Tiny Things That Annoy You • Page 361

Having a ton to do but not being able to do anything. I’m leaving for a wedding immediately after work tomorrow and I have a lot of things to do beforehand. Can’t do any of it until I’m out of work this evening yet all I can think about is what I need to do. Days like today I really miss working from home.

 

Yesterday was my first day of officially returning to the office 2 days a week and I really hate having to get up 2 hours earlier in the morning on those days

Traffic is annoying too. Leaving work yesterday, I sat through 6 full cycles of the traffic light leaving the road my office is on

 

Think I posted about the Dipshit I work with that sends me Teams Chats a few times a month that I have not once responded to in 18+ months yet he still sends them. He’s really ratcheted the chats up, I’ve gotten like 15 the last two weeks and he honest to god sent me an email at the end of the day Friday asking me to look at the chat.

just fucking send me an email! The email you just sent? Fucking including what you’re whining about in there! Who the fuck directs someone to another form of communication for a task instead of including in the form of communication they send??? And today he sends another chat, “please respond, I need help answering this”.

motherfucker, I have never responded via chat lol your messages don’t even show that I looked at them because I literally have not because I do not give a shit to waste my day helping him. I’m waiting for his boss or my boss to set up a meeting asking about this and will enjoy the awkward silence as they try to wrap their head around why he keeps sending chats/requests to someone who has literally never responded.

 

yea people apparently are getting sent back to the offices here too. by some coincidence my commute suddenly sucks ass now.

 

The heat and humidity we’ve had the last two days

 

Fucking for real. 90 degrees all week and humid as hell. Even in the mornings when it's like 70, it feels like it's in the 80s. My glasses are completely fogged up when I step out of my car haha

 

Rent is going up $150 a month. Pretty crushed since federal student loans are kicking back in, too.

My place also no longer allows pets, so I was panicking, but after I emailed them they said we can still have our cat since they were already aware of her. Thank God.

 

I feel you there big time. Rental market is a fucking racket. Mine just got bumped up $200 in July, the biggest increase we've had since moving in in 2019 while cost of living keeps going up and up here and my salary stays fairly stagnant! Can't find anything else realistically affordable for rent since Maine has been dealing with crazy housing shortages for years now so we're stuck where we're at for the foreseeable future. Buying a house is becoming more unattainable every day too. Extremely defeating stuff especially thinking back to my parents owning their home when they were younger than I am now, and they were making way less money relatively speaking.

 

I don't even bother telling people I have a cat. He does no harm and not paying some dumb fee for him lol

I feel you on the rent, mine went up 150 last year. This year they were asking for another 300 more so I have to move end of month. Idk how people are supposed to live without making crazy money

 

Ugh that really sucks. Living is too expensive these days.

 

I started buying the Costco brand cat food with chunks in gravy. One can was missing so far. I removed the thin piece of cardboard that is layered between each stack. And one was missing *mad*

 

Fed my cat some new cat food at 4am, she apparently puked it up when I went back to bed, and she proceeded to pounce all over us, knocking shit off my end table, and yowling until we woke up a second time to feed her all over again

 

Every time my apartment emails me about new work or painting they're doing I die inside cause I just know they're gonna raise my rent so much. Nobody asked you all to re paint a building that looked perfectly fine and then re paint all our doors and carports and junk like of all the problems I have with this building none of those were even on my top 5 so staaaaawp

 

My rent has gone up $50 each year I’ve lived in this place. Not terrible considering the neighborhood I live in but still annoying.

 

I can’t even make sense of rent prices lol. I have no clue how my old apartment in tallahassee florida costs the same as this place in denver. If I had stayed working for the state of FL I wouldn’t of been able to afford to live on my own, that’s wild and kinda scary

 

I really don’t want to move and haven’t found a house yet in my apparently ridiculous low price range preference to seriously jump on but knowing the rent is gonna jump $400ish sucks and I’ll likely move out in of spite of that.

Part of me wants to ask in advance if my rent will be increasing - and I want to ask in person so that when they tell me how much it’s increasing I can say, “oh wow! So what updates are you making to my apartment to match the new rent? Because you must be doing something if you suddenly want me to pay more money, yeah?” and then just stare at them.

And likely they will tell me about how they put in fake hardwood floors - in the elevator! And how they put fake hardware floor on the top of the second floor landing when immediately before and after it’s new carpet! And how they painted the hallway walls a boring as gray so it feels like what I imagine walking through a submarine feels like lol

And then I hope I would have the guts/courage to respond with, “ok but I don’t live in the hallways or the second floor landing or the elevator so none of that does anything for my quality of life. Is there anything else? I’m really confused how my unchanged apartment is now suddenly worth $400 more a month when it’s the exact same. The only change, is you (the new owners).

Allegedly the 4 buildings the new owners took over are all hovering around 60% occupancy and it seems like every weekend there is a moving truck moving people out. I don’t get it but hope those people enjoy their new places and hope by the time my lease is up next June they’ve backtracked on a lot of this bulllshit (but they won’t).

 

They need to start taxing landlords for empty apartments so there is more incentive to benefit the renter. Idk anything about taxes so it could already be a thing but if it is, make it higher. I was walking through a part of town a while back that was so depressing with all the empty buildings and units with lease signs. Felt like a ghost town. We don't lack the space to house ppl, just nobody can afford it so they sit empty

 

The 2 times my rent went up they gave me 90 days notice, and then I had to give them 60 days notice if I wasn’t planning to renew my lease. Really puts you in a tough spot. And I did call and argue and complain, which got me a free carpet cleaning, but still.

 

I’m contemplating going back to my old apartment complex that smelled like smoke half the time because it was $600 a month. That’s insanely cheap.

 

Idk the exact number but I remember reading in NYC landlords keep a lot of units off the market because they either want to keep prices up or they are rent controlled and they don't want to pay for necessary repairs in order to make them habitable. Definitely all for a tax or fees on landlords who don't list apartments

 

When I lived in Warren, PA, my wife and I payed less than $600 a month to rent a whole house. There were a lot of spiders due to the area, but I would kill to go back tbh

 

Damn, I pay more than double that for a single room lol. No kitchen, and no internet. Woo!

 

Yeah there are dozens of empty, brand new buildings they just built for “affordable” apartments in town that confusingly cost as much as the non-affordable apartments so someone missed a math class somewhere.

Like, literally 25 feet behind my apartment building they’re constructing about 5 fucking miles of “leasable office space”, hotels and apartments and I’d be willing to bet at least half of that total space will forever remain vacant. Hell, depending on when the apartments are done and how much they cost I might just say fuck it and move 25 feet to the south, at least these would be new lol

 

I always complain about living in shit hole Ohio but then I see what everyone else pays for rent/mortgage and I quickly change my tune lol I will keep my $550 mortgage and never leave!! I will continue to complain anyway though bc seriously I hate this state.

 

My old Tallahassee place is currently listed at $1600