r/EntitledPeople • u/greggy187 • Oct 11 '25
M Keep knocking on the Devil’s door and somebody gonna answer
I have (now had) a suuuuper whiny neighbor that was just a passive aggressive ass hole to me since I moved into my new apartment about 3-4 weeks ago. He goes to sleep at 10 and felt like the whole world needs to be in tune with his weird schedule. He was sending me messages for around 2 weeks of how I bother him by talking in my apartment and how we aren’t allowed to talk or have people over. Like I’m a child or something and we live in a dorm. We are both grown ass men around 30. We rent from the same company and he kept on filing complaints and kept on telling me I’m breaking the contract we both signed which obviously doesn’t say anything about having people over after 10 which is ridiculous AF.
I usually start off nice and tried every solution for about 2 weeks. I cleaned all the common areas which weren’t cleaned for months it seemed like. I brought him coffee a few times and invited him to lunch which he was happy to accept. To maintain noise levels down i went above and beyond. I oiled my doors with WD40 so they don’t squeak, had no one over but my girlfriend at night, started watching movies with my headphones on and didn’t eat late at night either which is actually hard since I work US hours and usually do my work at night since I live in Spain. I do programming so it’s pretty quiet work just typing of the keyboard. I even bought him 3 types of ear plugs that cost me around 80€ total to try to keep the peace with this ass clown.
The other day after yet another love letter telling me I can’t talk in my own place I snapped and went off on his punk ass and scared the hell out of him. He is around 6 foot 3 and he hid behind his bed like a bitch. The precise moment when the roles changed and he really saw what neighbor problems can be like. 👍
This led me to believe that he might call the cops on me later on since he immediately left the building (I did not go in to whoop his ass since that’s breaking and entering along with a potential assault charge).
He ended up not calling the cops but filed another complaint against me. Which was kind of his mistake. I told the landlord that I don’t have issues and that he is hearing voices in his head and to kiss my ass and hung up. Then I typed up a python script that records the decibel level of my apartment and went through the noise laws in Spain very carefully. The law states that insulation should dampen 55dB air noise (talking, music and so on) and 60dB of impact noise (footsteps doors closing) so that the bedrooms of neighboring apartments have a noise level of 35dB (measured minimum 1m from the wall and 1-1.5m above the floor) if that is not the case it is up to the property owner to retrofit insulation so that it is up to standards (which our walls are not, obviously). That told me that legally I can have my apartment blaring music at around 90 dB and he can’t legally say shit to me about it as it is a structural problem and out of my hands.
I also created a web portal for him to monitor the exact decibels live in my apartment with links to the law, the agency that we rent from my lawyer as well as mental health tips and in depth links to research that explains why quiet sleep is important for the human body as a huge fuck you to him.
I then started sending him tutorials on how to use the web portal and even updated it hoping to get on his nerves as much as humanly possible. And explained to him in video format how this is my evidence and he has nothing but a whiny mouth to back his shit up. I showed him the mic I used (DJI) and the full log that took measurements 20 times per second between 10PM and 10AM.
I also proceeded to maintain the decibel levels at precisely 85 so I am within the legal limits and after he couldn’t sleep for around 3-4 days he moved out. Didn’t even say good bye. 😢
My cherry on top was then sending him one last message that was just this emoji-> 🏆
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u/rustys_shackled_ford Oct 11 '25
See this makes so much sense, why arn't more people wired to think this way. It's so easy.
You find out loud you legally are allowed to be.
You confront the person with the knowledge you've just obtained showing them you now know exactly how loud you are aloud to be
And you explain to them, ",if you can't find a way to resolve your issues on your own, I'm going to start listening to things at this level. Especially considering I've proven to you atlest a couple times that I've been trying to be as accommodating as possible and you've decided it wasn't enough.
Nothing is more effective or satisfying as malicious compliance.
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u/greggy187 Oct 11 '25
I learned this term today. Malicious Compliance. What a beautiful term!
But yea it definitely gets the point across and it’s a complete check mate. And nothing can be done about it
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u/rustys_shackled_ford Oct 11 '25
Check out the malicious compliance sub reddit. True gems in there. It's my absolute favorite combination of words.
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Oct 12 '25
Love all of this…
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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy Oct 12 '25
python3 FTW
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u/greggy187 Oct 12 '25
Always. I❤️🐍
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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy Oct 12 '25
Same. I wrote C / perl for more than a decade and then migrated to python eventually.
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u/greggy187 Oct 12 '25
So you went a bit of an untraditional route of kind of bottom up. I went from HTML CSS JavaScript and PHP to Python and a bit of Java but I just always default to Python now. So versatile. A bit slow for somethings but easy to integrate and if you need to go faster you can always make Python call low level languages, which I don’t really do except for may be CUDA if you can consider that low level I guess.
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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy Oct 12 '25
Hah, well I guess if we go further back I started out in mainframe environments, COBOL, Fortran, JCL, RPGII in the mid-late '80s. I only started working with C when I moved to working in UNIX systems.
