r/ProRevenge | Two Malicious Compliances Equals One Pro Revenge | #177

hey everybody brought from karma comic chameleon today we're looking at a pro revenge story - malicious compliances equal one Pro revenge let's jump right in can we make this our most liked video hit that like button for more Pro revenge stories and as always hit that subscribe button for more daily reddit stories several years ago Barry my boss did a job for Big Daddy construction and got screwed it wasn't a huge amount of money a couple of thousand dollars but screwed is screwed basically he accepted Big Daddy's word on something that they denied later Barry consulted his lawyer and was told that since the issue was not in writing that any legal action was likely to fail and even if he won that the legal cost would exceed any settlement and Big Daddy basically said my lawyer can beat up your lawyer Barry then asked what every lawyer likes to hear what should I have done differently fast-forward to 2017 Big Daddy is soliciting bids for a new restaurant called fancy Barry submits a bid for supplying and installing door hardware things like door knobs emergency exit bars door closers that pull the door shut and three automatic door openers radios an ATO is something you have seen before it has a metal plate with a wheelchair logo mounted on the wall when you press it a motor opens the door it's designed to allow people with limited mobility to pass through a doorway Barry wins the bid and calls a meeting he is handling this job personally all communication with Big Daddy is to go through Barry and only Barry if someone from Big Daddy calls and says nice weather isn't it we are to reply I wouldn't know anything about that let me transfer you to Barry's line under no circumstances is anyone from Big Daddy to be given Barry cell number and the after-hours on-call Tech's are only to return the call and say that Barry will be in touch in the morning violation of any of this will be grounds for immediate dismissal for cause is this perfectly clear a few weeks go by and we get a call from GC who not only is running the job for Big Daddy but his big daddy's son he's an entitled ball of a tyrant with anger issues and a vocabulary that relies heavily on profanity I'm calling him GC because that's his job title general contractor for those who don't know a GC is responsible for ensuring that everything gets done on a construction site in the correct order for example if you are building a bathroom first you put up the wall studs then the electrical is run and the plumbing supply lines are roughed in next the drywall goes up then the tile and the baseboards the walls ceiling and trim get painted then the cabinet's light fixtures and switches are installed lastly the plumbing fixtures go in so you can see a general contractor has to deal with several different subcontractors and coordinate their efforts it's a stressful job and you need the cooperation of the various people and it's hard to get people to work with you if you're screaming swear words at them something general contractor never figured out this might be a good time to give you a visual of the restaurant layout this is by no means to scale just a sketch to give you an idea of what's going on there are three ad o's to be installed to on the entrance and one on the handicapped washroom the conventional washrooms are down a set of stairs on the right and by law there has to be a washroom available for people using wheelchairs marked as HC on the drawing this is on a bit of a corridor of sorts used by the server's to bring food in and dishes out the partitions separating the corridor are about shoulder high separating the corridor from the seating area which is what the circles with four chairs represent these are tables booths etc with a smattering of service stands for order entry and bits and pieces like extra cutlery the decor was fancy and meant to resemble a Victorian gentleman's club with oak throughout and thick carpets on the floors worthy of mention is the feature wall at the front with all coves for displaying sculptures and places to hang paintings so general contractor calls us and they are ready for the ados we arrive and install by the terms of the bid its Big Daddy's responsibility to supply dedicated 120 volt electricity for the ados to run the 12-volt wires from the activation plates to the top of the doorway so they can be connected to the circuit board for the ad oh this wasn't present at the time of the install so he ran an extension cord to power the ad oh and used a wireless transmitter and receiver to trigger it all of this was specified in the bid which said that we could install and then return to hook up the wires once they get run Barry came and supervised the tech installing the ad o--'s personally when general contractors signed off buried in the description was a line or two referencing the relevant sections of the bid when general contractors signed off on the handicapped washroom install there was a line noting that Big Daddy assumes all responsibility for compliance with the relevant Building Code section general contractor didn't bother to read what he was signing just scribbled a signature and took his copy Barry made certain the tech was right beside him when general contractor signed off malicious compliance number one it's about two weeks before opening and they are in the finishing stages Barry gets a frantic call from general contractor that none of the ad OS are working and they need these to be functional or they won't get their occupancy permit Barry heads down the next day with the tech well I found the problem so fix the