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    43 days ago

    Latex is water soluble. Why the fuck would you use that in a shower? Use a coating meat for it. It was probably shitty wall paint too. This isn’t a landlord problem, this is just a shitty homeowner problem. As an ex professional journeyman level painter, we used to call this the homeowner special - it’s always some dumbfuck bad solution or something wildly inefficient and the worst kind of overkill: ineffective overkill where it would have been cheaper to just replace. I’m having ptsd flashbacks of all the stupid stuff I’ve seen. I hated being a painter for many reasons. But one of them was that I was exposed to so many stupid, lazy, entitled people from all walks of life and in all kinds of ways. Unfucking people’s stupid stuff, stupid cowokers, stupid bosses, stupid companies, stupid clients. Ughhh… I just remember one time being deployed to a site where the lead painter was using a putty knife to skin off all the paint of a peeling paint job on a ralmbler - it was all lead paint, which changes malleability depending on temperature, so he was on a step ladder, chain smoking cigarettes with torn off filters, with no ppe, doing circles around this house FOR DAYS dropping lead paint all over the ground with no safety catches or anything. And the worst part is the pm for the company at the time sold the gonna homeowner on a low cost contract and set into motion an insanely impossible job to do at any quality within budget because that’s how competitive the market is and how nobody wants to ever pay for lead abatement because it really is like 10-20x more expensive to do properly and safely.

    Eye twitch

    I left that job and never went back. I later quit to go back to school and got my bachelor’s in software engineering, only to have constant massive layoffs all across the industry and AI and trump come in and spicy diarrhea all over my life.

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      83 days ago

      Latex is water soluble. Why the fuck would you use that in a shower?

      So you don’t have to give the deposit back because your tenant stripped off all the paint?