No,I remember Jiggs telling Mike you can go broke if you keep paying out handymen.

My take on it is how many times do you have a big home project? I don't need to know how to put in a floor or fix a roof. Not my profession. I spent my life working years of OT as a computer guy to make enough money to pay the occasional handyman.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

My first house had a Sears wall heater in an add on room. It didn't work and I didn't know jack squat about it. So I called Sears. A guy came out and fixed it. I think it was a $50 part, but it cost almost $100 just to get him there before he did anything. Total bill was about $300. The guy said "you think this is too much?" I said yes it is. He said (direct quote) "That's what you get when you have someone come do your work for you."

I haven't bought a thing from Sears since.

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They definitely are thinking that

Right there I would have thrown him out of my house or at least explained to him if it wasn't for guys like me,guys like you would be out of work.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

You and millions of others have taken this route.

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The ignitor isn't allowing the gas valve to open enough? What?

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god you are fucking stupid. how you made it past 18 is astounding

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

You have a shitty attitude. Yeah the part is $50. You think he is free labor? That his truck and gas and insurance doesn't cost anything? How about the fact that he had the knowledge to know which part to fix and how to fix it?

I hate it when people bitch at me when we charge $100 for what they think is a $40 part. Do you think that parts should be installed for free with no markup?

Had a customer this summer call for a no cooling call. Lawyer. Big place in a gated community. They've got 3 ac units in this place. Condenser fan motor is bad on the west main floor unit. I quote 445 for the motor. 68 for the Dispatch. OK this guy goes bananas. The motor is only 200 at grainger he screams at me. Mind you it's about 6pm on a Friday. I want to go fucking home man. He says fuck you I'll go buy the motor and put it in myself. Fine.

Monday I have to go back. He bought the motor at grainger but a couple things. He didn't put in the right capacitor. The new one needed 7.5 cap and he hooked up the old 5 cap which was testing around 4 as it was bad anyway. The cap is included automatically when I replace a motor. Also, he managed to wire it wrong to the contactor, so he killed the start winding on a brand new motor. While he was at it he managed to ruin the fan blades because he pried the fan blade hub off the rusty shaft all wrong.

So now... a second Dispatch charge. The original 445 for the motor. Plus another 200 for the fan blades. Not to mention the 200 or so for the grainger motor he killed. They wouldn't take it back. Not to mention the 4 or 5 hours he spent fucking around with it .

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You just assume the balck guy is lazy? Interesting.

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sounds about right. people always act like maintenance guys are lazy and get paid more than they should make.... but we do jobs they literally cannot do if they try

btw, protip: if you can wait for the 1-2 day shipping, zoro.com is owned by grainger and nearly their entire product line is on there for 20-50% less than granger sells it for.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

You are a tradesman. That means you are greedy, lazy, stupid, and overpaid. Unlike those hard working people in office jobs, who waste half of their day on Facebook, the CSFMB, and Candy Crush.

You probably have the nerve to take a break at some point during the day.



Really. Smart. Lawyers.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

People like that look down their nose at everybody, not just tradesmen. A prick is a prick is a prick.

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I always thought that the free beer and NHL 95 tournaments were fair compensation for the markup

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Why are you posting this?

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Something something something Avaya level 2

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It's rough to get the bill sometimes. I sometimes know whats going on but sometimes we have to call my husband. I do the best I can, always offer water or coffee or pop. If they are friendly we talk, there is a huge variation in personalities.

Works for me.

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