My question is this am out in Colorado and did some electrical work for my son in law who owns a commercial office space. I changed 8 ballest and 5 tubes and replaced two regular switches with motion sensors . I wasn't even going to charge him but my daughter insisted. I charged $240. All hell broke out. He says he gets non license people to cheaper and it doesn't take skill to do what I did. What do you guys thinks. I get piss when I hear this. All the time and money we put in on education and license fees and to hear someone say oh anyone can do that.
so, you have a son in law that's an asshole. it happens.
i have a inlaw, who a number of years ago, i built a computer for.
i took a day off from work, and put it together. put $5k worth of software on it.
tweaked and configured it. had it dialed in pretty spiffy.
he was too cheap to buy enough ram for it to run correctly, so i stuck
some extra memory in it for him. i was doing a lot of hardware hacking
in those days, and had parts everywhere.
he threw a screaming fit when i brought it over... this wasn't right,
that wasn't right, etc. total asshole.
i walked out without getting reimbursed for the parts we had agreed
on getting, let alone the stuff i added... he called up two days later,
and asked how much he owed me. i just hung up the phone.
didn't talk to him for six years. we speak now, but he's still a cheap POS.
always will be. finally, his wife called me up, and said, for god's sake, talk
to him. so i did. he apologized, but the apology didn't mean anything.
maybe your son in law knows him......
i have a general policy regarding doing work for family members. i do it
for free, or not at all, and that works best.