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Mon 28 Feb, 2005 09:29 pm
Our rates: $14 Hr.
If you watch $20 Hr.
If you help $30 Hr.
If you tried to fix it already and failed $45 Hr.
The fix-it shoppe is taking applications for plummers, carpenters, electricians, landscapers, roofers, welders, all others related. No drug or background check. What wages?
<grin>
I had some tattoo artist friends in GA who had a stoopid tax on the tattoos they did - or maybe on the clients they had.
Nice, I should put that on my toolbox, my customers might get the hint.
I deal with the last scenario all too often.
I'll apply for the jack of all trades master of none positon.
edgar, sublime - what do you fix?
Edgar, having not been a2king for a week or so, seeing a new thread by you is the first thing I read. You always seem to fix the dark mood found elsewhere on a2k.
Personally, I have thought for the past 20 or 30 years that Sweet Baby James Taylor would be the ideal handy man....sigh.
I install appliances. Sometimes just a replacement other times I have to start from scratch.
Ex: If someone wants a vent hood above their range and they only have cabinets. I would remove/modify the cabinet, pull electric, cut a hole in the house and run ductwork (sometimes through a foot and a half of brick) then put it all together and hang and level the hood.
Its not bad from the ground up. When a contractor has tried and messed everything up and I have to clean up his mess is when it becomes frusrating.
Sublime - yep, I can see why that'd be a mess.
I can do quite a bit, from roofing to installing or troubleshooting residential air conditioning. I do not like plumming and have minimal electrical skills. But, hell, I'm not the one auditioning here. I plan to assign jobs, not do them. Do you see dirt on this shirt? I didn't think so.
Do I get the job or do I need references?
No references needed. You're hired and authorized to hire a crew to help you.
I want the two of you to go to Dys' house and put in new appliances - Ropers - and landscape it with petunias and cacti.
Ropers? What did Dys ever do to you?
Hey your the boss.
No way. Give a corner of the yard over to rabbitbush. I've heard they even have a dwarf variety out, now.
Why don't the three of you come on by and we'll fix drinks and have a great visit? Forget the appliances and petunias. Petunias???
This must be a union job, i have been working for 10 minutes and its already break time.
Sounds great Diane.
Cha! Petunias...... <shaking head>
cacti - yes.
Diane, I'd absolutely love to come by and hang out.....
We have one other rate Edgar
The rate for work done while listening to you explain how it's done up North=$35 Hr.
Wow, the crowd is growing with some of my favorite people. BIG PARTY coming up.
Now off to bed--why are you up so late Panzade?
Say goodnight, Gracie.
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