Post by cecil on Mar 12, 2008 23:10:56 GMT -5
you've ever had with a customer?
Years ago when I did flat deer hides I got one back from the tannery with a hole in the middle, no doubt accidentally cut by the tanner with a fleshing machine. I had a disclaimer that I was not responsible for the hides once they left my premises, but of course I wanted to make it right. And I did do football cut and stitched it together. I was not only going to give the customer his flat hide and his money back, but also an unblemished hide I had purchased from the tanner.
Well all that changed when he saw the hole in the hide. He came unglued. He called me everything but a white man with you MF'r this and you MF'r that. I have never been cussed at like that in the military in basic, and I've never been cussed at like that since. I was briefly in a state of shock as I had never experienced that. Once I got over my shock I considered decking him as he was smaller than me but I didn't. To add to the dilemma he saw the unblemished hide and wanted it along with his hide blah blah blah and of course his money back. I would have given it to him but considering the way he treated me there was no way.
So I told him to leave, and he did after telling me he would tell everybody in my small town and I would be finished as a taxidermist for that town. Of course we all know there is no such thing as our customers tend to cover a much larger area.
I thought I was done with him and 10 minutes later is he at my door cussing up a storm again. This time I tell him if he doesn't leave I am going have him arrested and he finally leaves.
I was a fairly easy going guy back then but now about 20 years older I can assure you I would have beat the hell out of him. Thank goodness I don't do hides or even gamehead anymore! ;D
Years ago when I did flat deer hides I got one back from the tannery with a hole in the middle, no doubt accidentally cut by the tanner with a fleshing machine. I had a disclaimer that I was not responsible for the hides once they left my premises, but of course I wanted to make it right. And I did do football cut and stitched it together. I was not only going to give the customer his flat hide and his money back, but also an unblemished hide I had purchased from the tanner.
Well all that changed when he saw the hole in the hide. He came unglued. He called me everything but a white man with you MF'r this and you MF'r that. I have never been cussed at like that in the military in basic, and I've never been cussed at like that since. I was briefly in a state of shock as I had never experienced that. Once I got over my shock I considered decking him as he was smaller than me but I didn't. To add to the dilemma he saw the unblemished hide and wanted it along with his hide blah blah blah and of course his money back. I would have given it to him but considering the way he treated me there was no way.
So I told him to leave, and he did after telling me he would tell everybody in my small town and I would be finished as a taxidermist for that town. Of course we all know there is no such thing as our customers tend to cover a much larger area.
I thought I was done with him and 10 minutes later is he at my door cussing up a storm again. This time I tell him if he doesn't leave I am going have him arrested and he finally leaves.
I was a fairly easy going guy back then but now about 20 years older I can assure you I would have beat the hell out of him. Thank goodness I don't do hides or even gamehead anymore! ;D