Posted: 6/21/2013 5:23:26 PM EDT
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So I changed jobs a few months ago. Much better job, better pay, better coworkers. I'm alot happier with the way things are going now.
When I quit my old job I tried pretty hard to leave on good terms despite the shitty way I was treated by the owner. When I gave him my two weeks I told him I'd help him when I had time if he needed an extra set of hands. This turned into him bugging me every Friday and Saturday night for help over the weekend. Most of these weekends I 'helped' him were just bullshit wastes of time. On several occasions I had to wait on him to show up with the stuff he needed help on. Or they were just busy work that he was too lazy to do. This constant nuisance really started to aggravate me. So one Friday night he calls about needing help for over the weekend. I tell him I am unable to and that I'll probably not even going to make it home from work that night. I don't until well into the AM. Next day I wake up to him calling me asking where I'm at and why my truck is at home. 
I lose my temper and let him have it. He argues that my leaving and not making myself available to help him is costing him money. (No shit Sherlock, when the person who does all the work, leaves, productivity will go down  .) He goes on to say that I owe it to him to help him out all the time. I had enough and tell him to FOAD then hangup.
Now comes the pisser. I had a few projects at his shop, most of them I took home but a few I didn't have anywhere to put. Probably one of the bigger reasons I was so congenial with him after I quit. I did have enough foresite to take several of the irreplaceable parts to them. A couple weeks after I quit I cleared out enough room in my shop to store the stuff. So on these weekend wastes of work I ask him to help me move my stuff out of the way to load them. He always has some excuse why we can't and maybe we can get to it next time. A few days after we argue over the phone he leaves me a voice message saying that since I wouldn't help him anymore he was going to "Hold onto" my stuff. I leave it alone thinking maybe he'll cool off in few weeks. Fast foward to last night, he calls my brother at 1am, drunk, talking about what a worthless peice of shit I am and how I don't keep my word. My brother relates this to me and he(my brother) is understandably upset. I'm not that bothered by it and am almost to the point that I don't care about the stuff or trying to help the crooked piece of shit. What would arfcom do at this point. Forget about it? Take my stuff back weather that be by court or else? TLDR; Old boss is holding some of my stuff hostage because he thinks I owe him. He refuses to allow me access to retrieve them and has threatened to sell the stuff to recoup his 'losses'. |
| Reality dose, not intended to be mean. Really. You should have grabbed up your shit and left clean. No helping out after the customary 2 weeks, etc. the clean break is the best for everyone. Deep down, you know this. He sounds like an asshole, and you sound like a good worker and a decent guy. Be a little more cut-throat. Sucks, but it's better in the end for everyone. |
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are we talking high dollar stuff he's holding hostage? if it's a few hundred or so, there might be enough payoff to tell him, "take my shit, cram it up your ass sideways and never talk to me again." Built 355 short block, and a bare 817 casting 400sbc with a STD bore. I've got maybe $500 in all of it, but it's worth about three times that. 
The 400 block is worthless to him because I have the main caps. The 355 will be worthless to him because I took one of the gears out of the oil pump. So yeah I kind of expected he might try to fuck me over. 
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are we talking high dollar stuff he's holding hostage? if it's a few hundred or so, there might be enough payoff to tell him, "take my shit, cram it up your ass sideways and never talk to me again." Built 355 short block, and a bare 817 casting 400sbc with a STD bore. I've got maybe $500 in all of it, but it's worth about three times that. http://emob151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/cr74nva/Nova/IMG_1062.jpg He'll say it's his when you bring the cops. Can you prove it's your property? If not, walk. |
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are we talking high dollar stuff he's holding hostage? if it's a few hundred or so, there might be enough payoff to tell him, "take my shit, cram it up your ass sideways and never talk to me again." Built 355 short block, and a bare 817 casting 400sbc with a STD bore. I've got maybe $500 in all of it, but it's worth about three times that. http://emob151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/cr74nva/Nova/IMG_1062.jpg He'll say it's his when you bring the cops. Can you prove it's your property? If not, walk. Pretty much where I'm at if he forces the issue. Pics don't really prove anything. |