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edenfalling) wrote2024-03-12 09:21 pm
edenfalling) wrote2024-03-12 09:21 pm
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the continuing saga of Horrible Tenant
This past weekend I finished several tax returns and made good progress on a handful of drop-offs.
Yesterday I showed New Hire how to process Collegetown parking leases, which was, shall we say, interesting in what it revealed about her lack of computer skills. (This seems to be a common theme among people currently between 15 and 25-ish.)
1. She didn't realize that a two page lease should be scanned as a single document (feed both pages into the scanner at once) and instead asked me if she needed to scan the second page at all and if so what to name it.
2. She didn't know how to type control-Z to undo an error when she accidentally deleted some text in an email.
3. Her method of highlighting a string of cells in MS Excel was to select one cell, highlight it, select another cell, highlight it, and so on instead of selecting a group and highlight them all at once.
This is honestly kind of worrying.
Anyway, I spent yesterday handling package deliveries and working on floor plans. Today I continued to work on floor plans -- I am nearly done with the fourth floor key plan of [building name redacted], after which I can get to work cleaning up the fifth floor key plan. That one should be slightly less work since the source image is less sketchy and warped than my source files for the second, third, and fourth floors. It's still pretty scuzzy, though, so I will need to spend time fixing assorted nonsense.
In other rental company news, Horrible Tenant was arrested over the weekend (we do not have any details) and is undergoing some kind of inpatient treatment. He left his key inserted in the lock of his apartment door where anyone could grab it, and on the advice of our lawyer we retrieved it and have passed it to Horrible Tenant's mother via our lawyer's office.
This is extremely fuzzy legal territory, but I think our lawyer's position is that Horrible Tenant has vacated the apartment during an eviction case and leaving his key signals that he has relinquished possession. We have accepted his return of the key (aka Mr. Geniality went and pulled it out of the door) and now are lending it to Horrible Tenant's mom, as a courtesy, so she can come collect all his stuff instead of us throwing it away and charging him disposal fees.
...I should probably turn off his key fob tomorrow. There is no telling who Horrible Tenant might have handed the fob to, and we would strongly prefer his loud and belligerent friends NOT to barge into the building. (This will not affect Horrible Tenant's mom, since I attached a spare fob to the key we passed on to our lawyer.)
Yesterday I showed New Hire how to process Collegetown parking leases, which was, shall we say, interesting in what it revealed about her lack of computer skills. (This seems to be a common theme among people currently between 15 and 25-ish.)
1. She didn't realize that a two page lease should be scanned as a single document (feed both pages into the scanner at once) and instead asked me if she needed to scan the second page at all and if so what to name it.
2. She didn't know how to type control-Z to undo an error when she accidentally deleted some text in an email.
3. Her method of highlighting a string of cells in MS Excel was to select one cell, highlight it, select another cell, highlight it, and so on instead of selecting a group and highlight them all at once.
This is honestly kind of worrying.
Anyway, I spent yesterday handling package deliveries and working on floor plans. Today I continued to work on floor plans -- I am nearly done with the fourth floor key plan of [building name redacted], after which I can get to work cleaning up the fifth floor key plan. That one should be slightly less work since the source image is less sketchy and warped than my source files for the second, third, and fourth floors. It's still pretty scuzzy, though, so I will need to spend time fixing assorted nonsense.
In other rental company news, Horrible Tenant was arrested over the weekend (we do not have any details) and is undergoing some kind of inpatient treatment. He left his key inserted in the lock of his apartment door where anyone could grab it, and on the advice of our lawyer we retrieved it and have passed it to Horrible Tenant's mother via our lawyer's office.
This is extremely fuzzy legal territory, but I think our lawyer's position is that Horrible Tenant has vacated the apartment during an eviction case and leaving his key signals that he has relinquished possession. We have accepted his return of the key (aka Mr. Geniality went and pulled it out of the door) and now are lending it to Horrible Tenant's mom, as a courtesy, so she can come collect all his stuff instead of us throwing it away and charging him disposal fees.
...I should probably turn off his key fob tomorrow. There is no telling who Horrible Tenant might have handed the fob to, and we would strongly prefer his loud and belligerent friends NOT to barge into the building. (This will not affect Horrible Tenant's mom, since I attached a spare fob to the key we passed on to our lawyer.)
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I'm glad to hear that Horrible Tenant has been dealt with and hope that his mom is reasonable and helpful and gets his stuff out as required. Good luck!
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She's very willing to learn, though! And that's ultimately the most important thing.
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I forget that people don't know shortcuts. I remember one of my mother's friends asking me what I was doing when she saw me using shortcuts and getting all excited that such a thing existed. It just weirds me out that someone young is clueless about this, but I guess if their main computer is a phone or tablet rather than a desktop or laptop, it makes sense.
People I work with don't have computers at home and just assume their work laptop will fill that gap.
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We have sent Horrible Tenant's mom an Early Lease Termination Agreement (via our eviction lawyer), and hopefully she will be able to persuade him to sign it. Then we'll be all nice and definitely legal.
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