Dilemma - to pay or not to pay?
Folks: I had an issue with a vehicle that I could not figure out; I'm a pretty competent home mechanic and rarely take anything to a shop. The shop where I took it spent 4 hours on the vehicle and...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:The next lady may ask you to load some bricks and drive them to the next town in four hours.
Four years ago a Mexican lady asked me to fix her generator. After two hours I narrowed it down to a specific transistor that had shorted on the board. I would not think of charging her one centavo. No transistors of that genre were available.
So you load up her truck but find the bridge is out so you must return. She says you are not competent because you did not check the roads before you did the work. So she says unload and no pay. Good luck.
So next week the bridge repair foreman asks you to review the plans for the repair. You spend a day calculating and reviewing but it needs no real changes. Foreman says you really did not do anything so he will not pay. You are fine just knowing the repair will be made.
