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Perhaps you're joking, but I believe you're also cluless re: what kind of "quality employees" are the normhere in this part of Mexico. Perhaps you had quality maintenance staff there in America, if so, I am not talking about them. I'm talking about what we have down here. I don't think it's possible tofind less qualified people to do ANYTHING than we have here...except for their equally ignorant/shady (or worse) counterparts found in urban ghettos and elsewhere.
And I am in one of the best neighborhood areas of town and one of the best and more expensive apartment complexes, not some run-down neighborhood fleabag flophouse.
Where I'm at, some of the maintenance stafflook to be illegals and speak little English, some no English at all so you really can't even talk to them about the problem they're supposed to be fixing...just watch as they screw something up and look around your apartment."Repairs" are poorly done -- they usually make it worse/break something -- as if they don't have a clue how to fix somethingor even jnow how touse simple tools. It's the rule rather than the exception thatcrappy work is done here, and when they're not working, they're going through the dumpsters looking for stuff.In one place I lived a few years ago, they used my phone to call LD and of course, I got the bill.
I do not feel comfortable letting these kinds of people in my apartment to do ANYTHING but I have to because they are the maintenance staff, but Ihave told the management thatunless it's an emergency, and in order to avoid a tragic incident, no one has any businessbeing in my apartment. Period.
The law here is that if ANY maintenance staff enterssomeone's apartment, they have to leave a card saying they were in your place and why. That is not done here or at other complexes I am aware of in this town...so unless you take steps to monitor apartment access yourself, you'd never know when someone has come in.
And the only "safe-moving" company here (what a joke it is) apparently only hires people with rap sheets, usually bald-headed tatooed gangsters...this is well known...and there's a lot of "staff" turnover, like weekly.I've seen some of them smoke dope on their breaks.And these guys know where you live and what safes you have; they don't need to know what's in them, just that you have them is plenty....means you're rich and must have nice stuff in them.
Now, do these people sound like the people you supervised?
Are you now up to speed on what's up here with these guys, what you can expect no matter where you live in this town?
If you were in charge of good honest maintenance men who REALLY knew how to fix things right an do so the FIRST time, I'd love to live there...but I'm not in Utah, I'm here, and here expecting competent, trustworthy workers isjust dreaming.
Point is, down here, "quality work" and "good employees" way too often areoxymorons, but that's true all along this low-classBorder area.
If things are not like this where you live, count your blessings.
-- John D.
