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Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?
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It's nice to be bald again! 
Who is at fault for grocery and food misdeliveries? We've had Costco and Amazon grocery orders and restaurant orders left at the wrong houses in the neighborhood and by the time the homeowners saw there was stuff outside, the original buyers had already reported as not delivered and got their orders replaced. Does the deliver person have to pay? Does the delivery person get fired? Does Doordash eat the cost of the reorder?
On a side note, they should really ring or knock when they drop stuff off. People aren't always wired in or carrying their phones. And they definitely won't get an email or text if they didn't place the order.
On a side note, they should really ring or knock when they drop stuff off. People aren't always wired in or carrying their phones. And they definitely won't get an email or text if they didn't place the order.
You can add specific delivery instructions in Amazon. Mine say to go to the side door, not the front porch, and ring the doorbell. Every delivery I have had since, they followed the instructions. YMMV, of course, but it’s worked for me.
On the rare occasions it has happened, I have received full refunds from Amazon, Costco and Doordash for undelivered or misplaced items without any hassle.
They all also have Contactless delivery options where you can leave instructions for them to leave the items in a specific place on the front porch and knock on the door when they're done.
Yeah, Amazon's always come through for me as well. The ONE time they screwed up a delivery to me, they promptly sent a replacement. And they're very good about refunds and stuff like that.
They may treat their employees like shit, but not their customers.
They may treat their employees like shit, but not their customers.
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This is a pet peeve of mine with delivery companies. I love the current contactless delivery methods, but I don't want my package sitting on my porch unattended. How can I bring it in if I don't even know it's there?
It seems that DHL always knocks. Intelcom and Canada Post usually do, but not always. Everyone else is hit and miss. Amazon's in-house delivery service never does.
Thank you, I will have to try that!
Not that I am aware. For images, you can just take a screen capture, crop it as appropriate, then load that to Imgur. For videos, I believe you would just have to link to it.
Bought girl scout cookies for delivery. It was left at the front door this morning. Had no idea it was there. They didn't knock or ring, never got an email about when it was being delivered or that it was even delivered. And since the weather is bad outside, I never would've seen it had I not opened the door for another reason.
Yeah, delivery people not knocking anymore is a bet peeve of mine too. I think I have the notifications set on my tablet, but I don't always hear it, and we often get meds for our dogs that can't sit in the heat. Our dogs usually let us know that someone got close to the house, but even that isn't always a guarantee.
One time I got a FedEx delivery notification message for an order of rather heavy fitness equipment. I looked all around the property and also in front of neighbors' doors and I didn't see it anywhere, so I contacted FedEx to file a misdelivery report or whatever it's called.
It turned out that the order had been dropped off at some random address half a mile away. And I might not have ever found out, except that the guy who lives there came and dropped off my boxes a little later. He was a sturdily-built construction worker who was able to load them up into his pickup truck.
And I never did hear back from FedEx on the misdelivery report, and strangely there was no way to update it and let them know that the items had been found.
Kor
It turned out that the order had been dropped off at some random address half a mile away. And I might not have ever found out, except that the guy who lives there came and dropped off my boxes a little later. He was a sturdily-built construction worker who was able to load them up into his pickup truck.
And I never did hear back from FedEx on the misdelivery report, and strangely there was no way to update it and let them know that the items had been found.
Kor
If at first you don't succeed, it's technically just "attempted murder."
I don't get it. When a math teacher asks students to show their work on an exam...an entirely normal thing for a math teacher to ask... what the fuck does that have to do with "white supremacy"? 
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I am not an educator, so I admit that I haven't really spent any time researching anti-racist mathematics / anti-bias curriculum. But there are expert educators who are coming up with these curricula, so presumably the new curriculum would still be capable of teaching math, and if it is doing so in an anti-racist fashion, that can only be good, right? The more children who are able to succeed academically, the better, even if the subject matter is not necessarily taught the same way in which we were taught when we were that age.
And I'm sorry, but... I had never heard of that source you linked to before just now, but they are carrying an op-ed, linked to on their main page, called "Is the 'Great Reset' setting the stage for the Antichrist?", so I'm not really inclined to regard them as a credible, impartial news source.
Looks like a "Cherry-picker site" to me.
The Snopes.com entry on the claim.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/education-oregon/
What the material from the promoted site said:
"Math teachers ask students to show work so that teachers know what students are thinking, but that centers the teacher’s need to understand rather than student learning. It becomes a crutch for teachers seeking to understand what students are thinking and less of a tool for students in learning how to process. Thus, requiring students to show their work reinforces worship of the written word as well as paternalism."
As someone who taught Computer Networking at the High School level, I think that is utter bullshit. I wasn't interested in "what they were thinking" when requiring them to show their work but in whether they could prove that they had mastered the skills they were required to learn.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/education-oregon/
What the material from the promoted site said:
"Math teachers ask students to show work so that teachers know what students are thinking, but that centers the teacher’s need to understand rather than student learning. It becomes a crutch for teachers seeking to understand what students are thinking and less of a tool for students in learning how to process. Thus, requiring students to show their work reinforces worship of the written word as well as paternalism."
As someone who taught Computer Networking at the High School level, I think that is utter bullshit. I wasn't interested in "what they were thinking" when requiring them to show their work but in whether they could prove that they had mastered the skills they were required to learn.
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