Well Friday turned out to be one hell of a crappy day......On the way to the shop I received a call from a man who identified himself as a state conservation officer, saying that he wanted to speak with me. No problem.
Well I get to the shop at the same time as my partner Chris and the officer is there. He walks up and says that he wants to speak to us seperately. So I went back to his truck with him first.
I am thinking that some nut case complained about something to do with the business but I was confused about why they would send a conservation officer.
Well when we got to talking he started asking about Chris and most of the questions revolved around the previous weekend. We took a long weekend off from the shop. It was Chris's father's birthday and he recently lost his father to cancer so he took off to a small camping spot along the river to get away for a few days and do some fishing.
To make a long story short the officer had found a large amount of electronics dumped near the river. Ok, so that is nothing out of the ordinary, but as luck would have it when Chris was there he dropped one of our
business cards out of his truck and did not realize it.
So this officer decides that he has caught someone who dumps electronics by the river. Of course my argument was "Why would Chris dump electronics? That is how we make our money."
Well the officer said he figures that Chris was taking electronics from the shop to make money on the side. Still this did not jive because dumping them on the river bank would not make him any money.
Nonetheless, this guy had already decided that Chris was guilty. Then he got to the bad part. He said that if Chris did not agree to accept a ticket for $250 then he was going to have to charge him with a D felony and to announce to the newspapers that my company was involved in a littering case. So Chris and I both when into protection mode.
I had a case of the red a$$ to say the least and I did get quite bent out of shape with this guy and it was a surprise that I did not get myself arrested in the process. But was not going to let this guy soil the name of my company over something like this. I even agreed to send both of my employees to the location to clean up the electronics. I figured why not? They would make us more money. But the officer refused.
In the end Chris took the ticket despite the fact that he did not do anything wrong with the exception of letting the
business card fall out of his truck. This was, once again, one of the situations where the officer had made up his mind well before he got any of the facts.
To top it all off the guy had the nerve to ask if I would give him a couple of cables that we had in the shop for his computer!!!!
Originally Posted by ComputerScrapper
Well Friday turned out to be one hell of a crappy day......On the way to the shop I received a call from a man who identified himself as a state conservation officer, saying that he wanted to speak with me. No problem.
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