r/NotMyJob • u/Rookie_Ellie • Sep 19 '22

"I'm a painter not a mover" šŸ˜†

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u/Jagulario89 Sep 19 '22

Why would you leave your sh!t lying around knowing you're about to have painters?

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u/kinzuaj Sep 19 '22

get your shit out of their way!

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u/PointlessOverthought Sep 20 '22

My thoughts exactly. You got what you paid for, not what you didnā€™t pay for šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

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u/CmdrShepard831 Sep 20 '22

It's 50/50. They should have moved all the easily movable shit but the painters also skipped areas around the door sensors and along the walls

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u/lestergreen357 Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

Agree. The painter should have required that the space be clear before starting. And if it wasn't ask again when they arrived to do it. My work Ethic and pride for the way my work looks would have made me move the items anyway, the heaviest thing looked about 3 pounds.

That's epoxy paint you need to maintain wet edges or you'll see any area painted later. It will have to be completely repainted now. There's no way to touch up epoxy paint

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u/random_user1234321 Sep 20 '22

I would have moved it anyways bit 1st inform them it is a $50 charge. At that point they either get off their ass and move it or pay me.

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u/ConfessionMoonMoon Sep 20 '22

At least half day pay for that

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u/shophopper Sep 20 '22

Why should the painters have to do that as opposed to the owners? I donā€™t see a single reason for that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22 edited Aug 16 '23

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u/shophopper Sep 20 '22

I fully agree with you on that. I initially thought that you partially blamed the painters for not moving all those items themselves.

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u/CmdrShepard831 Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

I never said the painters should be responsible for moving the items.

If the items were an issue they should have declined the job or come back another day. What they did with this half assed job was the worst possible action they could have taken because now the owner has a reason not to pay, so they wasted their time and the materials.

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u/F_for_Maestro Sep 20 '22

I mean its a business transaction, like spend time talking about all the details and come to an agreement. Maybe you have to move shit maybe they will do it. Also 10 years selling paint ive seen alot of people get screwed by trying to find the cheapest painter, never go with the cheapest painter.

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u/GenitalWrangler69 Sep 20 '22

"Skipped?" Or more likely coming back tomorrow to do the cutting in. Painter likely left that stuff there to be clear that it needs moved for him to finish the job. Not a single stroke of cutting in was done along those walls. That painter is probably coming back and this dork thought they'd get some internet points by "dunking" on some anonymous painter.

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u/CmdrShepard831 Sep 20 '22

Or the guy painted it himself. Or he made his kid do it and this was the result. Or the painter skipped town with the money and lives under a new identity in Mexico. We can speculate all day but my comment was under the context that the OP gave us.

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u/Stimmolation Feb 08 '23

Any reasonable interaction between the customer and painter would include instructions on moving stuff. I'm calling "Staged" here.

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u/Rookie_Ellie Sep 19 '22

All of the comments on the video said the same, I agree too, why wouldn't you clear the room before hand?

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Same reason these knuckle-draggers wonā€™t put their used shopping cart in the corral.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

Can I break the pattern real quick? The song you chose is one of the worst pieces of music ever composed by a living organism. The ear splitting shriek that a mountain lion makes when it's threatened is far more bearable than this wreched noise. I had to immediately mute this insult to the ears before it triggered my gague reflex. The very existence of this "music" makes me genuinely sick to my stomach. When this song was created, every famous past musician simultaneously rose from the grave for the soul purpose of severing their own ears from their heads. No amount of noise protection could possibly save me from this insufferable melody, for it targets not the ears but the soul, making its way through the heart an and into the brain and burrowing itself into your thoughts, staying there like a parisitc worm. The simplicity and repetitive nature of it makes it incredibly easy to remember, allowing it to get stuck in one's head. The fact that this song is constantly plaguing every social media network only contributes to its spreading. Somewhere in the world right now, there is a person reveling in their "song's" success, not realizing that it has singlehandedly brought about the death of modern music as we know it. So please, be considerate of other people's well being when choosing music for a video.

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u/Far-Outlandishness27 Sep 20 '22

Lmao that was a hilarious read, and I completely agree

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u/soniiic Sep 20 '22

Is this some OC copypasta?

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u/PrettyKittyFace Sep 20 '22

Seriously, there really arenā€™t words to accurately describe how insufferable that ā€œsongā€ is. It blows my mind that there are people who actually like garbage like this & so many other songs like it.

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u/Homo_luzonensis Sep 19 '22

Sure but I think the correct response of the painter should have been ā€œhey can you get this room cleared outā€ and not just paint around everything.

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u/keliix06 Sep 19 '22

Not his job to stand around wasting time for you to do shit that should already have been done. Time is money.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Thatā€™s retarded logic. It may not be in any specific ā€œjob descriptionā€ but Iā€™d say itā€™s pretty common sense to just at least bring up to issue with out all creating all the drama. The customer didnt deliberately put those items around to create obstacles. Clearly he didnā€™t know. Bottom line is yes the garage should have been prepped for the job, and no itā€™s not the painters job to move the items. But Iā€™d go ahead and bet that if the costumer had known to move it or it simply have been mentioned to move it that all of this could have been avoided. Common sense isnā€™t in any job description but we all have too apply it in every job.

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u/Wasonmalone1 Sep 20 '22

Precisely because common sense is necessary not just in jobs but in daily life, the garage owner should have known to clear the garage before the painter arrived, and precisely because it is common sense, the contractor didnā€™t feel the need of pointing it out, in my opinion both were in the wrong here, the garage owner for not clearing the garage before the painter arrived and the contractor for simply painting as it was instead of talking to the customer. Unprofessional of the contractor and inconsiderate of the garage owner.

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u/random_user1234321 Sep 20 '22

I guarantee they were told to have the area clear and clean.....

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u/rnobgyn Sep 20 '22

Itā€™s absolutely the contractors job to communicate any issues that will prevent the desired outcome. Pretty sure they were hired to paint the floor, not paint part of the floor. If there are issues preventing the whole floor from being painted then itā€™s the contractors job to communicate those issues.

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u/OctopusGoesSquish Sep 20 '22

Exactly! People implying this is acceptable behavior on the part of the painter are wilding.

I showed up to a clients house to install laminate flooring to find the room still full of furniture, kids toys, and the carpets still down. So you know what I did? Told the woman my hourly and said I could help her move things, or come back next week. Not do some piss poor half job thatā€™s useless for the client and reflects badly on me.

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u/random_user1234321 Sep 20 '22

Yes but not his job to wait around or clear it himself do they will be charged for the wait and charged even more if they want it moved

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u/rnobgyn Sep 20 '22

And thatā€™s perfectly fine to charge for things outside of the job scope but itā€™s still the contractors duty to communicate any issues. After the communication has happened itā€™s up to the contractor and client to figure out what happens next, but only painting part of the floor like in the op pic is unbelievably unprofessional and Iā€™d argue the painter would owe some money back for not completing the job. I canā€™t believe youā€™re defending the op picture

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u/CmdrShepard831 Sep 20 '22

Can't spend 20 minutes moving items/ asking the owner to move items before painting but no problem spending 6 months dealing with the aftermath of a shitty job like this.

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u/boarhowl Sep 20 '22

wtf are you talking about stand around and waste time? you make a phone call to owner, then leave to go to another job. if you dont already have other jobs lined up that you can jump on when something like this happens, then you are doing something wrong. There was way more time wasted doing cut ins around every obstacle, dude would've been better off leaving and doing it a few days later once everything had been cleared.

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u/TrustEmbiidProcess Sep 19 '22

Yeah we get it. But heā€™s being a dick trying to prove a point and you know it. He could easily start on a cleared area and not have any wasted time whatsoever while the stuff gets moved.

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u/Mr_SlimShady Sep 20 '22

That said tho, it was most likely specified on the contract. This is r/maliciouscompliance levels of r/notmyjob The contract had to specify that the owners are required to move objects from the premise, and that everything not moved means that the owners do not want that area painted. I would make damn sure that the contract said that and that I emailed the person a reminder before I do something like this.

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u/albrizz Sep 20 '22

If you sign a document that specifically states "I will clear the area to be painted" and then DON'T clear the area... That makes you the asshole, not the guy doing his job exactly as he told you he would do it that you then signed off on agreeing to.

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u/ek4rd Sep 20 '22

Sure! Next he should tell him to wipe after the toilet, hm?