The inscrutable po on 19/10/2006 at 06:20
I'm not necessarily looking for advice or sympathy. I'm telling you about my experience and I'm making observations of human behavior. :eek:
I'm certainly not going to get into a fight with every annoyance I run into. I'd be fighting with people several times a day. This guy, since this is his business for 25 years, also has experience in dealing with customers. He has a lot more experience being an asshole than I have dealing with assholes as I suspect he is a full time, year round, chair smashing asshole every day. He's already told me how he's doing this and that for me, little extras at no extra charge. He's coming at me with this shit every second I talk to him. It's hard to get in there and say, "Fucknut, why didn't you move the goddam chair?!!! Just move the chair and there's no problem. You think you're funny?".
I'll look like an asshole bringing up his accident with the chair after all the nice things he's done for me, after he tells me how much he appreciates the job. I also know he's going to look at the chair and say, it already has a broken part. This just happened to me last week where some old lady slammed the door of her Benz against my car. (lol, another story). I was gonna buy her story that she was in process of opening her door when I pulled in but I thought about it for awhile and decided she did it on purpose. The cops came by and said that my door already had scratches and that the license plate I wrote down wasn't on their records. Like I care if I already have scratches. Can I kick your car door, officer? Looks like you have some scratches.
Turtle on 19/10/2006 at 06:41
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It'd seem that the not wanting to upset people would be a product of being indimidated by them...
Sorry, I didn't realize we were living in Sixth-Gradeville, where confronting someone means fighting them.
Scots Taffer on 19/10/2006 at 06:44
Quote Posted by The inscrutable po
I'll look like an asshole bringing up his accident with the chair after all the nice things he's done for me
If I help you into your house with your groceries and then unpack them, even go as far as cooking you a nice meal with your groceries completely gratis, does that make it okay for me to take a shit on your carpet as I leave?
Reassess your frame of mind, he's a labourer working on your property - you're paying him for his work, not out of kindness. If his work was as sloppy as his practice, would you take issue with him then?
Also you don't have to say: "fucknut you broked chair", we are living in a civilised world where you can question the quality of his work practices without profanity. You also don't have to get into a fistfight to get customer satisfaction.
The inscrutable po on 19/10/2006 at 07:07
Gee you internet guys aren't scared of anything. I bet if you pulled into a biker bar with your Saab and one of the bikers in a drunken stupor mistook your Saab for an outhouse and shit on the roof, you'd walk right into the bar and demand fair compensation. And you'd do it without using profanity. Probably wouldn't use profanity as they pulled out your teeth with pliers either. So very gallant.
Scots Taffer on 19/10/2006 at 07:13
Props to RBJ and Turtle determining the destination of this thread, it went to fuck pretty quickly.
Seeing as you seem to be largely ignoring or misreading my advice in this thread, I'll do you the service of repeating a part of it:
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
There are ways [of dealing with intimidating types], but those ways are highly dependent upon the type of person you're dealing with.
So with a group of bikers not only would I be aware of the fact that they are likely to pound my skull in with a tire-iron for even getting up in their faces, but I'd also be saavy to the fact that they wouldn't respond to any query unless it was appropriately laced with profanity, and any such query would have be backed up with a bunch of leather-waistcoated buddies to boot.
Now I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish with such a foolish comparison, but it sure as fuck defeats the purpose of your question unless you neglected to mention the fact that your contractor was a Hells fucking Angel.
Fafhrd on 19/10/2006 at 07:15
If your cat goes missing you should fire them promptly.
More seriously, if he's a licensed contractor (which it sounds like he is) then I'm pretty sure he's obligated/required to reimburse you for any damage done to your property during the course of his work.
The inscrutable po on 19/10/2006 at 07:37
I'll do things my way.
Scots Taffer on 19/10/2006 at 08:30
If your sole intent was to share your experience and make observations of human behaviour and not to elicit advice, you suck at posting and should get out before I come by and brick YOUR FACE. >:|
Matthew on 19/10/2006 at 08:32
Did I take a wrong turn into LiveJournal?
Shayde on 19/10/2006 at 11:14
Guyz I have this terrible itch in my vagina! Just wanted to tell you, don't comment or anything. kthxbye
