mild rant, contractors and repair folks
Having run. what I feel is a successful business, for 40 plus years. We have always called folks back. And showed up when we said we would. On occasion, where something came up, we always call or e...
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p220sigman wrote:
Supply and demand in play. Locally, we had some impact from a little storm named Michael, so plenty of roof work to go around. To the west of us, A LOT of roof work to go around. Talking with a roofing contractor friend, he has had an entire crew hired away from him over lunch. He went to lunch, crew was working on the roof. He came back, no crew. He called his crew foreman and found out that another roofing contractor from the area west of here, stopped by and made the crew an offer they felt they couldn't refuse to quit and go to work for him. Just like that, he is behind.
But I agree that it is very frustrating to have someone say they will show up and then just not show. Typically, they one get one chance after that. Fortunately, we are still small enough around here, that word of mouth still helps/hurts in many cases.
Back in my teens I worked at a factory 40 hrs a week. The father of one of my friends had crews building houses. That friend, another guy and I would roof a house on the weekend, paid by square. Monday morning the Dad would inspect, and pay in cash. My split of the money for 2 long days was real close to my "take home" for a week at the factory. I later found out I was scab.
Back in the days of strong unions doing the same job paid the same.
