• ceenote@lemmy.world
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      8 days 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.

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        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.
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        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….

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          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.

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          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

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          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.

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              She was definitely a con artist who was always trying to get something for nothing. Of course, I didn’t know that when I started working for her.

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              I worked there for less than a year before I walked out in the middle of a work day.

              In addition to the above, she had falsely categorized me as an independent contractor, so when I filed taxes for that year, I owed thousands in self-employment taxes, even though I wasn’t self-employed.

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    8 days 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.