The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 163

I want to have sex. Like right now.

For my last year of university, my friend and I decided to rent privately because the campus property offered by the university for final year students is super far away from our faculties and libraries.

We had the worst luck because we got the most disorganised agents ever, and I have a feeling they're just out their to cheat students. Some problems: they charged us both double for the first month (because we had to pay in advance and we had to set up direct debits that weren't supposed to start until the second month but surprise surprise started on the first month); it took them a whole month to track down these payments despite all the proof that I sent them that I have paid twice for the first month; roughly when this was sorted out, they decided to go bust and the property was given to another agent, and I had to explain all the payments yet again and had to talk to some incredibly rude people on the phone; neither the first nor the second agents ever bothered to come fix things (like our doorbell was broken for the whole time); there was mould in the apartment; the neighbours made a lot of noise; they never answered to emails or phone calls.... etc.

So now. We vacated the property on July 17. You would think I would not have to deal with these shitheads anymore now that it is September 19. But you would be wrong if you thought so. I have spent the past month chasing our deposits because the second agents said they would do it soon, then said they can't do it and the first agents have to do it. The first agents had closed their telephone, website and e-mail, and the number I was given by the second agents never rang or connected. I finally managed to track down the company information online and one of the numbers finally worked. It took them two weeks to return the deposit. Finally got it last week and it was missing 65 pounds. I sent evidence of the total deposit and the release form from the second agent (which stated clearly that no deductions were to be made) and asked for an explanation for why the total deposit wasn't returned. When someone finally bothered replying to my e-mail, they said it was the total for under- and over-paid rent and a 10 pound charge for setting up the statement. WTF. 10 pound charge for setting up an end of tenancy statement?! And what underpaid/overpaid rent? I am sure we never underpaid and in fact, I believe we overpaid because of exchange rates (some money was sent over as Euros and thus was more than was necessary). I also called a housing advice charity and they agreed with me that the charge sounds stupid (it's not mentioned in our contract).

So I send an e-mail asking for more details of when exactly did we overpay and underpay and which one of us did it and blah blah and why did they add the charge if it's not mentioned in our contract. And no answer. No answer. I send a second e-mail with a deadline for today. No answer. Today, I decide that I'll give them one more chance and I'll call them to ask if they've seen my e-mails. They give some bullshit excuse of being busy, but the woman promises to look at my e-mails immediately. So I just got a reply. And she addresses issues that I did not mention in my e-mails. For example, she says something like "I am uncertain about the compensation, could you provide written confirmation of it?" I did not mention the word 'compensation' in either of my e-mails. Also she talks about some random guy. So yeah. I sent her a 700 word e-mail explaining everything incredibly carefully....

I have a feeling that e-mail is not going to make sense to her and because the company sucks and clearly does not keep proper accounts or records, she'll just keep insisting that we've over/underpaid until I send proof of every single month's payment for both me and my friend......

I'm going crazy. These people suck. How can a letting agency be so incompetent and useless and disorganised and disrespectful and in general such a piece of shit......

<3 to anyone else who's going through rent/landlord/letting agency issues as well. I feel for us.

P.S. If you're reading this and you're wondering why I'm bothering over 65 pounds - I'm now a graduated law student going on to study finance/accounting before becoming a solicitor. I hate asshats who cheat and give bullshit excuses. If they can show me that I actually underpaid, fine. If they can show me that they're legally allowed to add that charge even though it's not in our contract, fine. That's fine. But don't fucking lie to me and don't fucking take my money. I will take you to court if you can't provide me with evidence and I have evidence. I don't want to give them a single penny that's mine. (Though if they drop the under/overpayment shit, I might just forgive them for the stupid 10.00 pound charge because my legal footing on that is uncertain - fuck having no consumer protection for consumers against greedy letting agents and dodgy landlord companies with one director and a whole host of companies with slightly different names and loads of loans and very little cash assets......) :D

I'm sick of being everyone's shoulder to whine at and the person everyone comes to with every problem they have under the sun yet when I need someone to talk with I get static...

I'm also fucking sick of the bullshit mood swings for no reason women seem to enjoy. The most recent one is I am a creepy weird stalker for liking a photo and a couple of its comments. Not even a day previous we had dinner together. So fucking stupid

I've been growing sadder everyday. Strange. I was watching some of UpMagic games who just does the trickiest stuff, and his specialty is mind games. He'll do stuff like place his barracks in a random part of his main base at the very edge to make his opponents think he's proxying. I've never thought of that.

