How'd it go today?

3E!? Thick!
I’d save up and go all in on some custome Wescos or similar high dollar boot. The price you pay up front hurts but they will last a very long time and can be rebuilt.
 
WoodCutr said:
currently having to go after the guy I worked for today for some $$$, today was a shitshow, between waiting on the guy yesterday, finally getting a call today at 2pm to go help him, show up to the job and he makes me wait an hour, then he finally shows up, can't tell me what trees he bid, of course the customer left for food so we had to wait on her, she gets back and points out what trees are coming down which totally aren't what was in the bid, finally the guy I'm working for leaves, not 10 minutes later the customer is trying to get me to add 20+ trees that even I knew werent gonna happen, we did the 4 hours we were scheduled for (got 3 trees down, despite 2 hours of waiting on people in the 4 hours) and left, now I gotta send the dude a bill for the $3000 he promised

I would feel bad for him, but I was told "3 or 4 hours of chipping and maybe pulling 1 or 2 trees into the woods, no big deal"

it was infact 2 days of climbing and an hour of chipping, ffs people, know what the job is BEFORE calling people to do it for you


I guess moral of the story is, contracts people, I messed up today and now I gotta hope he pays, although TN is a verbal agreement state, but good luck proving your side in court, hope I get paid but thats all I can do, so that was my dumbass mistake today, learn from it so you don't do it!
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I'm not sure that I would have even started the job by the sound of it unless I knew that guy well. That's a lot of work to do for someone else at the risk of not getting paid.
 
Nutball said:
I'm not sure that I would have even started the job by the sound of it unless I knew that guy well. That's a lot of work to do for someone else at the risk of not getting paid.
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I considered not doing it, theres only a few locals that I like working with, they are the guys that will give me jobs, I give them jobs, everyones happy, then theres others that will steal jobs from you, found out this guy is one of them, found out too late

I will update on the situation as things unfold, but I already know either he pays, or I go to court and collect on it there, I've gone the route of calling the cops before (and had them called on me, after a neighbor threatened to shoot us over pruning a tree) and both times they left while saying "its a civil matter, don't call us back", so they have made it very clear to me that I just have to go deal with it myself one way or another


I suppose this could be considered theft of services, due to the amount he owes it'd be a class D felony, so at a minimum he would be seeing 2 years and a fine upto $5000 if he doesn't pay, and I am willing to go there, I'm usually nice, but not when it comes to owing me money (unless we are friends and I know you're good for it, otherwise I don't play when you owe thousands)

not sure how the lien process works, especially because he doesn't own a house, I've had people tell me to lien his customers house but I really don't believe that's fair to the customer, and I doubt its even legal, first time I've had to deal with this process (and last, I'm about to get contracts and liability waivers wrote up so this doesn't happen again)
 
I am very much aware, I also know the dude cannot afford to go to court, especially if he got reported to the FTC (which will happen on the 27th if he hasn't settled up)

small claims court is $191.50 to serve someone, no lawyer needed, wouldn't be getting involved in a lawsuit in this case, I was involved in one last year with another company I was working for so I am somewhat familiar with what's involved
 
and I would like to mention, I had nothing to do with the lawsuit I was involved in, other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time
 
@WoodCutr just remember that litigation is not always beneficial to reputation.

That said, at least you have legal recourse. Action Tree Service still owes me more than 6k. I'll never see it, and because I was under the table, I can't do a dadgummed thing about it, except maybe swing my fists about. I'm working hard to not be "that guy" anymore, so that ain't an option.

On another point, if someone threatened to shoot me, or CurSedVoyce, or our god-tier ground crew, I'd either be dead or in prison, period. I may not want to be that part of myself anymore, but so help me, if my people are threatened in any way, I'm going to give someone a Bad Day. You obviously handled that situation with more grace than I. Kudos to you for it.

You seem to have humbled up since you've been back, good to see. There is no room for hubris in a harness. Keep that energy, Young Stud.

Climb High, Be Safe.
 
Kaveman said:
You seem to have humbled up since you've been back
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had to almost die a few times, been biting my tongue a LOT lately, figured out I should just shut up instead of commenting on everything I see LOL, I do appreciate you noticing!


Kaveman said:
On another point, if someone threatened to shoot me, or CurSedVoyce, or our god-tier ground crew, I'd either be dead or in prison
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trust me, I almost did, but he had a gun and I didn't so the best thing for me to do at the time was just not instigate and wait on the cops to show up, nothing I could do otherwise to make the situation better
 
I'm gonna have to borrow that wrench :D

I bought a pair of Knipex plies wrench things a while back, they are absolutely amazing for hydraulic fittings, super expensive but good tools arent cheap
 
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