I am supposed to be at home right now, waiting for the local phone company to come over and install new phone lines so I can telecommute.
But no.
Here I am at work.
Why?
The moronic fuckwitted condo association.
I am required to get a written release from the association in order to have the phone lines installed.
I called Wednesday (when I received notice of the hook up), left a message.
Called Thursday, left message.
On Friday I called, actually spoke with the twat who is the “secretary”: MissTake: Did you receive any of my phone messages? Idiot: ummm… phone messages?..ummm…well…no? MissTake: I need to get a letter from the association so I may have phone lines installed next Wednesday. Idiot: welll…I’m really busy right now…Maybe we can get it on the next board agenda. MissTake: When is the next meeting? (I am new there, no CLUE when this stuff is) Idiot: November 23rd. MissTake: No, the phones are to be installed next Wednesday. I need this prior to the phone company coming out. What can I do to get this done? Idiot: umm…I’m really busy, yanno? MissTake: No, I don’t know. I am asking what I need to do. Idiot: Send in a proposal. MissTake: And what should it encompass? Idiot: It should be a proposal…you know…
AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
So I faxed the proposal, encompassing “you know”. My supervisor, knowing the difficulties I was having, added a letter that stated the addition of the phone lines were a necessity.
Called to verify whether they received it? Line busy.
Called Monday, left message again stating I needed this info by Wednesday, what could I do to get this settled.
Called back Monday when the office was open. 3:00, busy. 3:05, busy. 3:10-4:40, every 5 minutes, busy busy busy.
Called Tuesday.
Went through every fucking phone message I had left. Wanted to know why they do not have the courtesy to return a phone call. Stated I needed some response by 4pm so I could contact my telecommuting coordinator (put the installation on hold).
Nothing.
Not a mutherfucking thing.
So here I sit. My workload has already been increased per our telecommuting agreement. I am having equipment delivered next Tuesday, but I have NO idea when I will start telecommuting. I hope the IT person received my message stating I did not have the letter and to stop the phone company from wasting their time today.
Fuck fuckitty fuck.
How hard is it to return a phone call? To get a damn letter?Adding phone lines is NOT shooting pigeons off the deck or practising odd rituals in the community center with albino donkeys and grass skirts.
MissTake, that sucks donkeys. Try and reach the secretary one more time and ask what she is doing that is so important that she can’t help a member of the condo association that she works for. If you don’t like the response you get, do an end around and call the president of the association directly (maybe you should anyways). Explain to him/her that you weren’t aware that it would take X weeks to get a new phone line and is there anything to resolve the issue by next Wednesday as it has a direct bearing on your livelihood.
I hate hate hate my condo association. I hate them enough where I’m considering selling the damn place and going back to renting until I can afford a house.
If I understand, this is your condo, correct? I’d document your contacts with the association and just have them put through the install anyway. What’s the worst they can do? Fine you? Maybe, but if you went before the association to fight it, your neigbors would be hard-pressed to condemn your actions, given the incompetence of the seceretary. plus, I can’t imagine them denying your request for another phone line.
I’d just do it, continue with the condo approval request, and fight it out with them IF they catch you.
Unless the phone company requires it, which is a whole other can of worms.
I have owned a condo for the past two years and have had no problems with my association. FCM, I think you should not only track down the president but nominate yourself for a position on the board when the next election rolls around. If you’re elected you not only will have a solution to the incompetent secretary problem but you could also prevent any others from being in your situation. I assume your complex has someone on staff for general maintanence, you could also try talking to them about your phone trouble.
Unfortunately, the phone company requites a letter signed by someone from the board before they will do anything.
My condo is under the belief that the entire board needs to sign it.
A representative went to the office today to drop some other papers off so I will “officially” be a member of the hell troupe. She asked about the lack of response, etc.
idiot:…well…I’ve been busy, you know… and…
She did get the proposal I faxed. IT WAS STILL ON THE FAX MACHINE FROM LAST FRIDAY!!!
She told my rep that she would call me with board member phone numbers RIGHT AWAY. Nothing so far.
Oh, and not returning my phone calls? Again: Well… I’ve been busy. Fuckwaffle.
If I could go around and have the lines installed anyways, I would. But I cannot afford it.
It is my understanding that I will have to go in front of the board (next meeting 11/18) and plead for their permission to be able to do MY FUCKING JOB.