Watching him play reminded me why I was interested in StarCraft in the first place-mind games. I remember the first awesome mind game trick that I did was when I cannon rushed a Terran player in an FFA. I had read the cannon rushing strategy guide on some website which I forget the name of. I remembered you had to make the Probe look like it was going towards the entrance to make it look like it was leaving but then do a U turn and set up your cannons close to the enemy. It was so hilarious. I felt so damn clever. I remembered why I played Zerg and that was because of the cool burrowed baneling footage I saw in the pre alpha sc2 videos I saw. I was going to make a post about upMagic but I felt like I needed some more time before I did that. I just wanted to post my feelings here.

disclaimer: I'm currently unemployed looking for a job, got back from my summer eurotrip last month. I have an IT background with a few years work experience

At the beginning of the month I got an interview for a job I applied for. Interview overall went pretty well, maybe a 8.5 or 9 out of 10. At the end of the interview I asked if they have a timeline for making a decision and when I can expect a response and they said they aren't yet sure.

A week goes by. I email the hiring manager from the interview and let him know I am still interesting and wondering if they have any additional information. The next day the team lead from the department (who was also in the interview) emails me saying they would like to proceed with reference checks, asking for my references. Great. Even though I already gave them a copy of my references with my resume, I reply with them again.

Over a week goes by and no response from these guys again. I email them last night asking if they need me to provide anything else and if they are still in the process of doing the reference checks. They respond today saying they are "done with the reference check portion" and will touch base tomorrow.

I don't know if this means they will touch base with me tomorrow or if they will touch base internally tomorrow. I've been applying to other jobs as well and trying to not hold my breath on this but I'm sick of how slow they are; it's been nearly 3 weeks since my interview.

Overall, I'm starting to stress out more and more about money as my funds are starting to run low. Fingers crossed that I hear back from this company tomorrow and that it's good news.

Hng, what the fuck is wrong with blizzard introducing this dreampool map bullshit, slapping another chance for community maps down, and nobody seems to give a fuck about maps at all anymore, can't even get map threads to stay on reddit for longer than 2 hours before they dissapear in the depths.

I'm feeling awfully depressed. I don't even feel like going to school anymore. Sometimes i wonder if things are going to stay like this. forever.

Wtf, it's my birthday and I didn't even realize.
I acknowledge that it may seem to imply that I have no friend nor family. So that message is perfectly appropriate for this thread.

I had a class exactly like this before I switched from math to CS (this was one of the classes that caused me to switch out of math). All lectures were like any other math class. No programming mentioned at all. All assignments were pure programming. There was no CS prerequisites for this class. We were not told ahead of time that we were expected to know how to program. We didn't find out until three weeks in that we had to do a ton of programming for the assignments. Of course this is just a few days past the "drop without any financial penalties" day and any opportunity to get into a different class so I tried to soldier through it before giving up and dropping it.

From what I heard, less than a quarter of the class passed that year. I dropped out of the class before it would cause any penalties on my transcript. The next year the class had a different professor and more than half the class passed. I saw a couple of the assignments and they seemed far more related to the topic and reasonable.

The quality of who the professor is becomes so important as time goes on. In first year classes, it doesn't really matter, but once you get past those intro classes, bad profs can really burn you. I had a prof last year for two classes that was about to retire, and he completely phoned it in for both classes and basically ruined the averages of most of the people in his classes. He was the second worst prof for me after the one discussed about.

On a similar topic, this algorithms class I'm taking is really getting on my nerves. The assignments feel completely unrelated to what is going on in lectures. In class, he basically goes through all the textbook stuff, but in less detail since he is pressed for time (so in other words, reading the textbook is more useful than going to class since you will not ever miss any important details. I'm probably stopping attending lectures if it doesn't improve. It looks like a lot of people have already. The class is about half full now and we are only 3.5 weeks in). Then we get assignments that are incredibly non-specific in what they are asking and are not related to lectures at all yet we are expected to do them. My biggest complaint, though, is that we have to submit all assignments online as .txt files. In a class filled with graph theory, how is this reasonable? I've done other similar classes and a lot of the time, diagrams were incredibly useful for explaining my proofs or counterexamples. But alas, hopefully they can figure out what I mean in my solutions. All my solutions are about 3 times as long as they need to be so that I can explain things in depth. A diagram could cut this down significantly.

And this is the thing, I've taken more difficult versions of some of this material before and I'm finding the assignments tough (the questions aren't that bad once you figure out what he actually wants, but figuring out what he wants is not easy at all). I can't even imagine how difficult these assignments are for people who haven't done any of this stuff past the basic level stuff in second year. I have a fairly strong grasp on Graph and Set theory and even I've had to look up some of the things he's asking. In my other similar classes, the prof usually goes over relevant concepts that will be used for the course to make sure people know, but this guy just went straight into the material. By the end of first class most people looked completely bewildered.

I'm regretting switching into this class more and more every day. Luckily, I do have the opportunity to drop it if things go poorly in it, as it isn't mandatory and I can replace it with something else next term, though that would make it so I would be doing 5 CS classes, which is kind of insane (they say not to do more than 3 in a term. I have done 4 per term for the last 2 years since switching out of math. The one I would be switching into is pure theory and security concepts so I would probably do just fine in it with 4 more difficult classes to worry about more often). It's just a bit of a downer because I truly do enjoy algorithms and theoretical CS stuff. I loved my Automata Theory class.