It Never Ends With Chef's Relatives
Current AND former! So today I happened to be working remotely and while I'm in the back room the doorbell rings. I'm not expecting anybody so I don't answer it and think it is a delivery so I ignore it.
My knock-off ring doorbell chose an image of somebody who looks like a former employee that went nuts on the job and was eventually fired!
Five minutes later I get a call from Chef's ex step father-in-law! (Backstory: Battle axe Galactica, the Girhippo's BM was married a zillion times)
We haven't seen him in probably 8 years. He explains to me that he married battle-axe Galactica and that Chef was once married to her Offspring The Girhippo. All of which I knew when I heard him announce his name.
So like a bolt out of the blue this guy travels a good 35 to 40 minutes to get to our house hoping to find somebody in!
I asked Chef what he wanted and of course he wants somebody to fix his plumbing in his bathroom and that he can't get anybody to do it. Which is partially true because tradesmen are at a premium these days.
I would never ever think of visiting an ex relative completely unannounced and whom I have not seen in ages for the sole purpose of having them fix something of mine!
Classy. Fortunately Chef stood up to him and said that he is busy too and if he can get around to it in a couple of weeks then he might be able to help but no promises. Which is an improvement for shaft because he used to jump up to fix things for his ex relatives constantly without payment of course.
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His Ex Step Father-in-Law
His Ex Step Father-in-Law just randomly showed up to ask your husband to fix his plumbing?? Wow... I mean I know it's hard to get help right now, but WOW!
I had my plumbing fixed last
I had my plumbing fixed last week, and the dude wanted to be paid, the horror!
Tradesmen are available for people who are not entitled to free services.
I work in property management...
In the Bay Area of California the plumbers, electricians, contractors, and even handymen have raised their prices. Most of the tradesmen are swamped with scheduling. Part of the problem in the Bay Area is no young people want to work or learn the trades, they all want to work for Apple, Ebay, Google, Fakebook, basically no new tradesman are being trained to do the work.
Yep
Sounds pretty desperate to
Sounds pretty desperate to hunt down some random ex relative to fix a toilet.. or whatever needs to be fixed. Random!
Good lord...
my brother in law is a construction worker by trade but I don't go bugging him for work. Sheesh...he does it all day I'm not asking him for help off hours.
My ex-brother in law owns a body shop and the only time my ex (not me) asked for help was for DS...who is his nephew...when DS rashed his first car back about 6 years ago. I wouldn't dream of asking him for anything for myself.
My sister has a constant problem with this as a veternarian. Heck....I'm her sister and I don't even ask her for favors. Once again...she does it all day I'm not about to ask for stuff after hours.
Its just RUDE.
We had pipes problems in the
We had pipes problems in the kitchen. Called plumbing services. They did a great job. When people complain they can't find anyone it often means they can't find anyone cheap. Or that they have to wait and they don't want to wait. We bought a house last summer and we hired all kind of services since: we had a plumber, an electrician, blinds installation, two general handyman services etc
Sure it wasn't cheap and sometimes we had to wait but we sure didn't drive around to random people asking to fix things. We called different companies, scheduled service, they fixed things and we paid for the service. That's how normal people do it.