Random Rants 79: [Impassionating Intensifies]

[hobbsyoyo]

Are there no CA tenant laws to help or slow down the eviction?

I don't know, I've only begun researching the issue. I'm probably going to contact a lawyer to see if any of them are willing or able to help or if they have a legal opinion on my options. CA tenant laws do have lots of protections but as with so many issues, big companies do whatever they can get away with regardless of whether or not it's strictly legal and lean on the fact that the 'little people' don't have the resources or time to fight them over it. Just based on company reviews on Google, it seems the Irvine Company is particularly adept at skirting the law when it comes to deposits and such.

I know it sounds entitled to whine about being forced to move on my own dime but I have been a good tenant, there was a policy changed and their kicking me out with only two month's heads up. They actually changed the policy close to a year ago but didn't bother telling me until now because.....reasons. If I'm being forced out through no fault of my own then they should have to pay to offset the massive cost they're imposing on me; doubly-so since they're likely going to seize the entirety of my deposit as they apparently do to everyone that rents from them. Even if I wanted to move all of my stuff on my own, I physically can't do that without wrecking my back.

Can you make your pet an emotional support animal?

Edit. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclop...s-service-dogs-emotional-support-animals.html

I probably could but I am not going to do that because it de-legitimizes actual support animals.

 

[bernie14]

I don't know, I've only begun researching the issue. I'm probably going to contact a lawyer to see if any of them are willing or able to help or if they have a legal opinion on my options. CA tenant laws do have lots of protections but as with so many issues, big companies do whatever they can get away with regardless of whether or not it's strictly legal and lean on the fact that the 'little people' don't have the resources or time to fight them over it. Just based on company reviews on Google, it seems the Irvine Company is particularly adept at skirting the law when it comes to deposits and such.

I know it sounds entitled to whine about being forced to move on my own dime but I have been a good tenant, there was a policy changed and their kicking me out with only two month's heads up. They actually changed the policy close to a year ago but didn't bother telling me until now because.....reasons. If I'm being forced out through no fault of my own then they should have to pay to offset the massive cost they're imposing on me; doubly-so since they're likely going to seize the entirety of my deposit as they apparently do to everyone that rents from them. Even if I wanted to move all of my stuff on my own, I physically can't do that without wrecking my back.

I probably could but I am not going to do that because it de-legitimizes actual support animals.

So your animal doesn't help you cope with your anxieties?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I do know that, and I would never demean you by suggesting otherwise

However, that first part of my reply was responding to @Lexicus, who is indeed a US-ian* — though given the current POTUS I could well imagine that he might prefer to be a Canadian at the moment!**

Spoiler * :

I'm pretty sure I've also seen you object to use of the word "American" to describe US-citizens specifically

Spoiler ** :

While backpacking in Europe and the Middle East, I met quite a few US-ians who would claim to be Canadians as kind of a protective camouflage — but you could always pick out the real Canadians by the maple-leaf patches they'd stitched onto their jackets and backpacks, so as not to be mistaken for US-ians!

Okay, it looked like you were referring to me as American, and I just wanted it to be clear that I'm not.

I object to the term "American" when the speaker/poster really should use the term "North American" if they're including Canada and the U.S. I have no objection to U.S. citizens being described as American, since that's what they are. I do object to Canadians/Canadian citizens being described as American, since that isn't what we are.

I'd really appreciate that.Cool, you wouldn't mind typing/scanning them all into PDFs and sending them to me, would you...?

Sorry, can't do that. I don't have a working scanner, and I can't read what isn't on a computer screen (vision issues currently prevent me from reading physical books, magazines, and anything else that isn't in very large print).

Thanks for the thought, but until Bezos stops treating all his millions of employees like ****, I would prefer to avoid giving my money to Amazon wherever possible. I also prefer to read eBooks on my basic (Sony) eReader, rather than sitting at my computer.

Okay, it was just a suggestion. They have bundles of stories by various authors, sometimes for just 99 cents. Sometimes it's free, if they're having a sale.

So your animal doesn't help you cope with your anxieties?

If I'd known about getting pets certified as support animals, I might have been able to stay in my first apartment (the neighbor decided to object to my cats, even though I was allowed to have them, the landlady sided with her, and gave me the choice of either getting rid of my cats or moving; I chose to move). But as everything was going to hell there anyway (they had fifty excuses for not fixing my window screens in the hottest August I can remember in my life; I had to keep the windows shut during that time so the cats wouldn't get out and the mosquitoes and crooks wouldn't get in), it was the best choice to move anyway. I hated the place I ended up in - one of the worst parts of town - but eventually I managed to get out of there and into where I am now. It's safer, and things do usually get fixed within a reasonable time.

