The inscrutable po on 21/10/2006 at 17:42
Stupid cunts! I told you my reading was backed up by personal experience.
Learn how to read.
Rug Burn Junky on 21/10/2006 at 17:44
Seems to me that your "personal experience" consists a lot of you being taken advantage of because contractors thought you were a pushover.
That's simply a fact.
The inscrutable po on 21/10/2006 at 17:59
Actually, I'm quite the ball buster. I return a lot of things to stores and I raise a lot of hell. I don't go after people who I have no chance of winning against. The problem as I see it is in the word "independent". The contractors are "independent contractors". They are their own bosses and they are only responsible for doing things they feel like doing. They show up with a work gang of young, strong men. Unless I can pull their license I have no chance against them and I've already called the police. Nobody knows where these lisences come from. Nobody tells me shit. They're all buddies and I'm an outsider making trouble.
To that other person who said that maybe that maybe the guy picked up on my attitude and was having some fun... Far as I know you're accurately descibing the situation. The only problem is you seem to have contractor mentality. You think the guy has a right to take revenge on my possessions because he felt insulted. He has no such right, idiot. If I go to a store and cashier doesn't like my "attitude" do you think the cashier has the right to scratch up my car? Of course not. Cashiers are not allowed to scratch cars or poke holes in my meat packaging. That stuff is clearly a fireable offense and they'll be fired if not arrested. Same thing should apply to contractors but the difference is they don't have a boss. They're their own bosses and the cops don't want to touch them because then the cops might get hurt. Cops only want to stop speeders and maybe arrest some junkie who's breaking into a store. No way do they want to deal with some working man who happens to be a total asshole unless he stabs someone at which point, thank you very much, it's too fucking late for me.
I get aggravated when I can see bad things coming and i could see this shit coming when I got "talked" into buying this house. I did not want this house. I wanted to live in a newer, smaller house that wouldn't need much work but no... and now it's totally up to me to deal with these awful problems and total assholes. Yea, I do have the weight of the world on me. I may not be the prime minister of Israel, but I never signed up for this job and i don't like it. I don't like to go looking for trouble.
Low Moral Fiber on 21/10/2006 at 18:10
Quote Posted by The inscrutable po
...I got "talked" into buying this house. I did not want this house. I wanted to live in a newer, smaller house that wouldn't need much work but no...
Quite the ball buster.
Stitch on 21/10/2006 at 18:14
Quote Posted by The inscrutable po
They're likely to wipe their hands on expensive tapesestries and so forth rather than ask for a towel. It further says that contractors have walled up pets (by accident), have caused marriages to end because of the stress they induce, often have sex with the wife.
Had my high school career counselor been you I wouldn't have missed my true calling in life :(
Rug Burn Junky on 21/10/2006 at 18:17
Quote Posted by The inscrutable po
stuff
You've now written 2481 words about why you're such a doormat for these guys.
The next word you write will not make anyone care 1/2481th more.
That's simply a fact.
The inscrutable po on 21/10/2006 at 18:18
I'll explain it to you.
You see, Low Moral Fiber, a person can find himself in a position where he doesn't have a lot of options. That's when you can't do any ball busting. Lets say your car breaks down when your five hundred miles from home. You don't know anybody, don't know any of the local mechanics. You're going to have to deal with the locals. You're not going to be able to drive around getting estimates for your car because obviously your car is broken and you don't have transport. You have few options.
Of course the people in com chat will tell you it's your fault for getting yourself in that position. "Shoulda bought a new car before you left." they'd say or "Folks aint got no business goin outta town." Always good advice and friendly help from the folks at TTLG Comm Chat.
Rug Burn Junky on 21/10/2006 at 18:20
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Renzatic on 21/10/2006 at 18:24
Quote Posted by The inscrutable po
Unless I can pull their license I have no chance against them and I've already called the police.
Lets see if I've got this organized in my head, here. They're careless and break your chairs, you're angered over said chairs and brood over it for a few days, but never once confront them because you're afraid of the burly contractor types. So in the end, after a few days of fretting and making no effort to talk to them even once, you've just called the police to let them handle it?
So is that it in a nutshell? Am I missing something here?
The inscrutable po on 21/10/2006 at 18:28
Yea Stich, it's a great job, but there is a downside. Before you fuck the wife you'll have spiders crawling on you. You'll have to stick your hands in other people's shit and there's always a chance the person you work with is connected to somebody who can fuck you up bad even though he looks like pussy. It's not all glory and fucking and walling up annoying pets.
Some people have the balls to just not pay, some are armed and not averse to prison time. I'm a civilized person. I blame it on my parents and schooling. They always told me that people lived by rules and laws and I fell for it, expected life to be different once I got out of school. What can I say? It's all a big lie.
The chair is old and get this, the guy said he "loves me like a brother". He thanked me for the job. Said he wouldn't fuck me. I've taken people at their word in the past. I've had to. I hate it. It's always a hard road when you take people at their word, but it means you can just keep badgering them til the end of time once they use that type of expression. It's up to me. It doesn't really pay well, but for the principle I might just follow this guy to the end of the world to get the new chair he's promised me. He already replaced the plastic bin. I'm just saying it all could have been different so easily. If only he had the decency to move my stuff before pitching bricks at it. All this aggravation could have been avoided.
And if you want to know why I didn't move it myself... he talked during the estimate of throwing things off a different side of the house. I didn't expect him to throw things off that side of the house. He showed up an hour early when I was still in bed and started working when I wasn't there.
