Re: What's New?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I dunno. He had a few years of normalcy in between bouts of insanity. We're
headed to court where I will make a fool of him.




"Russell Brill" <russwbrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Question: why didn't you FIRE him a long time ago? Do you know the saying,
| "sometimes you have to lose money to make money"... :-))
|
| "Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:45e4dbdc$0$10301$815e3792@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Yep, I downsized a few years ago. Then sorta semi-retired in a
| > sense...sold
| > my building, trucks, let almost everyone go...then decided to just be a
| > small family business again. Now it's fun again!
| >
| > Just got rid of an annoying client though. Pissy little moaning boy-man
| > client I've had for 17 years. He had me put in a 7845GSM Saturday at a
| > price
| > HE SET and at a monthly HE SET...fine with me it was reasonable.
Saturday
| > my
| > brother and I got it up and working fine and it still is. BEFORE we
| > installed it I told him his 4285 phone module (on VISTA 20P) would not
| > work
| > nor would any phone features work now that he is HAVING HIS PHONE LINE
| > DISCONNECTED and will only report on the GSM. Fine he says. I had told
him
| > this before as well, but wanted to have a witness that I told him again.
| > Fine, thats ok...I would just like you to reprogram my keyfobs for
| > ARM -STAY
| > (right now they're ARM -AWAY and DISARM. I told him it was easier to
| > program
| > that remotely and I would do it Monday.
| >
| > On Monday he starts calling when am I going out there again to program
the
| > keyfobs ARM - STAY - INSTANT? ....INSTANT???
| > So I ask him how many keyfobs do you really have....4....hmmmm; that
would
| > be 12 zones eaten up by just the keyfobs plus the 7 points. UH
OH!....it's
| > only a 16 zone receiver. So I give him a price to install a 32 zone
| > reciever
| > (cheap) and he says...STAY-INSTANT....UH OH...can't do that from a
keyfob!
| > Sorry. So maybe you want to just re-think this or not do it ?
| >
| > Long story short...he wants me to go out and remove the 7845GSM +
| > reinstall
| > the 4285 and give him his money back because it doesnt work...whoa wait
| > thats a totally DIFFERENT radio has nothing to do with not being able to
| > do
| > what it the panel cant do. So he says just get it done...get it done?
You
| > want me to re-engineer the alarm panel for your needs? If the
manufacturer
| > says it can be done then it can't. I told him to have his new alarm
| > company
| > remove my equipment; my new rev 5.2 chip, 7845GSM, transformer and pack
it
| > up nice and return it to me  and then I'll give him his 4285, old rev 2
| > chip
| > and 400 clams back.
| >
| > All documented in emails...cause he thinks hes gonna sue me. Sue me? You
| > named the price, I installed the GSM, it works, and he paid me (I can
| > prove
| > it since it sends daily sigs) all the other junk is moot since we didn't
| > contract to install or collect any money.
| >
| > Oh yeah...this man-boy is an non practicing attorney!...yah one of those
| > guys whose parents made him go to law school, but he's never practiced.
| > Idiot boy...I know more about contract law then he ever will.
| >
| > So he fires me...gotta love it. I feel like a free man after a 17 year
bad
| > marriage.
| >
| > </rant>
| >
| >
| > "Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:1172608737.179205.63410@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > | On Feb 27, 9:45?am, "Crash Gordon" <webmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > | wrote:
| > | > Most of my jobs are nice. I'm pretty selective on what I take
on...if
| > it
| > | > aint gonna be fun/challenging and be profitable I leave it for the
| > other
| > | > guys.
| > | >
| > | > Starting on a 6000 sqft livable with a 1200 sqft mother in law house
| > and
| > a
| > | > 2000 sqft RV garage (all one job on same piece of property), this
| > weekend.
| > | > That one will go about 6K just on the alarm - the "other" guys
| > proposed
| > 3
| > | > systems at a total of 2500$...of course for starters their way would
| > cost my
| > | > client 75$ per month for monitoring, my way only 25.00...not to
| > mention
| > what
| > | > they left out of a proper system - you really can do a house with 35
| > opening
| > | > windows, 9 doors, + other stuff on a system with only 8 zones (well
| > maybe
| > | > they can/will, not me).
| > | >
| > | > We do custom sound, structured wiring, central vac...all that other
| > junk.
| > | > But, I love doing the alarm stuff most of all.
| > | >
| > | Sounds like we're about at the same phase of our careers. I do the
| > | nice stuff now. I'm into my third generation of customers and the work
| > | is always there and I can choose not to do it if I don't think it's
| > | going to be fun or challanging.
| > | I do 98% residential now, including LAN and structured wiring,
| > | telephone, CATV, home automation, ie, X10 lighting and thermostats,
| > | home theater / surround sound setup and/or installation, whole house
| > | audio.
| > |
| > | Don't do vacuum, access control, intercom's ( except video) for
| > | various ligitimate reasons.  Vacuum (aftermarket) is a two man job.
| > | Intercoms just plain suck and I don't want the headache. And access
| > | control requires the use of locksmiths or others for lock
| > | installation. I don't like depending on undependable people. I say
| > | what I'll do. And I do what I say. Unfortuntely, you can't depend on
| > | others to follow the same rules.
| > |
| > | Just finishing up a 50 thousand sq ft office and warehouse building
| > | for one of my long time clients. I wouldn't go out now and look for
| > | commercial this large. But this guy's business has grown through the
| > | years and he wants me to stay with him. Nice system. Burg only.
| > | ( they've got sprikler and someone else who does that) Three
| > | partitions. Glass break detectors in most offices, ceiling mount PIR's
| > | in halls. Huge glass lobby entrance, rounded out to a half circle of
| > | glass wall up 18 feet high. Terazza floors. I thought it was too hard
| > | an area to put glass break detection and there was no way to mount a
| > | motion detector so that it wasn't looking at glass. The regular
| > | ceiling mount units had too big a circle of protected area when
| > | mounted that high, so .... I did a few calculations and mounted a
| > | regular dual tech unit on the ceiling looking down at the floor. The
| > | entry door has contacts and a curtain of protection from the motion
| > | detector, just wide enough, starting where the glass ends. I wasn't
| > | sure it was going to work, but it does great. You can't make it from
| > | the entry door to any of the office doors off the lobby without
| > | activing it.
| > |
| > | Three partitions total, with the main lobby common to two of the
| > | partitions. Seven keypads, 12 Glass breaks, 12 motion detectors. 10
| > | doors. 2 overhead doors.
| > |
| > | The job was in progress for about a year as they just gradually moved
| > | in from their old location and improved the building as needed. Took a
| > | bit of planning and allowing for contingencies, since they didn't have
| > | a clear idea of how the layout of office and shop was eventually going
| > | to end up. A fun job and a challange for one person to accomplish with
| > | out any help. But the great part,  is when you turn it on, and it does
| > | exactly what you planned it to do, that's a great reward. And I have
| > | to say, that if I were working with help, that it probably wouldn't
| > | have happend that way.
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