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The entire automobile industry has a black eye when it comes to the consumer. Used car dealers, the salesman who dickers and bickers with you buying a new car, the repair shops charging exhorbitant fees, especially dealer shops–these are just a few reasons people distrust mechanics. I’m sure you are fair and trustworthy, but time and time again when consumer groups, readers digest and auto magazines have sent people out with bad running cars (usually a pulled spark plug wire), more than 50% of the repair shops couldn’t find the problem, found it but charged for extra work, or charged for fixing the problem when it wasn’t. We have to trust you, but we, especially women, don’t often know the possible problems, so we get taken for a money ride. And then you have places like the national muffler shops who talk you into much more than you need in order to make more money. My girl friend went to one. She needed front disc brakes and regular back ones. The shop wanted to charge her $990! I had her take it to another mechanic that a friend recommended (he was a former mechanic, now an engineer). Total cost? $210. There are many more stories like this. Suggestions–Display your rates. Give a written estimate and keep within 10% of the cost, even if it means losing a little money once and a while. Keep your costs competitive without cheating yourself. Keep a neat, clean shop. Try to give real times for pickup. Customers hate to wait. Be courteous at all times, even if the customer is making a jackass out of himself. A few days after a job is done, call the customer to make sure the job was done properly and the customer is happy. You don’t want the customer running to another shop if you made a mistake and blabbing it all around town. Make guarantees and stand by them. Good Luck!
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Name : Jeni B., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Jewish, Age : 33, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Software Technician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I was a caretaker for years working with the mentally and physically disabled. First, let’s get one thing out of the way. They are regular people, just as regular as a disabled war vet, a woman who has lost her legs in an accident, etc. They are disabled, not irregular. The greatest reasons for the differences in clothes and haircuts are non-caring and money. If a disabled child is a ward of the state, he or she gets a small stipend that their personal needs must come out of. The clients I took care of got $55 a month. This paid for toiletries, haircuts, clothes, field trips, etc. So you bought the best clothes you could afford, which meant they were not in style. If they weren’t state wards, their parents would provide more, which is why you would see children of wealthy parents better dressed and groomed. But the poor parents tried very hard, also. Again, look at the cost of clothes. And you simply have many people, caretakers, parents, social workers who just don’t care. The vast majority do, but many do not. The child is an “embarassment.” A final reason that ties in with not caring is the abilities of some of these people. Low-functioning children like those I worked with (my teenagers had the intelligence equivalent of a 2-year-old) are very rough on clothes. Many soil their clothes, spill food and drink on them, etc., just as little children would do. If you have to change them four times a day, what would the cost of clothing come to? But money is far and away the biggest reason.
If you don’t like the way they look, become a friend to one, and pay for their clothing and haircuts. If we all did this, just think how much better off they would be. I know the staff where I worked did as much as we could. But with 50 children, and when you only earn $7 an hour, how much can you do? If the people who take care of these wonderful human beings get so little, imagine how much the clients get.
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Name : Jeni B., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Jewish, Age : 33, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Software Technician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,My friend John is paralyzed from the shoulders down (he has limited use of his hands and arms). He has to wear a catheter to catch his urine, which must be analyzed often to check for infection. No, he can’t feel it. Each morning he must also have an enema because he has no control of his bowels. This saves much embarrassment on his part. From what I understand, anyone like him has to have much the same things done to them. Every morning and evening, his caretaker checks his entire body for sores and signs of illness, and takes a rectal temperature. Why? If John is in a hot environment, his body temperature must be monitored. He doesn’t sweat from the shoulders down – severed nerves in his neck cause this – so his oral and rectal temperature can be very different. If it’s cool and he has a high rectal temperature, this strongly suggests he is ill. Remember, he can’t feel anything from the shoulders down, so something like appendicitis could kill him easily and quickly. By the way, he works full time and is able to drive a specially equipped van!
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Name : Jeni B., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Jewish, Age : 33, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Software Technician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,It would appear to me that you are avoiding men who are like your father for a couple of reasons. They remind you of him and you are unable to date any man who could take the place of your father, or you are harboring resentment because your father passed on genes to you that you would rather not have. I would lean toward the first, simply because you do describe some of these men as attractive. Be cool about it. Get to know them and don’t look at their shells; look at them. You could be missing some wonderful times.
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Name : Jeni B., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Jewish, Age : 33, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Software Technician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,
