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Originally Posted by Glove
the whole time im reading this thread, im just wondering,
why in the hell did you hire these guys in the first place?
just by looking at people and talking to them you should be able to tell if their crooks or not
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That's a mighty bold statement.
I'm sorry, there are 100's of people that continuously send money to aid the millions of nigerian princes out there desperate in their search for North Americans to aid in transferring capital.
As a contractor, I can tell you that I've had people hand me checks, and cash with a set of purchase orders and contracts that I drew up myself. As a landlord, I have new tenants hand me cash and checks upon signing a lease that I printed off my own computer. Now, obviously, I'm not out to rip people off, but what about me says that to people? A gleam in my eye? My shoes?
Maybe if you could provide tips of what to look for in people, the whole con industry would disappear over night.
In short, it fucking happens. Not a single contractor that I know, and I deal with plenty, but not a one starts a job without a check in their hand, or a visa number in their terminal(actually, my paving guys didn't need anything, which I found weird), unless, they have worked for people before and know they are good for it. And many a contractor has an equal amount of stories about customers that didn't pay.
I had one. We all have. Mine was waiting on a Nigerian scam to pay him money so he could pay off the money he owed. No fucking joke. He meets me in a bar and slides this piece of paper over to me that describes in detail all this money he's got coming. I had to bite my tongue. He took all the money from the job(I was a sub-con) and sent it to them, hoping to have it back to finish the job. His business partner was out 15k I think on his visa that was maxed with parts and supplies. I took the hit and walked-I couldn't handle that much stupid.