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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not in this lifetime. You pay above the actual costs so let them provide for themselves. [/quote]

Is there any industry that offers services at cost?[/quote]

You should offer food and drinks to your mechanic since they are also hard at work and providing a personal service... But you don't, do you?

Face it, the reason you put out these refreshments for contractors is because you're bledding heart liberals and you somehow feel guilty about people doing things for you. The difference is you see the contractors, so you feel obliged. The auto mechanic is out of sight, out of mind after you drop off your car.

Pay for a service. Leave it at that. Why blur the lines by offering food? These contractors make their own arrangements for foos and drink on site. Note the enormous number of soda bottles and coffee cups they throw on thr ground at any job site.[/quote]

If the mechanic was working on my car at my home, I would most definitely be offering them food/drink.  However, a person working at a home I am building and a mechanic fixing my car in a shop are two different things.  The contractors are at my home for a long period of time.  I go to my home to check on the progress a few times a week.  The mechanic fixing my car is at their own shop and generally the car is in and out relatively quickly.  When it does take longer (in my experience at least) they are waiting for a part and the car sits there while they work on another one or I take the car home with me.  I take my car to the dealership and do not get to personally know the mechanics.

I do not feel guilty for someone doing something for me.  I just treat the people who do with respect.  When I worked retail, it's the nice people who you remember and want to be kinder to.  I do for others what I would appreciate having done for me.   If I were to imagine what you are like in real life from your previous statement, I would assume you are an ass and would never expect someone like you to do something nice for a "worker".[/quote]

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