Carpenter Shares A Chat With Entitled Guy Who Demanded A Custom Table Built In Less Than 2 Weeks
In a perfect world, both businesses and their clients would work together to complete a meaningful transaction. But we don’t live in a perfect world and workshop owner Abs Delfuego knows this firsthand. Recently, he had to endure a terrible encounter with a choosing beggar, who used every trick in the book to try and bully Abs into processing his order faster.
Workshop owner Abs Delfuego deals with unreasonable clients “every second day”
Image credits: speedoglyn1 (not the actual photo)
But his encounter with this ‘choosing beggar’ was something else
“I’m an engineer by trade but I own a small workshop, building custom arcade machines and stuff, especially for the disabled,” Delfuego told Bored Panda.
“Mark is the general manager of a company that contracts me to build stuff for the disabled community. They rebrand them and sell them.”
Later, the before mentioned contractor Mark contacted Abs to investigate the situation
“I get unreasonable clients on average every second day,” Delfuego added. The best way to deal with them, in my opinion, is to be polite but ruthless, not petty.”
Afterward, the same person came back to apologize, however, it became clear that they haven’t learned their lesson
Abs believes that you can do stuff like this only if you run your own business. He said he’d never engage someone like his working for someone. Getting a lot of business (on any day there are at least 20-30 queries), he has been through 3 customer service people in the last year. Ha handles communications himself now. “I always start politely. But once they come across as entitled or arrogant. I shut them down. I’m busy enough with nice customers so I don’t need these jerks.”
If you want to learn more about Delfuego’s work, check out his YouTube page!
One of the most immature 19 years old ever. I hope his dad chews him out. And who cares if a desk arrives on his birthday. What is he planning to do with it? Dance on it? Use it to lay out party food? The exact arrival date is unlikely to have any purpose on his birthday other than it arrived. Stupid kid.
Show of his 'sick' gaming setup with three 24-inch monitors would be my guess. He sort of sounds like the type that would feel that that's important.
Load More Replies...If the guy on the left is really 19 years old, he must be extremely immature. And I am tempted to partly blame the parents for this. Mark, on the other hand, seems cool.
19 is be definition immature. This kid is an a*****e. Totally separate thing.
Load More Replies...LMAO FORTNITE MEANS 14 DAYS! HE'S LITERALLY SAYING TWO WEEKS OMFG IM DONE
I'd have blocked his sorry a*s à looog time ago already. He's one of these golden kids to whom "no" was never an answer. Serious lack of humility. He'll have control/anger issues, unfortunately.
it is always shocking when spoiled brats get their wake-up call that you don't have to play their game by their rules...don't do business with this a**e...if you make a mistake and do anyway, be sure & get paid in advance. Customers like this don't pay. Better not to deal with this type at all...he did a favor by revealing his true nature from the first phone call. Let your competition handle this one...why can't he find what he wants at the Ikea anyhow?
I just don't get why this guy is so desperate to get this one carpenter to make this table. He can probably afford to ask anyone.
I suspect he does beautiful work and can choose his clients. There's no need to deal with jerks at all if that's the case.
Load More Replies...I have had customers say to me that they are friends with our Managing Director. Upon investigation, our Managing director doesn't know these people.
I had that happen a few times where I worked. The ones that legitimately know her don't mind when I call her to verify. The ones that don't really know her, get start yelling at me before I've even dialed the phone. Besides the fact that the owner usually gave me a heads up when she saw one of her friends would be dropping by the shop that day.
Load More Replies...This hurts to read.... i mean "spoiled brat" is the best description i can give here without cursing... And respect to the owner for putting up with this for so long.. i would just at one moment say NO. and block this dude...
Just plain straight forward, a self-entitled spoiled brat with no morals, decency, and respect.
My mother in the 80s at the height of "the troubles" in Northern Ireland had a student ask that of her (basically implying his dad was a terrorist). To which her response was "I'm sorry, I don't, you should ask your mother if she knows."
Some people need to raise their kids better, or just not have kids at all if they can't teach them to take NO as an answer.
My grandfather was a master carpenter. He still required this weird thing called *time*. Y'know, and sleep and food and maybe even a shower... Oh, yeah, he'd had these convos. And they ended much the same. Not his fault if people think a *carpenter* works like, oh, I dunno, *Wal-Mart*...
A lot of people bail when they find out the cost of the materials that they'd like puts the cost over what they are willing to pay. They'd really freak out when a decent price for the expertise and labor was included.
Load More Replies...I weep for the future of the world with all the entitled brats that are going to take over.
Don't worry. They will kill each other like rats fighting for the same piece of food!
Load More Replies...This looks scripted to me. I dunno about anyone else. Maybe a funny scenario if you were writing a sitcom or something, but not to pass off as a real exchange. Not that anyone cares 🤐
This is why you should not handicap your children by making their lives easy. They turn into spoiled, selfish snots.
Sounds like Daddy needs to cut the purse strings and support. Let Junior take care of himself for a while to make him grateful for what he has. Maybe that will clean up his attitude.
