Suity no-mates

[psychocandy]

Well it's a bit like this. I needed him to do some work for me, which involved him getting some help from his contacts. So it was worth it to let him just get on with it, and orchestrate things. It was like "Oh and I need Craig to do XYZ, and that's an hour's work so he charges £45. Ok fine I said, and how long will it take you to get it over to Craig, wait about, check it over and bring it back. 2 Hours he says. OK so That's an hours of Craig's time, and 2 hours of your time. OK fine. Shakes hand.

So the day comes and his is gone less than 50 minutes. I asked him why it didn't take 2 hrs. It was just quicker than expected. He still charged me for 2 hrs, and gave Craig a £10 drink, even though before it was only likely to run to a £5 drink.

So I asked him to do a similar job for me, and suggested that as the previous job he charged for 2 hrs, and only did 1 hr I was in credit to the tune of 1 hr, and should therefore only pay him for 1 hr this time, which I am already in credit for.

Oooh boy.

And this time around it was now a £15 drink for Craig, and a £10 drink for him because of using his "contacts".

Or he knows I'm a contractor earning a good day rate and saw this as a chance to fleece me. Put him on the spot and ask him about it and he gets all lairy.

Do one you knob.

Never even hint to your mates how much you earn - they'll expect freebies/beer forever.

[suityou01]

Got plenty of family members the same. IT work it seems is free for all. My time costs nothing it seems.

Remember my BIL a few years ago wanted something done on his laptop. Told him to drop it off and I'd have a look at when I get chance. (important bit). Week later hes moaning that its just not good enough that hes had to wait a week.

Pointed out to him he could have it done immediately if he wanted to pay someone else. If it was free, then he'd have to wait.

Tie laptop to breeze block and deliver through front room window with a note that reads "Here you are ****y".

[suityou01]

Never even hint to your mates how much you earn - they'll expect freebies/beer forever.

[doodab]

Do you get legal pot?

Is there such a thing?

[MarillionFan]

This thread makes no sense on its own. From what I can tell Suity has asked someone to cuckold him and the cuckolder has been asking for money and asking for more people to be involved. A cuckolding gangbang?!?

Excuse me, I need to go and Google something.

[vwdan]

Got plenty of family members the same. IT work it seems is free for all. My time costs nothing it seems.

Remember my BIL a few years ago wanted something done on his laptop. Told him to drop it off and I'd have a look at when I get chance. (important bit). Week later hes moaning that its just not good enough that hes had to wait a week.

Pointed out to him he could have it done immediately if he wanted to pay someone else. If it was free, then he'd have to wait.

I have a close circle of people that I don't mind occasionally helping, but other than that I just avoid like the plague. Went to an old mates house to sort out his lads PC - it was the usual teen-victim computer with tulip loads of porn site and "free games" related malware and so on. I gave it a clean OS, restored his (now clean and scanned) work and gave it back ready to use. A week later he's whining about how crap the PC was and decided to purchase another machine.

ct doesn't help that everyone is convinced that "working in IT" is defined as "desktop support". That, combined with the magical free time and our clear never ending love of fixing other peoples crap, makes things endlessly irritating. To be honest, for most people I just play the idiot and tell them I don't know how to fix it.

[vetran]

Got plenty of family members the same. IT work it seems is free for all. My time costs nothing it seems.

Remember my BIL a few years ago wanted something done on his laptop. Told him to drop it off and I'd have a look at when I get chance. (important bit). Week later hes moaning that its just not good enough that hes had to wait a week.

Pointed out to him he could have it done immediately if he wanted to pay someone else. If it was free, then he'd have to wait.

too common, I get all the snotty laptops, those that come with Cake or favours get fixed first.

Yes I always wondered that why is my time free many people seem to think theirs is valuable.

As for a drink for Craig, he gives that out of his earnings! Or you volunteer it if you think Craig was great.

they think you have more money than them and they want some of it. they aren't mates.

[Scrag Meister]

The friend cull of 2014 continues. Had a blazing row with my mate last night. Culminated in me telling him to get knotted. Hate rows.

Two sides to every story and all that, but I don't like getting ripped off. Agree a price and stick to it. Every time we spoke the price had notched up £5 or £10. Until I had it out with him. It was originally this price, and in a mere 3 weeks it's crept up to this price. Why? What is the justification?

Boom. Up it went.

Total

Next time he gets a pron virus or whatever, he'll assume its free until he sees the contract you want him to sign and recieves your £80 invoice for the hour it took.

[doodab]

Whenever I am handed an iPad to "fix" I ask the hander over to show me how to google using an iPad, then I type whatever they are asking in. At that point they often manage to follow the instructions themselves.

[shaunbhoy]

No, I saw the light and jettisoned him. That's the point of the whole thread.

Well the point of the thread appears to be that you have, in fact, got no mates.
Leaving aside the obvious fact that you are glacially slow on the uptake, you may want to consider just why that is.
It may be something to do with the fact that you essentially came to the party with an intellect forged in the lower foothills of lowly Mount Molehill, and from that rather retarded starting point have continued a long ignominious slide downhill to the point where you currently reside.
You remain 10 IQ points below moron classification.