This is who came to fix my A/C
Along with THIS dipshit!
If it’s one thing I hate it’s someone trying to steal from me. You can walk up to me and disrespect me, and I’ll live with that because we can handle that right there on the spot. You can be a dirt bag, drug addicted loser in all things life. I’m OK with that, I know you for who you are and will never be a victim of yours.
Might as well be my uncle.....
But a thief posing as a mechanic, repairman, contractor, or otherwise is one thing I cannot get over, one thing I cannot let slide. As previously posted, my A/C fell apart and was in need of repair. I, unfortunately do not have the training or equipment to correct this. I actually HAVE to call someone else to come fix that damned thing. No problem, I paid a pretty penny to extend the warranty on my home just in case something like this happened. I call the warranty company, the contact a company who then contacts me to schedule the maintenance and all I pay is a $60.00 service charge. That’s it, cut and dried, $60.00 will fix damn near anything in my home. Manley Heating and Cooling decided to try to get me for an additional $120.00. Here’s how it went down……
Repair guy A shows up, troubleshoots, and finds the problem. It’s the condenser, the condenser is old and has very non-earth friendly freon in it. This stuff has to be disposed of, and that service is not free. Repair guy A tries to plant the seed using that logic, “hey man…. there might be a disposal fee….” I ask if my warranty company covers that. He says “they normally don’t”, and I reply with “I’ll give them a call and check…” Time passes and I call the warranty company to check status on the part delivery, and weather or not I have to pay any additional monies. I was told “no” by the nice lady on the phone. She reassured me that my contract stated the $60.00 fee was all I would ever have to pay. If the A/C really did burst into flames, they would pay for a whole new unit to be installed, and I would pay $60.00. Good stuff. I am now armed with information.
Repair guy B shows up to install my part. I am happy, because it looked like it was going to get hot that day. He install the new parts, and turns on the A/C. It’s blowing really cool air. I am extraordinarily happy at this point. He then shits on my day with this statement “OK, that will be $120.00.” Excuse me jackass? I reply with “I spoke with my warranty company last week and they said all I had to pay was the $60.00 service charge.” He countered with ” well… you are authorized a certain amount for the repair, anything over that you have to cover…” touche fucker, but I’m an asshole and you have misunderestimated me. “Let me give them a call to verify that I heard everything they said correctly….” I say. “Let me call my boss” He says. I explain the last 10 minutes of my life to who I believe to be the same woman I spoke with last time. She now sounds agitated, and she tells me once again that the $60.00 service fee is all that I pay, she also says that Manley Heating and Cooling should contact her company to work out any invoice discrepancies. As I was telling repair guy B this new old information, he tells me that his boss say to write the invoice stating that I don’t have to pay anymore than what I have.
I guess this shit OK as long as you are military
I sign the invoice and give him exactly $00.00 on top of the $60.00 service fee I already paid. I guess people are too trusting out here. If he makes 10 repairs over the course of a day, and gets an extra $120 per house, he brings in an extra 1,200 per day. That’s $8,400 per week, $33,600 per month, and $403,200 per year. That money is on top of legit fees being provided by the warrantee companies and other paying customers. I know they make more than 10 calls a day so the math just goes up from there.
Now I can’t knock an honest hustle. If you are selling candy or something that effect for your school, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts….. I’m all for that. But when you cross that line and lie to people and steal their money, you deserve to be shot. People put their lives on the line in foreign countries out here for not a lot of money, and these people try to steal what little they have. For shame!! What about you guys? Ever had a business try to shaft you and get caught in the act? Ever get shafted by a business and never have any get back? Tell me about it. Feel free to leave a comment.
Did you ever hear about my motorcycle TMO incident? Never got that money back. How about my BAH situation when the wifey left Okinawa early? Only got half that back. Then there’s that issue with the broken ankle in Korea and charges levied upon me and my GySgt by the Korean hospital? You guessed it, never reimbursed.
Now I have a new one to bitch about. My wife has a lifelong passion for horses. She bought one a few months ago, reigniting that passion all over again. Pure bliss. She makes the final payment, receives all appropriate paperwork (which she “wasn’t allowed” to see until the horse was hers) and realizes the “title” on the horse states that he is ten years old. She had been told from day one by the owner and boarder that he was six. When my wife says WTF, the owner says “oh, I guess he’s ten, that’s still a great age.” No apologies or price reductions, because apparently a horse’s price tag doesn’t change much with age. What bull shit. If I sold you my 2003 Ford F150, but I told you it was a 2007, that would make a difference wouldn’t it? How about my dog, who lives a third of the time that
Don’t know why that posted without my approval, even the computer is trying to get me. Anyway, a dog naturally lives a third of the lifetime that a horse does. If I sold you a dog that is “six years old”, but later turns out to be ten, you’d be pissed right? Maybe want some money back? Or maybe at least receive an apology? So the owner tells us, “well we knew he was between six and ten, definitely not older than eleven or twelve. He’s still a good age, lol.” Seriously? LOL? What kind of horse owner / boarder are you? Especially when you have that paperwork at all times that tells you the birthdate. Since it was all word of mouth, I can’t do anything but smash them verbally and attempt to ruin their reputation. I tried to make my wife happy and they pissed all over it.
Holy crap man! I would have never purchased a horse or anything without seeing the paperwork for it. People out here suck. You gotta use your god given talents as an asshole whenever money is involved, even if it has to do with the wife. Damn these leeches, pissing on childhood passions!