Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex
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Speaker 2: It is Flex and Frooms on CATA. Does my building
Speaker 2: manager hate me? I'm not putting that energy into the ether,
Speaker 2: but a few situations have come about recently, and using
Speaker 2: my empathetic heart, I could imagine that there would be
Speaker 2: a bit of a tense environment if we let it
Speaker 2: get to that point. Okay, I've made a few mistakes
Speaker 2: in my time. I've been a victim. Okay, bit in
Speaker 2: my time. We'll start with the victimhood and we'll we'll
Speaker 2: work up from them. Being an influencer, you get a
Speaker 2: lot of unsolicited PR packages. Now you would say unsolicited,
Speaker 2: how how do people get your address?
Speaker 1: This is what happens. Pr agencies have a lot of clients.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Let's say there's a PR agency.
Speaker 2: They've got one car client, one grocery client, one beauty client,
Speaker 2: one nightlife client, and one person gets your address because
Speaker 2: you willingly exchange it. They say, hey, we want to
Speaker 2: send you a crystal encrusted water bottle. You say, great,
Speaker 2: thank you, here's my address for this crystal encrusted water bottle.
Speaker 2: Next week you're getting sent break fluid and the next
Speaker 2: week getting sent cereal, and the next week you're getting
Speaker 2: sent lip gloss and you're.
Speaker 1: Like, where, how, where's this coming from.
Speaker 2: Then you work backwards and you're like, Okay, clearly this
Speaker 2: one person at this agency has put my name in
Speaker 2: a database, and every time someone wants to send something,
Speaker 2: they'd be like, oh, just grab the database.
Speaker 1: Her address is there. Now.
Speaker 2: When these packages come, they often come without a return
Speaker 2: to sender because they don't want you to find them
Speaker 2: and say, don't send me packages. And often you'll say,
Speaker 2: don't send me packages and they'll say, already sent, Sorry,
Speaker 2: do what.
Speaker 1: You want with them.
Speaker 2: So the situation I'm talking about is so the promo
Speaker 2: for the Barbie movie, which we loved. We love seeing
Speaker 2: things in advanced screening. They asked if they could send
Speaker 2: me an invitation. I'm assuming an invitation is like a
Speaker 2: four at max, right, maybe some flowers to go with
Speaker 2: it as a small gift. This was a one by
Speaker 2: one by one cube box. Threw me open a similar
Speaker 2: one up in the office downstairs.
Speaker 1: A huge box.
Speaker 2: It doesn't fit in a door a traditional doorway without
Speaker 2: you turning it on its side.
Speaker 1: Type of box taller than a small child. Type of box.
Speaker 2: The issue is I wasn't in the country or in
Speaker 2: the state when it arrived. So now it's sitting in
Speaker 2: the lobby, the communal lobby, taking up space. Now the
Speaker 2: building manager has to find a way to orient this
Speaker 2: package so one it doesn't get stolen and two it
Speaker 2: remains safe for five days.
Speaker 1: That's annoying. And who's the blame. Did they know you?
Speaker 1: The people sending the invitation? No, the beauty manager. They
Speaker 1: message like, hey, come get your package. It's like obstructing
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 2: I'm like, sorry, I'm not here. Very annoying for them.
Speaker 2: I get the package.
Speaker 1: It's huge. In the package worth three things, four things.
Speaker 2: Two barbies, a Barbie car, and some lego and like
Speaker 2: I would say, sixty five kilos worth of what do
Speaker 2: you call this stuff? Start like the bubbles, the paper, peanuts,
Speaker 2: packing peanuts and shredded paper and just a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff to keep the package safe. Right, And so I'm thinking, okay,
Speaker 2: I need to get this into the bin room, right,
Speaker 2: But in order to get to the place where there's
Speaker 2: like bedroom on the floor and the bedroom that you
Speaker 2: can only get via stairs, I'm like, I put it
Speaker 2: in the floor bedroom. People put their like counter pickup stuff.
Speaker 2: I'll leave it there and then we'll do what we
Speaker 2: can with this when I get back. Why is there
Speaker 2: a building wide bulletin with a picture of this box
Speaker 2: and some other things, But like the box is very clear.
Speaker 2: It's like, hey, everyone, you can't just leave your rubbish here.
Speaker 2: You need to pack it down.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. I'm thinking they're.
