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January 14th, 2003, 12:21 PM
#1
Registered User
Weirdest payment you have ever received
What's the strangest thing you have ever received as payment for repairing, installing, building, etc.... a computer?
I myself received a Pentium 200 MHz CPU after installing a Pentium 4 2 GHz machine
I didn't mind though as I plopped it into my old Pentium 166 box
The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of you coffee.
(Gunter's Second Law of Air Travel)
If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
(Laws of Computer Programming, III)
Thanx to Adept for the Avatar
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January 14th, 2003, 12:24 PM
#2
Registered User
I got a brand spankin new Teak dining room table that seats 12...including teak side chairs and end chairs...worth about 2500 for moving a few servers and 2 dozen workstations to a new building.
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
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January 14th, 2003, 12:29 PM
#3
Tech-To-Tech Mod
a live chicken.
just kidding.
I got my bathroom redone and built computers for each of the two contractors.
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity - E. Costello
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January 14th, 2003, 12:51 PM
#4
Registered User
I got 2 and a half pounds of fresh haddock straight off of the boat for fixing a fisherman's computer in half the time I quoted him. It was daaaaaaaaamn good.
Let's put it this way. He said the fish was swimming 12 hours before he gave it to me.
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January 14th, 2003, 01:03 PM
#5
Got one of my wisdom teeth pulled, the funny thing was they never called me to do the work. Got paid before I did the work or worked!
To each his/her own.
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January 14th, 2003, 01:20 PM
#6
Driver Terrier
I would have had 14lb of smoked salmon, but it was removed by the customs man...
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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January 14th, 2003, 02:01 PM
#7
Registered User
one guy i do work for is a Cyrus O'leary pie salesman, so along with my $35 and hour he throws in 3 or 4 pies. usaully chocolate creme, chocolate peanut butter or a banana creme. really really good pies.
i do a lot of work for my friends father, when ever i'm done he'll give me a 5th of whiskey or scotch or whatever he has handy. i don't know if its wierd, but its my favorite
take care and tempt not the fates
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January 14th, 2003, 03:18 PM
#8
Registered User
Traded a new computer for a Trane ac unit, and always get free samples of hot sauce from the company that makes it when I repair their computers.
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January 14th, 2003, 03:52 PM
#9
Registered User
Never happened to me, but a coworker once got a night of happiness for some work he did...
Flash! Don't heckle the supervillain!
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January 14th, 2003, 07:24 PM
#10
Senior Member - 1000+ Club
Heh, you'll never believe this one....
Did some work for a lawyer a while back, on an invoice basis. I left saying I'd send the bill. A day later my g/f at the time got done for assault, I ripped the bill up, he got her off.
Standard terms are payment on collection, cash, weed, booze or sexual favours (ladies only) accepted.
I few of my mates are mechanics, they have computers, I have cars, we only ever charge each other parts.
Fish - yeah, had that too, big f'off Rainbow Trout, damn that was nice. Fresh is one thing, this was another, he'd caught it while I was working on his puter, put it in a keep net to see if I'd accept it. Kill to grill in 15 minutes
I'm in charge and I say we blow it up
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January 14th, 2003, 08:00 PM
#11
Anime God
I got a brand new Laptop.
"Thou shalt not kill, remember? What in the hell kind of church man are you?" - Vash the Stampede
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January 15th, 2003, 04:21 PM
#12
Registered User
I got a laptop, probably worth about $600 for about 3 hours of work (did the work while getting paid at work already)
Do You Realize? - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize? - we're floating in space -
Do You Realize? - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize? - that everyone you know someday will die
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January 15th, 2003, 04:58 PM
#13
Registered User
I replaced this lady's cd-rom drive before I went to Okinawa, and when she offered to pay me I told her not to worry about it (she had watched my very rambunctious kid many times for free). She refused to take no for an answer, so I told her I would write up an invoice and bring it to her. Well, my portcall date came before the invoice did, so I hoped she would just forget about it...but she didn't. After I came back from Okinawa, the first time I saw her she handed me a check for $250...for 15 minutes of labor, and she bought the drive herself.
--Those who think they know everything annoy those of us that do.
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January 15th, 2003, 05:03 PM
#14
I have recieved 20 pounds of homemade beef jerky for do a virus removal
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January 15th, 2003, 06:01 PM
#15
Registered User
Old computers
Free car repair and inspection
Dinner (usually from the folks), hehehe
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