF a US Marine nor do what that moving company did to a Marine Veteran.
Depends on which definition of respect you used. Respect as a synonym for courtesy very much is given freely, if you don't you have earned disrespect. Then there high respect, which is earned
The benefit of contracting with the lowest bidder, is that you're going with the lowest bidder. The problem with contracting with the lowest bidder, is that you're going with the lowest bidder.
That maintenance guys' notebook was the raw data, for writing up a Standard Operating Procedure (SP) binder for that facility. Management seeing those raw notes were like a bunch of greedy, scrambling, back-stabbing pricks, after seeing a gold mine full of gold. And, they sure didn't give the Maintenance Person the credit/respect he deserved for his intelligence/experience/diligence/work ethic. It is good to hear that "the little guy" prevailed over arrogant, bean-counting, clueless administrators.
My then fiancée now wife moved using a service. The DAY OF the move, the movers show up to take her stuff and on the spot demanded we pay more money after they loaded everything on to the truck and this is after having a final quote. They took everything we had in cash to cover the inflated price cause we felt we had no choice at the time as we were moving from NJ to FL that day. We had to take a path avoiding as many tolls as possible and barely made it with the funds we had available. And the moving company was not only late in delivery, but refused to talk to us about the inflated fees and did not even set up a locker as was agreed on
Yes, moving companies in general are shady. the first one I ever used was to move from a tiny one bedroom apartment into a big two bedroom condo and I paid them $1,500 for the move (it was full service, they pack all of your crap for you, so they saw everything I had....) and I gave each of the movers, there was four of them, $150 tip each. They wouldn't let me look through the boxes before signing the manifest that said everything had been delivered. What happened was when we were leaving my apartment the truck pulled over a few minutes after leaving and I stopped behind them and one of the guys got out and said "one of our guys left the lights on in his truck so we have to turn around so he can turn off his lights so the battery doesn't die, we'll meet you at your new place in like 25 minutes." So I get to my new place and I'm sitting there and sitting there and sitting there and it's like 40 minutes later and the truck finally pulls in. They unload all of my stuff and it was the same amount of boxes that I had seen being put into the truck. So I realize after a couple of weeks as I'm slowly unpacking, a lot of my expensive makeup and gel nail polish and a few of my smaller items like lamps that cost like $300 each, and other things like that are missing. And a lot of the boxes seem to be full of literal garbage. So this is why they had me sign the manifest saying that everything had been delivered and they wouldn't let me open even a couple of boxes to make sure everything was okay first. That was Admiral Moving and Storage in Connecticut. DO NOT EVER USE THIS COMPANY, and NEVER let the moving truck out of your sight!
Story1: After the 1st time they hung up about the bounced check I would have said "I am sending this check to the District Attorney since its a felony" Then see what they say. Story2: OP did an awesome job at dealing with an idiot "boss"! Story3: I would never have given them MY NOTEBOOK anyway...it would be my property not theirs...and they would never get their hands on it no matter what.
The military always goes with the lowest bidder which doesn’t always translate to “best service provided”. Fort Polk was one of the worst examples, the housing office had a lot of dirty tricks available that earned them a tidy little sum and took advantage of me due to my low rank. Low ranking enlisted get taken advantage constantly due to them not knowing how to counter any of these!
The moving company I hired when I moved to this apartment not only refused to bring ALL my belongings here but also damaged my electric recliner power cord to the point that I can no longer recline my chair. The chair was given to me by a very nice neighbor in my old neighborhood and the chair was brand new. When he had bought it home he realized the color did not match his other furniture so he asked if I would like it. He knew that I was on low income so he didn't even ask me for money and basically gifted it to me.
There are some really shady movers working military moves. My last one stole my antique fishing poles/gear, and a huge rotating composter. And that, is just what I noticed. I filed a claim, but.. Yeah... That did nothing, and it wasn't enough to fight over when I had too many other issues at the time.
