Groundswork, maintenance, all that stuff - Emails to Liam, Rictor, Madin, April

[xp_wildchild]

Email to Nelson, Liam
Subject: Groundswork and maintenance work

Hey - you mentioned a couple weeks ago that you were pretty willing to do some groundswork, and I could use some help and I know you're good with safety gear. You up for a quick convo re: part-time job and some grounds work? Also asking Julio and Madin, since J and A volunteered in my post like you did and M's got a skillset I think would help.

Email to Richter, Julio
Subject: Groundswork and maintenance work

Hey I did that post a few weeks ago and you said you'd be up for helping with some groundswork. I could definitely use the help. I just got approved for a couple of part-time people, are you interested? You'd be working probably with Liam for now, maybe a few other people later - Madin at least.

Email to Madin
Subject: Groundswork and maintenance work

Hey so.
I looked up what your previous situation was like in Australia and a lot of the juvenile detention places do vocational training like carpentry and fencing and vehicle maintenance and stuff. You can tell me to fuck off if this is invasive but - do you want a job? I just got funds to hire like two or three people, and I could use somebody who knows how to use the chainsaw who isn't sixteen.


Email to April
Subject: Groundswork and maintenance work

Hey you volunteered to help with some maintenance tasks before shit blew up for you. I didn't forget! I know you're in a Powers Situation right now, I put a reminder on my calendar to talk to you once you're better.

Comments

[xp_madin]

Email to Kyle

Hi,

You're right. We did some of this kind of stuff. And I can use a chainsaw. I'd appreciate it. I need a job but what with... everything, the only one I asked for was the one with the birdman and like, I screwed that up.

(I mean, Hope wants me to run an NGO or something but I told her I don't know how to do that and she didn't really take No as an answer and I think I need a job so she doesn't corner me and tell me to hire people to deliver services again because I do not think I can do that. I'd probably hire cultists or something at this point given my track record.)

Thank you.

[xp_liono]

Email to: Mr. G
Subject: Re: Groundswork and maintenance work

Yeah, absolutely! Money money money!

Liam

[xp_wildchild]

Email to Madin
attachments: invitation to mansion task list, invitation to calendar of maintenance, invitation to contractor list, etc.

Sweet.

Hope offered you a what? jesus. that's too much. I mean holy shit that is so much. does she know you didn't get to do school??????????

Speaking of a lot I just sent you like a bunch of google docs for this job. I mean it's really just a calendar and the repair inbox list and the not bigoted contractor list.

This one comes with money, IDK your green card status but I can make the money just be Cash, I have a Cash Fund. We hire a lot of day laborers to do jobs b/c the grounds are just so big. How are you at stonework?

[xp_madin]

SHE HAD A CHEQUE. I've never. Who uses cheques? It's 2023! What the actual. I have literally never seen a checkque in my life Kyle. Not even my parents used them.

I can learn stonework.

Um. Darcy told me her and the lawyers and spies made the paperwork problems go away? So bank transfer is fine. I have a bank account and everything.

[xp_wildchild]

Oh man the last time I used a check was like, I helped my dad with some stuff and he doesn't trust zelle or starkcard.

it's not that hard honestly if you know how to do carpentry it's just that but literally just hurts more if you drop stuff on your feet and your hands get messier.

Oh yeah, they do that with paperwork. Sick, I'll send you paperwork for direct deposit.

[xp_madin]

I need paperwork for that?? Can't you just transfer it?

[xp_wildchild]

Yeah I just need to send you the thing that says "here's my bank info so you can put my money in it" - I mean it's not paperwork paperwork but it is a form? I guess?

[xp_madin]

Can't you just use my phone number?

[xp_wildchild]

Noooooo

like, what?

[xp_madin]

I give you my phone number or my whatsapp and you tell your bank and then they sort out the transfer? I can't believe I have to know my bank details. I swear, I have been in villages in Uganda and places where all you need is my phone number to do this shit but I come to America and it's like, so hard to just move money around.

Why is that? Do your banks hate people?

[xp_wildchild]

I mean I can like, Zelle or Venmo but that's a one time thing? Like - your BANK is connected to your phone? What if you lose your #? That is fucking wild.

Yeah, American banks hate people. they like money, and loans, they hate everything else. We didn't have chip and pin until, uh, I think like, Target got hacked or something.

[xp_madin]

Of course your bank is connectected to your phone number! It's your PHONE NUMBER.

Anyway, I looked up the details and they're in the photo I texted you. I don't know why they make this that hard.

[xp_wildchild]

I dunno, we're like fifty different countries in a trenchcoat and all fifty of us hate the other 49. (I mean okay not really but damn, like Texas? hates California and Oregon. New York hates New Jersey, that kind of thing)

I got 'em, thanks.

TEXT to Kyle Gibney

[xp_rictor]

(1/2) I nearly missed this because I check email once per week, maybe. Sorry!
(2/2) But I am interested! I don't know how to fix things like plumbing or masonry, but please let me at those rose bushes. They were bothering me all summer.