[sudo-discuss] Problems with Johannes

[Matthew Senate]

Hey Marc,

Sorry to hear about that, and thanks for posting this.

I have been thinking about this type of behavior and entitlement a lot
lately (especially in the case of residents in the building).

Perhaps we should discuss at the meeting tomorrow that we require all
tenants of 2141 Broadway to ask permission for use of the common space
adjacent to sudo room and BAPS.

As the landlords have clarified many times, the other tenants have no right
to access our common space under the terms of their respective leases.
Their use of the space, over many months at this point, presents a unique
and problematic circumstance beyond general "prospective members" using the
sudo room and common spaces.

I'd consider phrasing like this (not final, just an idea):

'''
No other tenant of the building that holds sudo room's current space at
22nd and Broadway is allowed access to the sudo room and common space
adjacent to sudo room and the bay area public school, unless permission is
granted by consensus at two consecutive sudo room meetings, and listed
below:

* Customers and staff of Hair Candy
* William
* Sally
* Phil
* Robert (upstairs)
* Staff of the Sound Room (including Robert [downstairs])
* New tenants as of June 2014, until they are given a first notice to
request access by any sudo room member. Failure to request access within
one week of this notice revokes the tenant's permission to access and
requires access to be requested at any future sudo room meeting if desired.
'''

// Matt


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Marc Juul <juul at labitat.dk> wrote:

> Some of you may have noticed the blackboard message in the common room
> today. For those who haven't, it says:
>
> PLEASE MOVE. PLEASE TAKE YOUR ELITIST SELF-ABSORBED ASSES TO YOUR
> DREAMSPACE UPTOWN "OMNI" SPACE AND STOP PRETENDING TO REPRESENT "COMMUNITY"
>
> Last night at about 11:30 pm I was sitting in the common space, hacking
> away on my laptop, when Johannes (one of the tenants of the building) set
> up the projector and started watching a comedy tv show in the common room.
> It was just him near the projector and me and Anthony sitting in the
> couches near sudo room.
>
> Johannes went and turned off half the lights in the common room without
> communicating with us. I was bothered by this and went over and turned the
> lights back on. He then came over to me and angrily asked if I really
> _needed_ the lights on. I calmly responded "I prefer the lights on". He
> then got very upset and started ranting at nobody in particular (though of
> course in response to me) as he stomped around the room. I then said "It's
> polite to ask before changing the lighting in a room with other people".
> This is truly the extent of our interaction, and I communicated in a calm
> and neutral manner throughout. Johannes kept angrily ranting, then turned
> off the projector. He came back in and out of the room carrying a
> blackboard several times. It wasn't until I got up from the couch later
> that I saw the message he'd left.
>
> I realize this negative interaction could potentially have been prevented
> had I talked to Johannes first instead of just turning the light back on
> (though I have attempted this before when he's been disruptive in the
> common space, with limited success). The reason I bring this up on the list
> is that I am concerned by the disproportionate anger that this small
> incident triggered. I feel like it requires a serious lack of
> self-awareness / empathy to deal with the incident as Johannes did.
>
> I am documenting this in case this becomes a pattern of behavior that
> needs to be addressed in the future.
>
> --
> marc/juul
>
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