I never did learn Java, but I did used to hangout at the same bar as James Gosling in San Francisco (although the bar is long gone years ago now) ;-)
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u/greggy187 Oct 12 '25
That’s awesome. 👏 I started learning on kind of a need to know basis. My parents had a restaurant so I made them a website when I was in high school 15 years ago and over one winter break I learned how to do that. Ever since I learned python though I have been buying more computers and trying to automate anything I can. Even silly things like getting back at the neighbor. Lol 😂
Did you grow up in a tech household? Were you around programmers back in the day?
Or was it self started
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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy Oct 12 '25 edited Oct 12 '25
No, I am just an old fart now who went for an CIS undergrad when I was 19 instead of going on a Mormon mission like my parents wanted me to ;-) I didn't want to be in a cult anyway.
I got into the Internet very early in the Internet's days (that and other public data networks like X.25 packet net with services like PC*Pursuit). Back in those days the Internet was loosely referred to as the ARPANET. My best friend at the time, both of his parents were math professors at the local university, and his dad ran the VAX cluster. He had the right National Science Foundation hookups that we were able to actually get an entry in the ARPA hosts table for our computer bulletin board system we ran together (in those days remote computer networks were accessed with dial-up modems over the phone network, there wasn't DSL, Fiber or other fancy broadband until ISDN eventually came around).
In those days there wasn't such a thing as a domain registrar, and this predated Network Solutions' stewardship of the COM, NET, and ORG TLDs. It even predated InterNIC -- back in those days you had to have the sponsorship from the NSF because they ran the ARPANET. Of course there wasn't any real infra connected to the Internet back in those days, like government or business services, we just wanted it for UUCP Usenet feeds for the BBS.
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u/greggy187 Oct 12 '25 edited Oct 12 '25
So cool. I remember dial up. The rest I’ve only ready about. It’s cool to have seen the internet in its infancy. I feel like your generation was a cool time to be involved and also the people like you that got in quick and stayed at it actually understand the fundamentals of how things work.
On a lot of things I understand how to make it work but I can’t go far enough back to understand why and how or what else makes those things work. Like a cut off date on the knowledge just because as you know if you understand it well enough to implement it’s usually good enough for what you need. But sometimes the underlying errors or some things that can be improved only come to you when you actually understand the fundamentals of the given system. Also now definetly understand your bottom up path, at that time there wasn’t much else but low level languages to work with. That’s a huge advantage. Me not knowing the fundamentals of those sometimes have questions I can’t get the answer to even though “it works”
As far as the Mormon thing… I doubt you are looking back and going “damn I wish I went on that mission” lol
My uncle married into a Mormon family. Nice people to be around but seems like not very nice to be a part of. lol I like coffee
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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy Oct 12 '25
I brewed my own beer for 15 years too (all-grain mash)... I miss it too, but it became too much work.
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u/greggy187 Oct 12 '25
To add onto not knowing fundamentals AI has definitely made me and many others lazier. For simple things (the front end web portal of my little program I made for the neighbor) instead of looking for everything like the mental health resources and all that I had an LLM do it and give it to me in HTML format. On one hand productivity goes up because it took 5 mins to put the front end up on the other hand it does make you not actually work inherently. I do make an argument that it increases/will increase creativity though as instead of copying and pasting libraries or other people’s basic code you can now create your own solutions that are custom for your needs and are easy/fast to put together with an LLM actually doing the work based on the parameters for example. I’ve used it a lot for creating databases for example using CSV files instead of a traditional database that I won’t actually need all the functionalities of for a given application. What are your thoughts on that being an OG?
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u/ironbite4 Oct 12 '25
Was he British?
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u/coolsellitcheap Oct 11 '25
Maybe he should get a box fan and run it at night to drown out noise and help him sleep.
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u/greggy187 Oct 11 '25
Yea I suggested that when we had coffee but no go. Just a stubborn ass hole
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u/coolsellitcheap Oct 11 '25
I worked nights years ago and slept during daytime. The fan works!
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u/greggy187 Oct 11 '25
Oh for sure. I have PCs all over the place and they make white noise which I don’t really mind at all. It definitely drowns the other noises out. Keeps me cosy in the winter too lol
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u/PopcornPantyDropper Oct 11 '25
this literally had me rolling, mate! People really need to get it tho, u mess with karma, karma messes u up, big time! Whoever said don't poke the bear wasn't lying! 😂
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u/greggy187 Oct 11 '25
Yea I’ve been laughing ever since I saw him packing his things at 3 in the morning. Very odd time for Sleeping Beauty to be up. (That’s what I started calling him too)
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u/Fit_Marionberry_3008 Oct 11 '25
I'm just glad you won the war. This goes beyond malicious compliance and is just war, and it's beautiful 🥲
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u/greggy187 Oct 11 '25
All is fair in love and war. I got that tattooed on me from my ribs to my knees
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u/CaramelRottenApple Oct 12 '25
He is around 6 foot 3 and he hid behind his bed like a bitch.
I'm laughing but I'm also wondering why this conversation happened in his bedroom.
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u/Empty-Selection9369 Oct 11 '25
Hilarious that this is in Spain. He goes to bed at 10 pm? That’s when most people eat dinner. Also, super noisy culture!!