Mar 18, 2020, 11:57 PM
My apartment complex just closed our Laundry Rooms, as if being forced to go to the laundromat is gonna be safer?!
Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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@wahoo said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
So unrelated.
My most horrible neighbors who live with SIX PEOPLE in a /two bedroom/ (but drive BMWs and buy their TODDLERS fucking Docle & Gabbana shirts and smoke in common areas and are just generally THE WORST) have, according to them, a burst pipe and please guess how very little I think the HoA should pay for their repairs.
Doesn't that depend on the terms of the HoA and the specific place the pipe burst? In the HoA I used to live in that maintained their own water well and sewage treatment, the HoA was responsible for the pipe up to the main valve(It was designed so house owners could close it with a utility key for winter to prevent the pipes freezing) for each individual property while the house owner was responsible for everything past that point.
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@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I had a 401k once.
And then I snapped into an anxiety episode so has I couldn't leave my house for a month and had to quit my job so I needed the money.
Guess I'm just terrible at financial security.
No that is kind of what it is there for when you get in those situations. The fact you had it shows you aren't. I am far from perfect when it comes to managing money, but I have habits that were instilled in me long ago, whioch have served me well.
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My peeve of the day is ...
I'm genuinely scared for people.
We are in the middle of a time where health is compromised. No one knows for certain how bad or mild this will be. No one can say what is the right call to make. Meanwhile, everyone around is reacting in panic, which is causing all these reactions and ripples.
I'm nervous to get an illness. I'm not scared of it. I'm scared for people when the supplies start to really die down. It's already hard to meet the demand. I'm scared for those that won't have assistance and live on oxygen with no help. I'm scared for the tactics I see written on the walls that people will take to assist their families if/when this goes bad.
I'm not living in paranoia, but my heart hurts for some out there and that's my self peeve? Also, we should be coming more together and uplifting (yes, I know where I'm posting). We can do this I have faith or something in everyone.
My un-peeve --- I like all of you. Okay, sometimes that's my peeve too. (Just kidding, maybe).
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My peeve is I'm sick and have been sick for a few weeks (feverish/congested/etc for a couple days, then fine for a couple days, etc) but I can't afford to do anything about it. Heck even if I could afford Nyquil and such it's doubtful there's any on the shelves.
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@Groth said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@wahoo said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
So unrelated.
My most horrible neighbors who live with SIX PEOPLE in a /two bedroom/ (but drive BMWs and buy their TODDLERS fucking Docle & Gabbana shirts and smoke in common areas and are just generally THE WORST) have, according to them, a burst pipe and please guess how very little I think the HoA should pay for their repairs.
Doesn't that depend on the terms of the HoA and the specific place the pipe burst? In the HoA I used to live in that maintained their own water well and sewage treatment, the HoA was responsible for the pipe up to the main valve(It was designed so house owners could close it with a utility key for winter to prevent the pipes freezing) for each individual property while the house owner was responsible for everything past that point.
Yes it does.
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My apartment complex just closed our Laundry Rooms, as if being forced to go to the laundromat is gonna be safer?!
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@Wretched said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My apartment complex just closed our Laundry Rooms, as if being forced to go to the laundromat is gonna be safer?!
I suspect it's less about your safety than their fear of legal liability.
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.... wow.
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@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I suspect it's less about your safety than their fear of legal liability.
What liability?
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@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I suspect it's less about your safety than their fear of legal liability.
What liability?
If you get sick on their premises, there's at least an argument to be made that your illness is their responsibility for not disinfecting the facility; and if they get sued, I can't imagine their business owner insurance covers pandemics.
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Not to be a party pooper, but it's probably because people end up congregating in laundry rooms and hanging out and touching everything and coughing while their laundry is being done. Laundry rooms are gross places, and they don't have the knowledge or staff to keep it from being a threat to everybody. The expectation is likely that since you're staying home and not going out and doing a lot, you don't actually need to do all of that laundry all the time. You're not safer at a laundromat, no, but everyone is safer if you wear your jeans twice.
ETA: Unless you go out. If you go out, treat your clothes like you went fishing and they stink like fish and are contaminated.
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@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I suspect it's less about your safety than their fear of legal liability.
What liability?
If you get sick on their premises, there's at least an argument to be made that your illness is their responsibility for not disinfecting the facility; and if they get sued, I can't imagine their business owner insurance covers pandemics.
People can sue over whatever you want, but I doubt you'll get any court to believe that an apartment complex owner is negligent for not managing to keep a laundry room disinfected during a pandemic.Usually you just have to show you're following best practices and best practices are going to be to ensure that there's posted rules about hygiene habits. For instance it's probably a very good idea to wash your hands before and after you do laundry in a public space.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
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I hope my complex doesn't do that. I'm about out of clean underwear.
But I've been kind of terrified to go to the laundry room since the last time I did, there was a homeless man in there and a few days later (I reported it immediately, mind you) they released a statement that he'd assaulted a teenage girl. And no, he wasn't caught.
Kinda wishing I had the $$$ to rent a washer/dryer rn.
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@Sunny Yeah i work at a drugstore. We aint closing.
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@Wretched said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Sunny Yeah i work at a drugstore. We aint closing.
And if the rest of the people that lived in your apartment complex were reasonable about reserving the facilities for the people who had to go out, rather than going in there and licking the handles of things, you'd probably be able to continue to do laundry there. Expecting apartment staff to be able to keep up the standards of cleanliness required right now to avoid the spread of the disease is not a reasonable expectation.
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@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
If you get sick on their premises, there's at least an argument to be made that your illness is their responsibility for not disinfecting the facility; and if they get sued, I can't imagine their business owner insurance covers pandemics.
As someone who handles commercial and premises liability coverage issues often:
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@Groth said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
best practices are going to be to ensure that there's posted rules about hygiene habits
It's a sad state of affairs when one must tell (theoretically) mentally capable adults to wash their hands and not sneeze all over everything, and to wipe up their own messes.
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@Sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Expecting apartment staff to be able to keep up the standards of cleanliness required right now to avoid the spread of the disease is not a reasonable expectation.
It's not reasonable, but I'm seeing it everywhere. My gym requires trainers to sanitize every surface one of us touches when we're done touching it, not users, because they can't accept responsibility for users cleaning equipment. GameStop is pretending it's providing sanitizers to its employees to keep their stores clean (side note, do not visit GameStop, as anonymous employees report these claims of sanitized stores are lies). It's a mess.
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@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My gym requires trainers to sanitize every surface one of us touches when we're done touching it, not users, because they can't accept responsibility for users cleaning equipment.
If your users aren't cleaning the equipment, no trainers are going to keep me at your gym.
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@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Expecting apartment staff to be able to keep up the standards of cleanliness required right now to avoid the spread of the disease is not a reasonable expectation.
It's not reasonable, but I'm seeing it everywhere. My gym requires trainers to sanitize every surface one of us touches when we're done touching it, not users, because they can't accept responsibility for users cleaning equipment. GameStop is pretending it's providing sanitizers to its employees to keep their stores clean (side note, do not visit GameStop, as anonymous employees report these claims of sanitized stores are lies). It's a mess.
Noone actually expects a store to be sanitized do they? The reasonable expectation is that everything you touch in a public space is contaminated and you should wash your hands when you get home and avoid touching your face.
Here's my main peeve right now. The pandemic means we'll get no Eurovision this year, it's one of my favorite family traditions
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.