Let There Be Light

And on the 6th Day, Head Maintenance Guy finally showed up to fix the burnt out bulb in the bathroom.

Turns out it’s dome lighting, no bulb involved, but it only took him seconds to take off the old dome, attach a new one. Such an easy fix that the work order should have been fulfilled on Day 1.

The office has told us that maintenance requests are taken in the order received but, to me, it seems common sense to take care of the quickies, get them off the list.

What really aggravates me is that, while I was waiting to get lighting in the bathroom, I saw Head Maintenance Guy cleaning the vacant upstairs unit across the quad — the unit with the history of bringing bad luck to its occupants, while Assistant Maintenance Guy was cleaning a unit overlooking the pool that recently became vacant.

Consequently, part of the reason I had to wait six days for a two/three second repair job was because, instead of bringing in a cleaning crew, the maintenance guys are now being tasked with housekeeping duties.

I wonder if this penny pinching measure is being imposed on No. 10 (our pregnant new complex manager) by Corporate, that she then tells the guys to clean the units OR if it’s completely No. 10’s money saving idea.

Whichever way this has come about, I can’t imagine the guys are too happy about housekeeping duties, but there’s not much they can do about it if they want to keep their jobs.

Inasmuch as HMG’s skills are severely limited — generally everything he touches is made worse or his fixes don’t last long, i.e, the leaky faucet he repaired three weeks ago is once again leaking, I can’t imagine his housekeeping abilities to be up to par.

So, the new tenant of that unit has not only bad energy in the place to deal with, but a half-assed cleaning job.

HMG is pretty closed mouthed about what goes on around here, but I did get out of him that the bad energy unit has been leased. The new tenant should be arriving any day, and it’s a male, "Been living in San Bernardino for 40 years" HMG added.

Finally, some testosterone coming into the quad — besides the nice old guy next door to that unit.

Asking if it was another disabled individual, HMG said "No. He’s a big healthy looking guy".

Hopefully he stays that way after moving in.