I've VERY RARELY regretted NOT doing a job. It's always the jobs that I've started and realized I should have passed on.
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 2:39 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: > Over the years, I went from taking every opportunity and frequently low > balling to get the work to turning away many more opportunities than I > take. Just this morning a guy that had been trying to get me to help him > develop some kind of ground heater (whatever that is, I think perhaps for > thawing ground) a few weeks ago. Here is an email he just sent: > > > So, I have made the assumption you folks are not interested in taking on > this project of mine. This will be the SECOND time you've turned away a > project for me. I've seen your facility, I know it's capabilities, but it > just seems there's no real interest in outside work. With the funds I had > allotted to have this work done, I have decided to use to purchase our own > equipment. With all the writing all over your building, I was pretty sure > you folks would be THEEE place to get some one-off things accomplished. We > will be doing our work now in house, or have several operations in Montana > for the larger pieces. We were really looking forward to doing business > with you, but sadly, that ship has sailed. > > > > I understood that.. no one even wanted to quote either project. Both fit > your production capabilities. We had time to wait. But it's all kind of > moot at this point.. We've moved on. I drive by there at least once a > week. All the wording on the building and websites just feels misleading at > this point. > > The first project I brought in was pretty small, and was told you didn't > have the staff on hand. I tried to present a resume, but no one was > interested in that either. So here we are that, about to launch a national > company, and now have our own shop. Just would have been nice to get an up > front own and honest answer from the start that you guys weren't interested > at all, or didn't want the business. I've been waiting for a quote for > some time which waged some time, but after the first issue, it's just not > worth my time. I just wanted you folks to know where I was coming from > > > I forwarded the only three emails I have ever sent to him. In all I > referred him to other shops, never offered to quote. But this is a perfect > example of the type of wingnut you want to avoid. Good that in a period of > a month he now has his own shop and manufacturing capabilities etc. Lost > out bigtime here... yeah, I lost out on bitcoin too. Oh well. > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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