Over the years I’ve helped several students out here and there. I really don’t mind though. I’ve tutored for free, loaned them a book, gave them a discount on the classes, and I feel went above and beyond what they paid us for. Again, that is part of doing business. But sometimes you feel as if you’re being taking advantage of.

Am I really their personal secretary? They don’t want to look something up so they call and ask us to do it. Then are bold enough to say, can you scan that out of the book and then fax it to me? Huh? You asked me to take 15 minutes out of my day to look something up for them, I did. Then spent another 15 minutes explaining it to them. Now they want me to ‘scan’ the page out of the book, print it out, and then go fax it to them. That is another 15 – 30 minutes. So 1 hour today I’ve spent working for them… all I hope is that they come to our classes for Continuing Education.

Why? Because I’m a nice guy and showed them a little friendship.

The sad thing is that if I would asked them for something that would take an hour of their time I’m sure they’d send me a bill for their time.

I’d asked an A/C person, who had been one asking me for 100 things, to go do a service call on my A/C. He did and charged me more than the average price of an A/C guy for a service call. He did a 1/2 ass job as well. So that was the last time I used him … that is more the norm than not for me.

Maybe I should just be a total asshole from now on?