I think it depends. If your landlord is a person then yeah my experience hasn't been all that bad. But if you're landlord is a bureaucratic organization, they couldn't care less. There's just such high variance in how much of an asshole a landlord is. And I've never experienced a chill one that is in charge of an apartment complex.
To put something in perspective a few months ago they changed mailing policy so that only the lease holder could pick up packages (citing safety. This is grad student housing, so already need to get your ID scanned to pick up a package or specifically authorize someone. Note that family and children can and do get university IDs -- not just for this). I wrote an email explaining that this was illegal (citing the relevant laws [0]) and explained how this decreases safety since not everyone is living with a responsible or even kind lease holder (luckily I'm the lease holder but I've been in that situation before. Student housing...). I got an annoyed letter back doubling down on the safety issue, so I escalated the issue twice (including reporting to the post office). I assume some lawyer finally saw it and freaked out. Now the policy is anyone in the house can pick up a package ( - _ - ; ). I've had no such success with the laundry app (they took away any other payment[1])
But my overall point is that 95% of these issues could be resolved my people taking a little more time to understand the consequences of their decisions. People will spend more time and energy defending bad decisions than resolving them. We all make mistakes, so that's not an issue. Especially since doing "good" it incredibly hard. But I'm pissed when we deny cracks in the system or that problems exist. I'm even okay with acknowledging it is low priority. But denial and gaslighting is what I more often experience and that's when I get angry.
[0] why my local postman confirmed and even double checked for me
[1] fun fact: they once double charged me. I sent them the logs from the app, a screenshot, and a screenshot from my bank showing the charges. They claimed to have no record. So I issued a clawback. They didn't seem to care and tbh, there's lots of businesses like this because they have such dominance over the market.
I've seen clear illegal behavior from entire industries and reporting it does nothing. If you want an unambiguous example pull up archive and pick a 3d printer manufacturer and read https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-B... (hell, I even tried getting this on the radar of YouTubers. No one cares). The false advertising they do is worse than the example the fucking FCC gives (when I emailed a few companies trying to let them know in case they weren't aware they said what they did was legal. My email to then was really just "hey, I noticed this. Figured you didn't know, so maybe this will help so someone doesn't try to sue you". Not asking for anything in return because all I want is to stop playing these stupid games that eat up so much of my time)
To put something in perspective a few months ago they changed mailing policy so that only the lease holder could pick up packages (citing safety. This is grad student housing, so already need to get your ID scanned to pick up a package or specifically authorize someone. Note that family and children can and do get university IDs -- not just for this). I wrote an email explaining that this was illegal (citing the relevant laws [0]) and explained how this decreases safety since not everyone is living with a responsible or even kind lease holder (luckily I'm the lease holder but I've been in that situation before. Student housing...). I got an annoyed letter back doubling down on the safety issue, so I escalated the issue twice (including reporting to the post office). I assume some lawyer finally saw it and freaked out. Now the policy is anyone in the house can pick up a package ( - _ - ; ). I've had no such success with the laundry app (they took away any other payment[1])
But my overall point is that 95% of these issues could be resolved my people taking a little more time to understand the consequences of their decisions. People will spend more time and energy defending bad decisions than resolving them. We all make mistakes, so that's not an issue. Especially since doing "good" it incredibly hard. But I'm pissed when we deny cracks in the system or that problems exist. I'm even okay with acknowledging it is low priority. But denial and gaslighting is what I more often experience and that's when I get angry.
[0] why my local postman confirmed and even double checked for me
[1] fun fact: they once double charged me. I sent them the logs from the app, a screenshot, and a screenshot from my bank showing the charges. They claimed to have no record. So I issued a clawback. They didn't seem to care and tbh, there's lots of businesses like this because they have such dominance over the market.
I've seen clear illegal behavior from entire industries and reporting it does nothing. If you want an unambiguous example pull up archive and pick a 3d printer manufacturer and read https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-B... (hell, I even tried getting this on the radar of YouTubers. No one cares). The false advertising they do is worse than the example the fucking FCC gives (when I emailed a few companies trying to let them know in case they weren't aware they said what they did was legal. My email to then was really just "hey, I noticed this. Figured you didn't know, so maybe this will help so someone doesn't try to sue you". Not asking for anything in return because all I want is to stop playing these stupid games that eat up so much of my time)