Can we get some service here???

[Commonsense]

Ever try to get someone to do work around here? I've called plumbers, painters, tree men, garage door people. They all have one thing in common - they don't call back.

I cannot understand why someone would put an ad in the paper saying things like "24 hour service," etc. and then not bother to return calls. The ones who do answer the phone and make appointments don't show up.

Another thing that bothers me is the fact that most of these boys are neither licensed nor insured. I'm not going to take a chance on them injuring themselves on my property, because I don't want to pay their medical bills for the rest of my life. Also, the law says they have to be licensed to do the work - but apparently no one cares, least of all the authorities. I don't care about a piece of paper, but I'd like to know that Earl the plumber really IS a plumber and not someone who has another job during the day or just got out of jail for rape.

No one seems to know what it means to do business down here. I'd expect to get this kind of response if I called a tree guy to do my plumbing, but I'm calling a plumber!! That's what he does, for goodness sake -and he can't even return calls.

So what's the deal? Is there some secret to getting adequate service in South Carolina?

[surfrgirl338]

I know what you mean. I am from here, born and raised most of my growing years. Left here when I was about 15 and in 2001 I returned after spending years yearning to come home.
Well, I have found out that the old adage is true. "You can't go home again"
This has been such a disappointment to me. The town has grown beyond its means, with no apparent sense of direction.
The BPW and the High School are on the top of my "I can't believe the stupidity of these people" List. Their mistakes (which anyone can make) are also compounded with their feeble attempts to *fix* it. They are either dealing with a whole lot of ignorant people or (THEY THINK) they are dealing with a whole lot of ignorant people. Only the people who will go to the polls and vote them in can answer that question.
Next on my list is the topic of this post. I agree. The people in this town with the minutest exceptions are the most unreliable people to do business with I have ever seen. As you say, they advertise for business and then don't take care of it. as you say they say they will call and then don't. Seems they think that's all anyone has to do is sit and wait for them. Thank God my husband is very good at most everything so at this time I do not have to deal to often with any tradesmen. If anything ever happens to him and he is unable to carry out the *honey-do* list. I will probably sell my little house and move again.
To go with this I have another pet peeve. The men of this town DO NOT like to do business with women, they do not like discussing plans for a project with them, those that do try to bamboozle the ladies ( since we are too stupid to know what we want) Well, I am here to tell the businessmen of Gaffney SC. I am the customer and I know what I want and if you can't deliver I will keep looking or do with out.
People of Gaffney WAKE UP!!!! get over the apathy and stand up for your community and your rights!
Vote the Obvious *in-your-face* crooks out, stand up and hold the people who are responsible for your well being, businesses, officials responsible. Make them look at you and tell you why? they don't carry out there promises, they don't call back, they act like they are doing you a favor letting/b] you use their propane, gas, lights,
Stop letting them get away with it, just let them know that you will no longer bother them with your calls, you will go somewhere else. If they don''t get the message then let them go out of business. I mean jobs are so plentiful around here. Right??

[Commonsense]

I am actually in Rock Hill, and believe me the problem is here too. I also get really fed up with workmen who want to talk down to me. I've had them tell me things "can't be done" when I known darned well they can. What they mean is they don't want to do the things. So why not say that?

There are also so many yahoos who are uninsured and unlicensed, and they act like I'm being idiotic when I say I won't hire them because of that. I want professional service, and I'm willing to pay for it. But I cannot find any professionals out there.

I'm in York county, where the prediction is that the population will grow by 50% in the next few years. These newcomers are going to be mostly northerners. Northerners will NOT put up with the insolence and amateur behavior they'll find here, so maybe things will (eventually) improve.

In the meantime, I'm learning to do things myself. At least I know they are done right, and done the way I want them to be done.

[kittyjo1]

I surely understand what you mean about un-business-like businesses!
I don't know if it is worse when people don't call back to look at a job or when they call or come, make arrangements to do the job, and just never show up or call back.

Seems like I have been waiting for over a year for someone or the other to come and do the work!

This DEFINITELY DOES NOT apply to The Board Of Public Works!
By the time I called them and asked them to come and look at what I wanted done......they were on the job! Honestly it didn't take them long to start and finish the wireing to my buildings on third street.

But let me tell you the really good part. There was a BUNCH of men there ,together and separately, and not ONE CURSE WORD did I hear the whole time. They all acted like gentlemen and treated me like a lady, even though I was (naturally?)out there trying to see all they did!

In my experience, you just don't see that much anymore.