Can I do something? (VA)
Attached: Email and section in the lease contract.
I rent an apartment in Arlington, and they send out notices for preventative maintenance, and it’s either within 24 hours or less than 24 hours. I've about had enough of their bs. Two months ago, around this date, it was a thermostat line change. This morning I received one about quarterly preventative maintenance.
I read through my emails starting from when we moved in, and I saw that this is becoming a pattern: the gaps were slowly closing to 24 hours. These also never state a window for when they’d be coming in, and I work at home, so I keep having to rearrange my schedule at the last minute to accommodate them, especially because I do have a dog. Can I do something to stop this?
Edit: For people who are wondering why I'm asking for advice and what’s “the big fuss” about.
I work from home. I don’t work a 9-5 and get to put my job aside after a certain time of day like most people. I'm given a set of workload per day and an estimate of what the next day will look like. Those cases are due by the end of the day (OT if I have to; it doesn’t matter; it needs to be closed). If I don't want to do OT, or the company can't hand out any more OT for the month, I either work off-clock or ask a coworker for help to wrap things up.
When last-minute things like these happen, and I don't know when they’ll be coming in or how long they'll take, I have to offload my cases. I have two options. I can dump them to coworkers at the last minute or distribute them throughout the week to also finish my new workload and anything I need to submit if I'm put on a project (that workload depends on whether the project is due in a week or a month).
I’m frustrated because each case is a deadline. So let’s say I have 30 cases for the day. I have to offload them for whatever reason; that’s 30 deadlines I just missed. 30 chunks in my paychecks. Let’s multiply that by the 6 times they’ve come in this year, and it’s only August (I get at least 27 cases); that’s at least 162 cases. 162 chunks in paychecks.
So yes, every time they’ve given me notices like these, it frustrates me because not only do I lose out on money that I need, but it also affects my standing in the company. It also doesn’t look so good when someone's request to be transferred to be close to family is granted, and all of a sudden their workload isn’t looking too hot. So I asked for a simple advice.