dont think the maintenance guy is a normal being.. he is a godsend not only nice but he controlled everything.. he achieve the highest level of crowd controlling yet theres people that not only know the importance of him but still remove him.. basically sending off a priest/healer from a party before a boss raid smh
I went online to do my own digging for the CBS article the first guy wrote, and found it! If people are actually interested in reading it, I can post the link. I assume the guy is ok with it, given he did mention there was a report on CBS. Plus, it reveals who the shitty moving company is so others who see this and plan to move soon know which company to avoid
I've dealt with a crap moving company, but not like in the story. When I was moving apartments, from a 3rd floor to a first floor across the city, I hired a local moving company to help. Since there were a lot of stairs, and I lived alone, I didn't think going down them with the couch or bed or other large furniture would be smart. When the moving company showed up, it was 2 guys. They were friendly, and we got right to moving. Heck, I even grabbed what I could. However, after what seemed like every other trip down to the truck, they were taking smoke breaks, which is annoying for 2 reasons: 1 I wanted to move in before it was dark, and 2 I was paying by the hour. Now, I'm a smoker, too, so I get it, but this was every 15-20 minutes. Once we finally got everything packed in the truck, they took it over to my new apartment. While driving there, I got to chatting with the younger guy, we'll call him Drew. Drew had just broken his iPhone 5 a couple days ago, and was stuck using an old flip phone instead. I had just upgraded, so I offered my old one, for free, he just had to wait until the next day so I could get all the info I needed off of it first. He thanked me, gave me his number, we unloaded the truck, and now it's time to pay the bill. The way you paid by card was weird, you would write the card number in on the form, and they'd run it once they got back. I know that this used to be a method for mail in orders from magazines, so I figured they were just behind the times. Sure enough, that night I'm charged for the exact amount. However, the very next day, I'm charged over $600 from a certain phone provider. When I see this, I immediately call my bank and tell them that it wasn't an authorized purchase, and find out which store it happened at. They tell me they can't block a completed transaction, but give me the store address anyway. I then called the store and explained the situation, telling them what I assumed happened, and just asked if the money was used to buy an iPhone 5. They confirmed it was, and now I knew it was Drew. I had offered my old phone to him FOR FREE and he responded by stealing my card number. So, it's revenge time. I called the local non-emergency police number and told them what was happening. I also mentioned that he was supposed to come get that phone from me today. They send an officer, no squad car, no uniform, to hang out near-by for when Drew came. Sure enough, he shows up, I give him the phone, and the cop stops him before he can leave. He didn't even need to empty his pockets, he was holding the iPhone 5. (Now, to deal with anyone saying "a lot of people have iPhone 5's, what if it's a coincidence" this was only a year ago, so December 2019. The X had been out for months, so it was now a very uncommon phone. As most of them had died to Apple's updates killing them, or people just upgraded normally.) The end result: He was found guilty of credit card fraud, I never even had to go to court, because of the fact he screwed over someone trying to help him, the judge was extra brutal, and I was awarded the $600, plus $500 for the damage it caused (almost missed rent thanks to him. Could of lost my apartment in the first month), and he paid for my lawyer. I actually saw him a few months back. He works for a different moving company now, and was moving I none of my new neighbors. I made conversation with the guy and his partner while they were packing to leave, and happened to drop the fact he looked EXACTLY like the guy from the other moving company that stole my credit card to buy a new phone, when I promised to give him a free in the next day. Moral of the story : don't steal, especially from people, and especially from people who were raised by an angry, vindictive father and a two-faced, "talk behind everyone's back, but right in front of them" mother. You will get screwed. Edit: this was done on mobile, so I'll edit it when I can get to a pc, but it's gonna be a wall for now.
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That last guy was something special. He was one step ahead of them at all times.
He deserved better - good he was smart 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love how companies try to save money by spending more money lol
He was four parallel universes ahead of them
That guy was making the place run. He shows them he's doing that and they fire him? Are they inane?
@@beez1717 not really... just think that since he had everything documented that they could have someone really cheap and without experience do his job instead of him (likely with his seniority)
Story #3 is why you never mess with the person in charge of keeping your things running. There's the manual, and then there's years or decades of actual experience with how things work and the manual doesn't tell you about.
for anything military, lets put it this way, everything is done by the lowest bidder. think about that whenever an ad claims something is military grade
POV: think about that, and the fact that only 10 astronauts were killed, over the years. oh: and the entire crew of the Thresher.
Lowest bidder, absolutely. Mil. Spec. or Military Grade is just that. A Grade on a piece of paper. Looks GREAT on paper but it's not gonna happen with Military Contractors. It takes a Capitalist Company that can charge enough to actually pay for the R&D to truly meet that Grade. So yes, Mil. Spec. that's available on the Civilian Market is generally damn near indestructible.
@@em1osmurf astronauts were NASA not military and had all gear checked 100 times with back ups for back ups so if course they rarely die its way more expensive and fatal if even one thing fucks up
@@johnderekmitchell1510 yep for sure. In Afghan with the USMC we had steak arrive one day - big deal as we were quite remote and this was a real treat. Side of the packaging was "CAT D meat. Not fit for human consumption"
@@krungstar4541 Thanks for your service!
I was US Navy
As a military spouse, yes... we have had to deal with crappy moving companies A LOT.
The movers in charge of bringing my sister and her husband stuff back from Guam when he got out of the Navy destroyed so much of their stuff it wasn’t even funny. Though, to their credit, from what I understand they pretty much sucked it up and paid for it all.
Oh must be so hard
@@jordanbass9167 lol ok
@@NiamhCreates had some girl come into the store and asked for a military spouse discount. Lol
@@jordanbass9167 Well that wasn't me, man... lmao
Re: #1, Kudos for the guy/gal keeping their cool and maintaining a record. When a business is wrong and they know it, ranting gets nowhere.
As a disabled vet the first story warmed my heart..
Everyone takes your work for granted until you stop doing it...
amen!
Sooooo true!!!
Not gonna lie, Bal-Mart sounds like an actually decent name for a sporting store. Just edit it a little to avoid the lawsuits from Wal-Mart. Maybe Ball-Part
They don't need to change anything Wal-Mart is just short for Walton mart and they can't own words like mart.
One letter different is perfectly legal.
Case in point, Kmart exists.
