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[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 137 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

“I won’t pay the bill for this stupid company,” he said. “I won’t pay the bill, and then we’ll have a story that Trump didn’t pay the bill to a contractor.”

If you don’t want a reputation for screwing over contractors then you should pay your damn contractors. But we all know Trump would’ve just made up a reason to stiff them even if everything went smoothly.

But I do find it amusing that he’s this close to figuring out why his mic didn’t work in the first place. Good contractors have options and won’t work for a known dead beat. So all he can get are incompetent fools.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 85 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He never pays ANY of his bills. How many cities have ended up getting stuck with unpaid bills for his stupid fucking circlejerk events?

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 60 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is a common tactic the rich use all the time. They even hire people to contest valid charges because it often works. They are literally why we can't have nice things. "So much winning" but they have to cheat and lie about everything.

It's disproportionately the rich who refund uber eats meals that were perfectly fine and shit like that.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It happens on business all the time as well. Huge company hires small company to outsource whatever, with the promise of more work if this project goes well, then they end up being a nightmare to work for, with impossible deadlines and constantly changing requirements.

Small company ends up underwater on the project and the guy that outsourced it gets a promotion for getting it done under budget.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have no idea why companies ever accepted net 30, let alone to the extent that it has become a sort of standard. I'd have the business owner as the guarantor at a minimum. Better yet, if they're good for the payment, they can get a bank loan.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If there's no show at all, or it's completely ruined, then you have them cancel the bill. You don't just refuse to pay and stop picking up the phone. That's childish and we know he doesn't pay bills even when he gets everything he asked for, just more gaslighting.

Plus when I hire someone for a price and they do a meh but ok job, i pay them and never hire them again. That's how the free market works, at least in theory. He doesn't see we can't just "not pay our bill" when my internet goes down for a few hours. Normal people get fucked by that, he doesn't know what normal is. Weird they don't even realize they're saying the quiet part out loud.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, no - "free market" means I don't have to pay, because it's free.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago

"free market" should be "fair market" but the free means corporations are free to move labor to another country but not let the actual labor freely move.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago

The whole reason he does outdoor rallies is because he stiffed all the indoor facilities in his last election run.