How can people live like this? Landlady finds filthy flat of "professor at famous university"

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath went to Khon Kaen after a a video clip was posted of a flat in an appallingly filthy state on a site that translates in part as "So You Wanna Be Famous".

 

Well she is now, even if her name was not used. 

 

The flat was being rented by a woman who just graduated and become a professor at a "well known university" in the NE Thai city.

 

She left owing two months rent and the landlady at the block had been unable to contact her by phone or Line text. 

 

So she decided to break in and found trash and sanitary towels everywhere. And the furniture was all damaged. 

 

The woman had been renting for ten years at 4,400 baht a month. 

 

When reporters arrived the trash had been put into 20 bin bags and all that was left was a TV, Fridge and water heater - all damaged.

 

External video click HERE

 

There was still fungus growing on the fridge, dead jingjoks inside and cobwebs on the ceiling inside and out on the balcony. Today the block's janitor was due to make a further assessment of the damage.

 

The owner said the renter had got her degree and she'd seen a post on Facebook of her being accepted onto the faculty staff at the uni. 

 

She was just a normal woman who she'd usually just see at weekends.

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

But towards the end of last year she started getting behind with the rent though after being contacted she would always transfer the money promptly. 

 

However contact had ceased in the last two months. The landlady wanted her to vacate the room because there were a lot of new students who wanted a place. 

 

She was promised a new room. 

 

The landlady said she was not reporting the matter to the police but wants the 8,800 baht due and the damage to be paid for.

 

She hoped that the shaming online would get her to contact her again. 

 

She lamented how people can live in such a mess saying that tenants had a responsibility as well as landlords. She warned other landlords.  

 

 

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[simon43]

So let me understand this.  You graduate and can then immediately become a professor at a 'famous' university?

 

 

[ezzra]

Ok if this 'professor' lived like that alone but imagine her being married and having a family and living like this, i pity her husband to be...

[2long]

"dead jingjoks inside and cobwebs"

Come on, we all do it to a certain extent... we all use Thai when we are communicating in English! ????

[Liverpool Lou]

17 minutes ago, simon43 said:

So let me understand this.  You graduate and can then immediately become a professor at a 'famous' university?

Perhaps you need to understand that "professor" is, probably, just a loose translation of "lecturer" in a Thai-to-English report.

[Excel]

22 minutes ago, simon43 said:

So let me understand this.  You graduate and can then immediately become a professor at a 'famous' university?

 

 

Well she was renting for 10 years so perhaps it could be she worked her way up from a bachelors, masters, doctorate to professor during those 10 years.

 

Or she did what some do in Thailand and simply buy there way there ????.  

[bkk6060]

Looks like a hoarder with mental problems.

[RafPinto]

BritmanToo, do you know her?
You know most of the students.

Imagine going home with her, after a night out.

Honey, let's take a shower and watch a movie before going to bed????

[lopburi3]

40 minutes ago, simon43 said:

So let me understand this.  You graduate and can then immediately become a professor at a 'famous' university?

 

 

Suspect usual great reporting.  Google translates from Thai as "Currently applying to be a professor at a famous university....".

[worgeordie]

Well it was reported on Farcebook ,so must be true....????

Professor in waste management ,  

regards Worgeordie

[talahtnut]

Professor of Entropy and Skedaddle.

[JeffersLos]

I've seen worse in Scotland. 

[Bert got kinky]

4 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

I've seen worse in Scotland. 

 

That would be a palace in Huyton.

In fact, it is said that if God wanted to give the world an enema, Huyton would be where he would put the tube. ????

 

 

[spidermike007]

Why such a fuss about her being a uni teacher? You know what they say about teachers and critics both?

 

They know how these things are done, they see it being done all the time, but they cannot do it themselves. 

[Lacessit]

I feel this could be generational.

Many years ago, I caused great amusement for a former GF when she discovered all the coat hangers in my wardrobe faced the same way.

My Thai GF was horrified when we stayed with my son and his wife in Australia. Putting it kindly, they are messy grubs.

