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My name’s Jeanna, and I’m mad.
“Hi Jeanna,” …. the solumn looking crowd responds.
I’ve had this dream. I’m not taking the class. Reading the book. Buying the t-shirt. Nadda. But I am finally standing up and saying I’m angry. I’m sure you’re tired of reading my angry rants… but I don’t care. I’m not sure why I crossed that out. I don’t care.
I am going to start my rant with useless people. Which is probably a dumb subject to even waste breath font on, but there’s just such an abundance of them that the more I run across, the more proof I gain against evolution. Survival of the fittest my ass. But I digress.
Russell and I are in the middle of having a house built. We have a general contractor, a builder agent, and a real estate agent. Our realtor is supposed to be our go to person right….???… always on top of stuff, the first to know, the GATE KEEPER… if you will.
We drive out to the house once a week, and our soon to be neighbor texts us pictures as the builders add something new to the house. Our realtor told us she would try to go out and check on the house weekly as the build progressed, and that she would be in constant contact with the other two. Her fantastic punctuality and determination to provide us good information has resulted in an email letting us know the slab had been poured (2 weeks after it happened)… and my favorite was the email I recieved yesterday letting me know that our house had finally been framed! We must be so excited! She’s still on framing… our house has already been roof’ed, windows are in, and the bricks are on the way. She’s making HOW MUCH OFF OF THIS HOUSE???
USELESS. COMPLETELY USELESS. Her emails make me want to squish a kitten it gets me so angry. It shouldn’t bother me this much. I shouldn’t care. I know the actual status of the house. BUT NO FRIGGING THANKS TO HER. What if I wasn’t able to see it as often as I do? What if I lived in Montana and was actually counting on her emails? USELESS.
How often do you encounter useless people? And no, I’m not talking about the Wal-Mart employee that you go to for help, and they look through you and say, “Uh…. I’m really not sure, sorry.” That’s a class of it’s own. I’m convinced they’re just drones only programmed to make 3 sounds. None of which are helpful at all.
As for the rest of my rant… you’ll just have to come back next time!
Rant on!!! The big plastic smile and the forced perky voice just makes me want to reach out and shove that squished kitten down their throat through their nostrils. *deep breath* But perhaps that should be left for another day (after I can retrieve my boot from the place it got stuck the last time I had to deal with such useless people). Got a crowbar handy?
Maybe you can go to settlement on the house, and eventually get around to sending her the commission check with about the same time delay. You know, a few weeks later…
Cut her fee and the end of the job, good rant.
Call her on it? Wouldn’t it be a little satisfying to let her know she did a crappy job.. so maybe she could fix it for the next guy.. I dunno.. its kinda like paying it forward..at the very least I mean just firing off a..
hey wow thanks for the update on something that happened weeks ago, you are such a big help I don;t know what we would do without your timely and informative updates that are always after the fact… you are definitely earning the huge commission you are going to get paid and I will always recommend your services to my friends…after they buy their new houses, but hey, better late than never right?
just saying.. a little zinging relieves the tension ..so does ranting
and that;s good too.
You’re not in Montana. You’re right down the road from the house. Why would anyone place so much of a burden that hinges so drastically on personal tastes and expectations on someone who has zero emotional investment in the situation?
It’s a home, not a pet turtle. Aaannndddd, you’re in a position to see and feel and walk it, while it’s being built in order to assure that things are coming along as planned. You’re actually angry at someone for not giving you information you already had?
Jeanna! Who are you really mad at today?
Well….to be honest….now you a little!! lol
I can take it!
YOU DOO….. A LOT.
Thanks for doing that by the way. Favorite uncle award.
Here’s the good news, Jenna. Anyone going through the construction phase of a new house gets a free pass on crime. If you killed your realtor, no jury in the world would convict you. That is, if at least one of the jurors had gone through a new construction.
Free pass on crime…. hmmmm maybe I will permanetly keep something under construction LOL!!
A new house? How exciting!
Didn’t work, huh? I thought I’d at least give it a try. Sales people lose interest when the sale is done. Give her a reason for staying interested. Word of mouth referrals for such GREAT service (if she starts delivering it) could be one enticement. It’s the old honey versus vinegar when trying to (attract flies argument (although I can’t imagine why anyone would WANT to attract flies…).
Come on, you’ve never wanted to attract flies?
oh wait… yea me either. What really stinks is I am a lot more bark than bite… I will probably keep my mouth shut and annoyingly enough for me, suffer through it.
Sometimes you can learn a lot by listening–even if it’s just about yourself. And it doesn’t always have to be painful (though I know sometimes it is.)
I’ve had my share of similar nightmares. Finally got smart when we decided to put in a pool. We signed a contract with an actual end date. If the pool wasn’t done on that date we could deduct $1,000.00 dollars per late day. Two days before it was supposed to be finished it looked like they had just started. BUT – come that due date, it was done. They were here from dawn until dusk. The pool was filled and ready for my guests on the due date. The pool company called later to see if we were happy. They said they had never sweated so much to get a job done. I suppose hitting them in the pocket is what works best. Perhaps, letting her know you will deduct cash if you do not get updates every 3 or 4 days might help. If not, chalk it up to her being dumb and dumb can’t be fixed.
Toodles and Good Luck…..
That’s a crazy story about your pool! I bet you thought for sure you were going to get money back out of that deal! Yea, I am fairly certain she’s just dumb. Actually not dumb… she’s bright… I think it’s just more that she just doesn’t care. It’s really already a done deal, so it’s laziness on her part.
Now I want to build a house too. =(
get on it!