Speaker 2: All they are, all these boxes assembled there anyway, So
Speaker 2: I wasn't like doing anything out of the ordinary. But
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, what's fair? So I email my
Speaker 2: building manager. I'm like, hey, that's me, my bad. But
Speaker 2: I knew they knew it was me because in the
Speaker 2: bulletin they said, we've got CCTV.
Speaker 1: We know who you are.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, leg So I'm like, okay, great, I
Speaker 2: see the picture. I let them know my hey, I'm
Speaker 2: not actually in the state at the moment. Do you
Speaker 2: mind giving me an extension on recycling this box? They said, actually,
Speaker 2: somebody took it and they really like it, so thank you.
Speaker 1: So much for that.
Speaker 2: I said, okay, all good, But these things keep happening,
Speaker 2: getting unsolicited packages that I'm not here, that I'm not
Speaker 2: here to accept, and it's making me look bad in
Speaker 2: this brand new high tech apartment where they've got CCTV
Speaker 2: cameras monitoring our behavior and nothing slides. The thing is,
Speaker 2: when I rented it, it's like a regular rental to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know the rules and stuff. I'm not really
Speaker 2: across it. So my first infringement was moving in. Oh
Speaker 2: I wasn't there for it. I had some assistance friends
Speaker 2: in Melbourne who moved in for me. Really, apparently I
Speaker 2: was blocking the lift. There's like a Goods lift and
Speaker 2: then there's like a residential lift, and if you block
Speaker 2: the lift for too long, it just makes it hard
Speaker 2: for everyone to travel to and fro. This is secret
Speaker 2: information though, Like I didn't know this. They were like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's in your welcome pack. I don't own here, so
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on. So infringement number one
Speaker 2: fine infringement number two. I'm using the spar at night
Speaker 2: on date night?
Speaker 1: Was I a little bit naughty? Sure it was pg.
Speaker 2: PG Was it though a kiss or three exchange? Why
Speaker 2: do I get a bulletin a building? White bulletin? Hello?
Speaker 1: Everyone?
Speaker 2: Just let you know that the spar can be seen
Speaker 2: from every vantage point in the building. So just be
Speaker 2: mindful when you're spending time there that you can be seen.
Speaker 1: If you're in the spa stop. I said, great, thank you.
Speaker 1: Wait so didn't you know that when it was going down? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's PG. I was like, I don't mind, like
Speaker 1: I'm viving more.
Speaker 2: I like, idio, you're real for that anyway, so that
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, striking them a two, strike them a three.
Speaker 2: These bloody packages that keep coming unsolicited. It'd be one
Speaker 2: thing if I could be like, hey, building manager, because
Speaker 2: what we have, We've got a concierge. You can pick
Speaker 2: a packages up three times a day, two thirty five,
Speaker 2: thirty eight, thirty right, and they send you text messages
Speaker 2: and emails when you have a package, so you know
Speaker 2: to come and get it. It's a beautiful well or system.
Speaker 2: I'm not there because I'm not expecting packages. So now
Speaker 2: it's every second day someone's sending something unsolicited that I
Speaker 2: did not account for. I'm wasting people's time. The fourth
Speaker 2: issue at the reception, everybody knows who I am.
Speaker 1: They see the packages, they see the name saw you
Speaker 1: at the logis? How was that? Saw you at this?
Speaker 1: How was that? Do you think my name is not?
Speaker 2: People aren't mumbling and cackling while the cleaning, while the
Speaker 2: queen's in the building, while queen's in the stoop, like
Speaker 2: my information is being circulated bad. They know I'm the
Speaker 2: Barbie girl with the box. They know I'm the person
Speaker 2: in the spa.
Speaker 1: They know the.
Speaker 2: Barbie girl with the box and the spa so so
Speaker 2: real for that spa. Right now, I'm living life, babe.
Speaker 2: Life is so short. It's so short you think I
Speaker 2: wud be eighty five. We're telling all these stories again
Speaker 2: and again and again.
Speaker 1: What will you be? Draight up? Drat up?
Speaker 2: So what I'm I will say is my building manager
Speaker 2: doesn't hate me yet.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: But if it keeps on going this way, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to start doing something, a remedy like the future
Speaker 2: annoyance that I'm going to cause by virtue of existing.
Speaker 1: You're a pest.
Speaker 2: You're a pest, a menace, a building, a problem.
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