Jerk Driver Pays For a LOT More Than a New Car! | r/ProRevenge | #330

hey everybody Rob here it's time for a couple of stories from the pro revenge archives first one a potential client tried to take advantage of me and I got her fired from her Big Shot marketing job let's jump right in thank you for subscribing and if you haven't yet please hit that subscribe button for more daily reddit stories a little bit of back story I'm running a painting business over the summer as a junior in college to pay for school my prices are pretty fair as I hire college students and have a deal with Sherwin Williams as a contractor to get cheaper paints and materials anyways a potential client will call her PC for pretentious scheduled an estimate with me about a month and a half ago for an interior bathroom job and a deck stain I tell her the times I'm available but she absolutely pushes for a time where I would have to rush over from a job site do a hurried estimate then run home to grab a bite of dinner before going to previously scheduled estimates I'm a bit miffed but I said it sails is hard I should learn how to bend over backwards for clients so I show up to do the estimate and the whole time I'm getting my numbers together she is talking me down telling me how if she ran a business like I did she would be fired from her Big Shot marketing job immediately and how I should be dressed better to respect the client what I did to offend her Majesty was I moved her plants to the side to be able to measure the deck better and I came to the estimate in paint stained clothes since I had run over directly from the job site so I present the price of about 800 dollars with a 10% day of estimate discount to book up the season and she says she needs a few days to consider it okay fair enough right I'll extend the discount a few days for her so I come back a few days later expecting a yes or no answer and she sits me down and starts to haggle with me at this point I'm tired enough already from working in the Sun all day and just want some food to stop the rumblies after I give her another five percent discount just to close the job she continues to haggle with me saying the highest we can go is $600 when I finally tell her I can't go any lower on the job or I would actually lose money on it she tells me that she got an estimate from another local company for $500 and that she wouldn't want me to match it because she wants to support the local community at this point I'm exhausted and my brain is barely keeping me breathing but that price point doesn't sound right to me I calculated my price based off a small profit labor and materials now I pay my painters $13 an hour and I hire college students so if the other company is charging way less they either pay their career painters even less minimum wage where I am is $11 or the quality of paint is much lower so I ask PC if they remember what paint the other company said they would use and she says she doesn't recall fair enough paint names are hard to remember if you don't see them that often then I asked if I could see their estimate contract to figure out why they were so much cheaper than I was PC says that they didn't have an estimate sheet now this is a big no-no in any contracting business because you have to keep track of numbers budgeted hours etc now alarm bells are ringing in my head so I sent a firm amount on the price of the previous estimate with the additional 5% discount which means that I make a measly $5 per hour I personally work on the job PC finally agrees on the price saying it's just $50 I can't see why you can't just give us more discount at my bake shop marketing job I would give the customer a discount without hesitation forgetting that a the discount would be coming out of my broke college students pockets not a big corporation and B I already told her that I would only be getting about $5 per hour on the job even though she wants to support the local community she asks if we take credit but there is a 5% credit card fee that would come out of my already tiny slice of so I asked for check which I told her we prefer during the original estimate she tells me that she uses chase which doesn't have a branch near us and that the nearest one is in New York we are about half an hour from Boston what therefore she cannot use a check because she would have to order the checkbook from New York I think all right fine I guess some people these days don't have checkbook I reiterate that I will lose money on the job at that price point with the 5% fee tacked on and that I can wait until the checkbook arrives so I tell her that she can message or call me when the checkbook arrives and I can drive back to collect the deposit and have her sign the contract on the way out she tells me that the job needs to be finished before a certain date because she was having guests over I explained to her that when I received the deposit I'll lock her in for a power wash of the deck which will need about a week to dry then we can stain it in one day she mutters something something I can find the checkbook by tomorrow come on now she just admitted to lying to me about having to order a checkbook from New York so I say that's fine let me know tomorrow afternoon so I can come by and finalize the contract when I get home I decide to search up chase branches near me on Google because I found it really strange that there wasn't one closer than New York especially since we were pretty close to Boston I kid you not there was a chase branch 14 minutes from her house now I'm pissed I don't know what else she lied to me about so I call up my friend whose dad owns the company she talked about he calls me later that day and says that he never did an estimate with her name or address I sent her a message over facebook messenger I do a lot of posts in local yard sale groups for exposure for my company so I set up estimates through messenger and called her out about the chase branch the check and the estimate from the other painting company she goes off here are a few memorable quotes from her rant you don't have the right to insult me like that this is just your first year running a business and I've been working out big shop marketing job for years now it doesn't matter what I pay you because you're a young and money doesn't matter to you right now my facebook post literally says that I am running this business to pay for college and my personal favorite you people