Annoyance has hit an all time high today. I made the new work playlists, and I went to burn them to the CD's today, and my burner isn't working! GRRR! So if anyone knows anything about CD burners for laptops, let me know! It's an HP Presario V6000.
So anyways, Jill has a message to call one of the builders here in town today. She gets in and calls him, and was on the phone with him for about 10 minutes. Then she comes out to tell us her conversation. Apparently, he sent a customer in here, with measurements, and the customer asked how much tile they would need, and the cost. Sue figures it out, and she comes up with a figure of, let's say, $2500.00 for the tile alone. She specifically stated that labor would be an additional charge, but since we weren't install, we couldn't quote a price on the labor, it would have to come from the builder.
When the builder gave the customer the quote for the whole job, including our pricing for the tile, he gave her an number of, oh say, $9000.00 dollars. The customer thought that was a bit high, so she went to a different builder and asked for a quote. That builder gave her a quote of say, $5000.00, and she decided to go with the other guy. So the first builder calls us, and tells us that it's OUR fault he lost the job by 4 grand.
Um, would you like to tell me how that's our fault? Just because you don't know how to fucking bid a job, and lost it to another builder, we are responsible?
Then he tells Jill, that we are not allowed to give his customers any pricing on anything. How the hell are we supposed to do that asswipe? Of course, Jill being the diplomat, "Oh we'll just take down the customers selections and tell them that they will have to get the tile pricing from the builder...blah blah blah."
Oh hell no. I'm not going to be that polite. Oh yeah, and he said that if we do give customers pricing, he's not going to be doing any business with us anymore, he'll send his customers to the big box stores. Well, then feel free to do that asswipe. But when you fuck up the job, like you normally do, and you need more tile because you can't measure a floor properly, and the big box store no longer carries the tile you need, don't come to us to fix your problem.
The joys of working in the home improvement sector!