King problem there's no 120 volt run to the doors and there's no 12-volt wires to hook up the buttons you didn't run the power why didn't you run the power it's not in the scope of work in the bid you're supposed to do it why didn't you tell me that when you were here the first time I did and you signed off on it where's the 15 electrician electrician get your ass over here what's up why isn't there any power for these door operators it's not part of my scope of work there's some good news what if we use Wireless for the buttons we won't need 12 volt wires I'll have to Bill you for it as an add-on but once you get me a hundred and twenty volt these adios will be working now general contractor realizes how he is the interior of the restaurant is 90% complete and there is no power to a critical part of the building without it no permit Big Daddy has up big time assuming that either Barry or the electrician would run the wires and not putting it into the scope of either the electrical panel is on the back of the kitchen and there's no way to bring a hundred and twenty volt to the front entrance except across the ceiling which would be nearly impossible all of the lighting and the ornate false ceiling was already in even if he was able to magically do that he would either have to run a metal conduit down the surface of the feature wall or rip out a good chunk of it run the wires and reinstall it the handicap washroom a do wasn't as much of a problem since it was closer and the wires can be run through the false ceiling this section that contained the handicapped washroom also had offices and storage with a t-bar ceiling unlike the main room that had 20-foot ceilings the electrician charged general contractor big dollars for the extra work malicious compliance number to remember the handicapped washroom when the building inspector came to do a pre-check they discovered that the square footage of the washroom - the area taken up by the in swinging door was less than the required minimum they needed a quick fix as dismantling the washroom moving a wall and relocating the plumbing fixtures would be too expensive and would take too long so general contractor decided to reverse the swing of the door and have it swing into the corridor rather than into the washroom this had a really bad effect on the operation of fancy once it opened as anytime someone wanted to use the washroom the door blocked the flow of servers in and out of the kitchen and people are lazy even able-bodied people were prone to using this washroom as it was closest I don't know what the conversations between fancies and Big Daddy were like but I imagine they were pretty intense but who gives a general contractor signed off on that - and Barry got to invoice for a whole new a do as the original was a pole style and reversing the swing meant that a push style was required Pro revenge general contractor called a few days after discovering that the entrance doors needed a hundred and twenty volt to tell Barry that hundred and twenty Volt was available Barry heads down with attack to check it out in the vestibule was a heater known as an air curtain it's a big heater designed to push a high volume warmed air into the vestibule to mitigate cold outside air entering the restaurant it pulls a significant amount of electricity every time it kicks on and general contractor had tied the hundred and twenty volt for the entrance door a Dios into the same circuit Barry explains that the bid specified the ad OS required their own dedicated circuits one for each general contractor responds that he doesn't give us hook the goddamn things up so Barry does and has general contractor's sign-off again only this time buried in the sign-off sheet is an acknowledgment that by not providing dedicated circuits all warranties are void and subsequent service would be billable just like usual general contractor scribbles his signature and takes his copy without reading it these ad O's are finicky about power there's a motor obviously controlled by a circuit board that determines how fast the door opens how long it stays open how fast it closes how much force is used that sort of thing if it takes a spike in power it fails and the a do no longer functions a power spike blows a fuse and damages one of the components of the control board this is replaceable and the part is worth about 30 bucks the control board can be fixed in about half an hour with another half hour on a scope to make certain everything is good Barry had sent one of the texts to the manufacturer to be certified in rebuilding the board even though our standard was to just ship them back to the manufacturer and get a replacement sure enough a couple days later general contractor calls in a panic they have the final occupancy inspection scheduled for the next day and one of the ados at the entrance is down you're a do isn't working get down here and fix it ok but this isn't covered under warranty it's billable what the are you talking about it's not even been a week and it's broken its warranty no warranties were all voided when you didn't provide clean power that get down here and put in a new a do it doesn't need a new a do it needs a new control board and I can get a new control board from the manufacturer in four to six weeks general contractor losses mind there's no way he can delay the opening of fancy acts for six weeks waiting for apart he calls Barry every name in the book threatens legal action etc Barry responds look general contractor I have a control board on the shelf that was rebuilt by a factory certified technician I can let you have it at 80% of the list price of a new one