abc [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • I’m very confused as to what the purpose of dumping soil onto the floor was. Like did the landlord do this as part of an attempt at insurance fraud??

    ‘10 tonnes of soil’ is 22046 pounds of soil. And that’s literal miracle-gro style store bought potting soil from the excessive amounts of perlite mixed in as shown in the article’s pictures. A 50qt bag of miracle gro is like $15 and is ~20 pounds or something. You’re telling me they just had like $16k of potting soil they’d bought, dumped out of the bag onto the floor, and then also were going through the motion of putting weed seedlings into pots as shown by the other pics??? phoenix-think

    It’s completely dry soil in that room too - I just don’t understand why the tenants would’ve rolled out a tarp (you can see it in the pic), unbagged the clearly storebought soil, and then filled up the various pots they have with it. And if it was to simulate actually being outdoors and to grow larger plants in ‘3ft deep soil’, WHY the potting soil and why does the room’s walls look spotless?? surely there should’ve been some water damage if not just obvious signs of plants being grown…

    The sophisticated lighting setup, which included specialist grow lamps, had been rigged up throughout the house. The intense heat generated by these lamps also caused damage to the property, with burn marks and melted fixtures visible in several rooms.

    where?? literally none of the pics have any burn marks or melted fixtures visible. I’m not gonna say grow-lights DON’T get hot, but that’s pretty wild to claim and not have any pics of…

    crazy how there’s only like one pic of the central hallway in the article and the shit looks immaculate, which isn’t what you’d figure from apparently having tenants using an entire room as a…open air store-bought potting soil storage facility?? like someone definitely bypassed the meter (good for them) so I don’t doubt there was some sort of grow op going on inside the home but the soil thing and other claims are kinda sus lol.

    He knocked on the door and was greeted by several men, with one claiming the property was in good condition. Within half an hour, these men had disappeared, although we don’t know what role they played in the farm.

    Mr Reeves said: "Emotionally, it feels like my home has been defiled. That’s what it feels like. The damage, the dirt, all this dirt everywhere.

    Police have stated that what happened to the Reeves family is still under investigation, but the reality is that innocent landlords are being left to pick up the pieces of London’s growing drug crime problem.

    I rate this BBC article 5/5 for landlord and drug-war propaganda lol. someone please make the soil room make sense to me













  • Yeah but PTO to me is more of anything ranging from ‘hey I don’t feel like working today I’m not coming in’ (although tbh if you have sick days you should use them for that kind of stuff imo) to ‘hey I’m going on a week long trip in August, I will be out between X-Y dates’.

    It sounds like your PTO is more ‘you get X weekday off every 3 weeks’ with zero flexibility.

    Without that flexibility, at least to me, it is less PTO and more of a ‘scheduled paid day off’. shrug-outta-hecks I’m acting like I haven’t recently had a PTO request denied at work that wound up pissing me off (my supervisor constantly says I am like the sole person on the team who rarely takes sick days/PTO) because my supervisor, when I asked why it was denied, told me ‘sorry we have too many people out that week’ - which to me isn’t how PTO should work. I should be able to take it whenever I want, I already earned the time off and I requested it off like a month in advance so it shouldn’t be on me to ensure there’s an adequate amount of people working - that’s a ‘earns $10.00/hour more than me but does like 60% less work’ supervisor’s job!!!

    But who knows, it may actually be one of those ideal situations! I just wouldn’t vibe with it personally and would probably not accept the position based on that unless they ensured me that I could at the very least, schedule when I’d be off.


  • 52 weeks in a year means you’d get just over 17 ‘PTO’ days/year, assuming you get one exactly every 3 weeks (although I imagine the work-week bullshit would apply where you have to factor in holidays that fall on Mondays and whatnot). the national ‘average’ is what, like 10-14 days?

    It’s definitely a scam to make you take less but think you’re getting more exactly how you’re imagining it. For reference, my full-time job upon hiring paid out 4.3 HOURS of PTO every pay-period - so every 2 weeks I’d get 4.3 hours, meaning I’d earn a ‘day’ of PTO once a month. Seems pretty equivalent, if not slightly worse, right? Since 26*4.3 = 118.8/8 = 13.975 days of PTO earned in a year. Except that there’s no issue with me taking a half-day or taking an entire week off, provided I have the PTO accrued to cover 4 or 40 hours.

    I’d literally see red hearing “sorry no you can’t take off that day, your next day off is Wednesday, July 3rd based on the schedule” or some bullshit. That isn’t PTO exactly - that’s just a day I’m not on the schedule.