Hey peeps.
Is creating a hostile environment by doing the right thing a good idea? Even if it is just for a few weeks?
Here's a low down: I'm in a halls of residence at Uni right now. Since September we've had this guy who just doesnt want to clean up after himself. He is a nice guy; he shares his things and quite chatty. However, for the last 3 months he has been getting worse. We found out that he is quite psycho. A girl he went out with twice back in September put him down and he cant stop thinking about her. Even today he shuts himself away and jumps at the mention of her name. He took up smoking just to have an excuse to stand outside and watch her...thats another story. :X
Since we're in the last month of the semester, we have stopped cleaning up after him. We're like, "aah fk it" but i'm a clean-freak..i HAD to do it. Things where rotting and dripping from the table onto the chairs. It took me 3hours to clean everything (the rest of the kitchen too)...i'll spare you the details of what stuff he has done/left :S
The other guys and me decided to knock on his door and have a little chat about this one evening. Long story short, he denied being messy, i had photo evidence, he then said sorry and got me icecream :d
As you might imagine, he's not been the same guy since. Now everything is out there, the rest of us have gotten bolder about telling him stuff. I've been told he has been scrounging stuff off everyone and going into our cupboards. He ate the huge tub of ice cream he got me, and later replaced it with a smaller one >:E
This evening i found more shit dripping in the fridge. Black & white Cucumber and a huge tomato, rotten to the core. These days, i keep everything in a plastic box..but i couldnt just leave it there.
He came into the kitchen while i was sorting it out and we all called him a knob. All he could say was sorry and "if i knew about it, i would clean it" Hopefully now he knows about it, he'll clean up the little pool of mold it has left at the bottom of the fridge.
So now we have a guy in our corridor who has started stealing, leaving more moldy stuff around the place and just doesnt care anymore.
Was it the right thing to do to tell it to him straight? He said he had food poisoning years ago. We now suspect he did it to himself. Or do you guys think we should have just held out for a little longer?
fyi, he is 38 and still living with his parents. which is probably why no 19yr old student hotties go near him >:3 (low blow i know...but did i mention the hostility?
)
Is creating a hostile environment by doing the right thing a good idea? Even if it is just for a few weeks?
Here's a low down: I'm in a halls of residence at Uni right now. Since September we've had this guy who just doesnt want to clean up after himself. He is a nice guy; he shares his things and quite chatty. However, for the last 3 months he has been getting worse. We found out that he is quite psycho. A girl he went out with twice back in September put him down and he cant stop thinking about her. Even today he shuts himself away and jumps at the mention of her name. He took up smoking just to have an excuse to stand outside and watch her...thats another story. :X
Since we're in the last month of the semester, we have stopped cleaning up after him. We're like, "aah fk it" but i'm a clean-freak..i HAD to do it. Things where rotting and dripping from the table onto the chairs. It took me 3hours to clean everything (the rest of the kitchen too)...i'll spare you the details of what stuff he has done/left :S
The other guys and me decided to knock on his door and have a little chat about this one evening. Long story short, he denied being messy, i had photo evidence, he then said sorry and got me icecream :d
As you might imagine, he's not been the same guy since. Now everything is out there, the rest of us have gotten bolder about telling him stuff. I've been told he has been scrounging stuff off everyone and going into our cupboards. He ate the huge tub of ice cream he got me, and later replaced it with a smaller one >:E
This evening i found more shit dripping in the fridge. Black & white Cucumber and a huge tomato, rotten to the core. These days, i keep everything in a plastic box..but i couldnt just leave it there.
He came into the kitchen while i was sorting it out and we all called him a knob. All he could say was sorry and "if i knew about it, i would clean it" Hopefully now he knows about it, he'll clean up the little pool of mold it has left at the bottom of the fridge.
So now we have a guy in our corridor who has started stealing, leaving more moldy stuff around the place and just doesnt care anymore.
Was it the right thing to do to tell it to him straight? He said he had food poisoning years ago. We now suspect he did it to himself. Or do you guys think we should have just held out for a little longer?
fyi, he is 38 and still living with his parents. which is probably why no 19yr old student hotties go near him >:3 (low blow i know...but did i mention the hostility?
)