You had one job!
If you live in or have lived in a shared house, you’ll know that you’re going to have to make compromises to keep the peace with your housemates.
You have to when you live with these type of people, in fairness.
A method that a lot of houses will employ is some form of cleaning rota, whereby housemates will be assigned tasks on a daily/weekly basis and given responsibility to ensure that last night’s dinner isn’t rotting on a table in front of the TV.
A JOE reader, who we will refer to only as ‘Manky’ for now, lives in a house where such a cleaning rota is in place.
‘Manky’ informs us that the cleaning rota in his house is shared between four people, with one person required to look after tasks such as mopping, mowing, sweeping etc. every Tuesday afternoon.
For reasons he didn’t go into, ‘Manky’ decided to take care of all of his duties at 5.50am on Tuesday morning.
While it was noble of him to do so, let’s just say his efforts weren’t appreciated by one of his housemates, who sent him the following mail and a few attached pictures to prove his point.
Angry for sure, but talk about eloquent!
If we ever get an angry or threatening mail, we want it to read like this.
In case you can’t read the text in the picture above, it reads as follows:
X, you know me: I’m not a man given over to hyperbole. But that mopping job this morning may be the *worst* thing you’ve *ever* done (and yes, I include the curious incident of the girl and the radiator in my assessment).
In case you doubt me (and I know you will… winky face emoji) I’ve attached some pictures, including the piéce de resistance, a single tile worth of debris on a sheet of kitchen towel. Actually, I don’t know how well it came up in the picture, but it was absolutely manky.
We’ve been really lax on this stuff the past while (which you’ve taken full advantage of), but the fact is that when you slack off someone else has to pick up the slack, and it’s not fair, and surely you realise that you’re leaving others to do your work for you?? I know you’re busy, but so are we all.
I don’t want a political incident here (look, no CCs!), but I think it’s important someone draw your attention to the fact that you’re just not pulling your weight (related: you said you’d vacuum after the party – sitting room has been filthy all week).
Anyway, nobody’s perfect, so no need for us to get overly excited here. Hope you have a good day!
X
xoxo
P*ssed off housemates of Ireland, take note.
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