@@kenbryson2240 *existed
@@kenbryson2240 there's a chain called H-mart as well. Still runs all over Vancouver, Canada. Not sure anywhere else
Moving companies are just like any business, it depends on who runs the place. There are good ones who will do right by you, and there are shady ones. Source: me; i used to work for a moving company who still has a contract with the military. We did the work honestly. Screw ups happened because, you know, humans (never like that though, that was pure stupidity/negligence), but we always did right by the customer.
I have always said it doesn't matter so much if something happens, what matters is how the company handles it when it does. My favorite was when my car died. It was going to be in the shop for a few days so I needed to rent. We had just had a blizzard and bitter cold temps so the rental company had a rush. I was waiting to get picked up when the manager called me and told me he had a problem AND a solution. The check engine light went on when he was driving to pick me up so he couldn't let me take the car. There were no more on the lot but they were getting more from a nearby city later that day. He could pick me up and take me to work, then deliver the car to me at my work in the afternoon. You bet I used the same rental company from then on.
I found that veteran’s interview, search
Disabled Veteran Gets Runaround From Movers After Property Is Damaged CBS Denver
Are you able to link the article?
@@matthewnguyen8245 Here is his interview.
th-cam.com/video/0v3JXf8uGvY/w-d-xo.html
It was justice for the military on the moving company. Our military men & women should NEVER be treated this way
I moved from South Carolina to Alabama and the moving company we used took 3 EXTRA weeks to deliver my stuff and also broke the frame to my bed which was an antique. Long story short they had to pay me almost $10,000 in damages for the bed frame and also for the lateness. They learned the hard way not to mess with someone with nothing better to do.
Last story: and that, dear boys and girls, is why you don't mess around with the maintenance people. You have no idea what goes on when the doors are locked up. By them terminating him, he literally saved other employees from being injured due to management negligence.
I love how you refer to us as “my friend”. It makes me feel better that I have no friends in real life...
I feel the same,no friends in real life 🤷♂️
I’ll be all of y’all’s friends. Everyone deserves friends
And me
@@tojomelville3120 yes you too
Same😔
that notebook in the last story was personal property, not sure how those piss poor managers thought they could tell him to surrender it
Love your stuff man. Your voice is amazing and so much different than a lot of other Reddit youtubers.
Our problem with the military movers wasn't quite as bad. They had us packed up by 11, and said they would meet us on base at 1. Finally show up at 8:30 that night and were just going to do a drop and run. I refused to sign anything until they at least set up the bed and crib. My husband had surgery at 5 the next morning on his wrists. So here I was with a three month old baby, a husband who couldn't do anything, and a house full of boxes. The movers went through our boxes and took several mementos of ours from tours overseas. We did file an official complaint, but never did get our stuff back. The company was also blacklisted after that though.
The moment the check bounced, I would have lost my patience and would have gotten a lawyer and pressed charges.
The Army contracted movers for my move, they showed up on time and delivered on scheduled. No problems.
The last story tells how companies today treat good employees badly to get a higher profit. The lady could have been killed because the company refused to buy new equipment because not wanting to spend money to keep profits up
Matthew Santoro, a youtuber, had his shipment from Los Angeles to Toronto stolen. Everything he owned. A few days later, the truck was located, and everything was there. They determined that it was in inside job, because of where the truck was when they found it.
I feel like I've heard that last story regarding the notebook before! If what I remember is right they tried to Sue him later regarding the notebook but it was thrown out in court because that notebook was legally his, And therefor they could not sue him for disposing of his own personal property. I also think they had to reimburse him for the wrongful firing
*tried not tryed
Used Google text to speech. That's one not on me lol
Unfortunately, in US many moving companies are corrupt and will hold items basically hostage for increased fees.
I had a really bad experience handling a moving company that claimed to be of international standards. This company won the bid during the tendering process. They turned out to be mostly unprofessional, cancelling appointments at the last minute, not showing up to appointments, things are broken or damaged when received, once they even sent a container to a wrong location that is a hundred miles away. Just horrible.
This is not a story from a shady mover but a specific employee. My ex started coming home with lots of neat stuff. His story was the guy they were moving said he didn't want it. I found out he was stealing things like decent jewelry, a GPS, etc. I told him he had to give it all back. I told the owner of the moving company in an anonymous call. He fired the guy and called the cops. I left him before it all hit the fan.
My grandparents dealt with a really shady moving company when they decided to move from California to Indiana. The company was supposed to be moving my grandfather's personal truck, a bunch of plants, and some other items, to be delivered in a week. It ended up taking MONTHS before they got their things. During that time all the plants had died and rotted leaving behind a horrible smell. The truck also came with a BUNCH of extra miles on it, reeking of cigarettes (my grandparents did not smoke). They had to take the company to court over it all to get reimbursed the moving costs which they had prepaid, the damages, plus some extra. In the end the company ended up shutting down.
love the last story. the company screwed themselves over
Yep, lots of horrible moving companies. When our office closed (not military), Out of about 20 families who used a moving company to move to another office, almost everyone had trouble. My hubby and I used a moving truck and moved ourselves and we were one of the few with no problems or losses.
We’ve moved so, so many times! A few years ago we finally hired a moving company because we’re getting older and finally making enough money. They broke our $2,000 tv, scratched up a bunch of stuff and then offered us like $200. It was ridiculous! We did the next move on our own.
