favour becomes entitlement

Newly_retired

The home owner could tell Pete he intends to start charging him for use of his drive.

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mmmsnow wrote: »

The client, a lovely older lady who was so polite to me, said, "Oh, f**k off, Agnes" and slammed the door shut.

I honestly didn't know where to look

:T:T:T This is the best thing I've ever read on this forum!

Knightsuntold

It's funny how often this happens. We have a single hedge that runs across the front of our property, and the neighbours, although there is a fence separating the two gardens. A couple of years ago, the husband was in hospital, so my partner cut our hedge, and theirs to help out - it was very overgrown. It's now expected. The wife actually cut a picture out of a magazine to show that she wanted the hedge to be in an arched profile, and asked if my partner could do it. He was that shocked, he said yes.

There's another friend who doesn't have much spare cash for nights out, and doesn't have the money for a taxi on her own, as she lives in the opposite direction to the rest of us. A couple of times, I was driving, and offered to pick her and drop her off. It didn't take long for the 'what time are you picking me up?' texts to start.

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Knightsuntold wrote: »

There's another friend who doesn't have much spare cash for nights out, and doesn't have the money for a taxi on her own, as she lives in the opposite direction to the rest of us. A couple of times, I was driving, and offered to pick her and drop her off. It didn't take long for the 'what time are you picking me up?' texts to start.

I had that for the few years I didn't drink. It got to the stage I was driving 50-100 miles after a night out dropping everyone off.

I started drinking again. It was easier than fending them all off :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

HBS x

Kayalana99

Maybe slighly not the same but I run an eBay business and at the start I was so nice and friendly, it involves some design work now and again and I used to really go the extra mile for customers. Sometimes doing things they didn't expect.

After time, I complety shut down my friendly customer service side, doing the bare minimum because what happened was people would ask, any chance you could just do this? And I'd say of course! and then it was...oh I'd love if you could do this! and then it turned into 'Ok a little to the right maybe, could you show me two options one like this and one like this?' ...give people an inch and they take a mile.

Now everytime someone asks me to do something out of the ordinary they get a short "£3 for any addtional artwork changes" reply and no one ever takes me up on it.

Might have lost a few customers but I've saved soooo much in time to only deal with the 95% of customers who order and go.

BJV

mmmsnow wrote: »

I work in healthcare and sometimes have to drop off equipment to housebound patients. One day, I parked right outside the house my client lived in. She didn't drive so I assumed it was okay to park there, across her driveway, for the 5 mins it would take to drop off her equipment.

As soon as I opened the car door, I was verbally abused by the woman who lived across the street. Apparently I was parking in her husband's space (on a public road, at the other side of the road from her house).

I told her I was delivering equipment to the house I was parked in front of but she only let up when she saw what I was removing from the car. She then deemed that it was okay and huffily walked back into her house, arms crossed. She then stood at the window and watched me.

It took a while for my client to open her door and she invited me in and asked me to help her unpack the box. Usually I try not to linger too long but we had a cup of tea and a chat. Sitting in the front room, I could still see the neighbour across the road staring at the house (don't know if she could see me through the net curtains).

Anyway, about 15 mins had passed and I was making my excuses to leave when the doorbell went. Huffy neighbour wanted to know when I was leaving since her husband would be home soon.

The client, a lovely older lady who was so polite to me, said, "Oh, f**k off, Agnes" and slammed the door shut.

I honestly didn't know where to look

So Sorry but made me giggle the mental picture of butter would not melt in her mouth old granny tells nasty cow to go forth ha ha

AlwaysWorking

Knightsuntold wrote: »

It's funny how often this happens. We have a single hedge that runs across the front of our property, and the neighbours, although there is a fence separating the two gardens. A couple of years ago, the husband was in hospital, so my partner cut our hedge, and theirs to help out - it was very overgrown. It's now expected.

My mum had this issue! There is a hedge that runs between her and her neighbour. The lady broke her arm and so my mum offered to cut her side as well as ours...not a small job as it's quite a long garden. It just became expected and then the ladies niece moved in with her and they used to sit in the kitchen having a cup of coffee watching my mum working away for hours. :mad: She was probably in her 30s at that stage whereas my mum was in her 60s!

Eventually my mum wasn't able to do it all for health reasons and the hedge on their side grew to a ridiculous height, starting to grow in through the roof of my mum's garage. When she politely asked if they could cut it, the niece (who by now had inherited the house) said she couldn't afford to, despite boasting about her numerous foreign holidays every year!! Thankfully they have just recently moved.

ALIBOBSY

My hubby would have been with the builders staying longer to annoy the pete guy lol, just like my OH and simular to stuff he has done.

On a simular subject OH is self employed and does work at peoples houses, PC/IT work is £25 an hr, gardening, painting, odd job work £15 an hour. He always quotes upfront and if preferred can give an all in price.

Never had an issue and in fact regularly gets customers giving him extra as he has done such a good job for a lower price than they expected.

However a family member had a neighbour ask then about him and arranged for him to come around to sort out a major computer issue, neighbour was told prices and that it was a business and neighbour stated of course he didn't expect anyone to work for free.

OH goes around stays for almost 4 hrs sorted everything as asked for. Decided to be generous as a neighbour and rounded down to 3 hours. Neighbour says but you are neighbours relation, offers £5 and a bottle of cheap wine!!!!!! OH restates no £75 I have already done a discount. After some arguing back and forth OH says he will take £40 just to get out and go home. Neighbour gets our big wodge of notes and counts out the cash, tight so and so.

Mind you nest time he asked for work to be done he was told to go elsewhere as he said himself no one works for free.

The really annoying thing is OH has gone to places where especially with older people if he thinks they haven't got alot of cash he will knock the price right down or give them time to pay if they ask.

Some people, offer and inch they take a yard.

Ali x

Mr.Generous

Just had another example of this, talking to a decorator on a job yesterday. He said he did a job for an Asian bloke on a house that was getting let out, quoted, did the job, client came in to sign off work and was pleased.

Offered him a business card for a restaurant, Decorator took it slightly puzzled. Told it was his brothers place, to go with his wife for a free meal and a bottle of wine.

Decorator not sure what to make of it, mumbled his thanks then presented bill.

Told no, no, you have accepted the offer of a meal with wine as payment.

Decorator handed back card and demanded payment, but ended up knocking a few £ off just to get it sorted.

ohreally

mmmsnow wrote: »

I told her I was delivering equipment to the house I was parked in front of

Your mistake was justifying your position.