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The missing Amazon packages were in the office. Apparently they were just tossed into the lobby (definitely still not a mailroom!). Someone in the office grabbed them so they wouldn't get stolen, but they noticed them just as they were leaving for the day. (Which is probably around the time they were delivered. Alex went down and looked maybe ten/fifteen minutes later, when he saw my text telling him the stuff was supposed to be there.)

So... my apologies for saying the driver was being shady... just lazy, turns out.

Now I'm just worried about the books I ordered from B&N. That's the vast majority of what I got for my mom and Taylor. Two books shipped separately; one arrived, and one is in transit. The others are all in one order with a mislabeled tracking number (the B&N site said UPS, it's actually a USPS number), that says only that the label was created, but that it hasn't been received by the post office yet. :/ I certainly don't mean to be Like That, I'm just chronically anxious.

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My focus was just absolutely blown today at work. I don't know why, exactly. Maybe I'm already in Christmas mode. A decade+ later, and I still miss having holiday breaks!

At least tomorrow is my last Saturday for a while, since the next two will be holidays! Though I do have to stay an hour and a half late for our center meeting, which means it'll be a 10 hour day, oof.

Still need to figure out the plan for my holiday baking. Mon/Tues seems too early for most of it, but Friday I'll be at my mom's already, and Weds/Thurs are work days. I can certainly do things after work, I guess, I just know I'll wish I could be lazy, lol.

Alex said he really liked the yule log cookies I made last year, so he does want me to make them again. So those, kolaches, pain in the ass Kahlua truffles... Alex wants to make the Norwegian butter squares, a different Norwegian shortbread cookie he made last year, and the zucchini cake. Then this morning he said he wanted to make a cheesecake, too. Lol, so much! I know he just likes baking, and we just never do it outside of the holidays. So I won't try to dissuade him. Just... so much!

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I'm glad you found the packages! So lazy. (But also, probably busy as heck this time of year, so I guess I should cut him some slack. But bitching is always a good pressure relief. *g*)

Good luck finding time to bake All The Things!

Me too!

And I realize that Amazon tends to treat their drivers pretty badly, and it's worse around the holidays. I'm sure there's a ton of pressure and quotas and too much to do in too little time, and having to find a specific apartment for a delivery sucks.

But... tossing stuff into the lobby and just leaving it there is also not great in terms of making sure people get what they bought.

Thank you! Definitely hoping to find some time (and energy, lol.)

Yay for finding the packages! And yeah...I'm so fed up with delivery drivers these days. We have some good ones who will go out of their way to make sure they get the right addresses and they will walk packages into the patio, but we've also had ones who'll leave them on the brick wall (where anyone can see them - thankfully, we have honorable neighbors) or toss them over the wall/gate onto the hard concrete patio or will leave them right up against one of the gates so that you have to go out another one and around to get the package. And ones who've delivered after dark will leave them outside the gate instead of on the patio where we have to do all our searching. It's so annoying.

I am glad they were found! I know that delivery drivers are pretty frequently abused by their employers - ridiculous quotas, and too much to do in too little time, and getting in trouble if things take too long, etc. Amazon is notorious for how bad they treat their employees, and I am sympathetic!

But also... I want the stuff I bought, and I don't want it to be damaged. That really isn't asking too much.

It's a good thing your neighbors don't suck and steal your stuff. But ugh, I do hate stuff being left in weird and inconvenient places. Like, please, just put it by the door!

The drivers absolutely shouldn't be treated like shit, and this I agree, but they shouldn't take their anger at the company out on the customers who just want their packages and don't want them messed up or broken. That's not right. I'm in full support of employees being treated better by the people who employ them, but I'm not in full support of them wrecking what people have paid hard-earned money for - whether they're gifts for other people or not - just because they're pissed off at their employers. They should key their employers' cars, let the air out of the tires, leave their offices wrecked, whatever. But don't take it out on the customers because as a customer, I'm going to report that they treated my packages like shit or didn't pay attention to where they were delivering them, and they're going to get into trouble all because they're pissed off at their poor treatment by the people employing them...not by me.

With it being the holiday for packages, I'm forever checking all over the place right now to see if there are random boxes or envelopes left somewhere on or around or outside the patio.

Absolutely. I want drivers to be treated well and not exploited. I understand that they are frequently NOT treated well, and sometimes to horrifying extents and consequences. But if I paid for something, I want to receive it, and that's not unreasonable, either. Just like I want my job to treat me well, but I also want to do my job well.