Posted by NCWayne on April 23, 2013 at 20:12:35 from (24.172.56.198):
Buddy of mine got a call this afternoon to go look at a job. He said when he got to the address it was a 'million dollar' house in one of the ritzy areas of Charlotte. The owner wanted my buddy to clean up the mess where an old concrete deck had stood. Ok, I know that's nothing special, but as Paul Harvey used to say, here's "The rest of the story." Seems the deck was poured concrete and origionaly stood about 15 feet off the ground on piers. The owner needed a hole in it to add a pier or something, so he hired a couple of hispanics to do the work for him. He gsve them enough money to insure they had enough to rent a jackhammer with money left over, and left to do some running. About three hours later he got home to find not just a hole in the deck where he wanted it, but rather the whole thing, piers included, lying on the ground in a pile. What was really the icing on the cake for him was the guys he hired were all sitting in the middle of the pile drinking beer. Needless to say the guy wasn't all that happy with the work they had done.
He said had he planned to take the whole thing down there was no way he could complain with the amount of work the guys had done in such a short time....unfortunately he did NOT want the whole thing taken down.....So, now instead of just a hole where he wanted it he has a huge pile of rubble that he has to get rid of before he can even think about doing anything else. Guess the money he thought he was saving with the cheap labor cost him a bit more than he expected....but he did get his money's worth, and then some...LOL
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