To have expected logs to be stacked?

[Changerazelea]

Had a delivery of logs today, delivery driver tipped them in my driveway and then proceeded to tell me "We don't stack love"
Spent the next 2 hours moving and stacking them into my garage while DS screamed and I berated myself for not being assertive enough to have insisted driver helped me move into garage.
Does common courtesy no longer exist? Driver seeing me with baby in arms surely should have offered to help...
First world problems but AIBU?

Your logs your problem innit love.
All logs, wooden ones and there other.

the not there

I'd offer the deliveryman £20 to stack the logs for me. That usually overcomes their reluctance

Really?!

I have only had one company stack my logs for me - and I paid £10 extra on the price of the logs for it. If you get cheap logs, then you usually have to stack them yourself.

Ours were never stacked, we got a huge delivery to last the whole winter (and more if we were lucky) measured up to about 5 of those big bags. and would take us all afternoon to move and stack the lot. I used to pay my kids to do most of it. Log store was all the way down the garden no where near the house.

This can't be real! You still think he should have spent hours helping you stack them? For free?

Yeah, right.

And if this is real, you are the exact time of mother that gives us all a bad name.

Sorry but having a "babe in arms" does not entitle you to two hours of free labour. If you can't do it yourself you pay a local teenager to do it or get someone to babysit while you do it.

Logs are always tipped on the drive.

Hours MadMags? Calm down love. I'd offer £20 but realise I'm paying over the odds

Yes, hours. Love. Do you have any idea what you're actually talking about? Because it doesn't sound like it.

You could offer your bountiful, over-the-odds £20 all you liked but if he had other deliveries he wouldn't/couldn't do it.

Love.

Do you expect everyone to do everything for you because you have a baby? I have two DC, it's a wonder I do anything at all, being as they are apparently surgically attached to my arms.

Log deliveries are never stacked - having a baby doesn’t change that. You bought logs not a stacking service!

That's how logs are delivered. Sorry.

Still don't think it is beyond the realms of possibility that the delivery driver could have offered helped me stack the logs.
You have a baby and yes you can expect a certain amount of help. Like maybe if you couldn't hold the baby and open the front door the driver could have helped. Or if you had a parcel to get in the house and nowhere to.put the baby down. But expecting him to put in 2 hours of non urgent manual labour is a whole different ball game. Theres no reason the logs have to be stacked instantly.

Giving all mothers a bad name. Ha!

YABU. How much did you pay for delivery? How much would his wage be for the 2 hours he would need to help you for? You can't expect someone to work for nothing just because you think he should have done you a favour.

But she was HOLDING A BABY.

Are you a single mum? No dp who could have done it when back from work? Logs don't need to be stacked straight away. You can buy a cheap tarp to throw over the pile until you can.

£20; £25; £50; £100 or more. It doesn't matter. The idea that a deliveryman would never bargain to do a favour for a tip and hide it in his schedule is naive.

£20; £25; £50; £100 or more. It doesn't matter. The idea that a deliveryman would never bargain to do a favour for a tip and hide it in his schedule is naive.

Probably would, but you catch more flies with honey than vinegar and if the OP came across the same to him as she does on he he probably thought 'get knotted'.

I don't know how anyone could lose 2 hours out their day and hide it in a schedule.

Chances are if he'd spent an extra and unexpected two hours there someone else expecting logs that day wouldn't have got their delivery.

I can easily hide two hours out of my day. I can also take time out to do someone a favour for no reward other than the fact that I like them, and sometimes do.

I realise that not everyone can do this, but the idea that many people can't wangle a way round in order to be nice or to earn extra cash is laughable.

*I can easily hide two hours out of my day. I can also take time out to do someone a favour for no reward other than the fact that I like them, and sometimes do.

I realise that not everyone can do this, but the idea that many people can't wangle a way round in order to be nice or to earn extra cash is laughable.*

Grief! Yesterday I ate my dinner in the bath as I didn't have enough time to do both. Oh to have a lifestyle where I can magic up 2 hours!

Oh fuck. I knew this would happen. In my eight hour shift there are doldrums and then incredibly busy points that you probably wouldn't be able to handle NewLove. It's just the nature of my job. I'm sure there are aspects of your job that would defeat me. However, I wouldn't be so dreary as to give you a lecture about how dreadfully important I am and how I'm sometimes too rushed to take a shit.

During the slow points I monitor Mumsnet and help random callers for no other reason than that I like them and am quite a nice person who isn't up her own arse. How do you pass the time?