The Nonsensical GE Appliance Response

The Dishwasher.

Warning: Don’t buy this.

Ground Zero for six months and counting of no functional kitchen, dishwashing in the bathroom sink, boxes everywhere, NO SCONES, and just general chaos and disruption.

It would be hard to adequately explain the “business” side of this Dishwasher Fiasco. I seriously wonder how people who do not have an overblown sense of justice and outrage handle stuff like this.

Actually, I do know: They give up and settle for peanuts because they just can’t do the endless conflict involved.

Not me. Never.

But this latest conflict is a real head scratcher.

GE Appliance has assumed liability for the Great Dishwasher Fiasco of 2019. It was either their faulty dishwasher or their faulty warranty repair person that caused this ginormous _____________ (I seriously cannot think of the right word[s]).

Yep — this about covers it.

I contacted GE Appliance earlier this week about the dishwasher, which currently resides in the garage given that: a) we do not have a functional kitchen in which to have a dishwasher; and, b) it is obviously a weapon of mass destruction.

I asked for a refund of $258.

Instead, GE Appliance authorized us to spend $250 to assess whether the dishwasher is safe/can be repaired.

HUH?!

They even went so far as to say [about their generous offer to spend $250 to assess safety], “This is done as a courtesy due to you being just outside of warranty.”

Translation not needed.

I wrote yet another polite and pointed email noting that when their weapon of mass destruction (aka dishwasher) committed the atrocities in our home, it WAS under warranty — and that is why their company has assumed liability.

Yes indeed — GE Appliance apparently thinks it makes good business sense to spend $250 to assess whether a $258 dishwasher that has already cost their insurance company about $40,000 (and counting) is safe for home use.

Don’t go to that MBA program.

After everything that has happened, the truth is that they could not pay me to bring that dishwasher in our house again.

And while I find their response absurdly hilarious, I also intend to get my $258 back — both on principle and so that I can put it towards a dishwasher that won’t destroy our house. Bosch?

The Cabinets Have Landed!

I was on my way to a meeting when I got a phone call from a number I recognized as belonging to the cabinets — therefore, I answered it and good thing I did because the Cabinet Delivery Guy was lost.

He informed me that he could not find our house. Excellent — my clever plan to foil Google Maps in retribution for the Trail Creek Road Incident is working.

I gave him directions as I walked to the meeting. Then I called Dear Husband to ensure he had not gone back to bed — after all, it was only 10:30 a.m. and he is retired.

The Cabinet Delivery Guy had told me the cabinet boxes would take up the space of a small bedroom. He apparently lives in a giant mansion with HUGE bedrooms.

The cats are enjoying their new playroom, complete with secret small passageways that only they can travel and lots of high places to perch while judging the rest of us.

I expect Pete will soon discover that there is a limitless supply of cardboard in the new Cat Palace — he likes to bite cardboard and spit out the resulting pieces, creating a sort of slimy cat confetti in the process.

And nothing to add to the Bingo Card today — so far.

Have a Terrific Day!

Happy News - In Context

Apparently fall is a slow time for cabinet building because our new cabinets arrive this morning — ahead of schedule. WOWZA.

They will be in boxes that will take up the training area (aka the dining room) but we must make sacrifices for progress.

Lest you think — as I did — that this means we will have a kitchen in time to bake scones for the holidays, allow me to dash that fragrant image.

So, the cabinets will be installed next week. Yay! Of course, that assumes the electrician can come and do the work needed before cabinet installation — let’s think positive, shall we? Cabinets in next week.

The countertop cannot be measured and then created — a process that will take 4 - 5 weeks — until the cabinets are installed AND the new range and sink are in place.

The new slide-in range arrives on January 2. The goal is to have the new sink installed before the range arrives, and that will let the countertop measuring happen in that first week of January (everything crossed).

And then the countertops will get created — hopefully not by a shop that is giving their workers silicosis; I am going to call them today and make sure the shop is certified as safe for workers.

Who knew that a dishwasher leak would create the need to ensure safe labor practices?!

And speaking of dishwashers — I need a new one and so I will be negotiating with the insurance company about that (on top of everything else — I should have been a lawyer).

And the new floor will go in at some point and there is new trim and new lighting and new zone heaters and so on and so forth. Plus end-of-semester grading — my favorite (extreme sarcasm alert) — and the very stressful game of Oh Sh!t Bingo (see yesterday if that is confusing).

But do not fear — we practice flexibility and positive attitude around here, and not just in dog training!

Here is the ever happy and cheerful Sparkle — is your Bingo Card current? Nothing yet.

A rare day of sunshine and a warm 42 degrees yesterday — I rode my bike and played/trained with dogs (not, of course, at the same time). Daisy and her moose.

Daisy prefers to fetch stuffies, and Claire is a balls-with-feet kind of gal.

I hope you have a terrific and happy and sparkly kind of day. Make it so!