Interestingly, they have converted to neat freaks now that they are selling the house. They must have filled four dumpsters with the <deleted> they had.

[KhunBENQ]

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Perhaps you need to understand that "professor" is, probably, just a loose translation of "lecturer" in a Thai-to-English report.

And here it is obviously a complete rubbish translation.

From the Thai language headline, the dictionaries say:

อาจารย์สาว aa-jaan săao

That's a young ("girl") teacher ; instructor ; schoolteacher

Google calls it: young teacher (missing the female part, "saao" is a young girl)

 

"professor"

 

[SAFETY FIRST]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

 

 

6 hours ago, webfact said:

being rented by a woman who just graduated and become a professor

I've always found GoGo bar girls to have the cleanest rooms.

 

I've met a few freelancers on Soi Buakhao to have filthy rooms. 

 

[xylophone]

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

Ok if this 'professor' lived like that alone but imagine her being married and having a family and living like this, i pity her husband to be...

Your post reminded me of this funny:

 

[trainman34014]

Only have to ride around our local Villages to see how many of them live in what looks like Rubbish Dumps.  Probably find that's the sort of background this Woman comes from so to her it's normal behaviour !

[The Hammer2021]

9 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Perhaps you need to understand that "professor" is, probably, just a loose translation of "lecturer" in a Thai-to-English report.

And that makes a difference  how? Or do you mean her degree was rubbish?

 

[ThailandRyan]

21 hours ago, 2long said:

"dead jingjoks inside and cobwebs"

Come on, we all do it to a certain extent... we all use Thai when we are communicating in English! ????

Dinner that was leftover maybe.....

[proton]

My Mrs probably if I did not tidy up and chuck rubbish out when she is not looking. She's a teacher as well!

[Onerak]

10 hours ago, Excel said:

Well she was renting for 10 years so perhaps it could be she worked her way up from a bachelors, masters, doctorate to professor during those 10 years.

It should be assistant professor with a PhD degree but in America also people will refer to the person as a professor (not assistant professor). That's what in the USA. After PhD you start at an Assistant professor level. And within two years with two papers from you PhD thesis, you could become an Associate professor. From Associate professor to Professor is a long haul unless you become a voracious paper publishers. 

[PETERTHEEATER]

10 hours ago, simon43 said:

So let me understand this.  You graduate and can then immediately become a professor at a 'famous' university?

 

 

Yes, hence the poor standard of higher education....

[Excel]

10 hours ago, Onerak said:

It should be assistant professor with a PhD degree but in America also people will refer to the person as a professor (not assistant professor). That's what in the USA. After PhD you start at an Assistant professor level. And within two years with two papers from you PhD thesis, you could become an Associate professor. From Associate professor to Professor is a long haul unless you become a voracious paper publishers. 

As I said, perhaps she bought her way to it, this is Thailand after all.

[ThailandRyan]

28 minutes ago, Excel said:

As I said, perhaps she bought her way to it, this is Thailand after all.

And therfore had no money to pay the rent...

[Excel]

Just now, ThailandRyan said:

And therfore had no money to pay the rent...

Well she was paying it for 10 years so perhaps as she was clever she sub-let it for 9000/month and hence the difference went towards payment for her professorship, 

[ThailandRyan]

9 minutes ago, Excel said:

Well she was paying it for 10 years so perhaps as she was clever she sub-let it for 9000/month and hence the difference went towards payment for her professorship, 

Could be....10 years of college is a long time to get your degree, and then a doctorate.....

[Excel]

Just now, ThailandRyan said:

Could be....10 years of college is a long time to get your degree, and then a doctorate.....

Really ?  Bachelors 3/4 years here + MSc 1/2 years + doctorate which with research could be 3 years so that is 8/9 years without the additional papers to earn her a professorship and as that could be a significant time frame then that is why I suggested she actually paid for it to achieve that level in only 10 years.  But I guess you may be correct also if she was "banging" some of the existing professors in order to take a shortcut.

[foreverlomsak]

13 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Could be....10 years of college is a long time to get your degree, and then a doctorate.....

slow learner maybe, that slow she didn't have time to clean up