Bluespirit

So, I was wrong about the upload to PDI being pushed to 10:30. What W meant was she wants to start processing for the draft at 10:30. *face palm* I crashed out for no reason.

One day last week, the new management company put a piece of paper in our doors requesting our contact info. I took mine and my housebound neighbor's on Saturday. I was told they would have it entered that day and we would receive an email once it was complete.

I never received said email.

I called yesterday morning to ask about it and was told it would be done within the hour. It still had not been done by the time I went to lunch, nearly two hours later.

I called them ~30 times with no answer. And they have not set up a voicemail box. So what are we supposed to do when we have a maintenance emergency after hours?

At one point yesterday afternoon, I decided to see if the link for the portal on the website was live, and it was. I then filled out all my stuff (after seeing if they had put my info in, they had not) as a new resident. Which I guess I technically am since this is a new company. But either way, I now have access to the portal and was able to pay my rent (which is a separate rant) and place a maintenance request (which I will get to).

While on the phone with the rental agent, I asked about our mailboxes. He said they're being fixed and we should have new keys by the end of the week. That's all well and good, but you need to COMMUNICATE that with us. And now that you have everyone's email/phone numbers, you need to send it out NOW. Of course, this only applies to the three buildings where I live.

See, this complex is spread out over a very large area. Most are around the office, but there are three other spots on that side of the highway and three or four on my side of the highway. It's almost like a previous owner either sold off some units to other companies or bought some from another company. Either way, the mailboxes where I live have been broken in some way almost since I moved in in 2023.

So, when I went on lunch yesterday, I walked past the thermostat on my way to the bathroom and noticed that the display was blank. I panicked and started pushing buttons but nothing worked. BUT turning the fan to 'on' (I keep it on auto, of course), had the unit kicking on so I at least knew it wasn't broken. That's when I remembered Mario saying something about a low battery notice on the display when he was here to fix the outside unit.

I made my first maintenance request about this. Even sent a picture and video. The maintenance guy was here before 10 this morning to replace the batteries.

When it comes to my rent, I always pay via eCheck because it carries the lowest service charge, if there is one. The previous company had us using ClickPay and it charged us $1.50 for each eCheck. This one (Loft Living) charges $2.95 for what is basically a wire transfer. Keep in mind this is not stated ANYWHERE on the website until the very end where you authorize the payment. Just for fun I put in my card info and it charges $40.85 for Discover. Blew my mind.

I get that having people pay electronically is somewhat safer because the office won't have 'money' on site, but what about people who don't trust online payments? Or don't have a bank account and use a prepaid card for everything? This is just ridiculous.

I don't know why, but I have been sleeping on the couch each night this week. Sunday was kinda on accident. I fell asleep while watching TV and was afraid that if I got up to go to the bed, I'd be too awake to fall back to sleep. Then Monday, I wasn't tired at the time I usually go to bed so decided to wait until I started fighting it. But the next thing I knew, it was after midnight. And last night was similar.

I have a two-person reclining couch and I'm starting to think I need to move to the other side. I've had it since 2021 and have only ever sat on the one side. Only reason I haven't done so yet, is that everything will then be on the wrong side and my TV tray will be too far from the outlet for my tablet. Maybe I'll get an extension cord.

Work has been driving me crazy this week. I have two sites that I haven't been able to key since the middle of last week (for different reasons).

Data for one site stopped being available in our internal reporting system on 10/22. I waited until 10/24 to request paperwork/open a ticket with IT because it could have just been a case of they forgot to close on 10/22. Monday, they still hadn't sent in paperwork (this is one of several sites where we have to contact their territory manager because we don't have an email address for the site). And this manager is a dick. I have no idea how he even still has a job. So, I emailed him again Monday asking for their paperwork. And again Tuesday, adding HIS manager, because I STILL didn't have it.

At the addition of his manager, he decides to reply that the site closed on 10/21. This man has been with this company in this role long enough that he KNOWS he's supposed to tell us in ADVANCE that a site is closing because there are a lot of people who have to be informed as well as forms to fill out and file.

The other site had some kind of a glitch on 10/21 and their sales numbers were WILDLY off. We're talking more than double their normal numbers. When my boss tried to calculate based on inventory movement from the day of the issue, the day before, and the day after, she got a negative number. I have been fighting ever since then to get a tech to the site to recalibrate the equipment. The tech was supposed to go yesterday (they said they were headed there in the system) but never showed up. I told the manager that the tech needed to go there TODAY since Friday is the last day of the month and we cannot close out the month with this issue.

Then a third site is just being stupid. They did what's called a double close which means they ran end of day twice (they probably were trying to run end of shift and hit the wrong thing, it happens), but they only sent in one of the two tapes for 10/26. When I requested the missing tape which is for a solid EIGHT hours (and ~$229 dollars sold and ~79 gallons sold) they told me the tape doesn't exist. Um, yes it does. I showed them, TWICE, that it does. They are refusing to send in this missing tape so my manager had me key what our internal reporting system shows they sold for the day.

If they don't like it, they need to make sure we get the proper paperwork each day.

Plans for the weekend:
My oldest niece married her girlfriend on Saturday so I didn't plan to do anything.

The ceremony was lovely and after we went to lunch at Olive Garden where my nephew-in-law (he's married to one of the sisters of the one who got married) paid for everyone. I didn't find this out until I tried to pay. Turns out everyone already knew. Did he tell them he was going to do it? Did his wife text everyone during dinner but not me?

I already know that my family doesn't like me and I am frequently the butt of their jokes but SOMEONE could have told me when I started asking for the little computer thing to pay my bill instead of waiting until I started getting upset that I couldn't click on the tab marked 'pay'.

I totally planned to get up and walk this morning. I even told myself I should just stay up when I got up to pee at 4 but I didn't. I did take a shower and make my bed, though. So I guess that's something.

I'm quite upset that my blood pressure has gotten so high again. And I'm surprised that my glucose isn't through the roof. I bought some Drumstick ice cream cones at the store yesterday. And ate them all.