Re: Why Your Yugo Doesn't Perform Like a Cadillac

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On May 1, 1:06?pm, "Bob Worthy" <secur...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Matt Ion" <soundy...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
> news:gtf0mb$elc$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > G. Morgan wrote:
> >> Bob La Londe wrote:
>
> > A friend had a cable installer hit power drilling through the floor.
> > Started a small fire, in fact. ?Fortunately he lived right across the
> > street from the fire department...
>
> > Took months to get the repairs paid for as the (subcontractor) installer
> > and the cable company battled over who was responsible to cover the
> > damage...
>
> That is the problem with some of these companies paying people as
> subcontractors. Or in other words, trying to beat the system by not paying
> them as employees. If a person is a true subcontractor, they need to sign
> a
> contract for each job they do, carry workers comp and liability insurance
> and have the applicable license. If this was a guy with a pickup working
> for
> a days pay, he wasn't a subcontractor by definition and probably didn't
> have
> insurance coverage. The cable company would be responsible. If the guy, by
> some chance did have insurance, it was on him. No battle required. When I
> worked nationally, I had 28 subcontract companies work for me. They all
> had
> to produce the required insurances and licensing in the states they worked
> in. Separate contract for each job. Any damage was on them. Had an
> underground contractor that put a hydraulic torpedo through a sewer drain
> under an asphalt parking area in Houston, TX. The heat of the summer came
> about a month later and had a garbage truck go through to it's rear axles
> due to erosion under the parking lot. When I saw our underground cable
> running right through the pipe, I called the contractor. He than called
> his
> insurance and I didn't hear another word about it.

That's because the mob owned the garbage truck.

You will never hear from that subcontractor ...... again.

You know....it has been since 1984. You are probably right!