Random Rants ΠΕ': You're standing on my neck.

[aimeeandbeatles]

@Valka D'Ur you get it! I think the number should be 86, unless I miscounted

 

[Valka D'Ur]

@Valka D'Ur you get it! I think the number should be 86, unless I miscounted

Woot!

Okay, I'll have the new one up as soon as I think of a title and OP (in about 3 hours or so; I have a RL obligation in a few minutes).

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Rant: Real life interfering with availability of our rant's thread.

Rave: Opportunity to break rules with impunity by posting past a thousand posts!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I'm paying for a pool and gym in my complex that I won't be able to use for several months. I have friends who were able to stop payments to their childcare facilities and gyms and pools because they've got memberships. But my stuff is in my housing complex; I don't have a membership to cancel even if the cost of these facilities is coming out of my rent.

And double-frustration because my landlord is moving forward with repainting parts of the complex even though they sent an email notifying us they were delaying all non-essential maintenance and basically won't help us with anything short of a water leak. The painting is non-essential; I've yet to see so much as a speck of rust anywhere and it's just our porch railings that they are painting (which are entirely ornamental - the structural part is concrete that they are not painting), not critical infrastructure.

I know this is insanely petty; please don't kick me for it. My rent is quite high in part because of those services which I now cannot use. And I was recently illegally evicted by this same landlord, so there's beef there to begin with.

 

[The_J]

I was actually lucky with my gym. I had a month membership, and I went the last time on the last day of the membership. I thought about extending it, but a few days later came the quarantine. A bit different for my public transport abo. I bought a month ticket, which I mostly can't use. At least it wasn't a year ticket yet.

So I feel with you .

I really not fancy how social interaction is shaped after cellphone; a social gathering, a meeting, a conversation that consist one or two person looking at their smartphone, it is really ruins the moment for me. Sometime I just stop talking and stare at them, I don't want to sound grumpy and too strict to my employee but I cannot stand that isolated/anti-social behavior and I feel it is necessary to warn them also directly or indirectly. In that sense I agree with you I like the old days.

I don't know where you find these people o_O.
I hear about this all the time, and might have seen it a few times, but not with people I know.

 

[H4run]

I'm paying for a pool and gym in my complex that I won't be able to use for several months.

I know this is insanely petty

No no man, this is not petty, I feel you, it's annoying, a huge waste, especially in a time of monetary trouble. I hope you can work everything out in the end.

 

[H4run]

I don't know where you find these people o_O.
I hear about this all the time, and might have seen it a few times, but not with people I know.

It's everywhere here among the youngster, talking politely or talking harshly not really solve the problem it just ejecting excuse and degrading debate, but you stare at them coldly and acts like a rock until they ask for forgiveness and then said your piece will delivers the point quite well and make them hesitate to do that again.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Thanks. I'm not in any monetary trouble for the moment and I don't expect that to change. I'm just pissed that the landlord is going to pocket that revenue without giving the contracted service after already forcing me pay a bunch of money to deal with the illegal eviction.

 

[Synobun]

I'm paying for a pool and gym in my complex that I won't be able to use for several months. I have friends who were able to stop payments to their childcare facilities and gyms and pools because they've got memberships. But my stuff is in my housing complex; I don't have a membership to cancel even if the cost of these facilities is coming out of my rent.

And double-frustration because my landlord is moving forward with repainting parts of the complex even though they sent an email notifying us they were delaying all non-essential maintenance and basically won't help us with anything short of a water leak. The painting is non-essential; I've yet to see so much as a speck of rust anywhere and it's just our porch railings that they are painting (which are entirely ornamental - the structural part is concrete that they are not painting), not critical infrastructure.

I know this is insanely petty; please don't kick me for it. My rent is quite high in part because of those services which I now cannot use. And I was recently illegally evicted by this same landlord, so there's beef there to begin with.

You are paying for services you are not receiving. A reduction in rent is justified and something you should pursue. Real estate is not an industry which is hurting, you are not morally obligated to support them in a time of crisis.

 

[H4run]

I'm just pissed that the landlord is going to pocket that revenue without giving the contracted service after already forcing me pay a bunch of money to deal with the illegal eviction.

They suck the young blood.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

And to be clear - I am not blaming the landlord for closing the services. I am not mad about losing them; we all have to sacrifice and this is totally warranted and necessary imo.

 

[Birdjaguar]

@Timsup2nothin you are such a Luddite with the whole pager thing. It's interesting how routines settle into our daily lives and are hard to give up. Welcome to aging.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

@Timsup2nothin you are such a Luddite with the whole pager thing. It's interesting how routines settle into our daily lives and are hard to give up. Welcome to aging.

I'm not actively opposed to newer technologies, but there certainly were aspects to pager technology that I really appreciated. I had much greater control over who I talked to, and when.

 

[cardgame]

Sunny D is weird. The first time you drink it, it's nectar from the Gods. The second time, it's a'ight. The third time, it starts tasting like aged ground beef.

I then stop drinking it, until a year or so goes by and I suddenly go, "Hey, Sunny D! Let's have some of that!" Then I go through this same process all over again.

Word.

 

[tjs282]

I can totally see Seven of Nine and B'Elanna arm in arm, singing "Marry the man today, and change his ways... tomorrow!" (in reference to Chakotay and Tom).

If nothing else, could you work this idea into a filk?

My rent is quite high in part because of those services which I now cannot use.

Do you have any kind of a residents' committee in your building (official or unofficial)?

Failing that, could you print out flyers and slip them under people's doors/into their mailboxes suggesting that you (collectively) ask your landlord for a rent rebate, since these facilities are currently-and-for-the-foreseeable-future unavailable? IANAL, but if the terms of your tenancy agreement stipulate that you can access those facilities (barring essential maintenance), then shutting them down completely would seem to break that stipulation.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Do you have any kind of a residents' committee in your building (official or unofficial)?

Failing that, could you print out flyers and slip them under people's doors/into their mailboxes suggesting that you (collectively) ask your landlord for a rent rebate, since these facilities are currently-and-for-the-foreseeable-future unavailable? IANAL, but if the terms of your tenancy agreement stipulate that you can access those facilities (barring essential maintenance), then shutting them down completely would seem to break that stipulation.

No, I am not aware of any renter's rights groups, official or unofficial, in my area.

I am also badly shell shocked by years of landlord abuses (I have lived in mold-covered, roach-infested tenaments with toilets falling through the floor, in addition to the illegal conviction) and I am loathe to take action which may backfire in any way. This is how they get away with it, naturally, but I don't want to be the tall blade of grass that gets cut down - especially since I just was that blade of grass with respect to the evictions which were halted after I got the boot.

I'm assessing my options. Thankfully I'm not in as weak a financial position anymore, I just don't know how far I'm willing to press the issue.


Also, despite the Federal Government's moratorium on student loan payments, my wife just got her master's degree course put on hold as the school has moved to retroactively remove her loans from deferment despite the fact that she's currently enrolled in the courses. She also cannot finish her field work now, which means she won't get the degree and she will also miss a full year's worth of salary raises due to not having the degree finished by a deadline.

I somewhat expect the deferment thing to be a paperwork mixup as the school scrambles to enact the government's instructions. But I also somewhat expect this to be a cash-grab by her school to attempt to force people to pay what they owe while they can still force them to.

 

[JohannaK]

Word.

Mood.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I wonder if we can get this thread to 2000 posts before Valka gets back.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Mood.

Fact.

 

[Arakhor]

Moderator Action: One-word posts verge on being spam. Thank you.