I made some grumblings last week about the parade of signs in front of our house. I didn't mind the roofer's sign being there because they did their job FAST, but the carpenter, feh.
Well, when I came home today the carpenter's sign was gone. The damned sign had been there for 10 days and the only work that had been done was to strip our house of some rotten boards (making the house quite ugly) and leaving some tarp-covered tools in the front yard.
Every afternoon since the guy put his sign down I'd call Scott when I got home: "The carpenter hasn't been here. There's still a hole in the garage."
Last week, the carpenter had some kind of chest cold. That's fine. Come Friday it was a beautiful 70 degrees - no carpenter. He showed up for a few hours on Tuesday to bring more crap to leave on the front stoop. Yesterday and today have been the warmest days of the year and no carpenter.
When I came home today and saw his sign gone I thought, "He's done!" But, no, the sign is just gone. His shit is still in the front yard and his ladders are tied to our deck.
What I don't understand is if you take someone's deposit to do a job, especially a small residential job the size of ours, you should do it in a relatively timely manner, right? With all the right supplies he should have been done in less than three days. If you can't get the supplies for whatever reason, you do NOT strip a hole in the homeowners' house and leave it that way.
He probably pulled up his sign so that nobody would know who the slow fuck was working on our house.
I just want there not to be a hole in my garage wall is all.
Posted by Tiffany at March 2, 2006 05:25 PM | TrackBackA Stranger in Your Queue
If your Netflix movies take too long to arrive, you may be sharing your subscription with your mail carrier.
* By Eric Wolff
JIan Zhong Li loved Netflix. After a long night sorting mail at a Queens processing center, he could settle in at his Brooklyn home with all sorts of movies he’d never seen in the theater. Li especially loved Netflix because the DVDs come in well-labeled red envelopes that make them easy to identify amid the bulk junk. It also makes them so much easier to steal. When postal inspectors followed Li to his car, they found 83 stolen discs.
And he’s not the only one: There appears to be a trend of similarly tempted postal workers. Bronx mail carrier Luis Ayala tried to cover his indiscretions with personal notes. In September, he tore open a Postal Inspectors Service test envelope, decided he didn’t want that one, and delivered it to his customer with the message RECEIVED IN BAD COND.—LA. He was found guilty of a misdemeanor and awaits sentencing. In June, after two months of customer complaints, inspectors arrested Daniella Garofalo, a Midwood, Brooklyn, mail carrier, for stealing DVDs from Netflix envelopes on her route. The inspector addressed an envelope to a fictitious address and equipped it with an electronic tracking device. An alarm sounded when Garofalo opened the envelope. Inspectors have rounded up thieves in Detroit, San Diego, and Lyons, Colorado—where a carrier stole 503 discs before capture. Because civil-service rules make it nearly impossible to fire corrupt mail carriers, U.S. attorneys often agree to dismiss charges in exchange for their quitting. This happened to both Garofalo and Li. But then again, Li usually sent the discs along after he was done watching.
Posted by: boogie at March 3, 2006 06:03 PM