OK, so I recently had (and still have ongoing, unfortunately) work done on my house. My central HVAC unit had died, and the people that were going to replace it were futzing around for a mouth, yanking my chain about whether or not they had a replacement unit, when I was going to see it, yada yada.
So they finally come in, rip the old unit out of the wall, leave a giant hole. Then, my contractor comes back and fills in the hole. Then, the morons… er, HVAC guys, come back and leave a bunch of shit lying around. Then, the contractor opens the wall up more. Then, the HVAC guys come back and put half of the unit in. Then they leave. Then they come back, seemingly whenever they want to.
So here’s the point of the story: it is at this point that I stop one of the HVAC workers and ask “So, what’s the schedule, here. Are you going to finish today?”
I swear this is what happened.
“Probably finish today,” he said.
“Today?” I replied.
“Yeah. But they have to put the palette on the roof first, so probably not today.”
“So, not today? Which is it?”
“Probably yes, probably not today,” he said.
“Ok, explain it to me, because I don’t understand how you can probably do something, and then probably do the complete opposite.”
At this point, his boss came over and told me that they would be back at 4 the next day to finish. I said, “So if I leave the house and come back at 3:59, I’ll be 1 minute early for you?”
I stayed home the whole next day. They came at 1. Glad I asked.
By the way, if you want to hire these guys, they are called “Frisersa HVAC-R Inc.” They suck.