Random Question Thread.

**Ragnus** · 2012-10-04 08:00

Pretty sure those bumps are from irritation caused from the shaving itself. It just means your skin is a delicate fucking flower and needs aftershave / lotion.

**Kyte** · 2012-10-05 12:39

Why do all women do that fucking mustache picture

**noodles355** · 2012-10-07 22:58

I'm at a disagreement with the head of the staff accom office at my last job. Long story short, I asked for receipts for anything that money was taken out of our deposits for, and got some snarky comment along the lines of "it's low priority, you should have cleaned it better". The tenancy ends 1-2 weeks before our employment does, and they will hire a professional cleaner, even if the property has been cleaned to the level required in our contract.

Previous email correspondences:

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This is the email I'm planning to write back:

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Dear Saleena,

I find your response on this matter, again, unhelpful and unprofessional. The only difference being that tone can not be conveyed over email.
In regards to your claim of us making no effort to have the house cleaned and ready for inspection, I would like to cite 2 issues relating to this claim.

Firstly, the accommodation office set up leases that end before the tenants finish work. What this means is that during those last few days before the end of the lease, we (the tenants) are still in full-time employment. The fact that during the inspection one of the tenants of 2/125 Gippsland was still currently working and was not available at that time should have made that apparent. It is unreasonable to expect a perfectly clean house when all house members are still working. Other resorts I have worked at who have provided staff accommodation have all had a similar policy of ending the tenants' lease 1-2 days after their work contract ends. This gives the tenants ample, uninterrupted time to have the property up to par.

Secondly, I have spoken to many Perisher employees both from this year and from previous years. I can cite several examples of where the property has been cleaned to an outstanding level ("cleaner than when we moved in") and yet on inspection the staff accommodation office has still stated it will hire a professional cleaner. This is highly unacceptable in and of it's self. It was not stipulated in the contract that the house must be professionally cleaned. It merely states it must be left in the same condition as when it was first occupied. If you personally have to ask the question "did you get our cleaner in?" then it is apparent that the house is clean enough to meet the requirements of the contract. To then require additional cleaning by your own personal cleaner is an unnecessary cost, one that you do not need and therefore one you should not charge the tenant for. However you still do.

To put my second point quite bluntly: If you are going to get your personal cleaner in, whether or not we clean the property to a reasonable level or not, then what reason is there for us to clean?
The second point also addresses the business malpractice of the staff accommodation office. Stipulating in the contract that a tenant's property must be clean to a certain level, and then stating they will still need to pay cleaning fees even when the property has been cleaned to that level is unacceptable.

To summarise:
The length of the tenancy agreement is poorly planned. Considering the amount of properties available to the Perisher staff accommodation office, the company should be able to arrange contracts that span the whole season. With this in mind, considering we would be juggling fulltime employment and the cleaning of our property, your condescending nature during the inspection was completely unacceptable.
Secondly, unless the tenants hire a professional cleaner then they will still be charged for one, even if the property is acceptable as outlined in the tenancy agreement. This in it's self is also unacceptable but also invites the question: If you will charge them anyway, then why should they bother?

In closing, I would like to address your final comment regarding sourcing your own private accommodation. I would be interested in seeing the statistics of returning employees who return to staff accommodation against those who chose private accommodation after their first season with regards to the Jindabyne apartments. Every single staff member I have talked to, either new this season and hoping to return, or returners from previous seasons, have moved into, or have wanted to move into private accommodation after spending one term with the staff accommodation office. It is little wonder why.

I will still be requiring any and all receipts and/or invoices for any charges deducted from our bonds.

Yours sincerely,

Just looking for any advice or pointers before I send it off. I'm not using staff accom next year. The only returning staff who do, do it because their housing plans fell through, or there's some disagreement (bf/gf breakup etc) meaning they have to find alternate accom.
Thoughts?

**Cream Soda** · 2012-10-10 14:03

Anyone have any experience with Megabus?

If you book early enough, $1-6 for Orlando to Atlanta bus ride with wifi equipped busses + outlets. Might actually do some traveling this summer, fits even my budget. Can visit friends in various places, etc.

**Byrthnoth** · 2012-10-10 14:31

You have to buy pretty far in advance if you want a good deal, I think. I wouldn't bank on the wifi actually working, but the outlets will work.

**Cream Soda** · 2012-10-10 14:44

that's still pretty awesome. Booking in advance won't be an issue

**Manako** · 2012-10-10 15:48

My friend used to use Megabus on a regular basis until our the local busline stopped their route to the train station. Megabus is great as far as she was concerned, mostly on-time and significantly better than Greyhound. Our greyhound station is super sketchy so that added to megabus being better. Its also super cheap!

**Aksannyi** · 2012-10-10 22:40

Greyhound stations are always as ghetto as humanly possible. It's like they're built that way.

**Humblejoe** · 2012-10-11 10:57

My girlfriend and I are going to have our almost two year old (22 months) Shiba Inu spayed soon. We're just worried that she is going to change a lot when we have it done. Her and I have never had a dog that was not already fixed when we got them.

In case you're wondering why it was not done sooner, my girlfriend sort of saved her when she was several months old, and was not able to do it. Then, school started up and we both had internships. Now with winter break coming up we would like to get it done.

tl;dr. Will spaying our dog change her a lot? Has anyone had any experience with this?

**Ragnus** · 2012-10-11 11:12

My dog didn't change at all. She just stopped bleeding all over the place when she was in heat.

**Caiyuo** · 2012-10-11 13:07

You can try asking in the pets thread or making a separate thread to get more eyeballs, but I'm not sure since questions about spaying/neutering are usually framed in regards to curing bad behavior instead of what to expect in general.

**Humblejoe** · 2012-10-11 14:45

Alrighty I'll try over there. Thanks for the responses though!

**Silenka** · 2012-10-12 05:28

I've never noticed any of our animals (dog or cat) change in behavior after they've been spayed/neutered, and because my mom takes in feral cats, we've had them spayed at various ages. I wouldn't worry about it.

**Amelya** · 2012-10-12 12:16

Spaying or neutering does not change an animal's personality.

**Manako** · 2012-10-12 14:35

I thought that aggressive male animals tend to cool down when fixed? It also reduces any marking behavior they may have. In rabbits I hear that unfixed female rabbits are total monsters, I would not want to see mine with working genetalia, she's terribly moody and bossy as it is.

**Delayed** · 2012-10-12 23:25

Our female dog about a week after the surgery had symptoms of fak pregnancy and would carry around stufed animals like it was her dead spawn. It was a little strange, but didn't last very long. Evidently phantom pregnancies happen pretty frequently, or that's what the vet told us. Other than that no real mood changes, just the lack of blood to clean up anymoe.

**Humblejoe** · 2012-10-12 23:33

That sounds really sad

**Delayed** · 2012-10-13 04:49

especially with a lap dog... it comes bringing its newest stuffed animal into your lap and you just wanna go bwaaaah

**Blubbartron** · 2012-10-13 07:31

Originally Posted by Delayed

especially with a lap dog... it comes bringing its newest stuffed animal into your lap and you just wanna go bwaaaah

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**zoobernut** · 2012-10-15 14:56

Anyone know what this plant is? It is growing in my friends yard. The fruit look like Wild Cucumber but it is not growing as a vine and the leaves don't match. I live in Nevada.

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...52056071_o.jpg

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