The first story... I would have kept the military updated with what was happening, when they were the ones paying... might have got faster response!
Respect is the standard for interactions, but it may be lost. In the end you don't know the stranger so you begin with courtesy and see if they deserve to lose it.
Vets should know that threatening to report them to the Veteran's Affairs Department which would result in them losing their contract can be effective.
Moved across the US about 2 years ago. The moving company showed up late with a smaller truck than we paid for, broke the furniture and stole my son's bike. Movers are creeps and I'll use Uhaul from now on!
Nothing is worse than these guys showing up at your front door:
1. The IRS
2. FBI
3. CIA
4. SWAT
5. The military
Cheating people is a disgusting thing too do in there first place, but cheating an armed forces veteran (and a disabled one at that!) stinks to high heaven. 😠👎🏼
Good on this man for not only getting Justice for himself but possibly for others as well. 😤👍🏼
In MG's place, I'd have surrendered the box cutter and badge. When asked for the notebook, I'd tell them "Sorry, my notebook falls under personal effects. You can't have it, I have big plans for it."
A company having a military moving contract is gold. Military people transfer almost everyday.
Shout out to SUDDATH VAN LINES!!!! THANKS MUCH FOR MY MILITARY MOVES!
Hired a local company to move us while I was pregnant. I had made some pizza eggrolls for lunch in the wok my hubby bought me in Philly's Chinatown - my pride & joy. Hubby has to go to work just as the movers were clearing the kitchen, and I was herding our 3 sons at this point, so I wasn't in the room while they packed the kitchen off.
Fast forward to the next day. I'm setting up the kitchen & can't find my wok. When hubby got home, we looked through every box, then called the moving company to file a report about missing items (the wok & all the utensils). They gave us a claim number, & said they'd get back to us.
2 days later, we get a bill for cleaning out their truck. Seems someone decided that they liked the wok So much that they put it in the cab STILL FULL OF OIL, presumably so I would think it was just lost somewhere in the jumble. The main office manager was Not too happy when she put 2+2 together and realized it would cost the company over $300 if I decided to go to small claims court over this.
$150 cash and a small shipment of Omaha steaks later, my hubby went back to Chinatown & bought another wok set for $25 - same as the last set.
Oh, and the crew that packed our house? Seems we were the 5th claim against them, but the only one with proof that they'd taken stuff. Can you say "No Unemployment", boys and girls??????😁
Good for op. Going to the news was the best idea ever!
The story about the maintenance guy really resonated with me.
I used to work in a position that had a lot of the regular maintenance and checkups to do every week and every month just so the main factory production could run (not electrical work, just mechanical and line maintenance/changing of production equipment to fit the work orders) and I can tell you, that like 60-80% of our work was "invisible" if it was done right and on time. There was like 8 of us for 3 shifts that handled one big department that spread over a large-ish building. A lot of walking, a lot of stuff regularly breaking down (especially the labor intensive to maintain, automated machines that needed regular cleaning and maintenance). At first we had a pretty good time making it all work, keeping the maintenance covered. Our supervisor told us that if our work is done and everything is working, we can wait for things to go wrong and do minor things that are low-priority and mostly low-effort or sharing our knowledge with each other, which meant a lot of talking and a joking atmosphere, we were a bunch of goofballs but we worked together rather well and stuff was done right.
Well, that did not appeal to regular line workers who constantly reported us to higher management for "slacking off" even though we were paid better than they are. So we got increasingly more and more responsibilities from the management that the supervisor was ordered to pass down onto us. Anything that was not clearly defined for regular line operators fell onto us. It got ridiculous. Then when the most important and labor intensive machines broke down and required hours to fix correctly by more than one person (they were working pretty abysmally even when every maintenance was done on time), the rest of our responsibilities went unchecked and unfinished. We ended up busting our butts most days, rarely having time for a regular break or staying overtime just to make it all work. We kept telling management that we need more people, our supervisor was trying to push for more people as well but was always denied, because management did not see the problem (because we tried to fulfill our responsibilities at great sacrifice to us personally so all the stuff worked as it could and should). At some point I had enough and calmly informed my supervisor that if things dont change within a month or 2 that I am walking away. And so I did.
I heard form a friend that still works there as a production line supervisor that the department has had many line re-allocations (physical moves around the building to use space "more efficiently" or whatever), our team got even more spread out and separated into different subdivisions, but apparently now it can all work with less people at similar efficiency. Some of the guys I worked with have since left the company as well, I am not really sure what changed so much that the work got better, neither is my friend. It all seems as fucked up as ever to her.
Story #3: Yeah. Know your rights. This was HIS notebook and HIS notes. Even if they tried they could not have taken those. Because it's HIS! But well done anyways!! I think I would have burned that thing or shredded it. So it's 100% non saveable 😅
Great job, Veteran! Thank you for your service❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
He could deny their request for his notebook because that is his personal property. Destroying it was far sweeter though.
6:13 OP has the patience and ideals of a practised sniper, a steady hand, calm demeanore, and a glare of steady gaze on their target, waiting for that golden opportunity for the perfect shot
*demeanor not deminore
Moving company stole my grandmas old vintage and antique Christmas decorations, that you can’t replace and they do the make them anymore. Christmas decorations from the 1940s/1960s gone after we moved the first time. T
can I just say that OP was amazing to do that I salute to that veteran.
