Monday-Tuesday stuff
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edenfallingThings done so far this week:
1. Ye gods and little fishes, the Collegetown office is SO FAR BEHIND on basic tasks. Like, I understand Mom Boss and Aunt Boss's reluctance to hire people who would have a 1-hour-plus commute each way, but I really think they should start pushing the job at, like, retirees who are bored and need something to fill 20-30 hours a week. Or even just hire a temp to do a bunch of scanning and filing for one month. Every Monday I feel like I'm drowning and I only ever manage to claw back like three days at a time toward where they should be.
Anyway, I took another bundle of lease folders to the downtown office so Ms. Random Numbers could scan and upload them, because she can't do a bunch of accounting stuff until that step happens. As for when I will have time to email the tenants their copies? Who the fuck even knows.
I did get mostly caught up on processing lease guarantees, which is something. (Lease guarantees are what we do for college students in lieu of a rental history/employment verification/credit check, because those options are Not Useful for a 19-year-old undergrad, and only slightly less ridiculous for a 23-year-old grad student.)
2. I'm gearing up toward starting the staging/photo/video summer cycle for real. I wanted to stage a couple apartments today while the weather was good, but alas, they weren't ready so I will be trekking around tomorrow in the rain. Ugh. Also I need to steal a cart from the building where our office is located because I think the Commons maintenance office only has 1 cart and they will need it for moving cleaning supplies and furniture and stuff, but I can't schlep staging materials hither and yon without a cart. (Okay, I mean, technically I am physically capable of that, but it would be extraordinarily uncomfortable, and also slow and not an efficient use of my time.)
Also Aunt Boss told me on Monday that the company that makes our gimbals had their app pulled for Android phones because Google thinks it's shit on various technical levels. It's still compatible with iPhones so I am okay downtown, but who knows how long that will last? Hopefully the company updates their damn app in short order, because otherwise we'll have to research and buy new gimbals and that is an expensive pain in the neck.
3. Today I did laundry, blargh. I will do laundry again on Sunday, though that should only be two loads rather than three, and then I will be back on my normal schedule of alternating laundry weeks and recycling weeks.
4. Ms. Rise-and-Shine was complaining today about banks being closed on Juneteenth, and how it wasn't fair that this became a federal holiday in 2 years while it's been over twenty since 9/11. I said it's taken over a hundred and fifty years for Juneteenth to become a federal holiday -- since the end of the Civil War -- so even if things have moved fast recently it's missing the point to focus on the past couple years. Mr. Geniality agreed with me, and said maybe 9/11 would end up as a holiday in another decade or two. I said something to the general effect of, yeah, but Pearl Harbor still doesn't have a holiday... so maybe the idea is that all things like that sort of get folded into Memorial Day?
Anyway, it's nice to have someone on my political side in the office. (Aunt Boss and Mom Boss are emphatically on my political side, but I'm only in that office one day a week. Company Owner, Lawyer Man, and the two accountants are pretty solidly conservative, though thankfully not the frothing culture warrior type. *sigh* Small favors.)
5. Nick sent me a photo of an egret in flight over a pond near his house. :)
1. Ye gods and little fishes, the Collegetown office is SO FAR BEHIND on basic tasks. Like, I understand Mom Boss and Aunt Boss's reluctance to hire people who would have a 1-hour-plus commute each way, but I really think they should start pushing the job at, like, retirees who are bored and need something to fill 20-30 hours a week. Or even just hire a temp to do a bunch of scanning and filing for one month. Every Monday I feel like I'm drowning and I only ever manage to claw back like three days at a time toward where they should be.
Anyway, I took another bundle of lease folders to the downtown office so Ms. Random Numbers could scan and upload them, because she can't do a bunch of accounting stuff until that step happens. As for when I will have time to email the tenants their copies? Who the fuck even knows.
I did get mostly caught up on processing lease guarantees, which is something. (Lease guarantees are what we do for college students in lieu of a rental history/employment verification/credit check, because those options are Not Useful for a 19-year-old undergrad, and only slightly less ridiculous for a 23-year-old grad student.)
2. I'm gearing up toward starting the staging/photo/video summer cycle for real. I wanted to stage a couple apartments today while the weather was good, but alas, they weren't ready so I will be trekking around tomorrow in the rain. Ugh. Also I need to steal a cart from the building where our office is located because I think the Commons maintenance office only has 1 cart and they will need it for moving cleaning supplies and furniture and stuff, but I can't schlep staging materials hither and yon without a cart. (Okay, I mean, technically I am physically capable of that, but it would be extraordinarily uncomfortable, and also slow and not an efficient use of my time.)
Also Aunt Boss told me on Monday that the company that makes our gimbals had their app pulled for Android phones because Google thinks it's shit on various technical levels. It's still compatible with iPhones so I am okay downtown, but who knows how long that will last? Hopefully the company updates their damn app in short order, because otherwise we'll have to research and buy new gimbals and that is an expensive pain in the neck.
3. Today I did laundry, blargh. I will do laundry again on Sunday, though that should only be two loads rather than three, and then I will be back on my normal schedule of alternating laundry weeks and recycling weeks.
4. Ms. Rise-and-Shine was complaining today about banks being closed on Juneteenth, and how it wasn't fair that this became a federal holiday in 2 years while it's been over twenty since 9/11. I said it's taken over a hundred and fifty years for Juneteenth to become a federal holiday -- since the end of the Civil War -- so even if things have moved fast recently it's missing the point to focus on the past couple years. Mr. Geniality agreed with me, and said maybe 9/11 would end up as a holiday in another decade or two. I said something to the general effect of, yeah, but Pearl Harbor still doesn't have a holiday... so maybe the idea is that all things like that sort of get folded into Memorial Day?
Anyway, it's nice to have someone on my political side in the office. (Aunt Boss and Mom Boss are emphatically on my political side, but I'm only in that office one day a week. Company Owner, Lawyer Man, and the two accountants are pretty solidly conservative, though thankfully not the frothing culture warrior type. *sigh* Small favors.)
5. Nick sent me a photo of an egret in flight over a pond near his house. :)