 

[bernie14]

Glad things worked out for you

 

[Commodore]

Fired one of the security guards today because she refused to work the schedule she was given. Normally I wouldn't be so harsh because I used to be a security guard so I know how crap their schedules can be, but she just got real nasty about it, so I just got rid of her.

She was upset because she had to work weekends and had split days off (Tuesday and Friday). She's new and while she was training she worked Monday through Friday, but she was told when she was first hired that schedule would not be her permanent schedule. She said that was fine during the interview (say anything to get the job I guess). But when she saw her days off and that she'd be working weekends, she threw a fit using all kinds of expletives and just flat out said "I don't work weekends" in this real snotty tone. I told her that I'll see what I can do, even though I'm not in charge of their schedule since they work for another company. As soon as she was gone I got on the phone with her company and said this coming Monday is going to be her last day working on our property.

So yeah, I'm not going to let her know she's fired until after she works the weekend. "I don't work weekends" my butt. She's going to work the weekend then she's going to get transferred from our $15/hour site to some crappy $9/hour site. Hopefully she'll learn to be a little more humble and professional.

 

[H4run]

I was playing this chess-card mobile game at the office today (my holiday right now is on wednesday), the outsource employee passing through me, and after that I open up my laptop and put on my headset and start to work. Then their leader come right behind me and said "oh I thought you were playing game" then he stay there for a while. This really get into my nerve, does he tries to mock me or is it an innocent question and why he staying behind me watching what am I doing, then I ask him to sit infront of me and said to him "look, are you try to implied something while saying that? if that's the case I don't like it" he goes like oh no no no he just trying to open up some conversation, he ask for my forgiveness this and that, but it really get into my nerve, I told him what I'm doing it is not his business I got my boss the one who control my work and put me in line when I need to be put in line, blablabla, I also ask forgiveness to him if I'm bit rude or if my reaction is too much but it is better if I said it to him than I keep it inside.

Now I'm thinking if my reaction is too much, and what if there is something like this again in the future, I don't want to be always in defense and ruin my own selves by keep putting people in line whenever they ask me that question, but in other hand I should also draw a line.

Ugh. Yes I'm wrong I'm playing game, but come on they cut my half day out of 6 day working, now I'm working 6 full day, and if I'm wrong that is not the right way even for my boss to remind me, not to mention if he is someone who not in charge to supervise me. Yea.Now I'm really not in the mood.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Small rant: One of the email newsletters I get changed their email address, and it mucked up my message archiving filters.

Also, the humidity is thick enough to give me an annoying damp cough.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

My battle against the ants is still ongoing. I have not been able to identify where the ants are entering the home which sucks because it makes it harder to bait them with poison. I've look into the citrus spray and while it will kill them and destroy their pheromone trails, it won't take out the queen which is the root of the problem.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Fired one of the security guards today because she refused to work the schedule she was given. Normally I wouldn't be so harsh because I used to be a security guard so I know how crap their schedules can be, but she just got real nasty about it, so I just got rid of her.

She was upset because she had to work weekends and had split days off (Tuesday and Friday). She's new and while she was training she worked Monday through Friday, but she was told when she was first hired that schedule would not be her permanent schedule. She said that was fine during the interview (say anything to get the job I guess). But when she saw her days off and that she'd be working weekends, she threw a fit using all kinds of expletives and just flat out said "I don't work weekends" in this real snotty tone. I told her that I'll see what I can do, even though I'm not in charge of their schedule since they work for another company. As soon as she was gone I got on the phone with her company and said this coming Monday is going to be her last day working on our property.

So yeah, I'm not going to let her know she's fired until after she works the weekend. "I don't work weekends" my butt. She's going to work the weekend then she's going to get transferred from our $15/hour site to some crappy $9/hour site. Hopefully she'll learn to be a little more humble and professional.

Retaliation at its best. Making life worse for those at the bottom one person at a time.

Is it a coincidence or do right wing men in general think that women who speak up or complain are "nasty"?

Or are you just learning from your leader? Trump has a long history of calling strong, opinionated women nasty. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/politics/trump-nasty-woman-denmark-mette-frederiksen/index.html

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My battle against the ants is still ongoing. I have not been able to identify where the ants are entering the home which sucks because it makes it harder to bait them with poison. I've look into the citrus spray and while it will kill them and destroy their pheromone trails, it won't take out the queen which is the root of the problem.

It may be time to call an exterminator.

 

[Birdjaguar]

My battle against the ants is still ongoing. I have not been able to identify where the ants are entering the home which sucks because it makes it harder to bait them with poison. I've look into the citrus spray and while it will kill them and destroy their pheromone trails, it won't take out the queen which is the root of the problem.

