Well, I got paid today. I think he's catching on that I know the busniess end of this as well and could easily open up shop doing this myself, which I intend to anyway, but he seemed to rely on tech people not knowing much about running a business which he told me flat out anyway, so anyway, this pay was for two jobs, one was a laptop that was 90 dollars, and my 1/3 was 30, the other job was 65 dollars, so I got 1/3 of that too.

He instead paid me 65 dollars and sucked up on how good I am and how I do really nice work...

The restore CDs came in too for a desktop he sent me home with.

He said his old tech looked at it and said it needed 2 gigs of new RAM, and a new 400 GB HD because it got a worm on the 200 GB drive it currently had in it that had "destroyed the hard drive and RAM"...

I said that was crap and that formatting a drive takes everything off, and he said "Oh no, the old tech's friend sent an email saying that formatting triggers the worm and that if you just put a new HD in this machine it'll infect the new drive too!"...

I said that's crap too but nope, him and the customer seem to be convinced I'm wrong and so I told him to go ahead and order the new drive and I finally got the old one out after wrestling with the front panel which didn't want to come off and of course the HD was mounted to the front of the machine.

So anyway, I'll slap in the new 200 GB HD because I'm wrong and don't know what I'm doing, and I'll take the new hardware and call t a stupidity tax.

That 200 gig drive should look nice in one of my machines after I format it and put Linux on it or just add it to my Slackware server and format it.

And if the RAM gets ordered, I'll put the new ram in if they want.... Hey, 2 gigs of RAM would also look awfully nice in one of the machines here.

I'll just charge that as a stupidity tax I tried to say it was crap and just needed a format and some clean up but nope they think I'm wrong, so I'll take some new hardware no problem and get paid extra for having to take out the old hardware and install new stuff. Hell I get to charge extra for that AND keep the old hardware.

I'm really starting to wonder why I didn't do this before...