Okay, here is my moving company story. I wasn't a veteran but moved many many times for private companies. I had many moves where they were holding me hostage (Pay a price that was expected but before they opened the doors to the truck, they insist that I pay them an additional "tip amount per employee", multiple hundreds of dollars or they wouldn't take anything off the truck.). I didn't feel I had a choice. They already were more that 8 hours delayed and got to my new assortment after 9pm. Side they wouldn't move anything in, until they got cash plus the ransom, by the time they moved everything in, it was after midnight. I didn't know whether I should file a police report but they made me nervous that they would come to my place and rough me up or my stuff. This was a long time ago before camera phones or the internet.
If this was these days, I would have started my video recording on my iPhone at least to have a audio recording of the shake down. That was only one issue I had with movers so I wasn't surprised when I heard this youtube video of other people haven't gotten screwed by movers
I did that. We had a book with all of the steps that went into doing everything that was compiled by my friend I trained. I didn’t need it, so I took it home and destroyed it. When I finally quit because I couldn’t take HR harassing me anymore, they no idea how to do anything. It was glorious. Be careful who you fuck with.
Here's a story of how Reddit got so big it was because in 2009 it's rival Digg changed their algorithm from topics to power users and everyone hated it and moved to Reddit Shirl afterward. I'm not sure if Digg is still up but boy oh boy hahaha. I heard it may had changed to add some more ad revenue.
It's moving companies in general. TH-camr Matthew Santoro was abused by a moving company when he left the US to move back home to Canda. It was a complete mess because they removed a lot of his expensive items. I've always used U-Haul. And unless I'm moving to a shoebox flat, I'll always do everything by myself.
Why the hell would you fire the one person who knows how to keep your store running? Moronic move. They deserved all the fall out. And that notebook was HIS property, not theirs, so they had no right to demand it.
I would have instead taken said notebook to my vehicle, and then when they asked for it tell them "my personal property is not company property, i showed you my personal notes so you could see how needed my work is, as you have just fired me, i have no reason to give you MY personal notes. that notebook is akin to thousands of hours of work, and as i know you guys are being told to cut costs, you can't afford to buy it from me.. So this will go one of 2 ways: rehire me under a contract, or you will have to replace *counts off list of run down machines* and raise costs substantially."
Moving companies as a whole tend to be shady. I've had to move a few times and there is ALWAYS a box or more that gets "misplaced", likely into the home of one of the employees. Always.
1st one: The military will give the highest price for the least work, but if they catch you trying to screw them, you're toast.
This is why my cousin (US Army artillery crewman) Had all his stuff flown from Germany to Texas, then drove a U-Haul to Colorado.
I gather most of his friends do the same wherever possible, as the Army pays for the rental.
On that first story about the moving company that screwed over a veteran, I want to have many more people that did that too. I hope they bunch of them ended up in jail. That just pisses me off when some companies do this stuff and some people.
I come from a military family, and I have some moving horror stories. The most infamous is when my dad was returning from Korea after finishing a tour of duty there patrolling the border. Since family weren't really allowed he went on his own and lived there for a year. On his return trip to the US his belongings were all packed up in a number of crates, among these were a computer ( a Gateway or a Tandy not sure which now ) and several family heirlooms ( handmade quilts ). He arrived back to the States and we waited for his shipment... and we waited.... and waited... several phone calls and we discovered it was lost. Then several months later the shipment arrived at our house with his belongings... but it was a single box with dirty, mildewed clothing, broken plates, and it all smelled of bad kimchi. Everything else was gone!
After a long argument with them that led to the involved of JAG and Interpol. The company had been hiding the fact that someone was breaking into their warehouse and stealing crates, then selling the items at the local markets in Busan ( known as Pusan at the time ) and Seoul. The company paid us for the lost items, I'm not sure how much since it was the 90's and I was still fairly young then. But I do know that there was a lot more fallout from it from the investigations that were launched.
RE the first story, my dad is retired military and we had a similar experience with a moving company. This was back in 1987, when we moved from the midwest to the northeast. My father contacted the company that was contracted with the government for the move and they came and got our belongings. They were supposed to send it out after we got to our new location and found a place to live. My dad was finishing up his job so he was supposed to follow the moving truck to our new home.
Well, we got there, mid June, found a new home and waited. And waited. AND waited!! When my mom called my dad and told him that the stuff had not yet arrived, he contacted the moving company to find out what the delay was. They told him they were sending it out "soon."
My dad came out at the end of June and we STILL did not have our stuff, only a promise of "soon." They finally told us that they were waiting until they had a full truck to make the drive, since we didnt have that much stuff, something NOT mentioned back in June!! My dad had tried to access our stuff before he left but was denied since "they don't let people into their storage facilities."
My parents were furious, to say the least. We had a place to live but no furniture, no beds, no pots or pans or plates, NOTHING!! My parents had us make do with pallets made of blankets to sleep on and we purchased lawn furniture for the living room. Meanwhile, my dad was working with his former bosses to get our stuff released.