[tangent] I have lived there now for a whole… week and a half? Last night LilMiss said “Mom! I think there’s someone being beaten up outside!” No, darling, that’s someone getting her boots knocked up one side down the other. For an hour and a half! Oh! Let’s not forget about my first night there when the cops were called on this lovely man who (it seems, considering this PAST weekend) gets pissass drunk on the weekends, beats his girlfriend, and then the cops show up. Add to this the condo association BULLSHIT… MissTake is maniacal. [/tangent]
I am definitely not a lawyer, but if you were to put your proposal into an envelope and send it registered-mail you would have proof that someone recieved it and have their signature on file. You can use that as proof that your message was recieved but that nothing was done about it. Just a suggestion.
Try to read your condo docs as soon as you have time. I am the president of my condo association and our bylaws empower residents to take certain actions with respect to repais & utility hookups if the board fails to respond within a certain time.
Also sheck your condo docs for the election schedule for board members and start getting your neighbors together to elect a different secretary. If enough people are disgruntled, board members can be removed from office before their term officially ends.
I would definitely show up at the next association meeting and make my dissatisfaction known.
That is TOTAL CRAP. Any interior changes ought to be just a matter of signing off. When we redid our basement, our contractor (and our township) required that we get a thing signed from our condo association. But all that involved was a quick faxing back and forth of a form. They didn’t give a rip, it’s on the interior; they have a guy in the office that signs off on these things all the time.
Sure, when we had our deck built, THAT required approval and we had to get a plan in before a board meeting, but that’s a DECK. Seen from a common area. Constituting a change to the exterior.
I would bring this up at the next condo association meeting. It’s ridiculous and they need to be aware that they must either change the process or change the dumbass who runs the office.u
Unearthing this bitch subject (so no one can comment on my constant antipathy for this hellhole):
Dear Festering Carbunkle Betwixt the Sweaty Asscheeks of a Crack Whore, aka, My Condo Association:
You fuck monkeys. How DARE you snigger at me! Yes, I was duped, tee-fucking-hee-hee. When we bought the place, we were told there was a work order in for a new deck. WE’VE BEEN PESTERING YOU ABOUT IT FOR THE PAST 8 FUCKING MONTHS SINCE I’VE OWNED THIS PLACE!. At the association meeting (I swear, when I saw y’all come in, I heard “Jest sum good ol’ boys, ,never meanin’ no harm” in the backround. You glad-handed each other so much, I hope you all were wearing condoms!) you people sat on your collective smug ass and said “Too Bad”. [soup nazi] “No deck for you!” [/soup nazi].
Lemmee ask you this, fucktards, why did you start the deck replacement WITHOUT HAVING THE FUNDS FIRST? What Dr. Brilliant thought “Gee, we have 100 condos that need new decks, let’s put aside only enough to do 82”? Did you LOOK at the pictures I brought? (I had to bring pictures as none of you morons would even LOOK at the deck!) The banister is apart. I have renailed it more than a few times–WHEN I am willing to step out there. That whole choosing between stepping on a rotting board a cracked board gets to be a pain. Oh! You didn’t [ii]realize* my deck was that bad off? No shit, Sherlock.
You don’t have the money to put a new deck on because you’re replacing the roof?
Wellllll…
That’s another story, iddn’t it? When you going to come fix ALL the water damage that has occurred because of your new roof? Yeah, you came out and looked at all of it. Whoopdemotherfuckindoo. The stained walls in both the living room and my bedroom. The TWELVE large stains on my bedroom ceiling. Oh! Let’s not forget the 3’ long stain which has rotted through the sheetrock in my room also! And when you gonna put a new sill on the window that literally rained? And the 2’ x 3’ stain on my living room ceiling? Oh! You say THAT stain is because I spilled something in my room? WHAT THE FUCK COULD I HAVE SPILLED TO CAUSE A 2’ x 3’ DARK BROWN STAIN THAT HAD WARPED THE CEILING? When your fuckmonkey FINALLY brought his Schneider-ass over TWO DAYS after I reported it, IT WAS STILL WET!
I wanna get the hell out of here. Looks like I will be, come September. But who the hell is going to buy this place with a brokenass deck, water stains all over the fucking place, and since this is getting long, I won’t go into the other problems.
Oy. Sounds like my suggestion of joining the association board won’t happen and probably wouldn’t help anyway.
Makes me glad that we only have minor problems: a couple of improperly fitting window screens and the wire mesh cover which is supposed to keep varmints out of the utility closet. All of these were supposed to have been replaced two years ago but the handymen are dragging their feet. One of them had the audacity to insist that it’s impossible for squirrels to find their way inside the utility closet. Guess why we had no AC last June? There was a dead squirrel in the fan! The AC guy put the carcass in a trash bag and we left the bag in front of the door to the maintanance office.
