Leon wrote:
On 3/22/2015 5:09 PM, Bill wrote:
-MIKE- wrote:
On 3/22/15 4:30 PM, Bill wrote:
Bill wrote:

I don't have a problem with the $50,000 + benefits. The job will
take its toll on your body.
For what I paid to have my house re-shingled, the company could have
afforded to pay his employees $200/day. But since maybe only 1 spoke
English, I doubt they did that well.



You had the choice to hire them.
If I hired a roofing company to roof my house, they would have to
provide me with proof that all workers were here legally and they were
getting paid market value and workers' comp.
Oh, and I would want to inspect recent jobs to make sure they knew WTF
there were doing.


I went with a referral. But it was amazing the cultural difference
between the salesperson who came to speak with me, and the group who
arrived to do the work. I think the workers were working on some sort of
"first-come, first-served" basis, as there were at least a half-dozen
car and trucks on my street by 7:00 am. And since the first day was
"rained-out", the same thing happened the next day.


Kind'a sounds like your contractor went to HD to buy the materials and
hired several guys at the parking lot to to the job.

I think they had one person who was in charge of the team, and that he
really knew who was who, based upon previous experience. And evidently,
if you weren't on time, you didn't work that day!