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Bitch about this, bitch about that. That’s life, that’s what all the people say. You’re ridin’ high in April and shot down in May, right?
“I’m gonn pay you ________.”
“I owe you ________.”
“Next week, I promise!”
If ONE of those people had said, “Mark, I can’t afford it!” it might’ve been different. I mean, even if it’s fiction, it’s better than just a flat out “promise,” right?
Sorry, but like everyone else, I get sick of hearing that shit after months, because I’m relying on those promises and cashflow myself…
So I’m gonna keep drinking beer and pretending to write.
Until further notice…
Note: I moved the off-topic remainder of this post the “The Fuckit List” 
Me: “Why does this keep happening? Work my ass off for a client, don’t get paid, and suddenly it’s all twisted into me being the bad guy…”
Voice: Desperation… so strong a need that you impair your own judgement and do business with people you know are going to take advantage.
Me: “Need clouds judgement… ”
Voice: …so you must stop making choices based on desperate need and begin establishing beneficial, long-term connections…
Me: “Get out of survival mode…”
Voice: …and stop trusting out of necessity rather than trusting logically.
Me: “But they’re still asshats…”
Voice: Then stop dealing with asshats.
Me: “Duplicitous… Four months ago you told me not to let my head rule my heart.”
Voice: That was different.
Me: “Why?”
Voice: You should never talk yourself out of faith in the things that make you happy.
Me: “And if I don’t, and I’m still unhappy?”
Voice: Are you?
Me: “It fell down again…”
Voice: Then you should ask yourself much you helped it along.
Me: “Every second of every day.”
Voice: You didn’t learn the first time, did you?
Me: “Learn what?”
Voice: Happiness should never be questioned. Accept it, and it’s yours.
This John Nichols guy is a special kind of asshat. His misdeeds span across a mutitude of levels, and a couple of different companies, namely his Mr. Transmission business (aka Mr. Transerv 100, Inc. dba Mr. Transmission / MILEX) & Rhino Linings of Knoxville. Knowing that another friend of mine, a photographer, has been repeatedly screwed by this, and knowing that in his Rhino Linings business he tried to screw me out of the hosting bill, I have no idea why I thought doing any sort of business with this asshat was a good idea.
Except that I need the business these days…
I know at least one person who works for Mr. Transmission on Clinton Highway in Knoxville, and so I dropped by last week to see if they could get the rusted clamp off my muffler since I didn’t have a die grinder or a dremel handy, and I knew they did. But when I walked into the office, John Nichols son, Scott, said, “There it is.”
“What’s going on?”
“That computer is all screwed up. Please fix it!” said Scott.
“What’s it doing?”
“It’s really slow, and its taking forever just to enter an invoice,” Mike replied. “So please do.”
“Ok,” I agreed. After the last billing fiasco, where John repeatedly blames Scott, he’d told me that if he wasn’t there, Mike was in charge. Mike authorized me to the computer, and so I went to work.
I removed several viruses, several bit of spyware, several trojans, a fake antivirus program, and did all the updates. During one of the updates, I asked them about the muffler. Fifteen seconds with a grinder, five seconds with a hammer, and the rusted clamp was off. They offered to put it on for me if I’d grab the parts. I took off just down the road and grab a couple of muffler clamps and a 2.25 I/D converter. That took fifteen minutes, but it was also during the time the system was doing a an antivirus and antispyware scan. When I got back, they said, they removed the old pipe from the muffler, threw the converter in, clamped it all down and tightened it all up. A whole fiften minute job. Couldda done it myself, but I figured I’d take the price outta their bill.
Once the computer was was finished, and I was satisfied that everything was in proper working order, I started writing up the final bill.
“Hey, Mike? How much do I owe ya for the muffler?”
“Ahh, man, that was nothing. Don’t worry about it, you don’t owe us anything for that,” he replied.
I tallied…
Service (Onsite) – 10/15/2008
[systemname] Not Working – System slow and uncooperative
Infected W32.Magistr, W32.Backdoor.Gen, W32.Sality (not AA), W32.SDbot.ETA. Malware/Trojan ScreenView, HexBinAdWare, Virtumundo.Gen(Smitfraud). All Removed Manually, then re-scanned with Windows Defender & Spybot 1.6. Re-Enabled Regedit & Task Manager. Removed Damaged Malware / Fake Antivirus (Antivirus). Removed Damaged/non-working antivirus (Symantec Antivirus 2004). Removed Fake AntiSpyware (Spyware Blaster, RemedyAntispy). Software Updates installed (XPSP3, All Windows Updates, Spybot 1.6, Adobe Acrobat 9, Codec Pack)
Two hours, at $125 an hour — that’s what I’ve charged for years. $250 seemed steep given the assistance with the muffler. And for that trouble, which Mike claimed I “didn’t owe anything” for since they ‘didn’t provide any parts” or “have to do any major surgery,” I knocked a half hour off and gave them a final bill of $187.50.
