I am... displeased.

[green_dreams]

So I come home, and there's a note under the door. Paraphrased, "We may enter your apartment between 9 and 5 tomorrow for insurance purposes. Please be at home or have all your pets in cages." Emphasis mine.

First, despite the lie boldly printed across the top of the paper, this is not 24 hours notice. I know because I was late getting out the door to work this morning.

The apartment holds three cats. It also holds two cat carriers, neither of which are big enough to fit a litterbox into.

I am roundly, soundly, profoundly displeased.

I don't know anyone who could come over to keep an eye on the cats (though thank you harald387 for checking), given the wording I'm not comfortable with the idea of just shutting them in a room, and I don't know anyplace that could take them on such short notice. (Have I mentioned one of them tends to react to stress by marking his territory?)

I have 'mailed the temp agency and called and 'mailed the office. On the plus side, all tomorrow morning was an employee meeting, a/y.

...I am currently torn between being annoyed about having to take a day off and being annoyed about the possibility of said day off being interrupted by insurance-monkey-related interlopers.

Sanity break, I think.

Comments

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Stay home, and refuse to let them in because they didn't give 24 hours notice.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

And when they do give me 24 hours notice, would it be better to have all three cats be boarded for the day (and probably the night before), or just to give up another day's wages? I suspect the boarding option is cheaper, but probably rougher on Toby, Angel, and Aby.

Besides, not knowing when they did drop off the notice, I can't say when "24 hours after it's dropped off" would begin; I simply know it wasn't by 9:00.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Well, the last part doesn't matter, as they have to give 24 hours notice for the time listed. Since they didn't, the full thing is invalid.

However, it doesn't change the fact that it probably isn't the best solution for you or the cats.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

A lot more fun though.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

...what's fun about it?

[jagash.livejournal.com]

I'm petty and a fan of laws. If a law/rule inconveniences me _and_ it is improperly applied then i take some measure of enjoyment out of mentioning that they have no power due to their own error.

Its the lawful neutral version of pointing out the other guy's fly is down while he is berating you to make himself feel good. Petty, but humans usually are.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

So if a law/rule inconveniences you, you'd think it fun to go out of your way to doubly inconvenience yourself just to put a crimp in someone else's day?

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[jagash.livejournal.com]

Would it be fun to do so? Yes. Would it be worth doubly inconveniencing myself to do so? No.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I think what you call fun, I might call satisfying or cathartic, but not fun.

Fun for me is enjoyable or playful, light or carefree. It is not something that results in looking in the mirror thinking "Gee, they might have dropped off the note no more than half an hour late--does having an legitimate excuse to be a bitch to someone who's make me any less of a petty shrike? Do I even know that the person who dropped it off late is the same one who came by? Did I just deliberately give someone who did me no harm a bad day, or get them in trouble?"

Because generally, when you ask yourself these questions, it indicates you might want to seriously consider that you have, in at least one instance, failed as a person.

Not fun.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Your words are much more accurate then mine, and i agree with the sentiment. Even if i did have the backbone to try something along those lines, i would only do so if i was certain to be inconveniencing the person whom did so to me. And backbone is severely lacking in me.

I need fake evil tags. Evil laugh

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Wow, i tried writing said tags and they disappeared.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

LJ reads < and > as code if you just type them in. Type "& l t ;" or "& g t ;" without the spaces if you want pointy-brackets.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> Well, the last part doesn't matter, as they have to give 24 hours notice for
> the time listed. Since they didn't, the full thing is invalid.

Are you suggesting that I be a bitch because of a technicality?