/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2715968
>Tell your boss...
Be me, just started my company, ~25 at the time. I was told by the stone fabricator to take a look at what was at the time the most expensive unit sold in the area. I go in, take a look at the areas needing work and meet the designer/ head contractor. The contractor was extremely rude to me, I was explaining the process when he just ups and tells me something like "This is serious shit, tell your boss not to send kids to quote jobs". I shit you not, I nodded to him, apologized and told him to give the owner a call - hand him my business card. He calls me a few hours later, has no idea its me, I got the job. We meet on site a few weeks later and he straight up asked me if it was me who he talked to, I told him yes, I was the boss. He was a cunt and I don't think he does much these days.

>Kramer
I once did a job for a pretty scary mob boss. He was legit 4'10, old, and extremely angry. He had a silent pony tailed henchman with him everywhere he went, legit like a movie. He heard I was good with color and wanted me to make every vein in his stone floor disappear, no matter the cost. This entails taking a dremel to the epoxy seams and removing the vein color, replacing it with the right shade of vein and then shaving it smooth. The kicker here is that when I met him, he told me I reminded him of Kramer (I look nothing like Kramer). He called me Kramer for 6 days straight. I never corrected him.

>Island work
Not really a story, but example of the hustle. I have a client who is a VIP and doesn't want anyone to know when he is in or out of his properties. He has a place that is ~100 million on a small island on a lake in the woods. Typically I get a call from his right hand guy, told where to be and at what time and always less than 24hrs notice. Last call was "be at this place (2 hours away) at 6am, there will be a boat waiting. Literally had to pack up my job, get ready, leave my house at 3:45am and got home at 8pm.