Schools have been on summer break for a couple of months now. Why are you just now approving a massive repair on the front of one of your buildings? At this point, I can't get the materials before school starts back up. That means you are going to want the work done on a Saturday. And that means your PO is for the wrong amount.
Idiots.
Toyman! said:Schools have been on summer break for a couple of months now. Why are you just now approving a massive repair on the front of one of your buildings? At this point, I can't get the materials before school starts back up. That means you are going to want the work done on a Saturday. And that means your PO is for the wrong amount.
We work with a number of local K-12 districts. Luckily, most of them have a pretty firm grasp on summer work window scheduling.
On the other hand, the local university of about 10,000 students is inextricably woven into the fabric of the whole downtown area.
They are notorious for deciding to do stuff like tear up and re-lay all their brick walkways, starting 10 days before students are due back on campus.
Landlord trying to scam me out of my deposit. charging me $400 for paint touchups? the paint is better than when I moved in, what do they need $400 for? to paint over the remaining outlets they didn't get to the first time?
In reply to gixxeropa :
Landlords really run the gamut, don't they. Last time I had to pay a security deposit, after 3 years in the same apartment they charged me a whole $10 because we forgot to defrost the freezer.
Then, when DD#2 was in college, one of the douchebag landlords of a POS house ripped off a group of 5 young women to the tune of $500 each, basically because he knew he'd get away with it. But the landlord she had after that refunded the entire deposit even though there was some damage to the almost-new unit.
Mr_Asa said:My apartment has termites.
Everywhere. Termites. They are in my bed. In my dressers. In my towels. They are everywhere.
I havent had a good night's sleep in about a week.
Hey guys! Remember this!
Now the ceiling is starting to fall in! Fun!
In reply to Mr_Asa :
That sucks. Have they treated them or are they just letting them eat the place?
In reply to Toyman! :
Guy that came out to look at the place (and said I have both wet wood and dry wood termites) said it would need to be tented, but as this is the season when they swarm there might be a backlog.
Ive heard nothing so far.
They better hurry. The little bastards can eat several pounds of wood per day.
Yuck.
I'm paranoid about the damn things. I helped my father treat and repair the house I grew up in. It sucked.
I also see the houses in my neighborhood with all the siding stripped off the front and termite damage all the way to the roof.
Every year they swarm, I'm going over the house with a fine tooth comb and a flashlight looking for the little bastards. They swarm in the woods behind the house and I just know they will be in the house someday.
Yuck.
Good luck. I hope they get them taken care of for you.
In reply to Mr_Asa :
That really sucks. Hope you don't own the place.
Toyman! said:They better hurry. The little bastards can eat several pounds of wood per day.
Yuck.
I'm paranoid about the damn things. I helped my father treat and repair the house I grew up in. It sucked.
I also see the houses in my neighborhood with all the siding stripped off the front and termite damage all the way to the roof.
Every year they swarm, I'm going over the house with a fine tooth comb and a flashlight looking for the little bastards. They swarm in the woods behind the house and I just know they will be in the house someday.
Yuck.
Good luck. I hope they get them taken care of for you.
Oh man. Ive told them multiple times about all the frass I've seen. I am low-key waiting on the floor to collapse under me, then I'll turn everything over to a lawyer.
Moved in two Junes ago, noted frass in the corners, submitted photos with my incoming renter checklist. 8ish months later a guy for the property management company came by, I pointed it out to him and he took pics. Renewed lease, noted frass. The swarm recently.
I'm covering myself nicely. These guys are not.
My confession yesterday turned into a rant today. My ill advised purchase of a (second) giant video conferencing setup is a no go as the seller, a huge local university, accidentally recycled the whole thing after it sat in the wrong part of the warehouse for too long. Ahh well I didn't need it but I was looking forward to setting it up and messing with it.
In reply to dculberson :
What are these things? Why do you want them? Should I want one?
In reply to mtn :
The one I posted a pic of is a bizarre virtual presence thing that has a camera and a glass projection screen so it's supposed to look like you're sitting across the table from your medical provider. It includes lots of hardware to tie the system together and odd lenses to make the video seem right. The lot I won (which got scrapped by mistake) included the main unit and two remote units. I wanted it because I'm pretty odd and have room to play with stuff like that. Probably it would have ended up on Craigslist and eBay for a few months and then either been parted out for money or reuse. You probably shouldn't want one.
I need to get off Facebook.
People are complaining that a school board voted to sell a school (really just a lot, the building was OLD and in bad condition, not to mention the asbestos). They accepted an offer that was significantly less than the Catholic school offered to pay for it. And I get that that sounds bad... until you consider that if the Catholic school bought it, the district then loses out on property taxes in perpetuity. Predictably, the next response was "what about the interest in the difference".
And FWIW, while I don't live in that area, I have roots there and have looked at moving there numerous times and if I did, my kids would probably go to the Catholic school.
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
Indeed! I also ported the throttle body for my c6z in a hotel room once! I often will bring sewing that needs to happen as I can do it at my own pace.
Hinges there, right? What are you able to do with them in a hotel??
In reply to jfryjfry :
They were dirty so I scuffed them up and cleaned them with Simple Green. Painted blue when I got home.
The grill was nice as I disassembled it, scuffed, cleaned it up and reassembled. It makes being on the road less suck.
I don't want to get too crazy.....😜
I am annoyed by lazily performative American flags where they get the orientation wrong.
You're not being patriotic. If you were, you'd show the flag proper respect by displaying it properly.
