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I didn’t like the comment he made while fixing my toilet
My bathroom toilet wasn’t working. Since this was an emergency I called to get it fixed. The maintenance guy said has this happened before and I was like no this is the first time. And he was they said it happens all the time ( I believe that’s what I heard). I suspect the usual maintenance guy works on my apartment said this. The reason I believe this is because I’ve put in work order whenever something breaks or isn’t working properly. At first, I felt like I didn’t want to be a bother but since I pay my rent I want to live comfortably. I sense he’s annoyed with my request but I didn’t understand why the guy came back and told me this. What was his point and I simply responded and said that it was the first time happening. Then he asked how long I lived here. But, I was upset that rest of the day. Because I felt hurt by his comment because it wasn’t true and offended that he would judge me for wanting things done in my apartment.
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You have taken his comment completely out of context. What he meant is that he sees the same problem that you have all the time throughout the building and not just with you. He was surprised when you told him that this was the first time you encountered the issue. He asked how long you lived there to try and figure out why you're only now having it when others in the building have it constantly.
It was not passing judgment on you and shouldn't have offended you. Any time there is something wrong in your unit you have to bring them in and it's not bothering them.
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He asked about how long you worked there and that was your only clue. He may not be the regular maintenance and back up only but he will still know the history of repairs in all the apartments from past work orders. The problem if you can call it that: He was talking like a man, not explaining and giving only the bare minimum. But almost all men are like that, its an irritating male trait that women have to put up with, plain and simple. They can't help being that way. So lets take this from the top and lets pretend that the maintenance person was female. At the end, you decide if you'd still be upset.
MW will stand for Maintenance woman.
The MW said"This has this happened before with previous tenants of this apt and in other apartments. This happens all the time, so let us know again if this happens. We know its not the fault of tenants, just the way these older toilets and pipes are constructed.
Now if you'd heard that instead of a mans version, I don't you'd have felt the need to say "No, this was the first time. A maintenance man or woman is not going to be annoyed with work requests because that is what keeps them getting a paycheck. If they have nothing to fix in any apartments, they are not needed and they will have no income. The only reason your mind was feeling he might be upset with you asking for help is because you admitted to earlier thinking "At first, I felt like I didn’t want to be a bother but since I pay my rent I want to live comfortably". You didn't want to bother a MM or MW whose job it is to fix things even if the fix is the 3rd time or the umpteenth time. It is that sort of thinking that brought you to the point of believing this was an offense against you. It wasn't.
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