With friends like you...
Oh my fucking GOD. I'm not even sure where to start.
So... We all moved down here together to live in this big house. And we all agreed to bring our parts. Some of us got rid of everything we owned in order to come here and make a new life and take a crack at something we all believed in. So when a few of us tried to bring kitchen stuff, Billy said "No, don't worry about it, I've got that." And "I've got that too!"
Fast forward to 6 months into our one year lease. Billy comes to us and makes the announcement that he and his wife are moving out in less than a month with no warning beforehand that anything was less than awesome. Okay.... What? You're moving out and sticking us with the last 6 months? Wow... I don't really know Billy and Michelle very well, but what I do know is that I'd never even do that to someone I hated. You just don't abandon someone with a lease. It's SO wrong. Meanwhile, he's still in the band, and no one says anything to him about the fact that he's screwing the rest of us over.
I have to get a different job, and a second job to attempt to make ends meet, and at this point, my bills have skyrocketed to over $1000 a month more than my income. Awesome. I also made a point to gathering all of my kitchen things out of storage when I was in Seattle last month to prepare for Billy and Michelle moving out and leaving us without anything to cook with.
It's kind of hard living with someone who is screwing over all of their friends, AND being pissy about things like paying their portion of the bills. So for the past month we've had to deal with Michelle turning the AC off. We live in fucking Las Vegas. It's July. I've had candles melting in the shade in my room. And if you ask her to leave the AC on for a little bit at night to cool the place off, she flies off the handle.
Moving along, Billy and Michelle finally move out last Friday THANK GOD. And since I'm now responsible for paying half the bills on our 7 BR home in the suburbs, Jerimiah and I get the master suite that they just moved out of. I go take a picture of the bathtub that's mine since they left and post it to facebook with a "OMG YAY!"
The response? "GET OUT OF MY ROOM! I paid for it through the 15!!" Really?! You fucking moved out! We're supposed to leave it empty for a week? Whaaaat the fuck? (There was no indication of ANY bad blood at all before the move out announcement.)
So they're gone. And they took all of their kitchen things. And all of my kitchen things. They took the wireless router out of the house. They took the fucking ice cube trays out of the freezer. Luckily we won't need to eat any food, or use the internet to get a job, or want any ICE when it's 114 here today.
And Billy is still in the band with the boys. Which is the whole reason we're living here in this place. I can't even wrap my mind around WHY on earth we're still here. If the choice was mine to make, I'd tell Billy and Michelle to have fun with their new lease, break ours (Because we can't afford to live here anymore!) And move back to Seattle.
I took a $6 an hour paycut to move here, and my rent is now double what it was in Seattle. And instead of 40 guaranteed hours a week and a second part time job, I'm being scheduled 5 days a week and 25 hours at Starbucks. And the labor laws here are set up that I can't work more than 8 hours in a day. So if I work 5 at Sbux, I pretty much have no way to pick up hours to try to make 40 without getting a second job.
Las Vegas just passed Detroit for #1 highest unemployment rate in the country.
FML.
So... We all moved down here together to live in this big house. And we all agreed to bring our parts. Some of us got rid of everything we owned in order to come here and make a new life and take a crack at something we all believed in. So when a few of us tried to bring kitchen stuff, Billy said "No, don't worry about it, I've got that." And "I've got that too!"
Fast forward to 6 months into our one year lease. Billy comes to us and makes the announcement that he and his wife are moving out in less than a month with no warning beforehand that anything was less than awesome. Okay.... What? You're moving out and sticking us with the last 6 months? Wow... I don't really know Billy and Michelle very well, but what I do know is that I'd never even do that to someone I hated. You just don't abandon someone with a lease. It's SO wrong. Meanwhile, he's still in the band, and no one says anything to him about the fact that he's screwing the rest of us over.
I have to get a different job, and a second job to attempt to make ends meet, and at this point, my bills have skyrocketed to over $1000 a month more than my income. Awesome. I also made a point to gathering all of my kitchen things out of storage when I was in Seattle last month to prepare for Billy and Michelle moving out and leaving us without anything to cook with.
It's kind of hard living with someone who is screwing over all of their friends, AND being pissy about things like paying their portion of the bills. So for the past month we've had to deal with Michelle turning the AC off. We live in fucking Las Vegas. It's July. I've had candles melting in the shade in my room. And if you ask her to leave the AC on for a little bit at night to cool the place off, she flies off the handle.
Moving along, Billy and Michelle finally move out last Friday THANK GOD. And since I'm now responsible for paying half the bills on our 7 BR home in the suburbs, Jerimiah and I get the master suite that they just moved out of. I go take a picture of the bathtub that's mine since they left and post it to facebook with a "OMG YAY!"
The response? "GET OUT OF MY ROOM! I paid for it through the 15!!" Really?! You fucking moved out! We're supposed to leave it empty for a week? Whaaaat the fuck? (There was no indication of ANY bad blood at all before the move out announcement.)
So they're gone. And they took all of their kitchen things. And all of my kitchen things. They took the wireless router out of the house. They took the fucking ice cube trays out of the freezer. Luckily we won't need to eat any food, or use the internet to get a job, or want any ICE when it's 114 here today.
And Billy is still in the band with the boys. Which is the whole reason we're living here in this place. I can't even wrap my mind around WHY on earth we're still here. If the choice was mine to make, I'd tell Billy and Michelle to have fun with their new lease, break ours (Because we can't afford to live here anymore!) And move back to Seattle.
I took a $6 an hour paycut to move here, and my rent is now double what it was in Seattle. And instead of 40 guaranteed hours a week and a second part time job, I'm being scheduled 5 days a week and 25 hours at Starbucks. And the labor laws here are set up that I can't work more than 8 hours in a day. So if I work 5 at Sbux, I pretty much have no way to pick up hours to try to make 40 without getting a second job.
Las Vegas just passed Detroit for #1 highest unemployment rate in the country.
FML.