"BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion" (pbs)
03/13/2015 at 16:14 • Filed to: None
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"BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion" (pbs)
03/13/2015 at 16:14 • Filed to: None | 2
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When a "professional" comes fix something at your place and breaks another 3 unrelated things, including your bed, bookshelf and wardrobe? Now I'll have to sleep on the couch because my clothes, books and models are all laid out in top of my bed, which is broken anyways, and today is Friday afternoon, so I won't be able to go look for replacements until Sunday. At least I get to threaten to break someone's knees again.
Seriously, fuck this. At least it wasn't as bad as last Friday the 13th, when that drunk piece of shit threw a massive fucking rock at my car.
Manic Otti
> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
03/13/2015 at 16:19 |
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How exactly? What was he fixing?
ttyymmnn
> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
03/13/2015 at 16:20 |
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I had a guy come out to the house to install cable when I moved in. He had to drill a hole through the wall, and I asked him if he wanted to use a stud finder. "Sure. How does it work?" Then he proceeded to drill the hole and hit the brick on the corner of the house. So he moved over and drilled again. Brick. After the second hole, I said, "Why don't we go outside and take a measurement?"
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
03/13/2015 at 16:20 |
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How the hell did this happen?
Vimto
> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
03/13/2015 at 16:20 |
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How does one break a bed?
Tohru
> Vimto
03/13/2015 at 16:32 |
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Belly flop.
yamahog
> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
03/13/2015 at 16:54 |
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uhhhh what kind of "professional" are we talkin here?
Broken bed? Oh dear...
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BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
> Manic Otti
03/13/2015 at 18:59 |
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Believe it or not, the wall skirtings. all the stuff broke while the asshole was moving it around, doing all the things I specifically told him not to, like dragging the metallic shelf around (which immediately bent the metal legs and flipped the whole thing over), pulling the bed by a leg (which immediately snapped it off) and and pushing the desk without removing what was in top first...
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BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
> Vimto
03/13/2015 at 19:00 |
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He yanked it around the floor by a leg, which I specifically told him not to do, snapping that leg off....
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Manic Otti
> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
03/13/2015 at 19:01 |
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All that for wall skirtings? Would have been easier to do them yourself.
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BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
> Manic Otti
03/13/2015 at 19:12 |
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That's true, but since my apartment is rented, any maintenance I do by myself isn't covered by the real estate agency, so I'd have to foot the bill.
It wasn't me who requested the skirtings replaced, by the way, it was the landlord...
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BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
> yamahog
03/13/2015 at 19:28 |
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It was just a handyman who came over to change the wall skirtings... and broke my things as he dragged them around the place in the most idiotic ways possibe.
Thing is, my college apartment is rented, so any kind of maintenance is a long, complex, abusive affair. First you have to file a maintenance request with the real estate agency. The request then gets passed on to the landlord, who has to approve the budget arranged by a "professional"certified by the agency (usually someone's unemployed cousin). Once (if) it gets approved, the appointed handyman will come over (usually when you have an appointment somewhere else you absolutely can't miss), fumble about for a bit, fail miserably at doing the job, call it a day, leave and the next day there you go again to the agency to make another request because the last one was marked as completed. to add insult to injury, the agency has some very unusual working hours, and the handymen's incompetence is sure to keep you at home for at least one afternoon you should be at school or working. That's how I've lived without electricity for over 3 months, spent weeks without windows after they fell off their rotten frames, and at least 5 days without a front door, eaten by termites. Sometimes a landlord will file a request, as was the case here, and you're simply informed a handyman will come over in a few days to do the job. Finally, any maintenance you do by yourself is not covered by the agency, which means you'll have to foot the bill.
I can't help but find it funny that my request for new wiring took over three months a while back, while the landlord's request for new wall skirtings was filed this monday.
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yamahog
> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
03/13/2015 at 20:09 |
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Eeesh, that sounds like some crappy management. Hope your next place is better!