All the smoke alarms (3!) have been going off on and off (mostly on!) in my apartment for the past 5 hours. I asked the front desk if this is happening in the whole building bc this has happened before. She said that I’m the only one who’s brought it to her attention, so she put in a maintenance ticket. 4 hours go by and I’m just sending her videos of my alarms going off bc it’s been fucking happening for hours and I’m trying to fucking work from home and take care of my sick dog who’s scared and shaking and had two bouts of diarrhea today that I had to clean up while these stupid alarms are going off.
Then she sends me this text that maintenance went home and I have to call after hours maintenance services!
Emergency Maintenance tells me that someone will call me in the next 2 hours with an ETA for when someone can come by. Are you fucking kidding me?
Update:
Maintenance came by and put in brand new alarms and I’ve calmed the fuck down 😅
I asked what was wrong with them, and he said, ‘I’m not even gonna try and figure that out, I’m just gonna replace them with new ones! I know how annoying that sound can be.’ He lives in the building, and he said that neighbors have told him like, ‘Yo, you need to check so-and-so’s alarm, it keeps me up at night!’ and he’ll go to that person’s apartment, and they’ll be like, ‘My smoke alarm’s chirping? It doesn’t bother me.’ 😳
Y’all.
I will never not be bothered by a smoke alarm chirping.
