Re: Don't understand some people....

Posted by Rich_WI on April 13, 2013 at 18:08:50 from (50.50.77.31):

In Reply to: Don't understand some people.... posted by NCWayne on April 12, 2013 at 21:02:50:

I think alot of people are being too hard on the first mechanic. First off, nobody KNOWS what happened to him, everybody is just jumping to conclusions that he is incompetent and never went back. Sure, a few people alluded that he could have an excusable reason for not going back but they right away point out that he never called or answered a call. Am I the only one that has had to vote a customer off the island? Dont any of you think that couldnt have happended here? To me, this situation just screams of a situation like that. Think about it folks, this contractor appears to be on a shoestring budget, with nothing in reserves (time OR money) to bring in a rental unit and they chose to call in a second mechanic from close by.... 3 hours away. It takes one of those real "special" customers to burn every bridge in a 3 hour radius.

And how do we know that the first mechanic didnt call the local Cummins dealer to see if the gasket was in stock just like Wayne did? We dont know that. Whats to say he wouldnt have just grabbed one on his way past the place? How do we know he doesnt do tons of business with them, maybe they would have dropped one off for him. The way I look at it is if it was so easy for Wayne to find the gasket, and he lives 3 hours away, it would have b een just as easy for the first guy and getting it in hand would have likely been cake.

The way I see it, the first mechanic likely screwed up by going to look at the machine. When there agreed to do the work and told the owners what things to get (although not all, as I explained above). Then after he left, he came to his senses and decided not to go back. WHY he came to his senses is of course unknown. Could have been his wife reminding him what a train wreck doing work for that contractor was in the past. Could have been a friend that reminding at how the contractor screwed him over and then bad mouthed him for years last time. Heck, it oculd have just been another drunk at the bar that told him the contractor is ready to fold and the mechanic will be lucky if he is ever paid. Really, it could have been anything but the bottom line is the first guy had reasons enough black ball the contractor and not even accept phone calls so to me thats pretty strong reasons.

In the end, Wayne did the work and I assume things went fine and was paid promptly, the sun was shining and birds were singing, bla bla bla. Even so, it wouldnt be the first case of a customer realizing his error AFTER being black balled by the first mechanic and then playing it cool with the next one which was Wayne. Contractors can be dumb but it takes a special kind of stupid to be under the gun in time and money to burn the second guy.... thats 3 HOURS AWAY. Once you burn Wayne, how far is the contractor gonna have to cast his net to get somebody there? Ya, they have a tendency to smarten up after a while.

I got 10-1 odds that say there is a real good reason that the first mechanic stood up the contractor. I got even better odds that it wasnt incompetence or a grandpa dying. I bet its a real good reason but Im sure we will never know what it is due to the distance Wayne is to the job site. Sure would be nice to know though...

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