riskadverse
Full time employment: Posting here.
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thefed said:It's in his wife's name!
Get the lien anyway. Nothing like a pi$$ed off wife to make sure he pays the bill.
thefed said:It's in his wife's name!
HaHa said:There was a fat unpopular kid in my high school. One bully in particular took great pleasure in tormenting him. Fast forward 30 years or so and the fat kid is superintendent of a state prison. Guess who should show up one day but his former tormentor.
Didn't work out very well for the bully, who found out big time what it was like to be bullied by someone with all the power.
Cops wouldn't become cops if they didn't have a strong desire to make things the way they think things should be.
Don't want to go much further, but IMO this is not a very bright idea on your part. If all that ever happened were that you suddenly got clocked every time you drove down your street, wouldn't you wish you had avoided that?
The world is an unfair place and to risk payback or even scrutiny over $100 is almost an IQ test.
Be a smart boy and let it be.
Ha
thefed said:Laying down and taking it from someone because and ONLY because he's a cop is beyond my scope of rationality.
Donzo said:I agree that the cop is counting on you to back down because of his potential payback. But, I would procede and at least talk to his sarg or Lt. and explain the situation and your concern about making his department look bad by going to the local paper w/ your situation. My guess is your "measly" $100 will be paid quickly w/ no repercusions. Frankly - if this guy pulled you over for a solid traffic stop after your discussion w/ his superior - it would look like harrassment. Or -
Leave the guy one more message and tell him you are going to contact his boss(use the name of his boss). Just like you say - it's only $100 - if the cop sees a potentail storm...so will he.
When you let these guys get away w/ this.....it just gets worse.
HaHa said:Bad karma can come from annoying a cop. Consider carefully before you continue.
Ha
youbet said:Jason,
I'm confused regarding what advise you're asking for. Are you looking for professional/business advise on handling bad debt as you grow your business? Or are you looking for gossipy interchanges regarding how you get even with some guy you don't like?
HaHa said:Jason, that is cool to me. This is America, and anyone can do anything he wants. Very likely everything will be fine.
Re my story, you are not the fat kid or the bully, but the cop is very powerful relative to you. I don’t believe in the religious sense of karma, but I sure believe in avoiding making enemies if I can. Some people can be amazingly tenacious in the area of revenge, and amazing unfair about what they feel is justification for it.
Again, whatever you feel best about just do.
I know you are young; my only motivation was to point out possible albeit unlikely downsides to the ideas that you are entertaining.
I have a temper, but you are right that I try to avoid confrontation. My threshold for deliberately running open ended risks is high.
Could be age I guess.
Ha
tryan said:thefed,
There's a cost of doing business. Losses like this are in the cost of doing business. Suck it up and move on; otherwise you'll be spending all your time and energy chasing EVERYONE who stiffs you and not attending to your business.
Can't take this stuff personally ... else, it'll completely consume you.
As a side note, I walk away from 3-5k in rents every year. Simply can't get blood from a stone.
kaudrey said:I'm sorry, but this is a real pet peeve of mine:
principal = 1) primary, most important, or 2) a leader or head of something.
principle = tenet, dogma, rule, code, whatever you want to call it, that should be used when saying "principle of the thing".
Comments like this (and situations that make people feel forced to comment) make me believe that the English language needs fewer spelling variations. Is there any other language that has so many puns derived from homonyms, or so many spellcheckers?kaudrey said:I'm sorry, but this is a real pet peeve of mine:
principal = 1) primary, most important, or 2) a leader or head of something.
principle = tenet, dogma, rule, code, whatever you want to call it, that should be used when saying "principle of the thing".
Thank you.
my FIRST EVER bad check
kaudrey said:I'm sorry, but this is a real pet peeve of mine:
principal = 1) primary, most important, or 2) a leader or head of something.
principle = tenet, dogma, rule, code, whatever you want to call it, that should be used when saying "principle of the thing".
Thank you.
principal = 1) primary, most important, or 2) a leader or head of something.
principle = tenet, dogma, rule, code, whatever you want to call it, that should be used when saying "principle of the thing".
REWahoo! said:I think either spelling is correct when using the following phrase:
"It's not the school that I mind, it's the principle of the thing."