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[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 89 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So he is setting the groundwork to justify not paying them isn't he?

[–] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Has he ever paid a contractor?

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 1 day ago (4 children)

typically only after they sue him, and then only 75% of the agreed price…
source: used to work with contractors in nyc, he was widely hated but people still took his jobs because they were big and eventually did pay.
….
an especially horrible story was when he destroyed the business of a guy who made pianos… trump wanted pianos for all of his suites in atlantic city or something, got this piano maker to hand make a few dozen pianos… the guy had put all of his money into making them.
trump didn’t pay, they guy’s business went under… couldn’t even buy new wood… eventually after court, trump settled for 50%…. the guy took it because he had to, but his business was ruined….

i hated trump before it was cool….

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

yea my dad did finish woodworking for him in the 80s and some custom crown molding work and never saw a dime either - i’m told

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I used to work for someone like this. Very rich, but very cheap. I was the person she would direct people to contact about their invoices not being paid. But I wasn't allowed to pay them without her permission. Which she wouldn't give.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

But that’s not cheap as in frugal, it’s cheap as in contract fraud

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

That sounds like the worst job imaginable. I think I’d rather die.

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I remember when I was in college in the early 2000s, I read that he used to do this to contractors and I’ve hated him ever since too.

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

that’s the guy… i’m sure my hearsay version has a lot of details wrong…

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago
[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I don't think he gives a crap, as long as it's taxpayer money, not his own.

Just like how Elon's fork in the road deal was genuine for the federal employees, but some of the Twitter employees who accepted it are still in court with him.

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How does this prove he’s alive?

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It doesn't, but we all know the rumors of his death were exaggerated.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

BlueAnon strikes again.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Somehow Trump returned.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

and never let that contractor work at the White House again

That'll be easier when he's rotting in Alligator Auschwitz.

Remember folks, you don't have to pay your contractors, you can just make a quick phone call and have them quietly taken away to a thinly-veiled death camp.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

This just proves he's closer to soulless undead than a living being.