Gofirstclass
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As many of you know I have Stage 4 cancer so I've given in to hiring people to do some of the things around the house that, in the past, were things I could/would have done myself. So over the past week or so, I've hired 3 professional companies to take care of some tasks around the house.
1. We have a small "water feature" that sits in the front yard. It's pretty simple with a pump in the bottom that pumps water to the top where gravity sends it back down. The pump stopped working. I didn't feel like crawling around on the rocks to pull the pump out so I called a well known electrical contractor I have used in the past. Two guys showed up and promptly told me "we don't do pump work". So to make this a totally useless trip they checked the GFI and somehow they magically determined that was the cause.
In taking the GFI out of the case they broke the case. And didn't have a replacement with them. So off they went to get one. When they came back they put everything back together. The pump still tripped the breaker. So they decided the pump must be bad and reverted back to the earlier statement "we don't do pump work".
Yesterday I went down to their office and explained my situation and also mentioned that the "journeyman" electrician had replaced my 20A breaker with a 15A because my 20A didn't fit the design of the box they bought. WTF????? At this point I'm steaming mad. F'ing journeyman.
So they're coming back out today to remove the breaker and put in a 20A. Then they're going to use my shop vac to empty the pond so they can get at the pump and replace it.
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P.S. So a different guy showed up today, right on time, and I explained what the other two jerks, err, I mean technicians did and what they found. So he proceeded to do the same tests and gave me the same results--"your pump is bad and we don't fix pumps." I told him about my conversation with the boss the day before and he got visibly upset. He called the office and got the sad tale that they now DO fix pumps. So he pulled the pump out and said "it's a big mutha". I asked him where he was going to find a replacement and he said "I don't know."
As I'm typing this he called and said he'd been to one store and they didn't have one so he likely won't be back until tomorrow. I guess since it's almost 3 p.m. it's time to grab a cold one, but I bet it won't be a Bud Light.
1. We have a small "water feature" that sits in the front yard. It's pretty simple with a pump in the bottom that pumps water to the top where gravity sends it back down. The pump stopped working. I didn't feel like crawling around on the rocks to pull the pump out so I called a well known electrical contractor I have used in the past. Two guys showed up and promptly told me "we don't do pump work". So to make this a totally useless trip they checked the GFI and somehow they magically determined that was the cause.
In taking the GFI out of the case they broke the case. And didn't have a replacement with them. So off they went to get one. When they came back they put everything back together. The pump still tripped the breaker. So they decided the pump must be bad and reverted back to the earlier statement "we don't do pump work".
Yesterday I went down to their office and explained my situation and also mentioned that the "journeyman" electrician had replaced my 20A breaker with a 15A because my 20A didn't fit the design of the box they bought. WTF????? At this point I'm steaming mad. F'ing journeyman.
So they're coming back out today to remove the breaker and put in a 20A. Then they're going to use my shop vac to empty the pond so they can get at the pump and replace it.
Continued....
P.S. So a different guy showed up today, right on time, and I explained what the other two jerks, err, I mean technicians did and what they found. So he proceeded to do the same tests and gave me the same results--"your pump is bad and we don't fix pumps." I told him about my conversation with the boss the day before and he got visibly upset. He called the office and got the sad tale that they now DO fix pumps. So he pulled the pump out and said "it's a big mutha". I asked him where he was going to find a replacement and he said "I don't know."
As I'm typing this he called and said he'd been to one store and they didn't have one so he likely won't be back until tomorrow. I guess since it's almost 3 p.m. it's time to grab a cold one, but I bet it won't be a Bud Light.