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WeWork founder Adam Neumann suggests his apartment tenants plunge own toilets

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I have to admit I don't understand this. I've rented for nearly 45 years and have never called maintenance to plunge my toilet. Who does that? I mean, yeah, if you need a plumber you call maintenance...

The new lease I'm about to sign explicitly requires me to own a plunger, manage my own toilet, and if I call the building management to plunge my toilet, it's $45 an hour.

It's easy to understand. Adam doesn't plunge his own toilet. When you're dealing with these types nine times out of ten it's projection and this is exactly that.

Wait. People call maintenance to plunge a toilet? when I rented I did call maintenance for some things, but I would always give a drain a go with a plunger or drano before I call maintenance. But it would have to be a larger issue to go to maintenance. I think Neumann might be revealing some of his own pathologies here.

Yes. I did maintenance at apartments for college students (which is probably a factor), and plunging their toilets was a regular occurrence. We kept a plunger on the golf cart for this reason, they often didn't own one.

One side note since you mentioned Drano: it made things more difficult for me because they'd use it on more than just clogged toilets: clogged sinks and bathtub drains, which are caused by hair. Using Drano when it's already backed up just dilutes the Drano, rendering it next to useless. I'd have to go fetch gloves and then rigorously clean the acid off my needlenose pliers after removing the hairball.

From the interview: when you go tour a new apartment building as a "future tenant" and they show you the pool and the gym etc. Adam wants to instead introduce you to current tenants and let THEM sell you on why this building is so great. i.e. rent is a HUGE spend for everyone but all apartment buildings these days are the SAME. What if they were like we-work and you got SO MUCH MORE for your money + equity. I like his idea of FLOW.

who doesn't plunge their own toilet? i guess people who fail up into a 350m VC investment from a16z.

The a16z podcast has the whole talk if you want to listen to it...

Adam Neumann is the “tech” version of Simon Leviev.

What I find amusing about the article is not Neumann's declaration, but that it merits an article. The writer is used to call someone to plunge her own toilet?

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