Strange roommate experiences
Hey,
I wanted to share a story about one of my cu(rre)nt roommates - don't know if this is quite common or if any of you have had bad luck with roommates too. Feel free to share your stories.
Anyways. So I'm half-way through my Private Equity summer internship in a major East Coast city (Boston/DC/Miami) and I've been sharing an apartment with a couple of other guys. I'm the youngest; they all have normal jobs. Well, except this one Argentinian guy.
He's 25ish, didn't go to uni and has been unemployed for a long time. It's my fifth week here and I have never seen him go out - not as in partying, but literally leave the building. He plays LOL/WoW or whatever the fk games on his computer & playstation non-stop. All. The. Time. I mean, I leave for work at 7:30 and he's the only one who doesn't have to go to work, so he sleeps. When I come back he's playing and doesn't go to bed until 3 in the morning. During the weekends, he wakes up, plays, plays and plays. He doesn't go to pool parties, bbqs or anything, not even for a fricking walk. Last Saturday, I went to bed at aroung 1am, and woke up at 10am - he was still playing and went to bed at 1pm.
Now you may think: how does he pay for rent? Where does he get his food from?
My theory is that he's tricked his family into believing he's studying for some sort of degree, but instead keeps the money and wastes away his days playing against 13 yo Korean kids online. His WhatsApp status reads as follows: "New job! Lets hope for the best...". As for the food, he just orders delivery every single day, which is the only time he gets up from the couch. Oh, he also leaves once a day to smoke pot in the building staircase. Classy, I know. We can't stand him and don't know what to do. He doesn't leave the living room, doesn't clean up his pizza/burger trash after he's done until a few days later and he's annoying af - an overall moron. He doesn't shower either - he took one yesterday and admitted it was his first shower in two weeks. He truly is the lowest of the lowest untermensch.
Anyways, if you come up with any proposals as to how to kick him out, let me know.
PS: I almost forgot - he got married in the Philippines when he was 18 yo and still hasn't officially gotten a divorce.
PPS: Just to give you a more visual image of this guy: He walks around in those speedo-type boxers, shaves once a week and wears an NBA shirt every other day.
Thx
TL;DR: I don't know how to kick out my anti-hygienic, 24/7 WoW-nerd roommate from my apartment.
maybe you find another apartment and move out
I only have 3 1/2 weeks left. Plus, the amenities are great (gym, pool and restaurants) and it's located in the most modern part of town.
anyway you are working full-time, then just try to spend less time at home and don't pay attention much, it's not worth your time
Move into a different apartment in the complex with the other roommates you like and leave the kid hanging. It's not like he doesn't probably see it coming...
Sit it out then
Move out
Maybe he's a Twitch.tv streamer. Anyone can do it nowadays. But, I agree with the consensus: just move out.
I'm confused, how did you get hooked up with this guy in the first place? None of you knew him and just met him on Craigslist or something?
Weird situation. Just avoid him at all costs, you're almost out.
I'm the newest guy at the apartment. He's been there for a couple of months and he's been a pain for them for ~2 months now. At least I leave in less than a month, I don't know how the others ones can stand him for so long...
Wait it out dude, at least you can part ways and never talk to the twat again.
Literally had this same roommate in college. It was 2 of my other friends and we got matched with this fourth guy. He was a 28 yo Indian guy who literally did the exact same thing. He did not drink because he claimed "I want to live forever". Never left his room and had very different views on almost everything. The guy was so soft that calling him a Beta was a compliment. Dude was a Charlie. All you can really do is just get through it and take a story away from it from that time you had a weird roommate.
Side note, if you want to find a way to get him to clean up, change the Wifi password and hold it as leverage till the place is clean.
This dude is a Charlie too. Thanks for the WiFi advice, I'll definitely have to do this if the trend continues.
Do it now, pussy
charlie?
hahahahahaha, a "Charlie-Male," dude you win the website for the day. +1 Would have also accepted Gamma - Male.
