Strange Days...
Aug. 13th, 2003 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curmugeonThe last few days have been full of surprises. Monday started with a panicked call from my Mom, she was concerned that the plumber I had hired was not doing what he said he would, so I took some time off work to tend to the matter. The next morning I got called to the supervisor's office and was told that any further absences from work would have to be cleared through her (the supervisor). I didn't take this too well because my immediate supervisor was the one that approved the leave, yet he did not back me one bit. Backbone is in short supply on my 'team'.
Then came the time yesterday at 5 p.m. when a fellow worker drops by my cubicle, says he has a buyer for my motorhome ad he is expecting me to call him immediately. Then he says that he told-the buy the price was $500 higher than I was asking and he wanted me to give him the excess above the asking price. So he expected me to give him money ($500) for find me a buyer? Today I said i might give him a finders fee, if the sale occurs, but made no promises of an amount. I told him I found it rather bold of him to take it upon himself to think he should get everything above the asking price as a finders fee, especially when $500 is more than 10% of the asking price. He said that if I was going to be that way he said he didn't want a finders fee, and he won't help me again. I would not have minded if this was part of an agreement up front, not something you drop on me immediately before I call the potential buyer. Live and learn. I wasn't in that big of a hurry to sell, but now the opportunity is there. If it sells I may give him 6%, but not what he wants.
Then came the time yesterday at 5 p.m. when a fellow worker drops by my cubicle, says he has a buyer for my motorhome ad he is expecting me to call him immediately. Then he says that he told-the buy the price was $500 higher than I was asking and he wanted me to give him the excess above the asking price. So he expected me to give him money ($500) for find me a buyer? Today I said i might give him a finders fee, if the sale occurs, but made no promises of an amount. I told him I found it rather bold of him to take it upon himself to think he should get everything above the asking price as a finders fee, especially when $500 is more than 10% of the asking price. He said that if I was going to be that way he said he didn't want a finders fee, and he won't help me again. I would not have minded if this was part of an agreement up front, not something you drop on me immediately before I call the potential buyer. Live and learn. I wasn't in that big of a hurry to sell, but now the opportunity is there. If it sells I may give him 6%, but not what he wants.
