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I have to vent, cause ive been dealing with this bullshit for over a month now and things are getting worse. As some of you know, I run my own business, and in doing so I had talked to my friend Jeff about sharing a shop space since I wanted to cut my costs and his business shouldn't interfere with mine as he does mechanic work on all sorts of vehicles and im not into that kind of work.
The agreement when we were moving in was to split the electric, phone, and rent. He was bringing all his tools and compressor so I wouldn't really need to bring any of those to waste shop space, and it was agreed that I could use them. Things went well for a few months....
I come back from the father's day weekend to find all my food out of the fridge and into a black trash bag sitting on the desk with a note that says OPEN IT. I guess some of the food I had in there was starting to go bad, so they decided to throw everything that was mine into a bag and have me open it up. Nevermind the sandwich that was 3 days old, my dressing packets for the salads I buy, and some bags of lettuce that were probably ready to go to the trash but were sealed so they didn't stink. Instead of throwing away the 2 styrofoam conatiners of leftovers that were causing the problem, and then telling me about it, they had to do this. I wasn't very happy.
A few days later, I am going through the expenses that we were going to split, like air lines, lights, etc, and noticed he had an outside light for 50 bucks that had been sitting for over 2 months. I left a note with the money I owed him, accounting for what he owed me in electric and phone...no big deal. I also included that I didn't think I should have to pay for half of the light if it wasn't going to get used. Over the next 3 days the light went up.
Then after that, I come to the shop to find the electric box to the lift and compressor has a new door welded on there with a lock on it. And a note, saying that I didn't pay for half the lift or the compressor so I couldn't use them. Things just got worse from there. I called him and left a nasty message cause this was fucked up. He arrives at the shop after he got off working his other job, and starts with the yelling and shit. Some crap about how my money that I invested into moving to this shop wasn't worth anything because my parents gave me the money when I was 1 year old in the form of stock. Nevermind that his family bought his lift... Also something about how he didn't agree with buying such a large heater during the winter cause I just bought it cause I was cold (and he said this acting as if I wasn't a man cause I didn't want to freeze). Nevermind the fact that it was something we had decided on getting, and that the one I originally bought wasn't working right, so he took it back and got the one we have now. Hmmm....telling at me for something that was in late january, early february.
A few days ago, lorenzo was here helping me do my brakes, and I was using jeffs jack. unfortunately, jeff got here before we were done and saw me using his jack. Guess what he did....
He put a chain around the jack and locked it up with the electrical box! I have a picture too! http://60degreev6.com/Sappy/shop/DCP_3201.JPG
The lease is up after this month, so thank god i understand what a jackass he is now. He has now taken to calling my friend Ian from a payphone with one of his buddies and talking shit to him...and he has not 1 damn thing to do with any of this. I don't enjoy dealing with grown up children...this is just very immature.
Business isn't on pause for me, though I will share that the 94-95 DOHC chips aren't any further yet, and the DOHC intakes are delayed because I have to find someone to weld aluminum for me. I hope to overcome this obstacle I used to call a friend and get to work 100% without stress and worries within the next 3 weeks. [/url]
The agreement when we were moving in was to split the electric, phone, and rent. He was bringing all his tools and compressor so I wouldn't really need to bring any of those to waste shop space, and it was agreed that I could use them. Things went well for a few months....
I come back from the father's day weekend to find all my food out of the fridge and into a black trash bag sitting on the desk with a note that says OPEN IT. I guess some of the food I had in there was starting to go bad, so they decided to throw everything that was mine into a bag and have me open it up. Nevermind the sandwich that was 3 days old, my dressing packets for the salads I buy, and some bags of lettuce that were probably ready to go to the trash but were sealed so they didn't stink. Instead of throwing away the 2 styrofoam conatiners of leftovers that were causing the problem, and then telling me about it, they had to do this. I wasn't very happy.
A few days later, I am going through the expenses that we were going to split, like air lines, lights, etc, and noticed he had an outside light for 50 bucks that had been sitting for over 2 months. I left a note with the money I owed him, accounting for what he owed me in electric and phone...no big deal. I also included that I didn't think I should have to pay for half of the light if it wasn't going to get used. Over the next 3 days the light went up.
Then after that, I come to the shop to find the electric box to the lift and compressor has a new door welded on there with a lock on it. And a note, saying that I didn't pay for half the lift or the compressor so I couldn't use them. Things just got worse from there. I called him and left a nasty message cause this was fucked up. He arrives at the shop after he got off working his other job, and starts with the yelling and shit. Some crap about how my money that I invested into moving to this shop wasn't worth anything because my parents gave me the money when I was 1 year old in the form of stock. Nevermind that his family bought his lift... Also something about how he didn't agree with buying such a large heater during the winter cause I just bought it cause I was cold (and he said this acting as if I wasn't a man cause I didn't want to freeze). Nevermind the fact that it was something we had decided on getting, and that the one I originally bought wasn't working right, so he took it back and got the one we have now. Hmmm....telling at me for something that was in late january, early february.
A few days ago, lorenzo was here helping me do my brakes, and I was using jeffs jack. unfortunately, jeff got here before we were done and saw me using his jack. Guess what he did....
He put a chain around the jack and locked it up with the electrical box! I have a picture too! http://60degreev6.com/Sappy/shop/DCP_3201.JPG
The lease is up after this month, so thank god i understand what a jackass he is now. He has now taken to calling my friend Ian from a payphone with one of his buddies and talking shit to him...and he has not 1 damn thing to do with any of this. I don't enjoy dealing with grown up children...this is just very immature.
Business isn't on pause for me, though I will share that the 94-95 DOHC chips aren't any further yet, and the DOHC intakes are delayed because I have to find someone to weld aluminum for me. I hope to overcome this obstacle I used to call a friend and get to work 100% without stress and worries within the next 3 weeks. [/url]
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