It was a long time ago (I was maybe 15/16 at the time?) I
really did not enjoy working with my Dad, we would do (sometimes not always)
some shitty jobs because they wouldn’t approve the amount he quoted and they
would say please do it for X less… naturally he would agree, but oh well
continuing.
One time we had a “job” change some water filters, re-solder
a couple of copper water tubing and clean a pool, since he didn’t want me using
a soldering torch I cleaned the pool and before he had finish soldering I had
more or less changed all of the water filters, now I did not know the 400k USD
(a lot for the area I was, 1000 sq meter house with departments) was sold to a
new owner.
There I was saying “HI!” like an idiot to the new owner (not
knowing he did not want the work done) and him yelling at me to get out or he
would call the cops, my Dad shows up and starts going X person hired us to come
and do this and that payment would be done by Y (the new owner)… he was pissed
and since all the repairs were done he was stuck with the bill.
Since that moment I have swear if I ever need to work solo I
would deal directly with the owner or the person paying me would deal with the
owner with me present (no $$ talk just saying HE will do this).
Sorry for the rant, I really needed to get this off my chest
more now that I have been working with contractors for almost 3 months and I am
yet to see results that are satisfactory or comply with what we requested/paid
for
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