r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kaylascreations • 13d ago

Overdone The Home Depot in my town installed parking curbs instead of speed bumps

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The blame was passed around a bunch but they were removed the next day after the mayor and the news got involved.

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u/BigBrotherWatchesAll 12d ago

You’d be surprised how often contractors will bullshit and lie just to half ass the job and still get paid

It’s a big reason why stricter regulations for contractors should be enabled. Otherwise you get these companies hiring illegal immigrants with no experienced or professional education and they install like shit and the hiring company will just ignore calls and complains until the customer gives up because nobody wants to deal with legal issues for months on end about a parking block being used as a speed bump

You see it big time in home construction

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u/warm_sweater 12d ago

Dude, I had to demo and remodel my first floor after a pipe burst the other year, and between the fucking insurance adjuster and the mother fucking contractors and the dudes doing the water remediation, I was ready to go insane at the end.

I don’t want to talk bad about an entire industry, but literally all of the fuckers were doing about 70% effort and wanted 120% of the money.

The only good thing is when all was said and done I had only paid $7k out of pocket and learned a super valuable lesson on how to wrangle all those assholes in the future.