Tbf, my building also uses an app for laundry. However they also have a machine in the laundry rooms where you can purchase an NFC payment card and put money on it. So you can use it without the app. Is that not the case with yours? If not, that’s 100% fucked
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months agoHow about this:
At the apartments I recently moved out of, there were no quarter slots on the washing machines. They were an app that required a bluetooth connection to pay.
So if you lived there and didn’t have a smartphone? Go fuck yourself, you don’t get to do laundry.
white_nrdy@programming.dev 2 months ago
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
quarter slots on the washing machines
Thank god they decided to keep these free where I live
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 months ago
That depends a bit on if it was advertised or not to have a laundry room. At least here in NL it is more common to have your own washing machine than to use a shared one so having a laundry room would be an extra to start with.
Still sucks though
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 months ago
The more insane thing here for me is the fact that there isn’t a washing machine inside your apartment.
(btw lived in such once, apparently the owner wasn’t very wealthy. We washed everything by hand)
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s actually incredibly common in US apartments for laundry to be a common area.
Having a unit in your apartment means you’re at least well-to-do. Poor people can mostly go fuck themselves.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Well-to-do? That is weird, because here not having a washing machine in the apartment would be weird even for a poor person.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
US hates poor people. I’m poor, I know from experience. They hold homelessness over us as a threat to keep in line.
We went from during the pandemic, treating “essential workers” as “heroes” while not increasing their pay for risking their lives, to now, straight back to how it used to be, screaming at overworked underpaid people “You’re lucky to have a job!”
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’ve never seen The Big Bang Theory?
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 month ago
No I have not, heard it is offensive and unfunny.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
That…
Is that not illegal?
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
America has next to no protections for tenants, only landlords.