During one move I had a three guy crew that really hustled in packing up the old home and although I told them that their truck would be marginal for all of our 'stuff,' they were able to make it.
I thought going with a company (generally good reviews and while not national, they were a fairly well-known/respected local mover) that charged by the hour, especially since I was helping, would be the way to go.
Boy was I wrong.
After getting to the new home, all of a sudden they seemed to have become drugged with something that made them move in slow motion.
The biggest surprise though, was without even asking first the foreman closed the door with about 1/2 of it unloaded at the new place and demanded that they get paid (agreed to cash ahead of time) before unloading the rest of it.
Say what?!
Talk about a different attitude and chill almost immediately, I was in shock. I had made about a dozen moves in my life prior to this and had never had this happen before. While I understood the potential of them getting stiffed, they should have figured out that since they were moving me from/into houses that were far from low end that the odds were small of me trying to skip on the bill.
I paid him 3/4 of the bill and told him that he really didn't want to push getting all of it, until the job was completely done.
There was one guy who wasn't all that speedy to begin with, but when he walked into the new house with only a small plastic planter base (think small frisbee) in his hand and asked "where does this go"...I lost it.
I immediately told the foreman that the lazy dude would no longer be on the clock from that point forward.
When the same dude stood off to the side watching while opening and closing his switchblade (trying to intimidate me), is when I called the cops.
Long story short, the police hauled off the nutcase (outstanding warrants) and the foreman then decided that I was the wrong person to have pulled this kind of chit on.
After finishing unloading without further issues, I paid for the rest of it, generously tipped the quiet and hard working guy on the side and quietly sighed a breath of relief that it didn't turn out worse than it could have.
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