and I can have it installed by noon tomorrow do you want the rebuilt or the new part and do you agree that this is billable as per terms of the bid yes just get the thing fixed by tomorrow now Barry knows the general contractor and Big Daddy we're going to him just like they did years ago that ended up being uh I never said that dispute what general contractor didn't know was that every time he called Barry the call was recorded you know the this call may be recorded for Quality Assurance purposes that you get when you dial in well Barry never used his cellphone never initiated a call and every time general contractor called in it was recorded and archived every single time sure enough another couple of days go by and an ATO goes down again Barry asks if general contractor is good with the rebuild gets confirmation removes the blown part installs the rebuild then takes the blown control board back to the shop and rebuilds it a new control board is seven hundred and fifty dollars the rebuild he's charging $600 for a part that maybe cost $75 to get back into shape the bid specified that non warranty service was a hundred and twenty-five dollars an hour minimum four hours so tacked on another five hundred dollars for labor and it takes maybe 45 minutes to install a new control board and dial it in so every control board replacement was generating $1,100 there were 27 blown control board swaps in the first two months general contractor called in every one of them and Barry got his verbal approval if someone from fancy is called in we gave them general contractor's number and said that we could only come and fix it if general contractor was the one that called it in then Barry gets a call from Daddy of Big Daddy wanting to know what this invoice for almost 30 grand is for Barry explains annum is called berry brings his lawyer and all copies of sign-up sheets as well as transcripts of every conversation he has had with general contractor it becomes very apparent that general contractor up large and that berry had every I dotted and every T crossed Big Daddy is glaring daggers at general contractor and basically tells Barry that if he wants to get paid he's going to have to sue for the money Barry smiles and slides his ace across the table it's a contractor's lien against Big Daddy fancy restaurant and massive realty company the owners of the building here's the thing fancy yacht was owned by internationally famous chef IFC who makes his living getting very important people to invest in opening a new restaurant this is a place where they go to be very important and bring their business contacts with them after a short time when the restaurant is the happening place in town the investors sell the place and cash out large IFC sticks around helps with the transition and makes a percentage of the restaurants profits for the use of his name he's built an income stream with the investors money and the investors make a nice return only now they can't sell with a lien on the place and these investors have rabid King pitbulls as lawyers he'll some of them are lawyers see you in court Big Daddy only you're not facing Barry's lawyer you're facing a whole new level of legal expertise have fun with that Barry got his revenge and then withdrew service based on the disputed invoice he's the only company allowed to service and install this brand of a do as he has a protected territory from the manufacturer and does seven figures worth of business with them a year the only other companies anywhere nearby were warned off by the manufacturer who even relayed the fact that Big Daddy had called them directly looking for service and they referred Big Daddy to Barry Barry will definitely get paid as it's a standard to hold back 10% of the payment to a construction company for a year and the hold back will definitely cover the invoice so fancy will pay Barry and then take it out of Big Daddy's hold back either that or they will sue Big Daddy into and force Big Daddy to cough up and settle the lien who knows what company Big Daddy picked up to cover the ados very has friends in the industry and warned them all off but there are total competitors and Barry didn't say a thing to them maybe Big Daddy is screwing over one of the competition and what hurts his competition helps Barry what makes this deliciously Pro you think maybe just maybe Barry who has decades of experience in the industry might have had an electrician friend that could show him the electrical bid and that maybe Barry knew from the beginning that there was no provision for a hundred and twenty volt in either package or that the washroom was too small or that general contractor a corner cutter would take the easy way out and hook the ad O's into the air curtain way to go Barry nicely played I hope that after all the legal battle is done that that general contractor loses his license and isn't able to work in that industry ever again it's a good thing Barry was completely detail-oriented and added those extra lines into the contracts for doing the work they really saved Barry in the end and made his company a little bit of money I want to thank Opie for posting the story to the pro revenge subreddit you can visit Opie at the links in the description below please go to Reddit and give them an upvote once again this is Rob from karma comic chameleon saying thanks for watching if you enjoyed the video I asked you to hit that subscribe button drop a like and share it with your friends and we'll see you in the next one

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Length: 17min 16sec (1036 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 07 2019