GOOD PITCH, BAD DELIVERY, LESSON LEARNED?

When you hear a good pitch from someone you’re considering hiring, it matters.

You’ll hire a hype man instead of the quiet craftsman with a good record.

How does that usually work out?

This is a picture of a call for a plumbing bid?

I had an emergency, at least what seemed like an emergency.

My neighbor said I had a broken water pipe that was going to flood his garage.

Anything to avoid a flood, right?

I looked into the water meter vault ready to turn the main off, but the cement containment had shifted so that the shut-off was hiding out of site.

Then I looked in the sprinkler system control hole. It was flooded so I called an irrigation guy.

On a Sunday.

And thing led to another. Sprinkler guy said it was a plumbing issue he wasn’t licensed to fix.

Then I hired a plumber, paying him and the irrigation man.

Then things took a turn.

 

Verbal Contract, Good As Written?

Sprinkler guy took out a permit to work on my irrigation system.

I canceled the work, he sued me in court.

He was a good court guy, knew all the ins and outs.

It began with a facilitator in a side room to settle and avoid court.

My argument:

 

Consider this: Why would I hire a man would has already shown he can’t do the job? 

For example, if someone like my opponent recommended the barber he goes to, and still looks like he does, I wouldn’t go to that barber, and neither would you. Look at him. Who would?

 

That fired the other guy up. He went into court and kicked ass, my ass.

I was surprised to know a verbal agreement from in irrigation guy had legal standing.

And I couldn’t prove we didn’t have a verbal agreement.

My man had a good pitch in the courtroom.

 

Good Pitch Expert

After the legal dust settled and I paid up, I checked the sprinkler guy’s record.

I called the sate licensing bureau to find he’d had twenty-seven complaints before mine.

And he was still in business.

I asked if the complaints had anything in common with each other.

Turns out the majority of complaints against my foe came from older ladies he bulldozed into verbal agreements.

Or not, as in my case.

Not only was I beginning to look like an old lady, I’d been victimized like an old lady.

For the benefit of old ladies in the region with irrigation work that needs doing, I filed a complaint against my guy to lose his license to steal.

With all of the prior complaints, he was still in business; after mine he was still in business.

As a good citizen I paid a visit to irrigation stores around town to tell them my story.

Some of them had heard it before.

 

What To Do With A Lying Conniving Son Of A Bitch?

You could wait for them to come to their senses and they send you a refund check.

They could throw themselves at the mercy of their state licensing agency.

Or, you could chalk it up to experience and let fate have its way.

The third choice is the correct choice.

When the guy is a lazy shit who makes more money going after clients in court than he does for the work he’s hired to do, why would they change?

The state agency has more work than they’ll ever get done, and their best move is letting it ride?

Time passes and the initial problem fades to an unpleasant memory.

Except you see the fucker’s attitude everywhere.

The client can’t touch him.

He wins in court, so they can’t touch him.

But his smirky lying face remains.

After I lost, this dipshit chests up on me with his winning ways and asked, “Will that be cash, or check?”

I asked him to back up and follow me to the clerk’s desk.

“Why the clerk’s desk?”

“In case you accidentally slip and hit your head and need someone to blame you stumblefuck. Now get out of my face.”

 

Contageously Good Pitch

A good pitch is hard to resist.

When a national figure makes ignorant promises to fix things only he can fix, people jump.

Should they jump when the same man makes the same promises to fix things only he can fix, except he didn’t fix them the first time?

Yes, they do. Why? Because the man said he fixed them and that’s good enough for them.

They know he didn’t do what he said needed doing, but the man insists that he did.

As the pitch gets more shrill, the people get more amped up.

 

Why personal view, mine only since it’s my blog but you may leave a comment; my personal view is one of skepticism.

Bad people mix with good, good with bad.

My view is that people are drawn more by a good pitch than good work.

Their believe allows them to accept ‘good enough’ after the fact when their man takes to spreading the same sort of bullshit he shoveled in 2016.

The same pitch shouldn’t work on tone-deaf people, but he knows something about them.

Lost men need a daddy to lean on, and he’s their father figure.

Religious people need someone to forgive with all of their ever-loving hearts, and he’s there for them with his fore sins intact.

Money people need their guy to say “Trickle Down” then coach them up on why the budget deficit is a big problem that only he can solve.

Dear Readers,

You don’t have any problems a gold plated carpetbagger can solve better than you.

Carpetbagger?