Just...don't buy furniture from us, okay?

[taxguykarl]

>_> you're a civil engineer?? Awesome! That is really cool... do you have any horror/sc stories from that job, or is it all too damning with the evidence? (not to incite threadjack, but posting in a new thread?)

Few and far between...I have a lot more public contact at the tax office; hence my handle.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

>_> you're a civil engineer?? Awesome! That is really cool... do you have any horror/sc stories from that job, or is it all too damning with the evidence? (not to incite threadjack, but posting in a new thread?)

[taxguykarl]

How much will you bet her husband WAS actually putting it together wrong!

I'll give you even money on that. FULL DISCLOSURE: I am myself a civil engineer. I do taxes seasonally and part-time. It may not necessarily be his fault as some instructions are either impractical or confusing or just plain poorly written...I can't help but wonder if they were translated from one language to another and then English.

Do it yourself furniture can be pretty nice though. Our house is filled with bookcases and cabinets from target, wal mart, etc... I think it has to do with how tightly you put it together and how careful you are with it. You just have to have the touch.

We have several bookshelves from Office Max and they are holding up just great. There are quite a few other DIY pieces as well. FWIW, it;s been my experience that 'No tool required' is wishful thinking.

[Syriilord]

Look, I keep seeing folks referencing SC as using the Jedi mind trick, and I think it is just dumb!

...SCs are obviously Sith, not Jedi.....

Yeah, but in my experience, only the Jedi actually bother with mind trick powers. Sith will either use ordinary psychological manipulation or just Force lightning the buggers

[DGoddessChardonnay]

How much will you bet her husband WAS actually putting it together wrong!

Do it yourself furniture can be pretty nice though. Our house is filled with bookcases and cabinets from target, wal mart, etc. One has survived about 8-moves. I think it has to do with how tightly you put it together and how careful you are with it. You just have to have the touch.

Not to mention plenty of wine to assist with the assembly.

Been doing it myself for quite a few years now . Have one rotating 3 shelf VHS cabinet that's held up for over 15 years now (almost 20.)

That poor thing has been drug through several rooms of the house over the years. It's currently in the bedroom waiting to be moved yet again soon back to the office (which should be the last time I plan on moving it.)

[tropicsgoddess]

Furniture fail on the SC and spineless manager's part.

[Brojekk]

Remember, those only work on the weak minded. You know, like spineless managers....

LOL you beat me to it.

[Sandman]

Please tell me that the mentioned spineless manager got his ass chewed out? Oh wait.... never-mind.. I know that will never happen!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Gratuitous bump!

We actually got into big trouble with our DM over selling this display.

See, one of his "big things" he looks for when doing store inspections is that all the required furniture displays are out on the floor. That particular armoire had some kind of signing attached to it, as part of the package from the vendor. The sign was attached to the fully-assembled display in such a way that we couldn't get it off when giving it to the SC. So we gave her an extra 10% refund of what she had paid for the armoire in the first place.



DM was PISSED to see this display gone. Not only because we would now have a harder time selling the product, but because the furniture manufacturer could send a rep around and that person would be mad we weren't displaying their merchandise the way they had sent it to be displayed.

That armoire has since come back in. A new display will be have to put together and I don't know who'll be doing that. I suppose it could be me. I can do pretty good with stuff that doesn't require a lot of assembly, but putting together something more involved and putzy like that armoire could be a problem. Then again I can't see myself having time to do that anytime soon.

DM may be needlessly picky on a lot of unimportant shit (because this is what the company wants out of him), but I'm glad he's giving this high importance. People always wonder why I get so wound up about furniture displays being sold and gone before they should. It isn't always about pleasing the customer.

[Chromatix]

These days they tend to provide accessories for bolting shelves to the wall anyway.

[protege]

Do it yourself furniture can be pretty nice though. Our house is filled with bookcases and cabinets from target, wal mart, etc. One has survived about 8-moves. I think it has to do with how tightly you put it together and how careful you are with it. You just have to have the touch.

Nearly all of my furniture came from IKEA. Most of it went together without major issues. The exception, was that one of the bookcases in my office isn't quite "square." Either one, or both of the sides are warped...so the shelves don't quite sit on the pegs. Even so, everything stayed put...until suddenly, all 4 shelves came crashing down That was it--I took all of my books of the other ones, drilled a crapload of holes, and screwed everything together...and bolted the damn thing to the wall. Now that thing's not going anywhere

[PatchO'Black]

Look, I keep seeing folks referencing SC as using the Jedi mind trick, and I think it is just dumb!

...SCs are obviously Sith, not Jedi.....

[Android Kaeli]

I have a few DIY pieces of furniture -- hell, I'm sitting on one right now that I assembled. It's nice, it was cheap, and it does exactly what it's supposed to do. Some assembly IS a pain in the ass, but sometimes it boil down between either user stupidity or there's some sort of defect.

[LillFilly]

How much will you bet her husband WAS actually putting it together wrong!

Do it yourself furniture can be pretty nice though. Our house is filled with bookcases and cabinets from target, wal mart, etc. One has survived about 8-moves. I think it has to do with how tightly you put it together and how careful you are with it. You just have to have the touch.

[Jay 2K Winger]

The Sucktomer from Irv's post-- or at least her experience-- brought to mind something that happened to me last month when I went out to St. Louis for my sister's law school graduation.

I came along for several reasons:

1-- it was expected of me. Never mind that Sis couldn't come to my college graduation.

2-- Sis was moving back home so she could take the bar in Virginia, so we had to help her pack up her apartment. I was brought to help with this.

3-- my great-aunt F (whom we were staying with while out there) needed help putting together an entertainment unit in her den.

So one of the days I was out there was spent trying to put this monstrosity together. After an hour and a half of careful work-- reading the instructions and manual as I'm going along-- I find out that I somehow had one piece put on backwards. So I had to take the whole thing apart and start over.

Hour and a half later, it's still not going together properly, and I swear I'm going by EXACTLY what the diagrams are telling me to do. Great-Aunt F takes pity on me and tells me to just disassemble it and lay it aside, she'll take it back and see what's wrong with it.

The week after, once I'm back home, Mom is talking with Great-Aunt F and finds out that one of the pieces of the unit I'd been trying to assemble had had its holes drilled in wrong. So nothing I could have done would have made it work. I don't know how polite Great-Aunt F was when she returned/exchanged it. I'd like to say she was polite about it, but I know how my Great-Aunt F and her sisters were like. (Then again, this was G-A F not G-A C, who is... infamous in our family, shall we say.)