We ended up finally getting our stuff in September, three months after moving halfway across the country!! They had stored our stuff in an unheated, uncooled warehouse. My mom's good cherry table was damaged since they had wrapped it in a plastic sheet to "protect" it and the plastic had adhered to the table's finish in the summer heat. They had also broken off one of the legs and tried to nail it back on to a table made completely with wood pegs instead of nails. The needed repairs would be expensive to say the least. They also broke a lot of our dishes through their carelessness including a huge crockery bowl that my mom used for bread baking and lost a bunch of other stuff that they never did locate.
With all of the damage and lost stuff, my dad contacted his former bosses and told them what happened. They were furious as well and told him not to worry, to document the losses and damages and to let them know what the totals were and they would take it from there. We ended up getting a check for less than the amount of our losses from the moving company but in the end, this whole debacle cost the moving company an extremely lucrative contract with the government. Serves them right!!
Last story my mother always say that her parents use to say cheapest become dearest mean the more you try to cut corners to save money the more expensive it becomes
..When I was young, my family moved around quite a bit. My Dad's job was not military, but was a government job.
The motto of his job back then was, "move to improve."
On one of those many moves, the moving company brought boxes with already marked check box areas to indicate where the items came from. (bedroom, living room, kitchen, garage, etc)
When we received those boxes, EVERY box was labeled, "miscellaneous."
Unfortunately, they truly were.
Each box was very random like containing a pot from the kitchen, a pillow from a bedroom, and a light shade from the living room.
I remember my Mom telling me it was like Christmas to where every box contained unknown surprises.
The. Longest. Unpacking. Ever!!
Wife of a retired military vet. here. We general had good movers. But the two who were bad were really bad. The first, I and my children decided to move closer to my parents while hubby served in Cali. then overseas. The people who packed up our belongings stole some meds I really, really needed. And being dumb and naive I didn't call the police. These meds were already packed up in my personal stuff, btw. Then they didn't pack my coat closet with a lot of other stuff in it. For some reason I didn't check the rest of the house, probably because along with taking care of 2 young kiddos, I was also taking care of my elderly FIL who was in the beginning stages of dementia and required a lot of attention. But come to find out they left a bunch of stuff in the kitchen, mostly cleaning items, but still. Plus some cherished things from my daughter's nursery.
Yes, I've dealt with All My Sons Moving & Storage. They are really slow. They quote you one price then when they use up your time they make you pay a lot of money before unpacking your items. For me I made a mistake of telling them that the tip I was planning to give them would have to pay for the extra cost, so the moves purposefully damaged my workout equipment. One of the movers told me the company does this on purpose. Please if you're in Atlanta, Ga never use this company. @AllMySonsMoving&Storage
I love the 3rd revenge, that was genius! As far as moving companies and there unethical practices. This is a regular issue. I had a company move me from Hartland, WI to Waukesha and during the move they rammed my couch into the hallway wall leaving a whole the size of a basketball. They tried to say it was there before they moved me, but they didn't know I video recorded the final walk through in which the wall was shown because a picture had been hung on the wall and I made a comment of having fixed the push pin holes. My ex-landlord took them to court and they ended up having to fix the wall AND have the carpets steam cleaned because of there boots damaging the carpet.
Surely they wouldn’t be allowed to take his notebook?
Anything contracted for the military is horrible. I had an oral surgeon the Army sent me too. He put me out without telling me. I woke up in a completely different place than I was put asleep. On a follow up he flushed put the wounds without telling me and i nearly passed out. Just the worst!
Regarding moving companies: My family and I have moved around a fair bit, and typically just downsized all our crap to the point we could move ourselves. Our recent move however was a different story. I had an entire granny-flat worth of various furniture and geek related crafting tools/supplies that I didn't want to get rid of. So, combined with the regular household stuff a typical 3-person family has, we decided to get a mover for all the large furniture and my horde of geek stuff. I was a bit worried, as I've heard all kinds of horror stories, and when the movers came, it seemed like just a pair of random Joe's with a modestly sized truck, coupled with a mild language barrier, as it was obvious that English wasn't their first language.
Turns out, I had nothing to worry about. They were fast, friendly, and went above and beyond to ensure nothing was damaged, despite the crazy amount of stuff they managed to Tetris into the back of the truck, even my super fragile display boards for my assorted geekery. If I remembered the name of the company, I'd give them a shout out, but it was a year ago now, and we've not kept and documentation from them. Still, awesome guys who did great work. 10/10, Would recommend to a friend or work colleague.
Not a bad moving company specifically, but just a bad time trying to move overall.
My dad and I (I'm 16) moved down to Australia from Norway a good two years ago. We had a moving company ship our stuff from Norway over to Australia. It was meant to be over a course of two weeks. We didn't get our stuff for SIX. MONTHS. It was all problems with payment, or paperwork, and stuff like that. The reason was, my dad was working through an external agent, and had to funnel the money through him to get to the moving company. The agent? Didn't deliver the money to said moving company, and took it for himself. So the company didn't move our stuff, because they didn't have their payments. Luckily, the company was understanding, and was well aware of the problem, and moved our stuff anyways, with the understanding that it wasn't my dad's fault they didn't have their money.
