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Coda 10-23-2022 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaderin Triste (Post 1951684)
Really love how my landlords are sticking to their "not turning on the boiler for the radiators (aka: the only source of heat in the apartment complex) until the end of October rule". Especially because it's literally snowing outside and 33°F out right now so I get to wear my warmest pj pants, not quite knee-high fuzzy socks and a hoodie with the hood up while trying not to freeze to death as I light as many candles as I possibly can without creating a fire hazard in the hope that it warms up the air by a few degrees.

And okay...the freezing to death thing is maybe a touch dramatic but I mean...come on. Would it kill them to turn the heat on a week early?

Get a cheap electric space heater, I'd say.

Kaderin Triste 10-23-2022 10:37 PM

Tricky to just hop over to the nearest store without a car or I might.
I'll suck it up and suffer for a few days, but it should warm up some throughout the week. Hell, if I could survive my first apartment (the heaters barely worked and it would get cold enough that the walls would frost up at night), then I can survive less than a week of this. Should be back up to mid to hi 40s by Tuesday, which is much more comfortable.
Plus...idk cats plus space heaters kinda sounds like an accident waiting to happen and I don't really want to risk it. We'll survive.

Den 10-24-2022 01:33 AM

lots and lots of blankets, a sleeping bag, and lots of clothing layers. that is literally how I survived winter 2014 living out of the back of my car.

Stabbsworth 10-24-2022 07:56 AM

grumbling in it being 15 degrees celsius in fucking OCTOBER

Coda 10-24-2022 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Stabbsworth (Post 1951701)
grumbling in it being 15 degrees celsius in fucking OCTOBER

15C? *crunches numbers* That's, like... 60F. That's exactly the temperature I would expect October to be.

Then again, I'm from the Midwest.

Kaderin Triste 10-24-2022 08:05 PM

Can't tell if someone's banging on their radiators or if the heat's been turned on and they're just clanking as they start working.
Will find out in a while if it heats up.

Update: It is heat. Finally.

Den 10-26-2022 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Coda (Post 1951710)
15C? *crunches numbers* That's, like... 60F. That's exactly the temperature I would expect October to be.

Then again, I'm from the Midwest.

yeah, that's pretty nice late October temperatures, tbph. *says the Midwesterner who is forever cold*

Stabbsworth 10-27-2022 05:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Coda (Post 1951710)
15C? *crunches numbers* That's, like... 60F. That's exactly the temperature I would expect October to be.

Then again, I'm from the Midwest.

we usually have it a fair bit lower, i think.

Den 10-27-2022 03:13 PM

this time of year? It's normally a bit chillier. I'm absolutely not complaining though.

Coda 10-27-2022 05:41 PM

Yeah, fair, it depends on what part of October. Around here, at least, October is when I expect it to go from being consistently above 60F to being consistently below 60F, with an "Indian Summer" occasionally coming in late October / early November.

Stabbsworth 10-29-2022 02:43 PM

my mother is loving it bc she's fifty-odd and has crap bones.
i am hating it because i keep waking up sweating.

KittyBeary 10-29-2022 10:46 PM

I tend to wake up sweating a lot in the summer. It sucks. :/ But nights are finally colder.

Stabbsworth 10-30-2022 07:51 AM

i'm out of fresh clothes. :(

Espy 11-03-2022 02:41 AM

Deep in my feels about people I had been friends with for over ten years.

Stabbsworth 11-03-2022 09:24 AM

nostalgia is a liar sometimes.

Coda 11-09-2022 12:30 PM

Ugh. Dealing with a customer with a multi-million dollar contract at work, and they keep yanking our chain. They contracted with us for custom development, argued hard on not taking any risk upon themselves so they didn't pay any money to us up front (and I wasn't allowed to be involved in the negotiations because I'm in engineering, not in sales), and then proceeded to stall for like ten months with various problems with their payment processor, their own engineering team getting caught up in bureaucracy, and then halted their travel program for the holidays. This means we aren't making any revenue at all on that contract until December... and now there's rumbling that the management got replaced on the customer's side and the new management doesn't know if they want to renew the contract for next year.

Meanwhile, upper management on our side is seeing all of these complications and delays and is expressing a desire to terminate the contract now instead of losing any more money. Which is going to suck on multiple levels. It makes my team look bad for sinking so much into a project that died without making any revenue ever. It makes me feel like crap because of how much effort I put into this that isn't panning out.

And I've got a lot of "I told you so"'s here, too, because I was arguing for some sort of guaranteed revenue in the contract instead of being fees only. Maybe charge $X/month and then offer the first N bookings per month for free, or maybe have a basic support fee and then lower the marginal fees a bit. But that didn't happen.


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