u/Sillypilot333

We just got a new kid, it's his third day. Guessing right out of highschool, by his attitude and demeanor. We utilize go carts, and he's having trouble keeping our speed limit.

He was shadowing me as I cleaned through 3 of our buildings and helping out with the things our boss has shown him. I prefer to work alone, but as a woman i appreciate having a male coworker around to tag team the gendered rest rooms without worrying about people walking in.

I was making a note on my phone about what supplies needed refilling and when I looked up, he had a full bottle of dual blend #20 pointed at the middle of my face, a few inches away. He was smiling, he said nothing. I said "No, we don't do that." And he walked away and put it in the closet without a word. A few minutes later he asked if I was nervous.

Pretty sure he's just being childish, but that could, categorically, be considered assault. At best, inappropriate work behavior and ladden with misogyny. I let my manager know about the situation and suggested that he needs chemical safety training.

It's too early for this kind of stuff man.

We just got a new kid, it's his third day. Guessing right out of highschool, by his attitude and demeanor. We utilize go carts, and he's having trouble keeping our speed limit.

He was shadowing me as I cleaned through 3 of our buildings and helping out with the things our boss has shown him. I prefer to work alone, but as a woman i appreciate having a male coworker around to tag team the gendered rest rooms without worrying about people walking in.

I was making a note on my phone about what supplies needed refilling and when I looked up, he had a full bottle of dual sense #20 pointed at the middle of my face, a few inches away. He was smiling, he said nothing. I said "No, we don't do that." And he walked away and put it in the closet without a word. A few minutes later he asked if I was nervous.

Pretty sure he's just being childish, but that could, categorically, be considered assault. At best, inappropriate work behavior and ladden with misogyny. I let my manager know about the situation and suggested that he needs chemical safety training.

It's too early for this kind of stuff man.

Due to lots of particular circumstances, landlord has floated the idea of selling us the 3bd1br we rent for cheap.

It's an old house with good bones but it needs a lot of love. The most modern upgrade I'm aware of is the HVAC unit repair last year that we requested when it stopped working. Landlord is pretty lax, okays all reasonable requests and gives the go ahead to schedule repairs ourselves and show the receipt to take the cost out of rent for the month. We only pay about 1.5k/mo so we've never done any large repairs.

Landlord is also planning to move out of country, so not trying to break his bank. But because he hasn't done a good inspection in a few years, and conducts no unprompted (and few prompted) repairs, the house is in sort of dire shape that's really showing it's age.

That said, if he's willing to get some major work done and still sell for cheap it might be my only shot at a decent house in time to start a family etc.

Here is a (non exhaustive) list of issues or needed repairs:

-front and back doors mild-severe weather, pet, cigarette goo damage

-crawlspace has no humidity control or pest exclusion (open doorway entrance, half cement flooring, half loose dirt.)

-downstairs HVAC in crawlspace installed incorrectly at some point, caused insulated tubing to fill with water. HVAC since repaired, hole in tube after draining has not been.

-washing machine pipe issue caused water damage to wall that separates sunroom and kitchen, carpet in sunroom, linoleum covered hardwood in kitchen. This was happening for an undetermined amount of time and everything has been dry for a few months, but it's pretty severe. The paint on the wall, behind the oven bubbled and chipped off. Haven't pulled up the lino since but it was black, gooey, smelled, and had lots of small crawly isopods + crickets. Humid weather makes the hardwood bulge and the lino ripple. I assume it all needs to be torn and replaced.

-Since repaired hole in roof leaked (through attic floor?) through downstairs room ceiling. It's peeling and the damage extends towards thin crack in wall. Landlord was alerted months ago.

-attic space is used as bedroom. Has it's own HVAC. Either we run it too much, or insulation sucks, because snow on our roof melts 2x as fast as other houses

-bathroom has no ventilation, previous mold issues. Black colored mold under the trim edging the ceiling. Sliding shower doors impossible to fully clean, black colored mold in nooks I cannot reach.

-Front porch awning supports rusted through, fully detached in some places.

-unfinished but decent hardwood in living room and 2 bedrooms

-bathroom floor is unintelligible, 2 different materials, one cracked and one peeling up at the edges. Toilet def needs a new wax ring.

How screwed are we all in this situation lol. Is it worth putting the effort into? The price of rent is decent enough to stay. The landlord needs to make these repairs if he wants new tenants anyways. If we don't facilitate the repairs I'm afraid when we move out he'll be unable to rent or sell to anyone less concerned than us.

Where do we start, where do we go. Hellpp!