First the good news! There is a part of the kitchen that is for all intents and purposes done! And it does look purty.And then the mostly good news, which is that the new new ovens are in and they work! The mostly is because the delivery was irritating to say the least. First the truck arrives with only 2 items when they were supposed to have said 2 items plus 5 cover panels without which we cannot finish the kitchen. This was annoying, but not entirely unexpected.
More annoying was that the men then insisted that they were not supposed to be picking anything up. They swore blind that their packing slip said deliver 2 items and they were not going to load anything into their truck. The nice delivery man, who was sadly only the assistant, tried to convince the driver to call in to double check and was told he would be left behind if he didn't get in the truck. Nice.
So I signed their stupid packing slip and off they went. About 30 secs after the door had shut and Jon had gone back upstairs to finish the teleconference he was running, I decided to peruse said packing slip as I really couldn't believe that they would have messed up the picking things up again. Not to mention I was very inconvenienced by the two sets of double ovens hogging up all the space in my kitchen.
Well the packing slip had about 6 items on it, but four of them had P/U in one column where the other two were blank. And some of them had 1 in the quantity column while some had -1 and even -2. Hmmmm. What did P/U mean. I looked higher up on the slip and found a note in all caps: PICK UP ITEMS AT THIS ADDRESS.
I guess P/U must mean Pick/Up. So why the negative numbers? Ah well they were with all the things marked Pick/Up. So I guess -2 means you need to pick up 2 Mr. Delivery Dingbat. You know, the opposite of 1 meaning drop one off. I figured this all out in about a minute and then called the number on the slip for people with delivery troubles. I called the delivery people directly and not Ikea this time. I asked them to please get the driver to turn the truck around and pick up the stuff we do not need hanging out in our garage!!!!
About 20 minutes later the nasty driver and nice assistant were back. Nasty driver was NOT happy, but nice assistant was still nice. The extra stuff is now gone. The new ovens are in. A few calls to various people and it appears that the cover panels that were supposed to be delivered today (and were not on the packing slip) are in some kind of order limbo. Some computers show them as ordered and ready for delivery. Some computers show no order at all. And some computers show that they have been delivered, though never ordered or present in the warehouse. Hopefully this will all get sorted soon.
Still very happy with my kitchen and would definitely do Ikea again, but I would NEVER EVER get anything delivered from Ikea ever again. The drive is well worth it.
And remember boys and girls, understanding the concept of negative numbers is important, even if you don't plan on pursuing a PhD in theoretical math.