Yes, the agent was arrested.
I loved the story of the maintainance guy. People could argue about how he just let things run so long instead of letting the company take care of it properly. But waste not a preach for deaf ears and whatnot I guess. The outcome was deserved in the end.
That last dude was smart.
The moving company story: Semper Fi, Marine!
I don't know if a moving company with the military is different than a normal one but they don't pay the value of lost items. They pay by the weight. When I moved across country the moving company lost part of my bedroom set. When I went to make a claim they told me it's paid by the weight of the item, not the value.
I loved the last story that guy was totally savage.
Moving companies are shady. They aren't regulated and do whatever they want.
It’s probably just the moving companies that the military hires because the military is cheap and goes for the cheapest option
People bitch about the cost of the military, you want them to go with the highest bid?
I guess they weren't kidding with the "military grade" term. The cheapest thing that gets the job done. Like .5% of the time.
@@stanwolenski9541 No, but they shouldn't go for the lowest bid either seeing as they get an increase on their $600 Billion pay every year.
My MIL worked with a Moving Company for years. The family-owned company was very, very well run (also expensive). They had military and Johnson & Johnson contracts all the time because they were such a reputable company.
One quick search here on youtube and you find the interview from the first story, so no bs there 🙂
That last one with WM, can confirm. Worked for the corp for 12 years, three different locations. Nobody is irreplaceable. Nobody. It doesn't matter how kind you are, how well you do your job, if they want you gone to cut costs, you better start looking for work elsewhere like yesterday. :/
Even if they ordered him to leave the notebook behind, MG has the option to NOT give it to them... It's his private property. MG has written his own manual.
I don't understand why "GROWN ADULTS" think throwing a tantrum entities them to respect. Like what?
If a company who has contacts with the government starts messing with u, always go to the news, my mum was having trouble with a government agency and ended up on the news talking about it and suddenly they had everything she needed
Here’s some friendly advice from a great grandson, Grandson, Nephew, and Brother to a US Marine....
Don’t EVER FUCKING PISS OFF a US Marine nor do what that moving company did to a Marine Veteran.
Military OP has the patience of a saint. Woooo, lawd!
I disagree “respect is earned and not freely given” is something David stress probably believes, that’s y he was so rude to everyone
Depends on which definition of respect you used. Respect as a synonym for courtesy very much is given freely, if you don't you have earned disrespect. Then there high respect, which is earned
@@geraldgrenier8132 but who gets to say what are the qualifications for high respect ?
The benefit of contracting with the lowest bidder, is that you're going with the lowest bidder.
The problem with contracting with the lowest bidder, is that you're going with the lowest bidder.
That maintenance guys' notebook was the raw data, for writing up a Standard Operating Procedure (SP) binder for that facility.
Management seeing those raw notes were like a bunch of greedy, scrambling, back-stabbing pricks, after seeing a gold mine full of gold. And, they sure didn't give the Maintenance Person the credit/respect he deserved for his intelligence/experience/diligence/work ethic.
It is good to hear that "the little guy" prevailed over arrogant, bean-counting, clueless administrators.
I've never dealt with a moving company but that one TH-camr Matthews Santoro is a victim of bad moving companies
Way to thank out service members. 😑
My then fiancée now wife moved using a service. The DAY OF the move, the movers show up to take her stuff and on the spot demanded we pay more money after they loaded everything on to the truck and this is after having a final quote. They took everything we had in cash to cover the inflated price cause we felt we had no choice at the time as we were moving from NJ to FL that day. We had to take a path avoiding as many tolls as possible and barely made it with the funds we had available. And the moving company was not only late in delivery, but refused to talk to us about the inflated fees and did not even set up a locker as was agreed on
Yes, moving companies in general are shady. the first one I ever used was to move from a tiny one bedroom apartment into a big two bedroom condo and I paid them $1,500 for the move (it was full service, they pack all of your crap for you, so they saw everything I had....) and I gave each of the movers, there was four of them, $150 tip each. They wouldn't let me look through the boxes before signing the manifest that said everything had been delivered. What happened was when we were leaving my apartment the truck pulled over a few minutes after leaving and I stopped behind them and one of the guys got out and said "one of our guys left the lights on in his truck so we have to turn around so he can turn off his lights so the battery doesn't die, we'll meet you at your new place in like 25 minutes." So I get to my new place and I'm sitting there and sitting there and sitting there and it's like 40 minutes later and the truck finally pulls in. They unload all of my stuff and it was the same amount of boxes that I had seen being put into the truck. So I realize after a couple of weeks as I'm slowly unpacking, a lot of my expensive makeup and gel nail polish and a few of my smaller items like lamps that cost like $300 each, and other things like that are missing. And a lot of the boxes seem to be full of literal garbage. So this is why they had me sign the manifest saying that everything had been delivered and they wouldn't let me open even a couple of boxes to make sure everything was okay first. That was Admiral Moving and Storage in Connecticut. DO NOT EVER USE THIS COMPANY, and NEVER let the moving truck out of your sight!
Story1: After the 1st time they hung up about the bounced check I would have said "I am sending this check to the District Attorney since its a felony" Then see what they say.
