Miscellaneous: Today, it's been three days since I started working 12-hour night...

By need sleep - 25/02/2015 16:53 - United States - Severna Park

Today, it's been three days since I started working 12-hour night shifts. My neighbors have now decided to renovate their house. They're focusing on the rooms sharing my wall. FML

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By Anonymous - 22/03/2016 18:37 - Puerto Rico - San Juan

Today, and the 4 months preceding it, my neighbors had been remodeling their house, which meant jackhammer noises every morning. The one day they take a break, my other neighbor decides to start a remodeling project. It'll only be two more months of this. FML

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Neighbours from hell

By Anonymous - This FML is from back in 2012 but it's good stuff - Canada - Oakville

Today, my new neighbours moved in. I've neither seen nor spoken to them yet; all I know is that they enjoy hammering at the walls for hours on end and repeatedly setting off the fire alarm. All this in the small hours of the morning. I got two hours of sleep. FML

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By Pete - 07/08/2018 13:00

Today, it's the third day I've been at home recuperating from ear surgery. My surgery was on the same day my neighbor started renovating. There's been hours of jack-hammering every day I've been home. FML

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By nosleep - 30/06/2017 16:46

Today, like every other day since I moved into this apartment a year ago, the construction crew started their noisy work at 5:30 in the morning. When I moved in I was promised it was a quiet neighborhood; only offices. What have they been building in the meantime? Three nightclubs. FML

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By Yellowsmellow - 22/09/2016 17:57 - Canada - Windsor

Today, and for the past two weeks, the people living directly above me have decided to add rearranging their furniture to their daily routines. Not only that but apparently, 6 a.m. is the most optimal time for them. FML

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Alexa, play "Make It Stop" by Low

By Sonotsuave - 22/10/2022 12:00 - United States - Mclean

Today, like every day since the new neighbors moved into the townhouse next door, their newborn won’t stop crying. The room the two toddlers and newborn are in apparently shares a wall with my bedroom, so I hear crying while I work remote, study remote, and try to sleep. FML

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YELP!

By Anonymous - 19/04/2022 12:00 - United States - Brookline

Today, my new neighbours moved in. I had always thought my bedroom wall was soundproof, because my old neighbours never complained about my loud night terrors. Turns out they were just stone deaf. The new ones can hear everything. FML

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Noise cancelling anyone?

By Anonymous - 27/11/2023 22:00 - Sweden - Lidingoe

Today, just like every workday for the last 6 months, the construction workers in my building made loud noises in the morning and woke me up almost 2 hours before I would otherwise have to get up. This will continue for one more year. I'm not a morning person, and I live in a protected historical building. FML

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Keep it down

By Help - 26/11/2011 06:03 - United States

Today, it's the second week into my new neighbors' routine. He works nights, she works days. He likes to blast out Slayer and Napalm Death all day, she likes to drunkenly sing out of tune to Adele all night. I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown. FML

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Landlords gonna landlord

By Anonymous - 07/01/2023 15:00 - Germany

Today, I remembered my landlord telling me that the renovation of our apartment would cause some "minor inconvenience during 3-5 days". We actually spent 5 WEEKS with no windows, no kitchen, and no bathroom, with construction workers appearing in my bedroom and telling me to get out at 7 a.m. FML

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slothlover63 12

Wednesday 25 February 2015 23:56

Guess you'll have to sleep on the sofa. Sorry op

cutycat136 28

Thursday 26 February 2015 0:00

Book yourself a hotel room for a day or two so you can at least get a little sleep.

Comments

martin8337 35

Thursday 26 February 2015 0:57

If course. That's the story of my life.

starile 19

Thursday 26 February 2015 6:58

In your lifetime, people are constantly renovating the shared wall to your bedroom so you can't sleep? Or is the "story of your life" that things suck at the most inconvenient times? Because then I'd be looking for your same comment in every single FML here.

Mii99 16

Thursday 26 February 2015 1:10

12 hrs! That's impossible!!

kaed 16

Thursday 26 February 2015 2:30

Haha, luck is definitely not in your favour.

vikky538 28

Thursday 26 February 2015 2:40

is it allowed to do renovate work in neibhorhood area during nighttime...?

Kitty_Kat44 31

Thursday 26 February 2015 2:48

He works nights. He's trying to get sleep during the day.

Miss_Moody23 19

Thursday 26 February 2015 2:48

The OP states he works night shift so I am guessing that the neighbour's are doing the renovations during the day when he is attempting to sleep.

HeWillBeLoved105 22

Thursday 26 February 2015 2:48

Sleep somewhere else

0mysteriousman0 22

Thursday 26 February 2015 4:00

You should focus on leaving your stereo full blast at the walls when you leave for work... So they have something nice to sleep to...

ToxicTyrael 26

Thursday 26 February 2015 23:04

I don't think that OP's neighbours know that OP is working night shifts. And I also doubt that they renovate just for his lack of sleep. So why should OP behave like a dick and break the law? They would call the cops...

NthDakotaBeaches 12

Thursday 26 February 2015 4:21

A good pair of noise canceling headphones (preferably Bose) will be costly but certainly worth it if these renovations will be continuing for the foreseeable future.

Kramer1998 20

Thursday 26 February 2015 4:24

Tell the neighbours your issue and if they're good people then they'll do it when you aren't home

BitterSavage 20

Thursday 26 February 2015 7:40

Yeah, but like everyone else said, it is more than likely that OP is sleeping during daylight hours. If they only renovate when OP isn't home, their project would take forever and they'd be working without any natural light.