Pissed off.
Posting from the local library here in Middletown, where I am the only native English speaker and everyone else speaks Monkey or Babboon (spanish). You'd think my father'd at LEAST check to see if the city was English speaking, but nooooooooooo...
The cable people came today to put in phone and internet. What do they find? Vandalism and slashed phone lines to my apartment specifically, and to a lesser extent elsewhere to places with tenants too old to know "what's a computer?". They need to call their specific tech qualified to run new line because they can't find all the damage. The damage looks old, too; my guess is that the former tenant of my apartment didn't have internet and just used a cell phone for everything.
I asked "when will this be fixed" and they gave me a blank stare before yelling into a phone in Monkey and going "to to for bizweeks" in broken English. Until then, I have no phone or internet. Fortunately I FINALLY managed to get online at the library, in which I had to fight tooth and claw because it's one of those "If you don't have a card, no computer allowed, NO exceptions."
But yeah. Pissed. Off. I'm going to go stir crazy if I don't get a connection soon.
On top of that, there's a lock on the gas line. The landlord doesn't know why that's there. The "super" in charge of the building doesn't know why that's there. I called them, THEY don't know why it's there because it doesn't show up in their systems "and our systems are holy holy holy, so you're wrong and we're right." So, no refrigeration for soda, cold or frozen food, or anything else, and I didn't get the sense they were going to send someone out to look!
Going to go nuts on a just cereal and microwavable fist-sized bowl of rice every day along with warm soda or apple juice...
Library's forcing me off. Don't know when I'll be back to see responses. Or if I'll be sane when I get back.
The cable people came today to put in phone and internet. What do they find? Vandalism and slashed phone lines to my apartment specifically, and to a lesser extent elsewhere to places with tenants too old to know "what's a computer?". They need to call their specific tech qualified to run new line because they can't find all the damage. The damage looks old, too; my guess is that the former tenant of my apartment didn't have internet and just used a cell phone for everything.
I asked "when will this be fixed" and they gave me a blank stare before yelling into a phone in Monkey and going "to to for bizweeks" in broken English. Until then, I have no phone or internet. Fortunately I FINALLY managed to get online at the library, in which I had to fight tooth and claw because it's one of those "If you don't have a card, no computer allowed, NO exceptions."
But yeah. Pissed. Off. I'm going to go stir crazy if I don't get a connection soon.
On top of that, there's a lock on the gas line. The landlord doesn't know why that's there. The "super" in charge of the building doesn't know why that's there. I called them, THEY don't know why it's there because it doesn't show up in their systems "and our systems are holy holy holy, so you're wrong and we're right." So, no refrigeration for soda, cold or frozen food, or anything else, and I didn't get the sense they were going to send someone out to look!
Going to go nuts on a just cereal and microwavable fist-sized bowl of rice every day along with warm soda or apple juice...
Library's forcing me off. Don't know when I'll be back to see responses. Or if I'll be sane when I get back.