april 18, 2002
AC broken again. called maintence. it was about 74 when i got home from class at 12:30, it's now 80 again. no cold air coming out of the vents at all. they told me the guy who came this morning left already, so dunno when someone is gonna come by. great.
ok so they just called (15 min later ish) to talk to me and ask me the temp inside. it's 78/80 in my bedroom. she says, well the AC won't go on until it's over 78. i'm like no that's NOT what he told us this morning. he told us the AC would go on if it was over 72 OUTSIDE. she's like well he just told me 78 inside. i'm like no, because the AC worked fine the whole rest of the week until yesterday, and it was about 70/72 in here until last night when it stopped working. so she was like, hold on. and then came back on and said they were going to send someone over.
ok i'm not RETARDED. you can't fucking tell me that the AC doesn't go on until
it's an oven inside your house. if i had the money i'd hire my own goddamn repair
man. someone who actually knows how to work heating and cooling systems. assholes.
all of them.
ok maintence called back again. i think it was the guy who came this morning.
this is the story. because the downstairs thermostat reads 74/75 the AC isn't
going on because it's set to keep it 74 in the house. the school determines
the temperature setting and gives us 2 degrees of latitude to change it. so
i asked him why the hell was the AC fine the whole rest of the week, it was
cool in here, and we had no problems. he said we were all supposed to be notified
of this, but apparently we weren't, that the school changed the temperature
setting to 76 instead of 72 because everyone had doors and windows open, which
was making the ACs run constantly. so our 2 degree latitude is lowest possible
temp of 74. which i guess would be fine except THE HEATING SYSTEM DOESN'T WORK
RIGHT AND UPSTAIRS IT'S SWEALTERING. so i asked him if they were going to change
it back because it was unbareable. he said he complained to his supervisor about
it, and took my name to file a complaint on my behalf. because really. i am
dying here. i'm on the verge of tears i'm so hot. ok not that much, but i'm
sweating to death. yeah and we have AC.
everything would be solved if they gave us an on off switch. people who wanted
to open windows could turn it off, ppl who wanted AC could turn it on. or it
would be nice of the school to tell us how these things work so we wouldn't
have to be constantly calling emergency maintence to fix shit. and maybe everyone
with their windows open would close their windows so that the AC would go on,
since the AC is never going to go on if they don't.
i'm going to go take a hair dryer to the thermostat.
ROFLOMG maintence just called me back and was like "do you have a hair
dryer on your thermostat" ROFLMAO OMG!!!!!! so i go, yeah i had to do something
it's so hot. he's like i can see that. (i guess they have a central reading
thing for the temps). so now he tells me they've decided to switch it back.
so that the set temp is 72, and we can change it to 68 or 78. so i said thanks,
and that it might be a good idea if we were notified of how this stuff works,
since everyone in our building has their windows open thinking the AC is just
flat out broken. if they knew how it worked, they'd shut the windows and all
would be good. he's like, well i have nothing to do with that. i have to contact
the supervisor who is supposed to contact reslife with the info they're supposed
to pass on to you. so yeah we won't get notified. but nice to know they've decided
to change it back.
i'm tired of talking to maintence so let's hope they don't need to call back.
haha the call about the hairdryer really threw me for a loop ROFL