I was happy when I moved into the apartment I live in now because after 3+ years of not having a dishwasher, I once again was living somewhere with a nice, built-in dishwasher again.
A week ago Sunday, the dishwasher stopped doing what its name implies it does. In their INFINITE WISDOM the apartment complex I live in will ONLY accept written maintenance requests and they (in)conveniently are open after I go to work in the morning and close before I get home in the evening meaning that the only chance I have to go and put in a maintenance request is on Saturday. Which I did this past Saturday (1 week AFTER the dishwasher had ceased doing its job).
Of course, it isn’t an EMERGENCY so I didn’t expect them to have someone out on the weekend to fix it. But they didn’t come today, either ( well, if they DID, they left not a trace of having done so). Who knows WHEN they will come (or, quite frankly IF they will come). Which leaves me wondering how long I will need to continue doing dishes by hand (I am thinking, at this point, that I will need to break down and buy a dish draining rack).
I’m not crazy about having people in my apartment whilst I’m not here but I am LESS thrilled with the prospect of having to continue doing my dishes by hand. I’m not at all thrilled at the prospect of having to hound them about it to the point of needing to take a day off of work. My only other choice is to call a dishwasher repair person, take a day off work to let that person in, pay the million six dollars they want to charge to fix it and then try (and I know I will not succeed) to get the apartment management weasels to reimburse me (I mean, for the love of all that’s good, they can’t even get it through their thick heads that I pay my rent and utilities to them, on time, in full, EVERY MONTH and that I can PROVE that I have done so and that I am not the least bit intimidated by them. It doesn’t help that I am minority (from a racial perspective) where I live and so I am sure I am ” that uppity gringo puta” to the office personnel but structuring your business, which relies on people paying their bills, so that the people who have to pay those bills have to take time off of their jobs (and therefore lose money) to talk to you about any issues is just insane.
And, yeah, I might like to move but I can’t afford to do that right now and I suppose that you get what you pay for… which in this case is sporadic hot water and dishpan hands!
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