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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes
Posted by: Phil Andrews
Date/Time: 18/03/12 10:06:00

What really grates with me is the assumption social landlords in general seem to make that their tenants do not have jobs, and instead simply sit at home doing nothing, living their meaningless lives and waiting for workmen to call round.

Just last Thursday evening I arrived home from work to find a letter informing me for the very first time of an "appointment" that had been made by our landlord for a safety inspector to call around the following day, "any time during the day after 9.30 a.m.".

My wife and I both work.  To have kept this appointment would have required one of us not to have gone in to work on Friday.  Worse than this, as we didn't see the letter until Thursday evening one of us would have needed to 'phone in on Friday morning informing our employers that we wouldn't be coming in.  Most employers, I am sure, would have taken a dim view of this.

We would also have had to have been available to receive the safety inspector at any time during the day, as no clue was given as to what time he/she might arrive.

What is most amusing is that like most social landlords, ours tends in the main to employ people who would consider themselves to be trendy and progressive types.  Yet their attitude gives us some idea of what these people actually think of the "workers"; of our lifestyles, our priorities and our generally pointless existence.  Little wonder they think we can't be trusted to do anything for ourselves.

These people seem all for the working classes in the abstract but wouldn't actually want one sitting in their living rooms.

Needless to say we ignored the letter.  Probably they assumed we couldn't read it.

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      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes08/01/12 17:50:00 Sarah Felstead
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            Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 10:05:00 Paul Fisher
               Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 14:29:00 Vanessa Smith
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 15:02:00 Sarah Felstead
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 15:37:00 Vanessa Smith
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 16:32:00 Jim Linwood
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?19/01/12 17:51:00 Phil Andrews
               Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?23/01/12 16:22:00 Sarah Felstead
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?24/01/12 18:57:00 Sarah Felstead
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?02/02/12 12:10:00 Sarah Felstead
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How many of these houses become squats?02/02/12 12:12:00 Vanessa Smith
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      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes23/01/12 11:15:00 Vanessa Smith
         Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes23/01/12 19:08:00 Jim Linwood
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes23/01/12 22:32:00 Vanessa Smith
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                        Re:Re:Long Term Empty properties06/02/12 12:53:00 Sarah Felstead
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   Re:Hounslow Homes17/02/12 14:57:00 Sarah Felstead
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         Re:Meeting 21st February - tomorrow night - is there an agenda?22/02/12 13:53:00 Sarah Felstead
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               Re:Meeting is 23rd February - Thursday night.28/02/12 10:11:00 Sarah Felstead
   Re:Hounslow Homes28/02/12 10:36:00 Sarah Felstead
      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes28/02/12 20:27:00 Paul Allen
         Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes01/03/12 14:58:00 Sarah Felstead
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes01/03/12 22:19:00 Paul Allen
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes01/03/12 22:33:00 Sarah Felstead
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes18/03/12 07:36:00 Paul Fisher
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes18/03/12 10:06:00 Phil Andrews
   Re:Hounslow Homes19/03/12 10:33:00 Sarah Felstead
      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes19/03/12 11:27:00 Vanessa Smith
         Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes19/03/12 18:47:00 Sarah Felstead
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes19/03/12 22:11:00 Vanessa Smith
   Re:Hounslow Homes19/03/12 22:26:00 Sarah Felstead
      Long term empty11/05/12 16:42:00 Sarah Felstead
         Re:Long term empty11/05/12 17:01:00 Vanessa Smith
      Re:Re:Hounslow Homes11/05/12 20:02:00 Jim Linwood
         Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes26/05/12 23:57:00 Sarah Felstead
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes27/05/12 18:52:00 Vanessa Smith
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes29/06/12 13:54:00 Sarah Felstead
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes29/06/12 17:14:00 Vanessa Smith
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Homes29/06/12 18:49:00 Sarah Felstead

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