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Ramsus posted:real life experiences: I've worked maintenance in Hampton Roads for five years. Pretty sure I know what complex you're talking about and it is indeed poo poo. E: Also to the guy finding your kitchen poo poo on the floor that can happen when there is an emergency in your apartment while you're gone. No notice is required before entering on that, but if they didn't call you to say "Hey a leak is coming from your apartment and we're going in ASAP" then they're huge dicks. Honky Dong Country fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Aug 22, 2015 |
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*Constantly complains about black oily spots on my laundry when it comes out of the washer. Is a mechanic.* *Complains that they can hear neighbors next door. Literally expects their landlord to rip all their walls open and stuff soundproofing poo poo in.* *Puts in service request for maintenance to fix sliding door right next to cardboarded-off dining room full of UV lights and marijuana plants.* Honky Dong Country fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Aug 22, 2015 |
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Aug 22, 2015 14:49
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*Refuses to pick up dogshit after being caught and told I'll be charged money if I keep it up. Angrily insists this is beneath me and maintenance's job. Shuts the gently caress up when I get charged per pile after a weekend resulting in $700 of dogshit charges.* *Calls maintenance and screams at them at 3:00A for not coming out to open their door because I dropped my keys in a puddle after driving home drunk and parking in two spaces with a compact. Screams at staff next morning after discovering my car got towed. *Destroys every door in the unit and lets pets soak carpet in piss. Insists upon move-out that it was like that when I moved in.* *Has 55lbs of pot FedEx'd to my door. Gets my steel door bashed in by cops geared up like they're fededales besieging a Juarez cartel.*
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Aug 22, 2015 15:00
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The sad part is I've got loving tons of these. You'd be amazed how much poo poo you see working/living in apartments. Done five years so far across a few properties as both a technician and a supervisor. Suicides, criminals, assholes, crappy maintenance techs, lying leasing agents, domestic abuse, sadist children trying to torture the local wildlife...you name it. And my complex isn't even a cheap shithole in the wrong part of town.
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Aug 22, 2015 15:06
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*Has trouble with toilet running. Decides to open the tank and rip the entire fill valve out. Leaves and goes to work, leaving toilet geysering water almost to the ceiling. Never calls maintenance, leaving my downstairs neighbor to do it once their apt turns into Niagra Falls. Repeatedly turns off and removes equipment that's there to remove all the moisture and gets charged money for doing so. Thinks "That equipment has to stay on or it'll be mold central" is a strongarm tactic to get me to pay for the damages. Is too stupid to realize my renter's insurance is covering it all. Is the kind of wierdo who keeps my porn, anime, and anime porn nearly organized in the living room.* *Lets known fugitive stay at apt after a string of bank robberies. "Guest" uses me as a hostage when the police show up. Gets dragged out of the attic after tearing through the ceiling to escape the tear gas they throw in after your friend calls your bluff on shooting him and just climbs out a window.* E:also should've mentioned that hostage guy was using an airsoft pistol. And *Gets stuck working an entire weekend to repair A/C wiring and linesets on two whole buildings after crack/methheads cut them all for a paltry amount of copper. Two weeks later fourteen cars get the cat. converter cut out. Residents scream and yell at staff because clearly it is their fault.* Honky Dong Country fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Aug 22, 2015 |
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Aug 22, 2015 15:20
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*Chucks garbage all over the loving place where I live because I am a literal pig. Is also incapable of actually putting their trash in the dumpster when I actually take it out. Even if I am not guilty of these things, you bet your happy rear end I will complain about it while refusing to rat out who's doing it so the staff can put a stop to it.* *Has dog poo poo matted down into their carpet. Raises children in this hellhole.* *Checks out resident's A/C. Sees that it is freakishly low on refridgerant and obviously has a leak. Charges the system back up because most techs are too stupid/lazy to find and repair the leak. Gets fired when somebody competent realizes how many pounds of expensive R-22 I have carelessly fed into a leaking system. Robs the shop and my fellow techs blind on my way out.*
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Aug 22, 2015 18:13
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Three-Phase posted:Super-jerk mode would be to flip the breaker to open and then supergluing or epoxying it in the open position. That would require shutting down the panel and replacing the circuit breaker. Breakers can be changed on a live panel if you're not a moron. Not exactly the safest method, but it can be done without blowing anything up (including yourself). In other words you'd put more time into sabotaging the breaker than I would replacing it.
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Aug 22, 2015 20:10
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Inzombiac posted:"You moved in four days ago and you're noticing a huge roach nest around the fridge motor? You must have brought them with you. I'm raising your rent." Pretty sure it's illegal to raise rent in the middle of a lease. They can hike it up when you renew though.
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Aug 22, 2015 21:23
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computer parts posted:Depends on the contract. Mine says "you will pay $x for 12 months starting on date Y" but several in the Bay Area and the like say stuff like "you can raise rent no more than X% per year". Yikes gently caress that poo poo. Ramsus posted:this was a crap one in a bad part of ocean view, and during the flood of winter 2009 (i think that's when it was), when we opened our door cockroaches came running inside Ah nevermind then. The place I was thinking of ain't in OV. Small world though.
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Aug 22, 2015 23:04
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zooted heh posted:*pisses over balcony* *vomits over balcony*
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Aug 23, 2015 04:36
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oldpainless posted:I feel like this scheme is not actually all that workable. It isn't. We in the industry discover it and basically rape your wallet over it. Had a guy who got redtagged that plugged into his neighbor's outlet on his porch. We found it and had to tell the neighbor because they're basically getting stolen from. It can get really nasty when you wade in them waters, people are really defensive about their utility bills. E: I guess that's not really us doing the financial damage there, but I have seen a guy get kicked out because he got caught doing the above, and then did it to a different neighbor the next day. poo poo people just pay your bills and keep your drat power on. Honky Dong Country fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Aug 25, 2015 |
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Aug 25, 2015 22:59
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tater_salad posted:Turn the heat down or something the pressure and temp relief valve shouldn't be going off on a regular basis. It's more likely that the thermostats are hosed and constantly running instead of cutting off when the set temperature is reached. You can usually tell this is happening by your fixtures shooting no-poo poo steam right out along with the water. In other words your maintenance staff is double retarded.
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Aug 30, 2015 15:41
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OhsH posted:*contractors only feel safe working there from 9 am to 12 pm, says its too early to be thugging.* When I worked for a plumbing company I had a job at a complex that literally had guys with guns just standing around outside. They weren't open carrying, but each group had a couple guys whose pistols could be seen under their T-shirts. One approached me and my buddy to see what we were doing and then left us to our work. Dunno what those guys were looking out for but that was an area you just minded your business and didn't gently caress around in.
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Sep 1, 2015 15:43
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Marv Hushman posted:So, exactly how does one go about extricating a squirrel from a range hood when management has quoted chapter and verse absolving themselves of all responsibility? You live somewhere where the maintenance staff isn't a buncha lil pissbabies. I pulled a baby squirrel out of a range hood about three months ago. I couldn't reunite it with the mother and the local shelters didn't have room for him. I now own that squirrel after about two months of nursing him with formula and an oral syringe. tl;dr: your maintenance are pussies for being afraid of a squirrel and I'm a pussy for formula feeding an adorably fluffy rodent after I rescued it. His name is Crazy Ivan, or Ivan the Terrible. Also, Philthy posted:all those cool ducts that run through the length of the apartment look artsy as gently caress Lol that place just plain looks overpriced. Honky Dong Country fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Sep 2, 2015 |
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Sep 2, 2015 08:02
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Smoke detectors are really easy to just pull down, guys.
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