Its really mindblowing to see how entitled people just can't comprehend logic
I had a shop to run and many orders ahead of a woman who wanted me to do the impossible "or forget it" she wrote. She complained to the Better Business Bureau, they called, I said I had to choose 'forget it'
A*****e custard.... Custard, a cross between customer and r****d...
I’m dying to know what the dad said on the last communication!!! 😂😂😂. Plus sounds like dad needs to punish his son for trying to use his name and basically being a spoiled brat!!
And I thought only graphic designers had to deal with such kind of people...
Nooooo. All independent professionals deal with the same sh*t on daily basis
Load More Replies...I would cancel the job entirely. No need to even deal with this child.
This happend approx 1 week before his 20th birthday, correct? I moved out short after my 20th birthday. If I would have been that immature, stupid, hot tempered and just rude, I would never have survived till now. I think his fahter may missed a lecture or two while raising this kid.
If this kid doesn't understand NO, I will break it down for him...The word starts with "N", which is the 14th letter of the English alphabet. It ends with "O", which is the 15th letter of the English alphabet. There are NO letters in between, which tells (at least) me that this is a complete word and a complete sentence, which requires no (there's that word again) excuse or justification. If the kid does not understand this, I would suggest remedial English for him, or maybe a good a**-whipping would suffice.
The kid is an idiot and his very important father has spoilt him rotten, both are to blame.
A very immature 19y/o who as seen by his manipulative texts has got his own way in the past. To be told No and stick to it, was worth risking the loss of a supplier. Unfortunately as the later texts showed he didn't learn a lesson and grow from the experience. Such is life. Side Note, why do I have this sense of unease that the young man may not take "No" as No in other areas also.
What ever happened to having good manners !!!???? This is the case of a spoiled brat! How dare a kid speak in this manner to an adult ? Children need to be channeled into being polite, kind to others and to grow up not thinking they are the centre of the world ! If this kid had been mine I would make him write a letter to say that he was rude and say that he is very sorry for his bad behaviour. Also I would make the kid send a gift paid with his own money, next no more mobile phone, TV, and Laptop or PC
We have a president like this. Except when it came time to pay for his casino fixtures, he refused, saying tell people you did the fixtures for me and you'll get more work. He had a legal team that would ensure the small businesses who dared to sue would drown in legal fees. Several of those small businesses closed because of this.
Cannot believe how many of you didn't know what a "fortnite" is. And I'm not even British !
Does "Do you know who my Dad is?" ever work? Seems like all it would do is tick off the person you're negotiating with.
He could have at least order the materials in the amount of time he spent arguing. Then he could have them sent to a*****e with a note that this will be the desk in 2 weeks when I have time to make it. If you want less, go to a discount store.
I'd love to see the carpenter charge the kid for the time he wastes repeating the same things over and over again.
I'd be like I totally got you fam. Just ship x x and x materials over to y address and pay some over the top fee for overtime
Doesn't matter what age you are. You can learn at an early what respect is. Even it isn't taught by your parents or other adults, there are ways to learn it. And it's a choice to learn it and use it.
I'm surprised the "busy" character spent so much of his valuable time chatting with this kid. It's a "One and done" deal for me. If I don't have time, I certainly never waste what I do have. Gotta call bull on this lengthy tale
I can't believe people are downvoting comments speculating that this is fake!! All of these texts are in rapid succession and read as a very convenient script for the author. I stand by you, Xoxo.
Load More Replies...One of the most immature 19 years old ever. I hope his dad chews him out. And who cares if a desk arrives on his birthday. What is he planning to do with it? Dance on it? Use it to lay out party food? The exact arrival date is unlikely to have any purpose on his birthday other than it arrived. Stupid kid.
Show of his 'sick' gaming setup with three 24-inch monitors would be my guess. He sort of sounds like the type that would feel that that's important.
Load More Replies...If the guy on the left is really 19 years old, he must be extremely immature. And I am tempted to partly blame the parents for this. Mark, on the other hand, seems cool.
19 is be definition immature. This kid is an a*****e. Totally separate thing.
Load More Replies...LMAO FORTNITE MEANS 14 DAYS! HE'S LITERALLY SAYING TWO WEEKS OMFG IM DONE
I'd have blocked his sorry a*s à looog time ago already. He's one of these golden kids to whom "no" was never an answer. Serious lack of humility. He'll have control/anger issues, unfortunately.
it is always shocking when spoiled brats get their wake-up call that you don't have to play their game by their rules...don't do business with this a**e...if you make a mistake and do anyway, be sure & get paid in advance. Customers like this don't pay. Better not to deal with this type at all...he did a favor by revealing his true nature from the first phone call. Let your competition handle this one...why can't he find what he wants at the Ikea anyhow?
I just don't get why this guy is so desperate to get this one carpenter to make this table. He can probably afford to ask anyone.
I suspect he does beautiful work and can choose his clients. There's no need to deal with jerks at all if that's the case.
Load More Replies...I have had customers say to me that they are friends with our Managing Director. Upon investigation, our Managing director doesn't know these people.
