My ongoing war with apartment maintenance being lazy sacks of sh*t rages on.
Backstory on their laziness: it took 5 calls to maintenance to get someone out to "fix" our washer. First time, he said, "JuSt UsE sMaLlEr LoAdS." Despite "uSiNg SmAlLeR lOaDs" the washing machine flooded, and we spent two whole days drying up the carpet, cleaning it, and fixing the mess. It then took 5 more calls to maintenance to finally get someone out to fix the washing machine, but with a catch... we'd have to buy the washing machine and dryer.
I sure would like a head's up to bring lubrication next time so that I can prepare for getting ****ed in the ass.
And that's not all! I've called maintenance 7 times about our back door not latching properly and the deadbolt being a whole half of an inch off of where it should be. The deadbolt was basically hitting the strike plate, so it couldn't lock, and the latch for the door couldn't latch, so there for a while, the door couldn't open or shut. Ya know, the thing that doors are supposed to do?
Well, first time, we got the whole, "We LiKe It SnUg!" Mother****er, the ****ing door doesn't work! AT ALL!!!
Second time, the moron suggested "JuSt LiFt ThE dOoR uP!!" Listen here dumbass, that's going to break the door handle eventually.
Third time, nothing.
Fourth time, nothing.
Fifth time, nothing.
Sixth time, nothing.
Seventh time, nothing.
Finally, my in-laws came over to trade some tables and chairs, and my father-in-law noticed the problem. The door handle finally broke, so we bought a new door handle, strike plate and everything, chiseled out the necessary requirements in the door jamb, and now our back door works properly.
So as you can imagine, I don't hold our maintenance staff in high regard at all. They're lazy, and not very knowledgeable.
But, we have to call them, because if we take matters into our own hands, we lose our security deposit.
Anyhow, this brings me to today.
Where I live, right now it's averaging 22° Fahrenheit, it's frigid. So naturally, we have the heat on set to 70-72° Fahrenheit.
But, the heater's been going out, and despite my wife and I trying various rituals like shutting it off and turning it back on, swapping out air filters resetting parameters for the heat during the week and weekend, leaving the door to the furnace room open thinking that might help, and finally breaking down and breaking out the space heater, we texted maintenance.
Their reponse?
"We'Ll GeT sOmEoNe OuT oN mOnDaY."
No, I'm not going to be calling/texting maintenance Lord knows how many times until someone finally comes out and does their job. And, I'm not going to go through that headache again because the first maintenance guy inevitably half-asses the job until we finally get the problem resolved.
I'm seriously considering just fixing the problem myself and finding out how this furnace works, because if they fix it under the condition that I have to buy it, I
will tell them to shove it up their ass.