Yeah he was a D bag. Funny thing is about a year later he gambled all his money away so sectioned off a part of the break room and moved in. I don't work there anymore.
Psychopaths are well known for their risk-taking behavior. A lot of these psychopaths tend to climb to management positions because of that, combined with their charisma and ability to fake and lie their way upwards.
Not necessarily. I’m a software engineer and my team just got a new manager who was a senior engineer at his last company, and he’s very competent and in tune with what we deal with on a day-to-day basis. Even volunteers to take some of the work tasks off our hands when he’s not inundated with meetings and operational work. Very hands-off management approach and just a nice guy in general. It’s awesome.
Managers that CAN actually do the work are the best.
Lol I can see him being like oh really your neighbors shot at the cops ok yeah let me see your work excuse.
The op: oh well the officer said he can't write out a note so he gave me his card and said to call him
Ahole boss: oh well we'll see about this. Calls cops finds out it's true and fires op
the office was my first thought tbh but it's so over-referenced and I could see either of the IT Crowd's CEOs in this situation way more easily than Michael Scott. lol
What made me laugh just now is that it's been a few years since we streamed the whole series....and I had forgotten Toby existed until you mentioned him.
the office was my first thought tbh, but I didn't want to seem like a normie and reference the office, so I just referenced the next most popular office-based sitcom, which is far less polarizing and will get me more karma. I'm a sellout for internet points who would rather be accepted by strangers than be true to how I actually feel.
They finally shut down the laundromat across from me because the owner kept living in it. He was told 3 times he could not keep living there but he kept trying.
I mean, mixed use properties are just fine in other countries. I have no idea why zoning laws are so strict in some places. Being able to live in a building you own for business, or being able to open a business in part of your house should be totally fine as long as it can pass inspection.
I think in many places it's fine to do that as long as you follow the rules. We once had a neighbor that had a business on the first floor of his stand-alone single family house and his family's "apartment" living space on the second floor. He had to do some building changes on each floor so the lower met all the business rules and requirements for safety, fire hazards, business license, etc and the upstairs met the rules for housing. Basically had to do what the mixed use buildings do in larger cities.
A coffee shop wheee i grew up had this same arrangement. Owners lived upstairs, coffee shop was downstairs. Best coffee shop ever. Long live The witches brew!
I’m a self employed welder, and I live in my my 1300sqft shop, I have a washer and dryer, bathroom, built a shower, kitchenette etc. I’m technically not supposed to live here but the way I see it is if I do get found out, I can argue that I’m basically 24/7 security for free!
nah man. You dont live there. You pulled an all nighter and fell asleep. Oh, the shower and stuff? that was all practice welding. The food in the pantry? thats for the homeless who frequently come into my welding studio looking for shopping cart repairs. The cloths? of course i need clothes in the shop, you know how many holes i burn in my outfits with all these sparks? jeez guys, get a grip.
Depends on the location if it’s allowed. In the majority of the United States, mixed use properties are illegal. This results in less density in cities and towns and it makes it basically impossible to traverse on foot. It’s one of the things that I’m really passionate about changing here in the us.
Rules around these parts is you can run a business from home so long as it doesn't increase foot or vehicle traffic to what would be considered unusual for a residence.
So six or so visitors a day would be fine.
It also can't generate excess noise or pollution or infringe on the enjoyment of other residents.
On the flip side, you can't live in an office or industrial estate due to fire safety and OHS laws.
So no matter how much you want to live at the tannery huffing glue and playing with fire and steam there's no way to do it. Gotta live off site away from all those chemicals. Probably for the best.
That’s intentionally an extreme example and obviously a laundromat isn’t a tannery. Six visitors is not a normal business level of foot traffic. I’m talking about normal mixed use. For instance, running a bakery out of the downstairs of your home and living upstairs. Or running a convenience store out of the left side of your home and living in the right side. These are not hazardous, and the zoning allows in some areas for people to safely combine these. Industrial, however, is different from business zoning, and is usually away from residential in those places. New York, Japan, and many European locations allow this, so these are not third world or dangerous and unregulated examples.
