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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/golf-lip on 2024-10-10 21:49:44+00:00.
For context, i work at a Hotel with 1 maintenance engineer. Not a large hotel, so 1 is enough. Any regular day, he insists i call him about maintenance work rather than putting in a work order so he can just fix it and not have to go close out an order on the computer. This leads to me calling 4-5x a day. I call him for things like broken a.c.'s, hanging up a picture frame, cabinet door falling off. If its something easy like a lightbulb or clogged drain, i just fix it myself. Recently he took 2 weeks off work for a surgery. I tried to figure most things out myself, and only called him if i really needed assistance. Instead of 4-5 calls a day, i called him maybe 4 times the entire 2 weeks to let him recover and rest. I tried to fix most things myself and figure it out to not bother him.
When he comes back from his vacation, he sees something was installed incorrectly. A shower wall shampoo holder. I put it on the wall but did not grout it. He responded by saying, “if you want to do my job, let me know and i’ll go elsewhere” and was generally petty for the rest of the day. Okay. I wont do your job for you.
Lightbulb out? Call. Phone unplugged? Call. Remote out of batteries? Call. Toilet not flushing? Call. Drain clogged? Call. Probably called over 20 times.
Do i know how to fix these things? Of course. But i don’t want him to leave, so i’ll let him do his job.
Edit:
- It is a 3m sticky strip on the back of a plastic mount. He is upset i didnt caulk it. No major harm done or tons of work to be undone
- We do track maintenance requests to see history and identify recurring problems to catch issues. He just prefers i call him rather than going online to check and close them because he isn’t tech savvy. So im doing both.