This BS is one of my biggest irritations.
When I’m not out of town in roswell, lubbock, Jacksboro or up north in Mammoth Spring/Thayer area, I have a small business specializing in moving and delivery of small order large size items.
Basically, Uber delivery for big shit.
This is the best way I’ve seen it summed up as a response when somebody, who knows absolutely nothing about the job or the industry much less The Continuous increasing cost of transportation, insurance, tools, Etc while at the same time completely discounting the amount of time you have to put into amassing the skills, knowledge and even sometimes the strength requirements that are needed to complete a job.
I have repeatedly had people that just decided that moving three refrigerators from a second floor walk up to a third floor walk up 5 Mi away warranted no more than $50 charge even though they wanted me to drive 50 miles to do the move for them.
And when they don’t like my quote, I’m referred to as a brainless laborer, stupid, overcharging ripoff, scam artist, Etc because people doing physical labor have seemed to have increasingly gotten more and more disrespected because (as I was told directly to my face recently) labor is a stupid man’s occupation.
At best, it is insulting. Especially coming from someone that hasn’t spent a single day in the industry or doing any kind of job that they’re critiquing and running down.
If its so easy and cheap, you do it.
But I digress and apologize for the rant, it’s been a day along this very same vein.
And now for your reading pleasure and again, the best way I’ve ever seen it summed up quite simply: