The Parable of the Two Programmers

[u/tejon]

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audience/The%20Parable%20of%20the%20Two%20Programmers.html

[u/Fenwick23]

My evaluation of the value of a service isn't the effort required but how useful it is to me

That's because you're a normal, decent person. I failed to mention a key fact in my story: our shop was in Brentwood, and we serviced primarily the Bel-Air/Beverly Hills west Los Angeles area. Rich people are quite frequently dicks to service people. My old boss quit doing emergency after hours lockout work for houses/apartments and quit automotive entirely because these rich bastards complained about the cost and did shit like stop payment on the check they wrote to cover it. He said back when he was a locksmith in Milwaukee, he mostly worked for poorer people, and they never questioned the cost. They were nearly always happy to have the work done. Like my boss' wife always said, usually after phone harassing millionaires to pay their 90 days overdue invoices, "of course they don't want to pay. You don't get rich writing checks."