Electricity drama with my apartment

[marina]

Okay, so in order to take this out of the "What fucked up your day?" thread, I created a new thread for this because it just got a little weirder than it already was. So here's the back story, brought over from WFUYD?, cut and re-edited for clarity out of context.

Originally Posted by marina

Last month and this month my electric bill has been 180 dollars, and our usage shows a nearly 300kwh increase from 600 to almost 900kwh a month.

Our unit used to be a 5 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment but it was split into our 900 sq foot 2 bedroom and two other units. The re-wire was shoddy, I know that for sure because of how many plugs in our house don't work and how we have switches to nothing in both our bedrooms. I wouldn't be surprised if the neighbor is on our same circuit. The usage jumped the same month she moved in. The apartment had been empty the whole time before that.

We don't have heat or AC, we don't have a dishwasher, and we've been turning our computers off every time we leave the house or go to sleep. We shower together and because I abhor hot water, it's usually tepid at best, there's no explanation for this high of a bill.

And here's the update:

This morning I turned off all the breakers except the one that the fridge is on before we left the house.

This afternoon when I got home, every single breaker was back on.

However, all the frozen stuff in my fridge was mushy, my ice was barely cool water.

I can only think that someone complained that they weren't getting power, the maintenance guy came into our house and switched all the breakers back on.

But what I don't understand is why the fridge breaker was turned off. Was it to spite me for fucking up my neighbor's electricity (electricity that I obviously pay for by virtue of my breaker box turning it off) ? Was it not the maintenance guy and whoever flipped them initially was just flipping switches the opposite direction? Of so, was it the maintenance guy who came back in and flipped the fridge back on?

Ether way, this prooves to me that I am paying for my neighbors electricity. I've emailed the apartment manager asking for an explanation.

Do you guys have any experience or advice about this?

I know that it was illegal for anyone to come into our apartment without leaving a work slip behind justifying an emergency.