should be grateful that I even pay you five dollars an hour for your work I'm Chinese at this point I'm ready to just block her and go to bed angry but I have an epiphany and just here big shot marketing job that go through my head I take screenshots of the messages he sent me and slopped them along with a lengthy description of what happened in an email and sent copies to whatever email addresses I could find associated with the Big Shot marketing company I get an email back a couple days later from a different address than the ones I wrote to previously basically saying thank you for reaching out to us this type of behavior is unacceptable and we will be conducting an internal investigation into PC my Justice boner is about half-mast but I think to myself that'll be the last of it I guess just today I was messaging another old client and came across pcs conversation with me I go to her profile and in the intro for her profile it now says works at self-employed instant full mast a lot of people don't understand the expenses that go into running your own business and thus they can't fathom why something would cost so much but lying to a contractor and saying you have a quote from one of their competitors is never a good idea most contractors know each other and they help each other out here and there on to our next story jerk driver ends up paying for a lot more than a new car first a little backstory I'm a college student and cycled a campus everyday it's not a long ride at all but I have to go through a zone where it's illegal to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk so I'm forced to ride on the road most drivers don't care and just go around me since I stay to the edge and don't make myself a nuisance also I have a PE bike that I commute on this will be important later a few weeks ago a guy a Ford SUV I don't know exactly which kind started yelling at me as he drove by while I was in the road only zone all the usual get off the road roads are for cars you're too slow kind of stuff I get that from drivers on a weekly basis I just ignore and keep going this man was special though since he cut right in front of me and slammed on his brakes after yelling I was able to stop before I hit him and he floored it out of there yelling better be careful next time bike I was pretty mad but I hadn't got his license plate or anything and I doubt anything could be done about it anyway there was no real proof over lunch I told one of my friends who works as an EMT the story and he got seriously pissed off apparently he has seen the results of a car successfully break checking on a cyclist and they aren't pretty two days later the same Ford SUV jerk tried to break check me again I was expecting it as soon as I heard him yelling get on the sidewalk bike from behind so I avoided a crash again I told my EMT friend over lunch again and he was even madder than before I wanted to let it go since I can't really do anything about him and my bicycle isn't going to win in a crash this guy keeps trying to break check me every few days during my morning commute whenever we're on the same patch of road at the same time about a week ago my EMT friend told me that he told my story to one of his friends in the campus police who was equally pissed off the two of them wanted to catch this jerk driver the plan was to have the policeman parked on the side of the road in hopes of catching and pulling over the jerk I heartily agreed and the officer pulled some strings and had himself posted on speeder catching duty for that stretch of road a few days passed uneventfully with no sign of the road rager I saw the cop parked in the same spot on the side of the road every day a spot where the road has a left turn lane and a straight lane finally I'm pedaling along and I hear the familiar voice scream get the hell off the road here I yelled back catch me then and took off I was spinning my scrawny little chicken legs as hard as they would go and pegged the throttle I guess this made the driver even matter because I heard his engine roar as he pursued me he shifted into the left lane as I stayed in the right I looked to the side and saw a nasty-ass old man in the driver's seat with the passenger window open his mouth was going like he was yelling but I couldn't hear him over the wind noise I saw the police car spot approaching and started to slow down taking the opportunity the driver swung right in front of me I don't know if it was the speed or his anger that made him swing wide but he cut across my lane and crashed straight into the back of the police car I barely applied my brakes slowed down to about 15 miles per hour and crashed into the side of his car the officer got out spitting mad would be an understatement and called an ambulance and another police car everyone was unhurt since the jerk was going only like 25 miles per hour but there was enough of an impact to trigger the SUV's airbags the jerk ended up getting arrested for driving drunk seriously who drinks before 9 a.m. for an illegal lane change and probably other stuff too I don't know all the details I imagine that causing a crash like that would entail some additional charges the guy ended up having to pay for extensive repairs on the police cruiser and for a new bike to replace the one he destroyed by cutting in front of me the frame snapped on top of that I hear that his car was defined as totaled by his insurance company since the airbags went off so he also has to pay for a new car with any luck he'll lose his license from the drunk driving charges and won't be able to menace cyclists again so this guy actively endangered Opie for something that they were legally entitled to do I'm so glad Opie was able to get the revenge that they needed Opie I hope you went to the hospital and got checked out this one too because you wouldn't want any injuries coming up later on that you didn't notice right away I want to thank both Opie's for posting their stories to the pro revenge subreddit you can visit them both at the links in the description below please go there and give them an upvote once again this is rob from karma comment chameleons saying thanks for watching if you enjoyed the video please hit that subscribe button drop a like and share it with your friends and we'll see you in the next one you

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Length: 13min 55sec (835 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 09 2020