One Week

[blas]

Until I'm back home at my parents' house.

Thankfully, I got laid off work for this coming week, so I should have plenty of free time to keep moving a little bit every day back home.

Everyone wish me luck. Now that I'm free of a horrible noisy downstairs neighbor with a kid and a baby and a micromanaging door slamming mother who is always over, I think this last week should go by pretty decently!

[Dilorenzo]

Thankfully, I got laid off work for this coming week,!

I am not understanding.

[Aethian]

I am not understanding.

Some companies to save cost will do "layoffs" where the person is in a unpaid status (sometimes paid). Basically Blas is getting a week off of work without having to use annual leave.

[Andara Bledin]

Some companies to save cost will do "layoffs" where the person is in a unpaid status (sometimes paid). Basically Blas is getting a week off of work without having to use annual leave.

Pretty much this.

In a manufacturing situation, being "laid off" is much closer to the original meaning, which is being put on stand-by status (often unpaid and able to collect unemployment) until the next run hits and it's back to work for everybody.

^-.-^

[Dilorenzo]

Now I am understanding. Sucks not getting paid for the week, but, hey, week away from prying neighbors.

[blas]

Due to new law, unemployment is not paid for the first week (so, in our cases, since we usually only get laid off one week a year *sometimes two or three, but usually I opt out of those*), but I had vacation hours to cover most of it. Sucks having to waste your own hours just to get paid, but I had asked for those days off well before the layoff anyway.

[Pixilated]

Blas, good luck and hope your move goes smoothly. In a little over a month I will be back in My Hometown with mom. Can't say I'm thrilled but you do what you have to.

What do you mean, you're free of the neighbour and micro-managing mom? Have they left or are they just no longer an issue now that you're leaving?

[Food Lady]

She won't have to deal with them now that she's gone. Or, she's hiding bodies. I did hear there was a fire at the massage clinic in Irv's town. And I know they're buddies.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I didn't even hear about that....

Oh, I guess it did. Never even heard of the place. It's kind of in the ghetto.

Oh, and I'm totally innocent, k? I was at work when this happened.

[blas]

We're both totally innocent. Loudass Baby Mama moved her loud kid and baby down to the other side of Wisconsin.

[PepperElf]

We're both totally innocent. Loudass Baby Mama moved her loud kid and baby down to the other side of Wisconsin.

yay. but i feel back for the people on that side of the state. cos knowing the loudasses... the entire bottom half of the state is now suffering from the noise pollution.

[Pixilated]

We're both totally innocent. Loudass Baby Mama moved her loud kid and baby down to the other side of Wisconsin.

Thank goodness for small favours, eh? My noisy neighbour is rarely home these days. When he is, he plays his music/video games at a mildly annoying level, but nothing at all like the blow-out-the-windows level he used to use. Also, he tends to only play it even at this level for an hour or so. Also, of course, I'm moving so the next tenant can deal with it (or not, if it doesn't bother them).

I've also concluded that part of the problem is, I think they skimped on the walls between the super-tiny apartment and the standard one-bedroom. Even when someone next door is playing music/has the TV on at a normal level, I can still hear it. I hear nothing at all from above me, below me, or the apartment on the other side ... so I think it's partly cheap construction, as well as this neighbour in particular.

[blas]

It's the same way here. So poorly insulated, and they try to blame us for the reason that heating/cooling/energy costs are the way they are.

None of us really waste energy, as far as I'm concerned. You take the cheap route, and don't insulate a building well, give them shitty ass windows, and then you include electricity in the rent.........then turn around and complain that certain times of the year, it costs a lot? NO SHIT Sherlock!