The Alchemist on 21/10/2006 at 18:33
We still talking about contractors or the mafia?
The inscrutable po on 21/10/2006 at 18:51
Quote Posted by Renzatic
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?
No. You're wrong about most everything. I didn't want to stop everything and confront him about the chair because I didn't want to get both of us worked up during the job. I might have thrown him out or he might have got pissed and left and then my main goal of getting this thing done would not have been achieved. I would have got up at 7am for nothing. That's why I waited til the end of the job.
Cops have never been helpful to me. I called them and told them what happened because no one else knows how to deal with this, no one can hook me up with an overseeing license bureau and i don't have a lot of patience with filling out forms that don't accomplish anything. I want quick results. It took no effort or time to break the chair. I expect it to take no time or effort to get compensated for it. If I have to put time into it and sue, I want money for my time and aggravation too and the courts aren't set up that way. Just watch people's court. You only get the value of the thing broken. Nothing for your time as far as I can remember. And court is a creepy experience for me as far as I can tell. I can think of nothing worse than to physically stand in front of assholes like this forum has and try to sincerely explain the problem. I'd be at the mercy of the judge and system, something I'm not familiar or confident in.
I did talk to the guy. He says he's going to get me a replacement chair. It'll take him some time. He's going to go to some barn sales and so forth but he's going to get one. That's his word.
Now it's up to me whether I'm going to take his word. I'm not thrilled with it, but I'm not ready to get a shotgun and find him. You might wonder why I didn't just deduct it from his fee. After the first day, he was 95% done, but I don't really know exactly how much done he is. One thing I do know is he tried to cover up the chair. Somebody arranged the wood so it looked undamaged in the hopes that I wouldn't realize what happened.
I now think that he called me in to talk for a specific purpose at about 1:30. He had this all planned out. He had his speech prepared going on thanking me for the job and telling me how he's going to come back the next day and clean things up and do some more work upstairs and he wanted to know if he could leave his tools in the yard. Then he wanted the money. I was thinking I needed to pay him or he wouldn't come back and do the finishing up things. I'd have his expensive tools so I knew he'd come back. If I brought up the chair now, he just wouldn't do as good a job on the last jobs and the cleanup and he could easily go up there where I can't see him and fuck something up. Had i taken this action I would have been forced to climb around on the roof checking on things and i wouldn't even know what I was looking for. You don't want somebody working on your house if they're mad at you. If you're honest, you'll realize it's just not wise. It's as bad an idea as fucking your surgeon's wife just before going under his knife. You're just asking for trouble.
So, you can see he arranged things carefully. He planned out his timing and the sequence of events. He's a stupid fucker who can't spell, but he knows how to deal with people and create doubts in their mind, probably from experience and this is how controlling people work.
The inscrutable po on 21/10/2006 at 19:02
Quote Posted by The Alchemist
We still talking about contractors or the mafia?
When the mafia talks about a hitman assigned a job, what do they call him? They call him "the contractor". "Did the contractor take care of that siding job for us?"
WAREAGLE on 21/10/2006 at 19:15
so now the contractor on your roof is a mafia hit man?
Jeshibu on 21/10/2006 at 19:25
Quote Posted by The inscrutable po
I did talk to the guy.
Wow. Finally.
JACKofTrades on 21/10/2006 at 19:38
What's the word count up to now? :weird:
Rug Burn Junky on 21/10/2006 at 19:43
3661
That's a simple fact.
The inscrutable po on 21/10/2006 at 19:54
Number of one liners in thread - 33
Percentage that are funny - 15
Predicatble - 31
Really funny - 2
Insights gained by OP - one, from his own writing
Insights gained by forumers - none
Spectroscopic horseshit analysis - Horseshit levels are high.
Gorgonseye on 21/10/2006 at 20:02
Stop whining, if you hate the replies so much, don't even bother reading it you idiot. People aren't going to just stop if you keep whining to them. So either stop replying or get over what they are saying.
Rug Burn Junky on 21/10/2006 at 20:04
Somewhere out there, there's a contractor sitting around with his buds having a beer and complaining about the socially inept fucknut who hired him for his most recent job.
I bet you it's more fun there.
