Should a new job conflict with ongoing or previous commitments?
And are apartment managers allowed to ban air conditioning?
Reni
The job interview doesn't even get to the point of hours and availability. “Just show up for work.”
“I'm going to be out of town for five days in August.”
An obviously very important previously planned trip with or without the new job.
But there's a mob boss, and you don't have any “issues” with the mob boss or you're fired.
The boss doesn't want any bullsh-t, and to some extent that's understandable but there's no question of “When are you available to work?”
Only,
“I want you now and cancel all your other commitments or you're fired.”
Some people forget that the tenants are the legal and beneficial owners of something, in this case the living space that they have paid for, for the time that they have paid for it. Any lawful residence, especially, is a home, the highest form of private property, subject to the castle doctrine.
Sarah Mizes-Tan
Previously, Washington’s rental laws didn’t have much guidance on new cooling units. Slatter said that landlords could refuse to let a tenant install one. The new law, by contrast, states that renters can now install a portable AC unit, as long as a landlord hasn’t explicitly written a ban into the lease.
The new law actually allows no such thing. Instead it imposes additional burdensome requirements and restrictions on portable A/C units in apartments. Some of these inner city brick buildings are real cookers without air conditioning.
Some renters do drugs or smoke marijuana, leaving the whole unit with an irremediable foul odor, or otherwise cause massive damage to ceilings, carpet or walls. It would never even occur to most renters that a landlord would possibly object to a tenant-owned portable window-mounted A/C unit, unless perhaps there are wiring or electrical issues.
You have to “use” the place you rent after all, tromp in and out, lock and unlock the doors and windows like you own it, and you can't avoid causing normal wear and tear over time, if an A/C unit could possibly cause more damage than greasy elbows resting on a windowsill.
It looks like it's time to make double sure the current rent is paid up in any of these places and all the housekeeping chores are done and look for somewhere else to live. I may not need an A/C unit, but I know don't need a lawyer fighting for one on my behalf while the maintenance man is tampering with it, and if apartment managers in the area have any strong opinions about A/C, then they don't need my rent money. These aren't family friendly places and they don't respect family commitments. Cut the lease, pack a trailer and move. Don't live in a Democrat sanctuary city. There are much cheaper places you can own not rent.