It works both ways. About a dozen years ago, I needed a major remodel on an older house. This remodel would have kept a couple of guys busy for about two months. They would have been paid the minute they submitted their labor requests and while there would be both indoor and outdoor work, the indoor work could have been done when the weather was bad. I called over a dozen carpenters and they all said that they would come over (sometime) to give me an estimate. Usually, the story was that they'd come over on a Saturday or a Sunday, have a beer or two while I told them about my plans, they would then give me an estimate, and then they would get to work. Out of those dozen, only two crews gave me a bid. Since I was well aware of their work history with local customers, my only requirement to them was that when they start on the job, they stay on the job until it was finished. They agreed to those conditions. When they did start, they obviously forgot about the one condition, because one crew would show up whenever he felt like it and the other one had such a bad temper that nobody else could tolerate him.(BTW, the carpenter with the bad temper has since lost his work partner because nobody can get along with him. He had to take a job as an apprentice carpenter with somebody else) I finally got my nephew, fresh out of carpentry school, to do it. After my nephew started on the project, they finally realized that I wasn't fooling around and they begged to come back and finish their work. I asked them if they remembered what my one and only requirement was. They repeated it to me, but I told them it was too late. The only job they wanted (at the time) was to do carpentry work on building a brand new house. They didn't want the hassle of a remodel. About 4-5 years ago, they had a hard time trying to find any work at all and some of them had to take other jobs. It didn't hurt my feelings a bit.
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