Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 14, 2015

Huh, this sounds very familiar. I must have hired the same guy…

Only five times? That’s actually a bargain.(The Naked Gun)

I didn’t know Antonin Scalia moonlighted. “Argle bargle flibertigibberts needs replacement…”

blah blah Ginger blahblah blah blah blah blahblah blah Ginger blahblah blah blah blah…

we shall hold the whole world hostage for………………..ONE MILLION DOLLARS…..HEH HEH..

@daDoctah:One of my all time favorite cartoons.

The owner of the ranch where I work contracted with a fence building company to build a mile of fence.They have been at it 4 days, and unless they got a post set yesterday, their average is 1 and 1/4 posts a day. It goes without saying that they started a week late.Can’t ask for too much, though. The first company he hired never showed.

I got a contractor that I had used several times before to do two jobs. He did one and disappeared. I only paid the deposit. I got another to finish the other job a couple of years later. Turns out the first contractor had a family problem from what the 2nd one told me. They never know when they are getting work so they overbook so to speak.

The minute a contractor says “X times more than the estimate,” out the door they go.

Wonder how the jerk stays in business. Apparently he is illiterate so there is nothing written down; unless there are ten added pages of micro lines of clauses done by his attorney.

Wonder how the jerk stays in business. Apparently he is illiterate so there is nothing written down; unless there are ten added pages of micro lines of clauses done by his attorney.

There is not enough space to describe the “joy” of construction projects in South America. I will say that, when we built the second floor addition to our house, the “maestros” preferred to deal with me, rather than face ‘la generala’, my Ecuadorian spouse. She was tough. She even fired her own brother !Needless to say, I let her do all the negotiating and supervision. We saved thousands of $$$ .

where are all those ‘Property Brothers’ types i see on the Home channel? I sure haven’t met any of ‘em. The only ones I’ve met are the NonSequitur types! Sounds like you’re in the same boat (house?) Wiley!

Reasonably accurate. Whether it’s private or governmental, that’s the way it is.

Like the roofer who couldn’t figure out how many flats that my single ridge ranch home needed, or the next one who started to climb up on a wet shake roof wearing cowboy boots – I ran him off before he hit my homeowner’s insurance.

On a scale of 1 to 10 when it comes to home repairs, I’m about a 4, make that a minus 3 when it comes to plumbing. So I do hire a contractor. Fortunately, I have a good one. Yes, I know I’m paying overhead, but he does a great job yelling at the suppliers and subcontractors for me. I pay him to manage the contract for me. As someone mentioned before, I’ve never been charged more unless I changed the scope.

On the other hand, I work in the IT field. If any line of work has jargon, that surely does. I’m sure it was an IT guy who wrote the technobabble for the Star Trek series.

They had one of those home renovation shows on while I was out at lunch yesterday. Redo wood floors? Nope, rotted. Found mold. Found structural damage. Surprised they didn’t bring in a bulldozer and slap a prefab on the lot.

If you think this guy is bad, how about contractors in the Military Industrial Complex? Wan’na buy an F-35?

My son was a SEABEE, and did an excellent job tiling our bath, but his disabilities from injuries in the service mean calling a contractor for other jobs. He does an excellent job of screening them, because he does know what the jobs require, and that’s where the average consumer gets shafted.

How much did the translation cost?.Frabble, rabble, flibbity, ….

And we won’t ever show up to do the job.