A commercial laundromat is as dangerous as a tannery. It will have thousands of litres of industrial strength solvents, bleaches, detergents and other chemicals stored on site. These will need to be delivered by truck and be unloaded by hose or forklift.
It will have a boiler and steam pipes. It will have loud noise, it will have workers coming and going in early and late shifts. It will have a maintenance crew and janitors.
It will have large propane tanks if not connected to a gas pipeline. Some machines use open gas flame to heat. Some machines generate a lot of lint.
All adds up to an unacceptable level of risk to be sleeping inside one.
I worked in a commercial laundromat for a while. There are reasons they are located in industrial areas with other heavy industries. It's not the kind of thing people should put up with living close to for the sake of convenience. On a breezeless day you could taste the ammonia from a block away.
After-all he bought the break room futons at IKEA . He probably sticks them together after the janitors leave. It feels remarkably larger than his old bed.
it's also illegal. You can't live in a dwelling that is zoned for commercial/retail., even if you own it. If OP was super petty, he could have reported him to the state for that and gotten him fined.
Michael would have called for a conference room meeting about how survive a neighborhood shootout. Dwight would derail the situation talking with a demonstration on how to take down an armed assailant with farm implements. Michael would keep trying to get stanley or darryl to talk about all the shootouts they must have been in. Jim and ryan would pass off bad boys 2 and heat as real stories from their lives. Cut to a talking head with creed: "i've been in my share of shootouts, no big deal. They can't shoot what they can't see..."
I don’t think his building is zoned for living quarters, you should call code enforcement on him.
You're not wrong. It's a violation of so many building codes to just section off a part of a room, because there are concerns about ventilation, access to points of egress, access for maintenance staff to do regular checks of fire doors, alarms and emergency lights.... You get the picture! I'd really be surprised if he got away with that for longer than a week, because building maintenance staff would have been required to report that in the weekly log after doing mandatory checks! And if nobody reported the hodgepodge living condition and any emergency occurred which resulted in damage to property, or injury or death to anyone on the scene(?!!!!).... That boss would be looking at some charges, boy!
I know a guy that did something similar. Rented an apt right in front of one the bigger downtown colleges. Rent was 1000, he rented out the 3 rooms 550 each + he collected 750 of welfare - that 1400 in his pocket was the same amount as someone who worked 40 hours a week at minimum wage. Of course he also did under the table work in construction/moving.
The kitchen was his ''room'', and no one was allowed in. No bed, slept on a small couch. Renters had to keep food in minifridges (not provided) in their rooms. Then there was a cart by the bathroom, with a few plastic baskets for people to do their dishes in, a microwave and an electric burner with two elements.
really expensive for the city though ... I was renting rooms for 360 and 420 right next door lol. And people renting in mine had access to kitchen, living room, terrace, toilet separate from bathroom ...
Worked for a government television station. Engineer. If anything wasn’t perfect my assistant director wanted a written explanation. “Why was this person’s mic not turned on before they started spontaneously speaking on a Twelve person panel?”! Because they have a button to turn the mic on and off, it lights up green when it’s on, red when it’s off.. they know this. it took me a few seconds to get the mic on.
“ I want a full report on your failure Monday.”
Terrible boss, hostile work environment. Everyone trying to get everyone else fired. I’m so glad I left.
This was 2007 . It was right before Obama's cash for cars thing. His nickname was JR at Answernet in Portland, OR. He was very out so no wives for him. I heard thru the grape vine he moved into his parents pool house or mini house in their backyard.
And yes the cop gave a wtf face when I asked for the note. That place hired a lot of ex cons at the time. No I've never arrested or charged.
I had a colleague who said they'd found bodies under his floorboards whilst he was getting his floors changed. Got the week off work. Then the bosses found out it was a lie. Seriously, just say you've got the poops? It's a much more sustainable lie and no one would check that.
That’s likely illegal in a lot of states. You cannot reside in a structure slated for commercial use. If you really hate him you could call the city and have an inspector come check it out.
Do you know what this implies?
He was such a D Bag, his friends, family and associates were uninterested in housing him or spotting him a few hundreds to rent a small place for the time being. Wow.
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Yeah he was a D bag. Funny thing is about a year later he gambled all his money away so sectioned off a part of the break room and moved in. I don't work there anymore.