{"id":772,"date":"2003-01-12T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=36"},"modified":"2008-12-19T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T20:44:52","slug":"76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Northland Plaza:<\/p>\n<p>I have a slight issue with one of your maintenance men. This is not a complaint, since I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=35\">given up complaining<\/a> for this year. Specifically, I&#8217;m wondering if this particular person has it out for me (I&#8217;m recalling a specific incident involving me, the back hallway, phone sex, and him lurking quietly around the corner), or if my distress is merely a byproduct of his overdiligence. Here is a transcript of our conversation from last Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"small\"><strong>Him:<\/strong> I&#8217;m going to open these vents. <em>(points to ceiling above Dave&#8217;s desk)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> OK. Will that make it warmer or cooler?<br \/>\n<strong>Him:<\/strong> Cooler. I&#8217;m opening the vents.<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> Is there any way to avoid that? I have to run my space heater all day as it is.<br \/>\n<strong>Him:<\/strong> It&#8217;s 76 in here.<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> I&#8217;m cold all the time.<br \/>\n<strong>Him:<\/strong> It&#8217;s 76 in here.<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> Did someone complain?<br \/>\n<strong>Him:<\/strong> No, but it&#8217;s 76 in here. <em>(turns digital thermometer towards me: 75.8)<\/em> See, it&#8217;s 76.<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> Right, but&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Him:<\/strong> We like to keep the offices at 72.<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> It&#8217;s cold in here. And if no one has complained&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>Him:<\/strong> What about this guy? <em>(points at Dave&#8217;s chair)<\/em> Do you know who he is?<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> <em>(pause)<\/em> Um, yes.<br \/>\n<strong>Him:<\/strong> We should ask him.<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> He&#8217;s out of town until next Friday.<br \/>\n<strong>Him:<\/strong> We should ask him. I mean, all this computer equipment. It&#8217;s 76 in here.<\/div>\n<p>It seems too clueless to be calculated, but perhaps that&#8217;s his genius. Anyway, I guess what I&#8217;m saying is this: it&#8217;s cold in here. Could you get someone to turn up the heat?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<br \/>\nJenni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Northland Plaza: I have a slight issue with one of your maintenance men. This is not a complaint, since I&#8217;ve given up complaining for this year. Specifically, I&#8217;m wondering if this particular person has it out for me (I&#8217;m recalling a specific incident involving me, the back hallway, phone sex, and him lurking quietly &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=772\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/so9qt-76","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}