To send delivery men home and only pay half

[Rosebyanothername19]

We are partially moving house today and the delivery ment arrived at half 8 today ad agreed to do the first load. The idea was they take the first load with my husband while I put the baby down for a nap, meaning by the time they are back for the second load dc will be rested and in a good mood ready for the second load to be done.

All loaded in fine, dh sets off to the new house while delivery men are finishing off last few boxes. They decide they have more space so stomp upstairs (where I am trying to get dc down) and try to unlock the balcony door to get the furniture off there. It is awkward to open and stick so they start calling for me to ask why it won't open.

I unlatch the baby, go out and politely tell them to leave it and to leave the house as I'm trying to get the baby down. She is not great at sleeping when there is lots of noise going on but I had almost got her to sleep when they started stomping upstairs and she was very much woken up by the shouting!

It has just taken me another hour and lots of tears to get her to sleep and they are due back to do the second run.

So WIBU to send them home or am I cutting off my nose to spite my face and its not reasonable for the whole world to revolve around my my babys naps?

It’s one day, just let it go and get everything moved.

They turned up to do a job and get paid for it - not revolve around your babies naps.

Definitely nose cutting. Let them do the job you’ve paid them for. And good luck with getting away with paying half when you’re the one who’s moved the goalposts.

You’re not unreasonable to cancel the second load if that works better for you. (though I think you’d be crackers)

But you’d be totally taking the piss not to pay them in full.

It is hard work when a baby doesn’t get their sleep - but it’s part of life, and I think you should just deal with it.

Sorry OP yabu. But I think you know this. You've paid them to do this job and moving household items isn't exactly going to be a quiet job. Just have to suck it up for one day.

Seriously? The whole world doesn't revolve around baby's naps, way too much hassle. Just get on with it, it will be over soon!

I think you might need them if you are moving house today..

It's only a nap, they will think you are totally insane.

They're just doing the job you've paid them do.
Yabu. Let them do their jobs, if your little one isn't a great sleeper anyway this one day isn't going to make any difference.

You think it's ok to cancel a booked job because your baby is cranky? And you'd have to pay them in full, obviously

Just get the day over with. Expecting normality on a moving day is being unreasonable.

Yes YABU, they are just doing their job.

Is this your PFB by any chance? I get it’s stressful but it’s only one day, just get it over with. Enjoy your new home!

How the hell do you expect them to move furniture and belongings without making noise? You're being completely unreasonable. They have a job to do. Your baby's nap time is completely irrelevant to them and I wouldn't expect her to be able to sleep in the middle of a move anyway. As for paying half of the money, that's wrong. They shouldn't lose money that was promised to them, because you're so ridiculously precious about naps.

You can’t even consider paying them half. They have turned up and are willing to do the job.

It’s madness to arrange a house removal round a baby’s naps. And I say that’s as someone who moved when my eldest was 3 months.

Thought I was BU. Sleep deprivation and frustration mixed with moving house is not a great combination!

I just think its idiotic, if you know someone is putting a baby to sleep, to decide to go upstairs bang on a door and then shout for the person putting the baby down to come and help.

Ah well, best laid plans and all that!

This has to be a piss take surely.

Fgs you are moving house and you have instructed them to do a job which they are trying to do. And on a Sunday too! On what grounds do you have to pay them half? Because YOU have decided they are too noisy. Erm removals are noisy! Your baby will be fine for one day. I think you are going to have to learn to be a bit more flexible because there will be other days that don't fit into baby's nap time as well. Yabvu

Removal days are not days you stick to a nap routine. You'd have been far better of being out of the way or taking baby in the car so they napped there.

How else do they get your attention apart from calling for you?

Your baby's nap schedule is not their problem. They are there to do a job and do to as efficiently as possible. Just let them get on with it. It's only for one day and you will be moved soon.

Could you not put the baby in the garden to sleep in a pushchair? Or go for a walk and leave your other half to deal with the removal? Of course you can’t expect them to work around a baby’s nap!!

Idiocy is expecting a baby to sleep during a house move, OP.

It's even more idiotic to expect to be able to put a baby down for a nap, without disturbance, in the middle of a move.

Yabu. It's one day. The baby needs to work around moving day, not the other way around. Sorry.

My world very much revolved around DS' naps, because he was a holy terror. So I completely understand how you feel, but I'm afraid it's just not worth the hassle (and the eye rolling you'd get when you told them). Will she sleep if you take her out in the buggy?