E.g. Beer distribitor truck where the flag on the passenger side had the stars in the upper left, so the stripes were pointed forward. Worse is the local mall that is projecting a flag on a giant wall with the stars in the upper left and the stripes pointing DOWN.
Ugh. No problem with people who want to show their patriotism by displaying the flag properly. No problem with people who don't care about displaying a flag. Heck, I can even respect if you want to make a political statement by intentionally flying the flag upside down or something. Just not lazy virtue signalling.
In reply to Beer Baron 🍺 :
Agreed. There are other misuses that come off as particularly obnoxious, not the least of which is deliberately obnoxious behavior while displaying the flag. It comes off as a sort of chest-beating, as if they are wearing a star-spangled cloak of righteousness. It reads like a dare to anyone to call the offender on their nonsense; to confront me is to confront America. Do so at your own peril.
Not that I'm a particularly optimistic person to begin with, but I am really not looking forward to the next eight or nine months. Election season brings out the worst in (and of) us.
Why am I wide awake right now? I'm actually not in any significant amount of pain and I even sucked down a muscle relaxer to (a) make me drowsy and (b) make sure that I stay out of pain. But, no, I am wide awake.
Oh. E36 M3. Wait. It's the 6 prednisone tablets and the giant coffee I drank this afternoon, isn't it? berkeley. Nevermind.
Once a week at work, I would splurge $2 for a banana nut muffin. I bought one yesterday, then looked at the label to find it's just Banana. Sigh.
I hadn't been planning on printing anything out to include in the Silent Auction that will be at The Dancer's non-profit's 10th Anniversary show in a week (I've been working on something else for it), but she not so subtly hinted that I should print out more of the human-scale LEGO flower pots that I made for the auction last year. So this morning, after having not had either printer even on for like 2 weeks since scrambling to print something I needed for the July show, I cleaned off the bed of the older printer and told it to bring the bed and extruder to temperature so I could swap to the filament I needed and more quickly evaporate the rubbing alcohol I'd cleaned the bed with.
A few minutes later, I look over at the printer and see smoke coming from the back of it and realize it's coming from the push-connect splice that joins the bed heater wire with the thermal overload fuse, and quickly shut the printer off completely. So now I need to at a minimum clean off and replace that splice and figure out what the berk was going on that caused the splice to melt but the thermal fuse to not blow. And probably fire up the newer printer and start printing the flower pots with it instead.
In reply to gixxeropa :
they're trying to charge me $250 to replace the air filter (which I replaced the day I moved out) and a couple of burnt out light bulbs. Probably gonna have to sue unless they cave to a strongly worded letter
tuna55 said:tuna55 said:tester (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to tuna55 :
You have a few things to do. Update your resume is the obvious one. The less obvious is to look at the private equity firm's track record. It will take only a few minutes to figure out how they operate. The Worst case is it will confirm your worst fears and make your decisions easier. The Best case will show that they are building a business portfolio of some kind, complimentary businesses, across industries, etc...
I intend to do just that after this week is over. It's a very busy and stressful week with our listing agency in town to witness tests (UL). Essentially google [company name] "layoffs" when looking through their portfolio of divested or longer term companies. It's called Tailwind. I don't know much about them, and none of their companies immediately ring any bells.
Update...
I am accepting an offer with a private company as their engineering manager, start date July 22, exactly two months later. Not too bad. A tiny bump in pay, 6.5%, plus an extra week of vacation and my commute goes from a solid hour and change to 20 minutes.
Almost done with my second week here. It's interesting. Very fun. Lots to do.
gixxeropa's rant reminded me of something else... We had Baby Shark (The Dancer's truck... it's kind of ironic that when we first met I had names for the cars I had at the time and she laughed at that, but other than the one that I still have from then I've not given names to the new vehicles) at the dealership for an oil change- since it's still under warranty, we have to have the oil changes and regular maintenance there to maintain the warranty. Costs about twice what it would cost me to do it myself, but it is nice to have one vehicle I don't have to worry about maintenance on.
The oil change should have been just a bit shy of $100- but they called and caught her in the bathroom and said that the air filters (engine & cabin) were filthy and looked like they hadn't been changed for several oil changes and needed to be replaced, and since she couldn't just come up and ask me she said 'OK.' Which meant that the final bill was over $300- somewhere in the vicinity of $100 each to replace filters that I literally have sitting in a box waiting to be installed and probably cost me like $20 total and I know can be done in like 15 minutes. And their 'they look like they haven't ever been replaced' was also complete BS because I replaced them before the end of the year last year when we last had the oil changed.
I'm both pissed off at them for BSing her about them and myself for having not replaced them the night before we took the truck in (I had considered doing so since I figured they'd try and sell us on replacing the filters, but had other things to do).
Mr_Asa said:Toyman! said:They better hurry. The little bastards can eat several pounds of wood per day.
Yuck.
I'm paranoid about the damn things. I helped my father treat and repair the house I grew up in. It sucked.
I also see the houses in my neighborhood with all the siding stripped off the front and termite damage all the way to the roof.
Every year they swarm, I'm going over the house with a fine tooth comb and a flashlight looking for the little bastards. They swarm in the woods behind the house and I just know they will be in the house someday.
Yuck.
Good luck. I hope they get them taken care of for you.
Oh man. Ive told them multiple times about all the frass I've seen. I am low-key waiting on the floor to collapse under me, then I'll turn everything over to a lawyer.
Moved in two Junes ago, noted frass in the corners, submitted photos with my incoming renter checklist. 8ish months later a guy for the property management company came by, I pointed it out to him and he took pics. Renewed lease, noted frass. The swarm recently.
I'm covering myself nicely. These guys are not.
1 full day of no calls.
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