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This is mostly a rant just to get it off my chest ...
I work on pcs for people (by word of mouth) recently a good customer of mine refered a woman to me and before the woman called me the good customer warned me that the person could be a little hard to get along with etc and not to let the person talk me talk me into discounting the work I would do for them because they were tight with thier money. Plus that I should not feel bad saying no to thier requests.
I talked to the woman on the phone and because she stays about 40 mins away I met her in a store parking lot that was halfway between our homes. When I met the woman she did seem a little surprized that I was the one she was supposed to meet.
well I ended up looking at 2 of their computers.I stuck out with the first one and could not fix it but gave her some options on what could be done with the parts.On to the second pc .the could fix themselves by running their recovery disks but their was data they needed backing up and part of the problem was the system was no longer recognizied thier cd burner afer they had gotten a virus and
They didnt give me the recover disks for the computer so I have to meet them. Well I decided to go on an back up thier data. some pictures and some music, I normally try not to be nosey but while I was copying the music off thier drive I noticed the title to a song ..
This song whose title i wont repeat here uses a particular racist slur. I listened to a 30 sec of the song and was a little mad about.
At this point what would you have done if you in the course of doing some work for a person, to find something racist or demeaning to your race or religon in thier house or computer etc.
Before I found the "racist material " I was not going to charge for all the work I had done because it had not fixed the problem, but afterwards I am going to charge her my normal rate because I did do the work as promised but it just didnt fix the problem. On the 2nd computer I backed up her data and all it needs is a simple reloading of the operating system because some drivers have gotten screwed up but she know how to use her restore disks but didnt want to lose her data. I could charge her and do it for her... she will pay me to do it I just told her I didnt like to take peoples money for simple things that they could do for themselves. So in a day or 2 I will be meeting her to return her 2 computers and get paid for the work I did do.
Im just curious to what others would have done .....
I work on pcs for people (by word of mouth) recently a good customer of mine refered a woman to me and before the woman called me the good customer warned me that the person could be a little hard to get along with etc and not to let the person talk me talk me into discounting the work I would do for them because they were tight with thier money. Plus that I should not feel bad saying no to thier requests.
I talked to the woman on the phone and because she stays about 40 mins away I met her in a store parking lot that was halfway between our homes. When I met the woman she did seem a little surprized that I was the one she was supposed to meet.
well I ended up looking at 2 of their computers.I stuck out with the first one and could not fix it but gave her some options on what could be done with the parts.On to the second pc .the could fix themselves by running their recovery disks but their was data they needed backing up and part of the problem was the system was no longer recognizied thier cd burner afer they had gotten a virus and
They didnt give me the recover disks for the computer so I have to meet them. Well I decided to go on an back up thier data. some pictures and some music, I normally try not to be nosey but while I was copying the music off thier drive I noticed the title to a song ..
This song whose title i wont repeat here uses a particular racist slur. I listened to a 30 sec of the song and was a little mad about.
At this point what would you have done if you in the course of doing some work for a person, to find something racist or demeaning to your race or religon in thier house or computer etc.
Before I found the "racist material " I was not going to charge for all the work I had done because it had not fixed the problem, but afterwards I am going to charge her my normal rate because I did do the work as promised but it just didnt fix the problem. On the 2nd computer I backed up her data and all it needs is a simple reloading of the operating system because some drivers have gotten screwed up but she know how to use her restore disks but didnt want to lose her data. I could charge her and do it for her... she will pay me to do it I just told her I didnt like to take peoples money for simple things that they could do for themselves. So in a day or 2 I will be meeting her to return her 2 computers and get paid for the work I did do.
Im just curious to what others would have done .....