Ant colonies can be pretty large and poison baits can take time. We keep a lid of a cat food borax mix under our dish drain. The ants mostly stay there feasting and carrying the borax home. Patience grasshopper!

 

[Kyriakos]

Ant colonies can be pretty large and poison baits can take time. We keep a lid of a cat food borax mix under our dish drain. The ants mostly stay there feasting and carrying the borax home. Patience grasshopper!

Maybe this is Phase IV and you are playing with fire.

 

[Birdjaguar]

@Kyriakos At least the clip was only 6 minutes. I couldn't have endured much more. I'd rather have ants.

 

[Commodore]

Is it a coincidence or do right wing men in general think that women who speak up or complain are "nasty"?

Dude, I was just joking. Wasn't it obvious?

Seriously though: Nah, I have no problem firing men who act in such an unprofessional manner either. It was either earlier in this thread or in a previous rants thread where I fired a man for not doing his job. Basically she told the client (me as a representative of my employer) that she was refusing to do what she was contracted to do. How am I not supposed to fire her for that?

Plus the way she handled it was completely out of line. If one of the guards has an issue that requires the client's attention (again, me), they are to bring the issue to their shift supervisor, the shift supervisor then tells either their site supervisor or their operations manager, who are then to bring it to me. It says very clearly in our contract with them that the guards are not to contact the client under any circumstances except for those instances listed in the post orders for the site.

So just by coming to me at all about it she was wrong. She was also wrong in approaching me because, again, I'm the client. I have absolutely no control over the guards' individual work schedules. That's between them and their employer. All I'm responsible for regarding schedules is making sure they have the contracted number of personnel at our site at all times.

I could let all that go though, especially since I know the site supervisor and I've been trying to get rid of him for a while now too because he's a lazy piece of crap who just plays on his phone all day. What pushed me towards firing her was how she brought it up to me. She approached me unannounced (I mean damn, at least send me an email and set up a meeting with me), and just started in with "eff this" and "this is effing BS" and the previously mentioned "I don't work weekends".

I'm not going to have a hothead like that working at our site. Especially with us being one of the highest paying security sites in our area. We pay as much as we do because we want higher quality guards. Ones that are even-tempered and professional. This company though just keeps sending us people that don't meet our standards. That's why when the contract is up, I'll be pushing hard for us not to renew and go with in-house security instead. That way we have direct control over who we bring in.

 

[Synobun]

Spent 3 months evolving a wartortle and got rewarded with a 1500 CP blastoise. This is not a good number.

Not worth it in any shape or form. I've been fairly annoyed with Pokemon GO for a couple weeks now but this might just kill any interest that's left.

 

[Hygro]

My battle against the ants is still ongoing. I have not been able to identify where the ants are entering the home which sucks because it makes it harder to bait them with poison. I've look into the citrus spray and while it will kill them and destroy their pheromone trails, it won't take out the queen which is the root of the problem.

Yeah it zones them, you leave the citrus down for a bit. Keep the ants and poison where you want em. We used citrus because we'd get crazy ant invasions every couple years. Whole colonies trying to take over our house.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

How am I not supposed to fire her for that?

Giver her a write up as a warning?

Spent 3 months evolving a wartortle and got rewarded with a 1500 CP blastoise. This is not a good number.

Not worth it in any shape or form. I've been fairly annoyed with Pokemon GO for a couple weeks now but this might just kill any interest that's left.

You can't quit me bro!

 

[Commodore]

Giver her a write up as a warning?

The problem is the personality traits she displayed. It's clear she doesn't have the temperament to work at our site. We don't just have our guards sit there and do nothing like a lot of other places. Our guards work in a pretty high stress environment since part of their job is to handle the day to day stuff in our global security operations center. That's why we pay them so much more than other security guards. So if she freaked out and lost her cool over something minor like having to work weekends, I simply don't trust her to keep her cool when things really hit the fan at work, which happens quite frequently.

Also, I usually get at least a little pushback from their operations manager when I want to get rid of a guard, but he didn't even fight me on this one. That tells me he agrees that our site was not the right place for her.

 

[Synobun]

I like the insistence that it's a very important posting yet it only pays $15/hr.

 

[Commodore]

I like the insistence that it's a very important posting yet it only pays $15/hr.

I said it's high stress. It's still unskilled labor though that doesn't require any special education or certifications beyond the standard state security officer license.

And really we are paying $30/hour to their company per guard, they are the ones that choose to only give the guards $15/hour out of that. And that $15/hour is still well above what other security guards make.

Although part of my proposal for going with in-house security is going to be to raise the pay to $20-$25/hour plus benefits to attract better candidates.