Forum Home | Log in | Signup | My Page | Rules | FAQ | Boards | Members | Search
« 6TH POPE Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next

Re: Today is a busy day 

By: Zimbler0 in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (1)
Thu, 10 Jun 21 4:02 AM | 30 view(s)
Boardmark this board | 6th Edition Pope Board 		Msg. 18528 of 58658
(This msg. is a reply to 18523 by Decomposed)
Jump:
Jump to board:
Jump to msg. #

Well De,
I found the restaurant story more entertaining than
the slate tile.

But that's me.

Zim.




Avatar

Mad Poet Strikes Again.


 - - - - -
View Replies (2) »



» You can also:
- - - - -
The above is a reply to the following message:
Re: Today is a busy day
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Thu, 10 Jun 21 3:30 AM 		Msg. 18523 of 58658

Re: 'Floor & Decor, they had BEAUTIFUL slabs of "Peacock Slate,"'This won't be the most interesting story you guys have ever heard, but at least it's something. If you get bored, feel free to skip to chapter 2.

I got a call Tuesday that some yellow ceramic tiles I'd been waiting on had come in, so I figured I should open the seven boxes of "Peacock" slate already in my possession and return the pieces I don't like while picking up the yellow tiles. I have to do returns within 90 days of the purchase date, after all, and I don't go to Nashua that often (it's a 90 minute drive.) Floor & Decor is good about returns but I'd just as soon take the rejects back quickly.

The next day, Wednesday, I headed to the barn and unloaded all seven boxes so I could review them in a place with some space. You might be surprised at their weight. The slate is unevenly cut, but most pieces are between ½ and ¾ of an inch thick. They're all 2 square feet. This site https://www.builddirect.com/blog/density-of-slate/ says they should weigh between 14.6 and 22 lbs apiece which doesn't surprise me. Six pieces per box and . . . it was a lot of work for this guy with a less than perfectly knit chest.

I spread the slate out on the floor and picked out the rejects- those with chipped corners, bad cratering, visible grooves, snapped in two, etc. When I was done, I had 28 keepers and 14 returns. That's an awful failure rate if you think about it.
33.3 percent. My builder may be pickier than I was and eliminate even more but he wasn't there at the time or when I stopped by this morning either. I'll assume that I've got 28 good ones. I only need 24, but I also need some spares - just in case. I decided to buy one more box of six.

So, the chick at the returns counter looked at the first piece in my pile of slate and said, "I'm not sure I'll be able to take this one back."

Heh. It was one of the MILDLY defective pieces.

I laughed. "All I did was open the box. That's how it was! It's just a flakey piece. Most of the others are a lot worse!"

She called someone from the "stone" department. A young kid, Christian, came over and IMMEDIATELY told the Returns gal that my returns were for valid reasons. He told me, "This stuff does not travel well at all. We have a ton of problems with it."

So that made me feel better.

I told him that I was hoping to buy another box once I was done with these returns. He then offered to go pick out six pieces for me so I wouldn't have to return to the store again. That was cool.

After I got my money back, my wife headed to the special orders department to get the yellow tiles that had come in. I went to the back to find Christian. He had a box out and said we should open it to make sure it was good. We did and . . . ONE HUNDRED PERCENT REJECTS. He opened another and it may have had one piece that was okay. We ended up opening six boxes to find six pieces. 83% failure. And most of the time, he was the one doing the rejecting.

He said at the end that he'd keep the cart full of bad pieces to show his manager. I have a feeling there's a vendor out there who'll be getting a call tomorrow.

No matter. I've got my pieces. As long as my builder doesn't reject more than ten of them, I should be good to go.

After that, we decided to go eat. My wife looked up the Golden Corral in Manchester and . . . Google Maps said "This restaurant has been permanently closed."

%@$!

But we were already headed that direction so we decided to continue and see if the report was an error. It turned out that it was and that the management was rather displeased with Google Maps. Their suspicion is that an unhappy former employee may have pranked them. Yeah, some prank. It probably cost them quite a bit of money.

We provided our own update to the restaurant's Google Maps page. I don't know if it did any good but this evening the restaurant is not longer described as "permanently closed."

« 6TH POPE Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next