the job - week one

so the first week of the new job is over. went pretty smoothly. until friday.

i had called chris and we made plans to go to the cheap flicks. gonna see vantage point. heard it was pretty good. so i'm all amped up to see it, plus i haven't hung out with chris in a little while so i'm looking forward to going right? he says he's gonna pick me up at work when i get off at 5pm so we can hit the 5:15pm showing. i'm like "cool".

to preface this, let me fill you in. the night before i got a call from a tenant saying her toilet, sink, and bathtub were backing up sewage. ok, crisis situation as that is a bio-hazard and just plain nasty. so i call our contract plumbers out (at $120/hr). i figure they can handle the situation at that price LOL

next day as soon as i get to work, she (the tenant) calls me saying her bathroom is still jacked up. she says the plumber was there for like 4 hrs but didnt fix anything. she said he (the plumber) said that its a city matter. so i call my boss; she says call the City and see what the status is. i do that. they tell me that NOTHING has been reported to them. so i tell them whats going on. they say they wil send an engineer out. so now i'm feeling good thinking that the 'engineer' will get to the root of the problem.

wrong. the City showed up, messed around in the street for a bit, and declared the issue wasn't theirs but inside of my building. great. so now i call the plumbers back and they say that they "didn't" say to call the City and they will be right out. over and hour later they show up. after 'roding' the outside connection and the toilet in the affected unit. he says that it was indeed the 'main' that was clogged and the City needed to fix it. also by this time, 3 other units called in to report backups. suffice to say that by this time i was pissed. its like 7pm and i've BEEN ready to go home. so i call the plumbers back, and tell them whats going on. they say they will be there first thing (7:30am) saturday morn. so i call the infinitley patient tenant, to give her a heads up so she isn't woken up unexpectedly. the plumbers never showed.

so saturday morning the tenant calls me wondering whats up. i immediately call the plumbers and bitch them out about the no show. so they finally have a , different than the one who blew us off, plumber call me and he says he is enroute. that was saturday morning. i haven't had any calls since then so i'm assuming everything is good. i refuse to call and check lol i'm not too worried cuz i'm sure the tenants would have called me if it wasn't fixed. whew. oh yeah, we didn't make the movie obviously on friday LOL

here's to week 2....