katie_fleming
Active member
Just wanted to share a story with you guys that happened yesterday. My AC died in my apartment and I gave permission to enter while I was at work for them to fix it. I've had workers in there before when I was at work and never a problem.
As most of you know I keep a Skype call in a small window on one of my monitors every day when I'm at work. Its proven to be beneficial on many occasions - general peace of mind, making sure he was OK when he was very sick last year, seeing his toe get clamped on his millet holder so I was able to rush home, seeing other workers there and knowing he was safe. Well, yesterday was another day when I was so thankful to have the camera on (and not in a meeting so I was at my desk to see this!)
There were two workers that came in and everything was fine for awhile. I saw them come in so I put on my headphones for fun. They were speaking French so I couldn't understand a word but anyway I saw them both go over to Jasper's cage a couple times, talking baby talk to him and whistling. Totally fine, very cute.
BUT then one of the guys kept going over more and more, and eventually started swearing. He said, "What's your name, b*?", and then proceeded to say "f, f, f" at least 20 times. He also said "f you" at one point. I was completely appalled. Obviously it goes without saying I don't want Jasper learning any swearwords. He was also taking his phone out and holding it up against the cage several times, I wasn't sure if he was taking a picture, hard to tell.
I immediately emailed a contact at the apartment complex (I was busy recording the audio on my computer and video on my cell phone) and THANKFULLY she saw the email and called someone immediately. I saw a third person come into my apartment and escort the two guys out.
Jasper was in no means in any harm (although I was very worried he was going to open his cage because it looked like he was thinking about it, reached over a few times) and when they were swearing at him it was still in baby talk so Jasper was HAPPY, talking, etc. But I was having a bit of a s* fit sitting here.
I was told that disciplinary actions have already been taken against both of them (but I told them it was really only one, and I sent them the photos, video, and audio file), but wow. I live in a nice place, rent kills me. That should NOT happen. I'm just glad Jasper was ok and I really hope he doesn't start using the f word now
If you want to listen to the trimmed file and see what I'm talking about I uploaded a zip here: https://bhvr-ec-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/ptniy548rdgph/source.zip
As most of you know I keep a Skype call in a small window on one of my monitors every day when I'm at work. Its proven to be beneficial on many occasions - general peace of mind, making sure he was OK when he was very sick last year, seeing his toe get clamped on his millet holder so I was able to rush home, seeing other workers there and knowing he was safe. Well, yesterday was another day when I was so thankful to have the camera on (and not in a meeting so I was at my desk to see this!)
There were two workers that came in and everything was fine for awhile. I saw them come in so I put on my headphones for fun. They were speaking French so I couldn't understand a word but anyway I saw them both go over to Jasper's cage a couple times, talking baby talk to him and whistling. Totally fine, very cute.
BUT then one of the guys kept going over more and more, and eventually started swearing. He said, "What's your name, b*?", and then proceeded to say "f, f, f" at least 20 times. He also said "f you" at one point. I was completely appalled. Obviously it goes without saying I don't want Jasper learning any swearwords. He was also taking his phone out and holding it up against the cage several times, I wasn't sure if he was taking a picture, hard to tell.
I immediately emailed a contact at the apartment complex (I was busy recording the audio on my computer and video on my cell phone) and THANKFULLY she saw the email and called someone immediately. I saw a third person come into my apartment and escort the two guys out.
Jasper was in no means in any harm (although I was very worried he was going to open his cage because it looked like he was thinking about it, reached over a few times) and when they were swearing at him it was still in baby talk so Jasper was HAPPY, talking, etc. But I was having a bit of a s* fit sitting here.
I was told that disciplinary actions have already been taken against both of them (but I told them it was really only one, and I sent them the photos, video, and audio file), but wow. I live in a nice place, rent kills me. That should NOT happen. I'm just glad Jasper was ok and I really hope he doesn't start using the f word now
If you want to listen to the trimmed file and see what I'm talking about I uploaded a zip here: https://bhvr-ec-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/ptniy548rdgph/source.zip
