Reply #4: if they were nice people, they wouldn't be contractors

[pitohui]

of course contractors cheat and lie, that's what they do, at least in my area, they all vote GOP as well so at least they're honest abt being cheaters & liars

i'm glad you have it all in writing because they ALWAYS, ALWAYS find a way to stick it to you and rip you off, i doubt it's just because you're a woman, altho that doesn't help, because they stick it to all the guys i know too

you just do the best you can and try to keep the rip-off to a minimum

also a problem w. contractors is that these are guys who, at the end of the day, went into being contractors because they are guys who can't hold jobs but still want/desire a lot of money, and they tend to have big problems in their backgrounds, apparently, if you expect them to show up at the day/time they say they will, you're being an unreasonable you-know-what, sigh, they can't keep a schedule ever

can you tell i hate contractors? gosh, everybody does...who isn't a contractor...they're like used car salesmen only worse because you don't HAVE to buy a used car but when a tree crushes your house, you can't really remove the tree and rebuild the house yourself

we do a lot of jobs ourselves that we could afford to pay someone to do, just because we don't like dealing with their shit, but when it's a major disaster, it's v. difficult to do the whole thing in a timely fashion...so what do you do?