It was fixing some doors that were sticking, missing some trim, etc. Can you build me a workbench? This workbench would be huge, and he wanted a very specific counter. I take some more measurements, call up the lumber yard, and give him an estimate. Why so much?! I can get a workbench for a third of that price! It would be cheaper if you got some cabinet-grade plywood for the counter and then it could be painted grey to look like the counter?
I get the lumber I need and when I come back on the day I spend about four hours there to build this thing. Check it over. I might need to take it apart and put it back together again. Extra slowly, just to be sure. This might actually take me a lot longer than I thought.
He paid. I never worked for him again and when I told my friend what his friend had tried he called him up and tore him a new one. Why do you want it all on one? I managed to get him to have a list of contents at the top of the page with links that scrolled down to the relevant section. A few days later in the mail, he sends me a heavy document. You need to come over here and fix it! When I arrived, I turned the keyboard upside down in their presence, dumping a considerable amount of milk out on the table.
I hand the blueprints to my manager, who calls the architect named on them. This went up to the Chief Operations Officer, and I was sitting in a termination meeting when our system administrator discovered the reason. He dismissed me with a:. I read the email. She goes on to say that out of the mentally slow or lying, it likely was the latter, and that I used this nasty scheme to get out of work.
I also expected the company to blackball him from the industry. A few weeks later my special status with this client was no longer a mystery. She behaved this way with every employee whom she perceived had slighted her in the most minor way. The choices we ended up with were, keep her on as a client but fire and blackball the ENTIRE team, or lose her as a client.
