Evolve or die

[Jims5543]

This just took another twist.  I just got off the phone with the rep from the advertising company I am working with for the Score card.

They had a cancellation at another Golf Course one town over where I work a lot too.

They made me an offer I could not refuse. I purchased a year on that score card for the came price as the one up the road even though it was supposed to be more money. As a thank you for jumping in at the last minute, they gave me a second year free at the course local to my office.

The rep was cracking up when I told him I wanted to do something silly.


I have until Monday to toss a rough concept to him so they can work up the art.

Ideas?

"Bill Murray would never use this company, that is why you should"

If I chicken out I might just go with "25 years on the Treasure Coast, family owned operated and staffed"

[Jims5543]

Email from this little pool company we started to work for about 1 year ago:

We received the email below from Martin County upon their review of the Schafer form board survey requesting finished floor elevations.  I was surprised to see this comment, as in my experience, you are well aware of the survey requirements for Martin County.  I have chosen to employ your services due to your knowledge of the survey requirements in Martin County and in Port St. Lucie.  This does not exhibit the level of professionalism that we have come to expect from your firm.

I seemed to recall having you prepare a form board survey for the Lopez pool last year, so I went back to look at that survey, which is attached.  As you can see, the FFE information is clearly noted on the Lopez survey.

Sadly, we are losing additional valuable time in the construction process on the Schafer pool because this survey does not meet Martin County's requirements.  We respectfully request that every effort be made to resolve this as  quickly as possible.

The last 2 form board surveys we did for them have been riddled with problems of the pool companies making. I have lost money on both of them.

Then I got the email above and I have had enough of this pretentious asshole.

My email back explained there was no way for me to anticipate that rejection, it is not a valid rejection as we performed a form board survey of a pool hole in the ground before the gunnite is sprayed and there is no way to determine an elevation of the pool from that.

Therefore a House finished floor elevation is pointless and just some county office moron trying to find a reason to make a rejection.

The other survey she refers to was one I started at the permit stage, the last one she just got rejected for was not my job, I jumped in the middle as the surveyor they used for permitting was taking too long to get out there. I did this in less than a week. The other surveyor was going to make them wait 3 weeks.

I have reached a point where, if you are going to be an asshole, I am not working for you. There are a couple more clients perilously close to being canned too.

After explaining that to her, providing her with a revised survey with the house elevation on it, that has no effect on the pool hole. I then told her she can choose to employ someone else as I told her not to order anything else from my firm.

I would have preferred to tell her where to go. I had to restrain myself. I bent over backwards for this pool company and all they do is this shit,

[Jims5543]

BTW - The last pool company I quit from was a few years ago because they were not paying their bills.

They ended up in jail, not because of me, because they were ripping everyone off. The husband / wife owners are both in jail for decades now.

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/crime/indian-river-county/2024/05/24/amore-pool-owner-guilty-in-multimillion-dollar-pool-building-scheme/73585251007/

[94touring]

The pool business is evidently complicated.  Speaking of.... our condo pool that was going to be renovated 2 months ago:

[Jims5543]

Having beers with my surveyor friends, I commented about how over regulated pool permitting is.

One of the surveyors specializes in consulting with municipalities.  He commented that every regulation is a result of a lawsuit.

I mentioned this to one of my pool contractors and she agreed. She pointed to this news story.

https://www.wpbf.com/article/exclusive-family-says-florida-father-of-four-died-saving-sons-from-electrified-fountain/45632212

After that, all commercial pools / fountains and anything similar were stopped for almost a year while new regulations were drafted up.

A pool like your condo pool is subject to way more rules and regulations than a residential pool would for obvious reasons.

[94touring]

Yeah we have a nice mud pit for the summer.

[MiniDave]

I wonder how big the lawsuit settlement will be, even tho it was posted?

[Jims5543]

My equipment salesman hits me up this morning with a solution to a problem I had.

I want to get rid of my 1st generation Robotic instrument. I have been delaying that because it was heavily damaged by water intrusion and has had extensive repairs to it.

I have since bought the second generation of it and do not use the old one anymore. He just let me know they are having a trade in deal where they give 10K trade in for the old instrument towards a 3rd generation one.

Then I can sell off one of our 2nd Generation instruments for about 12K making the purchase of the 3rd gen relatively painless.

Decisions.

edit

He just sent me a quote. The 3rd gen is $25.3K, they will give me 10K on trade.  I am trying to see what my 2nd gen is worth to sell off.

If I can get 12K for my second gen, I am only out 3K for a brand new one that will serve me easily for the next 5- years.  This is a no brainer.

[MiniDave]

I wonder why a heavily repaired unit is still worth more than $10K?

But I agree, sure sounds like a no brainer to me too.....

[Jims5543]

I have been holding off selling it because I do not trust it. I have a problem passing issues onto an individual.

I have no problem handing it over to the equipment company.  If I were to try to sell it I may be lucky to get 6-7K for it considering its history.

They swear its repaired and back to factory specs. They did over 4K in repairs to it and ate the cost.

As I said too easy to take 10K for it and get rid of the problem.