/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Do maintenance in a government building, almost entirely offices.

Most of my job is doing unskilled labor because people are too unskilled to do unskilled labor. People are not allowed to hang pictures themselves or adjust clocks.

>Get a work order that all of the mouse bait stations are messed up
>Go to the floor and inspect
>Bait stations are correct
>Open them up to see if they still have poison in them
>Everything looks good
>Close work order and move on with my life
>Get exact same work order but bitchier
>Go up the ladies office but she isn't even on site
>Check some other stations, everything is fine
>Close work order and move on with my day
>Get a call from management asking why I refuse to do this work order
>Explain that I've now been up there twice and checked every single trap
>They ask if I can just have her call me because she's some big shot division head
>Old shrew calls me and starts instantly insulting me
>Tell her that if she can't calm down I'm hanging up, starts swearing at me
>Hang up
>Ignore her calls
>My manager goes up there to talk to her
>Comes back down laughing his ass off saying it's taken care of

Turns out it wasn't even the lady calling it, it was some old hag that pretended to be her boss because she has no power. She said that her bait station was installed wrong. They are triangular on one side so they sit in the corner. She felt that the point should be out for some reason. She argued with my manager when he said she was wrong.
Next week when the Orkin guy was doing one of his weekly walks he says the weirdest thing happened when he went to one of the floors; all of the bait stations were turned around and some woman started yelling at him and tried to physically stop him when he fixed them.

Had a little laugh and let management know. Word is that she got put on probation for her behavior and retired right after.