Years ago my cousin owned his own Kirby Vacuum business and had about 8 salesmen working for him. At that time the money he made was twice that of the ordinary white collar or factory worker.
He had a new home and the front steps (concrete) started sinking due to having a poor footer. He made a deal with a bro who was a contractor to fix the steps for a brand new Kirby with all the options. Quite a high priced item! This barter was the idea of the contractor bro, not my cousins.
Yep.......the bro got his Kirby and my cousin got screwed! He never got his steps fixed. When he went to the elders, they said since there was nothing in writing, they could do nothing.
From other experiences I heard over the years, I always said to my bros and sis's that I would never hire a JW to do any work for me. They got a little uptight when I would state this.
In the 1980's the industry I worked in bit the dust so I started my own service business and it was doing ok. About 2 years later I found a great job with full benefits so I took it. A bro in my KH wasn't doing too well with his job and since he had helped me a few times I offered to turn my customers over to him and would even let him use my equipment. It wasn't even three weeks later when I asked him how things were going and he said he couldn't do this anymore. Fact was that on his own, he was very lazy but when with someone else he would work. I asked him to return my equipment and he said he didn't have it, that he just left it at the last job and walked away from it all. I lost all my stuff and there was nothing I could do. A few months later this bro and his family kind of disapeared. He didn't want to be a JW anymore. Well, at least he did something right!
Ethics and honesty do not exist when two JW's engage in a business transaction. One party ususlly gets screwed.
HappyDad