Ah, learn something new everyday. I only surround myself with like-minded people, thus have never heard of a Charlie :)
Charlie is just incorrect and comes from poor understanding of the subject IMO
Exhaust all other measures before hand though. Someone that puts their life into a single game is probably unstable and mentally out of touch.
WoW+Appartment --> Asylum AMA
Agree to downgrade the internet service. Easiest way to get a gamer to leave crib asap. Or continuously have downloads and use up all the bandwich possible, so he lags.
holy shit that sounds terrifying....like some other guy said, maybe he makes his money through being a twitch or youtuber gamer or whatever the fk gamers do these days to earn some cash
The thing is... he doesn't usually play online. When he's on the computer I'm guessing he is (I've never played WoW or anything similar, so I'm not 100% sure), but when he's on the Playstation he isn't online gaming, so there's no way he's making money off of it.
He's actually prepping for the 20 million dollar DOTA2 tournament. While you suckers are chasing 100k a year, he's got his sights set on 8 figures.
Sit down and level with him. Tell him he's a loser and needs to get a job.
Probably supported by the US Gov and you suckers have to work.
Had a roommate who was really into bears and probably turning tricks with them. The place had paper thin walls. He was also a pathological liar and talked to himself basically every day. Yes I paid rent at two places at the same time for a month just to get out of there.
Sounds unbearable
You and the other roommates just need to man up and tell him to GTFO.
LMAO. Hilarious...You've got a knack for writing well, you should start a blog, this is hilarious haha
My brother had a roommate like that, the video gaming went on for months on end until my brother finally asked, 'Dude...are you ever going to get a job?'
Jam/crash the internet signal so he is not able to play anymore and I'm sure he will be out there faster than you can say "speedo!"
My God I can go on for hours about these lol I've had around 10 roommates so far and there were quite a few strange ones lol. I live in an apartment with four rooms and we share the kitchen and the bathroom
1) When I first moved to college I had these two roommates, they were brother and sister and all they did was meditate all day long. The minute they'd wake up they'd put on some relaxing music and just meditate. Cursing was forbidden. I remember I was Skyping with a friend from HS and we kept laughing and cursing and they knocked on my door and said "Please stop cursing, your foul language is disturbing us." LMAO 2) Next up was this one guy who didn't ever leave his room. Despite our toilet working perfectly, he had a bucket in which he pissed and shitted in and during the night he'd take a shower and empty the bucket in the toilet. I can only assume that he was some fanatical video game player or something, but half the time I thought he wasn't even in his room, but he was...quietly shitting in a bucket... lmao 3) The last guy was a junkie who moved in on a Thursday night and immediately brought his girlfriend with him and I start smelling weed, alcohol, cigarettes etc and I already know where this is going. So after 30 minutes or so I hear pounding coming from his room and I assumed that he was doing his girl despite 3 other people being in the apartment and the banging was so hard that the upstairs neighbors could hear it too. So I lean my ear against his door and I hear both of them talking and they weren't fucking, but this dude was so high on God knows what that he couldn't control himself and kept banging on the table with his hands. A month later his rent was due and he didn't have any money so he escaped in the middle of the night from the apartment on some Bond shit lol
My best advice is just GO DIRECT TO THE LANDLORD. If I had that done that in some of these cases (especially the first one) it would've made my life 10000x easier. He's a bum, just tell the landlord that he's destroying the apartment (thats when they get pissed off the most), he'll just come and investigate and kick him out
I agree with the other users that you should finish your internship and move out. There is really no point stressing over it because that guy is a real loser and he'll never go anywhere (literally and figuratively) in life.
Maybe he.'s a millionaire from buying bitcoin five years ago.
Jokes on you buddy -- he's worth eight figures.
Wasn't that weird or as strange as the stories above but I had a college roommate who would nap midday with his shoes on in the bed. Sometimes he'd even put a blanket over himself, shoes still on.
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