Not a workplace ...
Probably worse, given that it's the house I live in. At least at work you are paid to be there (mostly) and this may lessen the blow of incompetent management. Where I currently live my landlady is live-in, and I'm refusing to speak to her at the moment on the grounds of ongoing incompetence and blatant hypocrisy.

1) The shower hasn't worked properly in months, alternating between hot and cold while you're under it.

2) The phone line has been down for about two months now, and her solution was to tell us, the tenants, that if we wanted it sorting we should ring up ourselves, despite it all being in her name.

3) The house is messy and it's largely been her fault over the last couple of months (yes, before that we were to blame but recently we have mended our ways and it really is just her).

4) We've not been billed in about 5 months, which sounds great except we know the bills are there, waiting, she just hasn't released them (have you ever heard of a landlord like that??), so she's losing money.

So she'll complain that "because the house / kitchen (especially) is messy, she's stressed and can't concentrate on studying" (or something). Which also means she can't deal with repairing the house and getting it up to scratch. She lives here, you'd think she'd be bothered by the crap that's wrong and the fact she's out of pocket but no. Apparently we're due for the bill anytime now (a huge sum I'm sure) her exams are over, but during exams she claimed not to have time to sort things out, yet somehow found time to go out dancing 12 nights in a row, then complain how much she ached from it.

The worst of it though is the line she fed me about not lining my curtain because she'd "supplied one, and I'd said it was good enough, and now I've decided it's not, if I want a nice thick lined one (which the rail would never support anyway) then I can buy it myself, because that's what any other landlady would do" ... but any other landlady would have sorted all the niggling problems with the house at the first sign of trouble too, so it's hypocrisy all the way.

Thank fuck I didn't sign any kind of contract.

Length? 10 months so far, another 2 and I can move out :)
(zenmeban thinks the weather could be better, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:28, 3 replies)

surely if you didn't sign a contract
you don't have to wait another two months

find another place (or not) and tell her you are moving out immediately because of the list of problems.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:31, closed)

it would be nice if it was that easy
but not realising the problems that living here would entail at the start of the year i agreed to pay rent in three instalments. the last of which having already been paid, moving out now would mean losing 2 months of rent and im not THAT desperate when i can, in fact, just not talk to her ...
(zenmeban thinks the weather could be better, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:34, closed)

fair enough :-)

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:36, closed)