I had that happen a few times where I worked. The ones that legitimately know her don't mind when I call her to verify. The ones that don't really know her, get start yelling at me before I've even dialed the phone. Besides the fact that the owner usually gave me a heads up when she saw one of her friends would be dropping by the shop that day.
Load More Replies...This hurts to read.... i mean "spoiled brat" is the best description i can give here without cursing... And respect to the owner for putting up with this for so long.. i would just at one moment say NO. and block this dude...
Just plain straight forward, a self-entitled spoiled brat with no morals, decency, and respect.
My mother in the 80s at the height of "the troubles" in Northern Ireland had a student ask that of her (basically implying his dad was a terrorist). To which her response was "I'm sorry, I don't, you should ask your mother if she knows."
Some people need to raise their kids better, or just not have kids at all if they can't teach them to take NO as an answer.
My grandfather was a master carpenter. He still required this weird thing called *time*. Y'know, and sleep and food and maybe even a shower... Oh, yeah, he'd had these convos. And they ended much the same. Not his fault if people think a *carpenter* works like, oh, I dunno, *Wal-Mart*...
A lot of people bail when they find out the cost of the materials that they'd like puts the cost over what they are willing to pay. They'd really freak out when a decent price for the expertise and labor was included.
Load More Replies...I weep for the future of the world with all the entitled brats that are going to take over.
Don't worry. They will kill each other like rats fighting for the same piece of food!
Load More Replies...This looks scripted to me. I dunno about anyone else. Maybe a funny scenario if you were writing a sitcom or something, but not to pass off as a real exchange. Not that anyone cares 🤐
This is why you should not handicap your children by making their lives easy. They turn into spoiled, selfish snots.
Sounds like Daddy needs to cut the purse strings and support. Let Junior take care of himself for a while to make him grateful for what he has. Maybe that will clean up his attitude.
Its really mindblowing to see how entitled people just can't comprehend logic
I had a shop to run and many orders ahead of a woman who wanted me to do the impossible "or forget it" she wrote. She complained to the Better Business Bureau, they called, I said I had to choose 'forget it'
A*****e custard.... Custard, a cross between customer and r****d...
I’m dying to know what the dad said on the last communication!!! 😂😂😂. Plus sounds like dad needs to punish his son for trying to use his name and basically being a spoiled brat!!
And I thought only graphic designers had to deal with such kind of people...
Nooooo. All independent professionals deal with the same sh*t on daily basis
Load More Replies...I would cancel the job entirely. No need to even deal with this child.
This happend approx 1 week before his 20th birthday, correct? I moved out short after my 20th birthday. If I would have been that immature, stupid, hot tempered and just rude, I would never have survived till now. I think his fahter may missed a lecture or two while raising this kid.
If this kid doesn't understand NO, I will break it down for him...The word starts with "N", which is the 14th letter of the English alphabet. It ends with "O", which is the 15th letter of the English alphabet. There are NO letters in between, which tells (at least) me that this is a complete word and a complete sentence, which requires no (there's that word again) excuse or justification. If the kid does not understand this, I would suggest remedial English for him, or maybe a good a**-whipping would suffice.
The kid is an idiot and his very important father has spoilt him rotten, both are to blame.
A very immature 19y/o who as seen by his manipulative texts has got his own way in the past. To be told No and stick to it, was worth risking the loss of a supplier. Unfortunately as the later texts showed he didn't learn a lesson and grow from the experience. Such is life. Side Note, why do I have this sense of unease that the young man may not take "No" as No in other areas also.
What ever happened to having good manners !!!???? This is the case of a spoiled brat! How dare a kid speak in this manner to an adult ? Children need to be channeled into being polite, kind to others and to grow up not thinking they are the centre of the world ! If this kid had been mine I would make him write a letter to say that he was rude and say that he is very sorry for his bad behaviour. Also I would make the kid send a gift paid with his own money, next no more mobile phone, TV, and Laptop or PC
We have a president like this. Except when it came time to pay for his casino fixtures, he refused, saying tell people you did the fixtures for me and you'll get more work. He had a legal team that would ensure the small businesses who dared to sue would drown in legal fees. Several of those small businesses closed because of this.
Cannot believe how many of you didn't know what a "fortnite" is. And I'm not even British !
Does "Do you know who my Dad is?" ever work? Seems like all it would do is tick off the person you're negotiating with.
He could have at least order the materials in the amount of time he spent arguing. Then he could have them sent to a*****e with a note that this will be the desk in 2 weeks when I have time to make it. If you want less, go to a discount store.
I'd love to see the carpenter charge the kid for the time he wastes repeating the same things over and over again.
I'd be like I totally got you fam. Just ship x x and x materials over to y address and pay some over the top fee for overtime
Doesn't matter what age you are. You can learn at an early what respect is. Even it isn't taught by your parents or other adults, there are ways to learn it. And it's a choice to learn it and use it.
I'm surprised the "busy" character spent so much of his valuable time chatting with this kid. It's a "One and done" deal for me. If I don't have time, I certainly never waste what I do have. Gotta call bull on this lengthy tale
I can't believe people are downvoting comments speculating that this is fake!! All of these texts are in rapid succession and read as a very convenient script for the author. I stand by you, Xoxo.
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