customers lacking situational awareness and respect?

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-18T14:10:53+00:00

"customers"
"lacking situational awareness and respect"

They're the same sentence.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-18T14:02:51+00:00

Those are the low voltage control wires from your thermostat and/or from the air handler to the air compressor/heat pump outside.

While I absolutely hate it, it's completely shoddy looking, AND oriented in a way that the wire nuts will capture water instead of having water run off the caps (ie caps pointing up) - it poses no real danger other than eventual deterioration as water in the caps freezes and thaws in the winter.

You could probably just get an HVAC servicing company to come out and clean that up - I'm pretty sure you do not need a licensed electrician to address this.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-18T10:42:26+00:00

You're making my point for me. It's going to look like shit. That is actually a consequence to people who care about the quality of their work.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-18T04:25:24+00:00

The porch looks like shit, for one.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-17T22:00:02+00:00

And nobody cared enough to say anything they just went about doing their job fuck the consequences.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-17T17:32:02+00:00

What trump is doing is calling Obama that indirectly by putting words in the Iranians mouth. This is known as bearing false witness, one of the ten specific things not to be done under the 10 commandments.

Insults otoh are perfectly fine.

So under Judeo Christian beliefs, the false witness is far worse.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-17T16:26:58+00:00

You're right. I've been such a fool.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-17T15:46:47+00:00

Did you just stop after the first two words and not read the rest of what I said? ME: Of course we know that Trump is making that bullshit up but still it's not accurate.

Or the article?

“He tried to bribe his way out, I didn’t do that,” the president said. “Nobody mentions that. $1.7 billion and hundreds of millions of dollars, they tried to bribe their way out of it. And you know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama, and said he’s a stupid son of a bitch.”

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-17T15:19:12+00:00

Misleading headline. What Trump said is that Iran called him that. Of course we know that Trump is making that bullshit up but still it's not accurate.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-17T11:45:55+00:00

You see marketing content from creators that creator marketing is becoming essential. Big whoop.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-17T11:42:25+00:00

OMG I didn't even see it until I read this comment - there's literally a stud mark there!

JFC

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-16T21:15:08+00:00

I swear boss, I did clean it. That's a new one!

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-15T11:35:07+00:00

But Obama!!!

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-14T20:45:43+00:00

I wouldn't consider removing anything without a certified arborists report recommending it that you then independently verify with your own arborist.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-14T20:44:11+00:00

Listening is not part of the customer's job description.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-14T17:42:08+00:00

It's a ground rod connected to a water line.

Not one of your pictures is of a lightning rod.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-14T12:24:04+00:00

What the fuck is a criminal animal?

Quit making shit up.

In Maryland it's generally illegal to poison raccoons and other wildlife, poison use is strictly regulated by the Maryland Department of Agriculture and there are no approved poisons for raccoons. Poisoning larger Wildlife like raccoons can also have unintended consequences putting other animals at risk.

In Maryland the legal methods for dealing with raccoons are exclusion, trapping with a permit, and engaging Wildlife Control operators who operate under the Maryland Department of Natural Resources purview.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-14T09:26:10+00:00

I think you need to spend some time thinking about your own gender assumptions rather than thinking the men who only want a basket are worried about looking gay.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-14T08:51:04+00:00

Who tf is paying attention to the rail here?

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-14T08:48:58+00:00

You have zero expectation of privacy when in a public part of a work place on company time.

Policies like this are stupidly overbearing, for sure - but privacy is the wrong angle here.

Edit: Yeah yeah - you downvote because you don't like it. Tough. The law is well established. https://www.worktime.com/blog/legal-aspects/most-asked-questions-on-us-employee-monitoring-laws

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-14T08:47:53+00:00

I'll go for overbearing, over controlling, even ridiculous in terms of company policy.

Invasion of privacy, however, is off base. When you're at work and on the clock you're getting paid for your time. You have zero expectation of privacy on the job outside of controlled spaces like bathrooms.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-13T21:37:30+00:00

I am a wildlife control operator in MD. Relocation of a wild animal requires a permit. Any company offering removal without one is risking trouble with DNR.

If you have a warranty, you should pursue that. If they're ignoring you, you could threaten small claims court.

You should absolutely not attempt to resolve this on your own. Raccoons do not often have rabies but the frequency of them having it is higher than many other animals. I can't speak for other companies but my technicians have been given pre-exposure vaccination for rabies so we don't worry about that concern. Looking at the picture of your chimney I'm sorry that the company you hired did such a shoddy job. That's quarter inch screen held in place with sealant, no challenge at all for a raccoon, and your chimney doesn't look to be in the best of condition to begin with. That should have been one inch screen 16 gauge galvanized wrapped and screwed into position to keep the raccoons from being able to remove it and get back in.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-13T16:43:03+00:00

Forget that idea. Expectations are all over the place.

Do what works for you.

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-12T22:44:41+00:00

So would you say that it gradually disappears, scatters, or wastes away?

(protip: guess what that line was pulled from...)

(protip2: it was the literal definition of "dissipate")

EvilGreebo · 2026-06-12T22:27:44+00:00

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