When I bought my house, it had no concrete driveway or garage, so as I worked at a "Plant Hire" agency, I asked all the guys if they knew a good (cheap) concreter. I spoke to a builder who gave me the phone number for a guy who did some work for him for a very good price. I rang the guy up and he said he'd come out the next morning to give me a quote.
I had to take the next morning off work, but my boss was a good guy and covered for me. The concreter, on the other hand, never showed. Arsehole. I rang him an hour after the agreed meeting time and he just said, "I looked at the map and you live too far away". No phone calls, no nothing. Double arsehole.
I went back to work in a black mood, and told my boss, the plant hire company's Operations Manager. He rang the concreter and told him he needed a big shopping centre car park concreted, was he interested in coming over to do a quote straight away? The concreter said "Sure!", even though the "car park" address was about twice as far away as my place.
My boss then sent a company rep over to the address to see if the concreter showed up, and yep, he showed up right on time. My boss rang him again and asked him where he was? The concreter said he was at the address that my boss gave him, and my boss abused him and said he must have written the address down wrong, and gave him a similar sounding address 5 suburbs over. My bioss said, "Now don't fcuk me around any more mate, I'll give you 30 minutes to get over here, then I'm leaving."
The rep followed the concreter from a safe distance, but the concreter sped out of sight. Shortly afterwards, he saw some flashing lights, and as he drove past, he saw a cop in an unmarked car booking the concreter, obviously for speeding. The rep rang my boss and told him, so my boss waited a few minutes, and then rang the concreter to ask him where he was again?
The concreter said he'd been booked for speeding and had been given a 200 dollar fine! My boss just accused him of bull#$%*ting him for running late and told him that he'd get another concreter for the carpark job, and hung up. I was sitting beside him listening to the whole thing on speaker, pissing my pants laughing!
I really liked those guys, it was an awful job, but a great company to work for.