On Friday, October 17th, John Nichols called me up cussing me out, telling me that he had already told me that his son, Scott, was not authorized to make decisions for his business. I told him Mike authorized it, and John began screaming that Mike wasn’t authorized, that every bit of business we did had to go through him, and he wasn’t going to pay. I cussed the guy up one side and down the other for calling and yelling at me and cussing me out. He’s a lousy piece of shit that way.
I printed out the bill, and at 2PM, I went over there. I recorded the conversation for posterity. John says he’s not paying, and that we’re even since they installed a muffler. And that he was the only one to authorize any work or bills.
I told him that he had said in his absence he had authorized Mike to make those decisions, and in a moment of severe WIMP-ASS, Mike tells me, “No, I didn’t authorize it.”
And so, Mike, too, is a damn liar. He didn’t authorize it? He just told me what was wrong with it for the plain hell of it, and said, “See what you can do?” And didn’t charge me for a muffler job, said that I didn’t owe anything? Cool. Mike’s won’t stand up to John.
“Well, tell ya what, I either get a check, or you get a warrant.” And I left. And I was pissed.
Ya see, that’s where our first fiasco happened. Back a few months ago, John himself asked me to register their Rhino Linings domain and put up a splash page, offer e-mail, and prove to him that I could do SEO. I offered to do that for him on the basis that he paid for the domain, $25 a month in hosting and agreed that we would do the final website in a content management system for around $2500. He agreed, but his bill got up to $103.75 at the beginning of October because he hadn’t bother to pay for any of it. I subsequently pointed the domain at this site for a couple of days for non-payment.
On October 6th, he called me up screaming that his son had no authorization to setup that site, and I screamed right back at him that his friggin’ idea, and then went and picked up my check for $103.75. He was apologetic, didn’t remember the deal we’d made (right), and told me then that if he wasn’t there, Mike was the only one who had any authority for any business we would do, that his son Scott would have no say whatsoever. And that’s fine, I agreed, and he agreed to retain the website for an additional year at $25/mo., and eventually use us to build the final site at $2500.
Now, this Scott thing is kinda pertinent, because this asshole goes off on Scott every second when I’m around, and I’m sure it doesn’t stop when I’m not. He’s a beligerant asshole to his son, seeking to mock and belittle him in front of customers, other businesses, friends, etc. John Nichols is a total piece of work… if you can call it that.
It’s no surprise, of course, that earlier today, I received a bill from Mr. TranServ 100, Inc., dba Mr. Transmission / MILEX, owner, John Nichols.
For work completed on 10/17/2008. On a 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais.
Shop Supplies, $3.51
Hazardous Materials, $3.99
Install Muffler, $187.50
Sales Tax, $18.40
Total: $213:40
Sorry, WHAT THE FUCK? That won’t even stand up in court. No work was performed on my vehicle on 10/17/2008, which is clearly printed on the invoice. I do not own, nor do I know anyone who does own, a 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais. No parts were supplied, hazardous materials handled, or mufflers installed — however, on 10/16/2008, on an entirely different car, a muffler converter was installed because the pipe had rusted through, and the job took 15 minutes, and Mike assured me that I owed nothing for that. And I removed a half hour from their bill?
John Nichols clearly wrote this invoice to avoid paying his bill. I mean, CLEARLY — who the Hell charges $213.40 to install a muffler that wasn’t purchased there and no parts were purchased for?
Only you, John.
You think this is over, you are sadly mistaken. I consider this a breach of our contract.
See ya in court, deadbeat!
Obama recently went off on McCain for his lack of technical prowess. Meanwhile, Obama has “his people” set up a blog, a twitter, a MySpace, and bunch of other Web 2.0 garbage that I am 100% certain he has no idea how to use, himself. And it really ticks me off, because it is then used to harrass and annoy people who don’t want it.
(Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2I0t_Twk0)
And this right here is where’s it’s an issue. Obama keeps going off that McCain is “out of a touch” with technology and living in a world of twenty-there years ago, and yet Obama is out of touch with the very laws he’s being paid to help to shape and mould — and even then, doesn’t show up for work most of the time.
Federal Statutes have declared that Campaign E-mails soliciting for donations fall under the category of “Commercial E-Mail.” I have received no less than three of these e-mails per day for the last month — all from Barak Obama. Despite my having opted out. Multiple times. To no avail.
Here’s the basis of the Federal CAN-SPAM Law:
And it appears that there’s only one of those items the Obama campaign hasn’t broken!
Oh, and it carries with it fines of up to $11,000 per violation, raking in a conservative estimate of nearly ten million dollars that Barak Obama owes in fines, plus State Recompense and the FTC-Imposed Civil Fees, which means that Barack Obama owes me $45,900.
So McCain is out of touch with Technology … Obama is out of touch with Law, and the spirit of it.
Which one’s the bigger sin?
No way in Hell will I vote for someone who’s as notorious as Sanford “Spamford” Wallace.
So seriously, Mr. Ospama, stop adding me to MySpace! Don’t follow me on Twitter! And first and foremost, quit sending me these damn e-mails! And get out that check book — I could really use it right now, so I’ll settle for an even $45,000.
