Gee, it's hot? Welcome to Texas.(long)

[violiavampyr]

Actually even I don't think it's that hot an I'm a California transplant (it's somewhere in the 90s, and there been days back home were it got over 100)
There were so many broken a/c calls today it was stupid.
This one call though, the woman (mom of the new tenant) called complaining that the a/c wasn't keeping the house cool enough... While they were moving furniture in and presumably having the door wide open. Well, Dur, it's not going to keep the place cool if you're leaving the door open while you're moving stuff in! You probably had the lights on the entire time too. And guess what? You're probably going to call me next month whining that you're electric bill is though the roof!

One of the most common questions I've been getting: "uhhh, I have a utilities question..?"
Me: ok
them: uuhhhh we called the gas company and uuuhhh they said our address didn't exist in their database?
Me: because you're all electric. No gas.
What I want to say is, "Don't you fucking pay attention to the damn specs the leasing agent tells you? Why don't you read the ad that you saw when you decided to get the place and tell me what it say? Don't ever call me again."
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Another common one: bugs.
Stupid girl: OMG! There are ants all over the kitchen!
me: let me send you to Maintence.
sG: but there are ants and WASPS outside!!! Somebody has to come here now!!!!11
Me: Hold while I transfer you.

Stupid girl! This is Texas. There just going to be bugs. Wasps have been bad this year, and so have crickets. Go to Walmart. Don't leave food out in your kitchen.
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And to my co-workers that handel these people's accounts, look I know you're fucking busy, but damnit I'm sick of these morons calling me. I can't answer their fucking questions about their account. Just shoot them an email to say you haven't forgot about them. Some bitch threatened to call every fucking 15 minutes till someone would talk to get. I had to send her to a supervisor.
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I'm starting to get the feeling that someone's not doing their job in the make ready area, but because im getting far too many calls about incomplete work and filthy living areas. It's possible that legitimate vandalism was committed in a couple places.
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Stop calling us about your stupid neighbors!!! Call the cops, call the city for zoning violations! Don't call me!!

What's more, I felt absolutely incompetent today. I kept hitting the wrong keys, and apparently I was told something a couple weeks ago, by a person that is no longer with us, that is entirely wrong. Ugh. Mondays blow!

[Andara Bledin]

Today was one of those Mondays, all right. You have my sympathies.

I left about half of my normal Monday tasks completely undone because there were so many problems I couldn't even do half of them, and ran out of time on the rest. >_<

^-.-^

[Pixilated]

My sympathies to you for the people who don't seem to realize Texas = DAMNHOT. Tell them if they don't like the heat and the bugs, move to Regina, Saskatchewan ... land of the eight-month-long minus-40 winters. (This is where I hope to move once I'm through school. I luvs winters!)

[Racket_Man]

One of the most common questions I've been getting: "uhhh, I have a utilities question..?"
Me: ok
them: uuhhhh we called the gas company and uuuhhh they said our address didn't exist in their database?
Me: because you're all electric. No gas.
What I want to say is, "Don't you fucking pay attention to the damn specs the leasing agent tells you? Why don't you read the ad that you saw when you decided to get the place and tell me what it say? Don't ever call me again."
!

I actually had that happen when I moved into one apartment. Yes the apt. was all electric. So when I called the electric company they tell me my address does not exist. HMMMMM I am in a real brink and mortar apt building and I know the address is valid?????

So I went over to the on-site manager and asked what was going on. He told me THEY handle all of the utility company stuff. he said that too many times someone would skip out or run up a large bill and try and change the person on the account.

[Chanlin]

Stupid Girl should watch those documentaries on areas of the world where when the ants move in for the week or two the people move out and wait for them to leave

Oh and Pixelated you are NVTS... nuts

[depechemodefan]

ONe thing tv and movies get right is Texas weather. Topography, however (looking at you New Moon and having hills in the Galveston area; there should have been some flat area somewhere in Wash. for you to film in).

[Catwoman2965]

I actually had that happen when I moved into one apartment. Yes the apt. was all electric. So when I called the electric company they tell me my address does not exist. HMMMMM I am in a real brink and mortar apt building and I know the address is valid?????

So I went over to the on-site manager and asked what was going on. He told me THEY handle all of the utility company stuff. he said that too many times someone would skip out or run up a large bill and try and change the person on the account.

I had an issue with my last apt, and the gas company. Turns out, the house was right on the dividing line of two towns, and while the mailing address was town A, the gas co. had town B. But a quick call to my landlord got that straightened out and service was established.

[bunnyboy]

there should have been some flat area somewhere in Wash. for you to film in).

Off the top of my head eastern washington, round about Moses Lake...

No lake, all high plains desert, flat as Kansas.

By the way, we're very sorry.

[marlovino]

She should be glad they are just ordinary ants and not fire ants.

Those guys are just mean little bastards.

[mharbourgirl]

Oh god, I took a trip to the recycle depot last weekend and the place was *swarming* with fruit wasps. I nearly had a panic attack. At least they aren't the giant aggressive wasps that will try and sting you through a window like up at Mums and Pops' place. Those things will chase you for literally kilometres trying to get you. Then there's the other sort of wasps that are cruising parking lots scavenging dead bugs off peoples' grills. I'm on the verge of getting myself an epi-pen because I don't know how I've managed to avoid being stung this year.

The humidity has been brutal for weeks now, the temperature never drops below 20C even at night and with the humidity daytime is over 30C, and it isn't raining enough. When it does rain it jacks the humidity up even higher.

Did I mention I live in Nova Scotia, not Florida or Texas??

[violiavampyr]

She should be glad they are just ordinary ants and not fire ants.

Those guys are just mean little bastards.

No kidding, and those are plenty around here. I think sometimes fire ants get in, but not too often. We got a good laugh the other week when a girl called saying she work up covered in ants.

[Sapphire Silk]

So I went over to the on-site manager and asked what was going on. He told me THEY handle all of the utility company stuff. he said that too many times someone would skip out or run up a large bill and try and change the person on the account.

I lived in an apartment complex like this. But I got a separate bill for the utilities which was this little card that got lost in the mail more often than not (I had a terrible mailman there, always losing my mail), so once a month I'd have to truck over to the office and ask what the bill was.

She should be glad they are just ordinary ants and not fire ants.

Those guys are just mean little bastards.

I'll bet they were fire ants. <shudder>

[Jay 2K Winger]

I'll bet they were fire ants. <shudder>

Gyeh, the fire ants. One of the things I didn't like about Texas when I lived there.

We had fire ants in our yard, and at one point my Mom came close to a really nasty attack. We had some bags of mulch outside that had been sitting out for a while, and Mom decided to finally make use of them while doing some landscaping. Bags 1 and 2 went off without a hitch, as she'd reach in, scoop out mulch, and spread it around as needed.

As she went to do the same for bag 3, she got bit by a fire ant. She stopped, looked at the bite, thought for a moment, and instead upended the bag on the lawn.

As she put it, "Fire ants came FOAMING out of the mulch."

[Gurndigarn]

My sympathies to you for the people who don't seem to realize Texas = DAMNHOT.

Texas = Fairly Warm
Doha, Qatar = DAMNHOT

Tell them if they don't like the heat and the bugs, move to Regina, Saskatchewan

Try Saskatoon, Saskatchewan instead. The name is just so much funner.

[Sapphire Silk]

Try Saskatoon, Saskatchewan instead. The name is just so much funner.

I've been to Saskatoon! Nice folks there.