Story2: OP did an awesome job at dealing with an idiot "boss"!
Story3: I would never have given them MY NOTEBOOK anyway...it would be my property not theirs...and they would never get their hands on it no matter what.
The military always goes with the lowest bidder which doesn’t always translate to “best service provided”. Fort Polk was one of the worst examples, the housing office had a lot of dirty tricks available that earned them a tidy little sum and took advantage of me due to my low rank. Low ranking enlisted get taken advantage constantly due to them not knowing how to counter any of these!
It is your comments between stories that I love. Please keep them up on all the different sites.
The moving company I hired when I moved to this apartment not only refused to bring ALL my belongings here but also damaged my electric recliner power cord to the point that I can no longer recline my chair. The chair was given to me by a very nice neighbor in my old neighborhood and the chair was brand new. When he had bought it home he realized the color did not match his other furniture so he asked if I would like it. He knew that I was on low income so he didn't even ask me for money and basically gifted it to me.
There are some really shady movers working military moves. My last one stole my antique fishing poles/gear, and a huge rotating composter. And that, is just what I noticed. I filed a claim, but.. Yeah... That did nothing, and it wasn't enough to fight over when I had too many other issues at the time.
dont think the maintenance guy is a normal being.. he is a godsend not only nice but he controlled everything.. he achieve the highest level of crowd controlling yet theres people that not only know the importance of him but still remove him.. basically sending off a priest/healer from a party before a boss raid smh
In that last story it sounds like they needed to fire some of their bosses instead of MG.
To bad more companies don’t get rid of employees like David stress
I went online to do my own digging for the CBS article the first guy wrote, and found it! If people are actually interested in reading it, I can post the link. I assume the guy is ok with it, given he did mention there was a report on CBS. Plus, it reveals who the shitty moving company is so others who see this and plan to move soon know which company to avoid
Moving company one reminded me of one of my Favorite TH-camr (hint: Matt S.) and his moving company nightmare.
I've dealt with a crap moving company, but not like in the story.
When I was moving apartments, from a 3rd floor to a first floor across the city, I hired a local moving company to help. Since there were a lot of stairs, and I lived alone, I didn't think going down them with the couch or bed or other large furniture would be smart.
When the moving company showed up, it was 2 guys. They were friendly, and we got right to moving. Heck, I even grabbed what I could. However, after what seemed like every other trip down to the truck, they were taking smoke breaks, which is annoying for 2 reasons: 1 I wanted to move in before it was dark, and 2 I was paying by the hour. Now, I'm a smoker, too, so I get it, but this was every 15-20 minutes. Once we finally got everything packed in the truck, they took it over to my new apartment. While driving there, I got to chatting with the younger guy, we'll call him Drew. Drew had just broken his iPhone 5 a couple days ago, and was stuck using an old flip phone instead. I had just upgraded, so I offered my old one, for free, he just had to wait until the next day so I could get all the info I needed off of it first. He thanked me, gave me his number, we unloaded the truck, and now it's time to pay the bill. The way you paid by card was weird, you would write the card number in on the form, and they'd run it once they got back. I know that this used to be a method for mail in orders from magazines, so I figured they were just behind the times. Sure enough, that night I'm charged for the exact amount. However, the very next day, I'm charged over $600 from a certain phone provider. When I see this, I immediately call my bank and tell them that it wasn't an authorized purchase, and find out which store it happened at. They tell me they can't block a completed transaction, but give me the store address anyway. I then called the store and explained the situation, telling them what I assumed happened, and just asked if the money was used to buy an iPhone 5. They confirmed it was, and now I knew it was Drew. I had offered my old phone to him FOR FREE and he responded by stealing my card number. So, it's revenge time. I called the local non-emergency police number and told them what was happening. I also mentioned that he was supposed to come get that phone from me today. They send an officer, no squad car, no uniform, to hang out near-by for when Drew came. Sure enough, he shows up, I give him the phone, and the cop stops him before he can leave. He didn't even need to empty his pockets, he was holding the iPhone 5. (Now, to deal with anyone saying "a lot of people have iPhone 5's, what if it's a coincidence" this was only a year ago, so December 2019. The X had been out for months, so it was now a very uncommon phone. As most of them had died to Apple's updates killing them, or people just upgraded normally.)
The end result: He was found guilty of credit card fraud, I never even had to go to court, because of the fact he screwed over someone trying to help him, the judge was extra brutal, and I was awarded the $600, plus $500 for the damage it caused (almost missed rent thanks to him. Could of lost my apartment in the first month), and he paid for my lawyer.
I actually saw him a few months back. He works for a different moving company now, and was moving I none of my new neighbors. I made conversation with the guy and his partner while they were packing to leave, and happened to drop the fact he looked EXACTLY like the guy from the other moving company that stole my credit card to buy a new phone, when I promised to give him a free in the next day.
Moral of the story : don't steal, especially from people, and especially from people who were raised by an angry, vindictive father and a two-faced, "talk behind everyone's back, but right in front of them" mother. You will get screwed.
Edit: this was done on mobile, so I'll edit it when I can get to a pc, but it's gonna be a wall for now.
Can you imagine screwing over the military when it is such a huge contract?
That moving biz got what was coming to them.