Today, I was told that the $8,500 bill for my new water well grew to $11,000 because of a fair amount of overtime. I learned that the men I hired to drill the new well at our home were spending the overtime drilling my daughter as well. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I received an invoice for a plumber call-out. They'd watched me reconnect my own water heater because the heat pump packed up, and the lady on the phone had said no charge. So basically, 690 bucks to use their ladder, when they declined my offer to use my own. FML
Today, I started a new job. The hours are long, but I didn't mind as I could REALLY use the overtime. Turns out, they don't pay over time. I'm just expected to go "above and beyond for the company." FML
Today, I finished a fence around my house that I have been working on all week. About an hour after I finished, a water company truck pulled into my driveway. They told me they would have to take down my fence to make repairs on a water pipe. FML
Today, after I gave notice to quit my job 3 weeks ago, and my last day is tomorrow, I found out that all overtime is now $40 an hour. FML
Today, my wife is pissed I bought a $600 drill set on sale for only $200, because the one I had wasn't strong enough for the job i just started at. Yet the $300 I just spent for her to go to a concert isn't even in a the equation. FML
Today, I finally got my paycheck that I could enjoy $300 for myself after taking care of my bills with so many other ones. Then, I find out that the water was shut off, which is supposed to be my roommate's responsibility. Apparently, he has not paid it in months, and they want $288. FML
Today, I work in HR and last week we'd hired an apprentice for our repair shop. He was great. I spent $500 company dollars on his uniform. Later, he called me saying he had been offered a job paying $10 more an hour than what we were offering, as much as our experienced workers make. I either have to match it, or be out a helper. FML
Today, my boss told me I’m doing too much overtime, and that it’s draining our budget. I never volunteer for overtime, I don’t need it. Every bit of overtime I do is shit he says I have to do to meet deadlines, most of which are just the parts of his job he can’t be bothered to learn how to do himself. FML
Today, my boss finally worked out that by not giving the lads a pay rise to £18 an hour, instead just offering them overtime when necessary, it actually cost the equivalent of raising each employees salary to £26 an hour, for a whole year. He’s is blaming me because I issue the pay checks. FML
Today, I was telling my wife how being told to drink water all day when you're not even thirsty is "such a scam". Suddenly, I felt an excruciating pain in my abdomen. The ER had to give me IV fluids because I was so constipated from dehydration. The bill was over $2000. FML
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MDoremis 38
I would definitely file a complaint with whatever business bureau for your area. Not only is that unprofessional behavior, they're trying to wheedle money out of you for dicking around.
jttorkildson 21
How old is your daughter? What they did is kind of skeezy and unethical. I would probably talk to the owner about what the workers have been doing and the implication that it's been holding up the work and costing you money (that you shouldn't pay btw).
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Comments (99)
MidnaLink 35
Complain, get your money back, and ruin these people.
Mathalamus 25
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they deserve to be paid for overtime. i don't care about the second bit if it was consensual and legal. it seems a bit unethical, but i have no place to talk about ethics.
Danishduckling 20
#13 They absolutely don't - Overtime is only deserved if you actually spend said overtime doing the work you were hired to do - instead of the clients daughter.
Shade1982 21
And also, if you are a professional business, you ask the client for permission for overtime first. The client needs to approve any extra hours first.
MikaykayUnicorn 36
So if I'm doing a job and spend 3 hours ******* the clients son, I deserve to be paid extra for those 3 hours? What the ****?
nicoleeeee_94 10
I would file a complaint. they should have been professional toward you and your family since you hired them. you should tell them that you aren't going to pay for that because they weren't working on your well. depending on the age of your daughter, you could also get a lawyer. and you could also get a lawyer if they still want you to pay for the "overtime". sorry and good luck!
Aiden89 23
Sorry your daughter's a ****, OP.
ragnarok1540 39
Maybe you should should start drilling into the heads of the men who have been screwing you daughter ... In all honesty, you should refuse to pay a dime if they were dishonestly charging you for overtime while they were loafing around instead of working.
Goblin182 27
Charge the well company $12,000.00 for the services your daughter provided his employees while they were on the job.
JudyCurry 1
Are you trying to say the daughter is a prostitute, and that her father decides how much she costs, as he would for a table or a horse he possess ?
JohnForge 13
That's not what he meant. Getting offended by everything. Ah America, the land of *******.
kdmittens 9
its sounds a little rapey please tell me it was consensual
Driving_Gaming 22
how does them having sex sound rapey? what the hell?
r83839 22
The fact that she's young enough to still live with her dad, "men" is plural, and she doesn't know them. These strange men came over to work on the house, presumably when she was home alone since they were able to have sex alone. Those things make one raise one's eyebrows a bit and hope everything was consensual.
KingLewisII 34
#34 he didn't say her age for all we know she could be in her mid 20s (in the US it isn't that uncommon with the prices of school and cost of living.) #20 I'm pretty sure if they forced themselves on her the fact they charged him for it would be an afterthought.
BLDYRBBT 16
Yep, everything is rape. In the sky, in the trees, underground, rape is everywhere. Her age wasn't stated and she could easily be any age. Probably old enough or else OP would have said something I'm sure. As you pointed out they were over there working while she was home alone. If she could be left home alone with "strangers" coming over she is probably old enough. It being multiple men means it wasn't consensual how now? There are plenty of women and men out there that enjoy having multiple partners either separately or at the same time. She easily could have known them as well. Specially in small towns where everybody knows everbody.
buckdharma 38
Good thing for her you weren't putting in a septic tank.
murph_fml 21
They'd be rolling the daughter over, in that case.
Lily_Rain77 25
I think you missed the joke. That was what they were implying.
tech1200mk5 6
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So many fails! Professionalism fail. Parenting fail. Self-respect fail. Self-control fail. Considering the consequences of your actions fail. Disgusting.
DoomedGemini 38
Not a parenting fail, op has said nothing that would indicate they're not a good parent. Self respect is about respecting yourself. Not basing respect on what some dumbass on FML claims isn't respectful. Most people want sex. Get the **** over it. How they choose to deal with that, restraining from or indulging, is up to them. It doesn't say anything about self respect or anything like that.
Joshawott 21
You'd think they'd give a discount for that, not an extra fee :P