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In honor of my first business experience with a muslim...I hereby do proclaim it is a pain in the ass with any close knit ethnicity to avoid their own version of political nepotism system.

So I was doing my presentation for an energy conservation project and while he liked what he was hearing (including the fact that the building owner gets a tax deduction up to $1.80/sq foot or the material cost of the project: he gets the lesser of the two) He still wanted to (as my father says) "jew me down". Well yes...every jewish friend I've had has been somewhat stingy (Dave, Eric...and others), but they always pay for something that is beneficial. This motherfarker is trying to rip me off and make me take a loss on the project despite the fact that 30% of the project is being paid for by the utilities.

Of course he doesn't pay his electric bill on time, so he doesn't get the 36 month o% interest loan. Heh if he'd only been less of a cunt when it came to that he'd have to pay NO money up front.

The loan is provided via CityBank, and the interest is paid by the CT Clean Energy Fund which is why it is a 0% interest rate. The 30% incentive is from a $0.003 charge all CT rate payers have on their electric bill.

Anyhoo...this guy wants to sit down over a lunch, and haggle me down to what HE thinks it should cost. Of course he wants to bring in his brother who runs a construction company...sheesh.

So here's the deal on why the project costs what it does.

Numerous Fire Code Violations: severely damaged and inoperable exit lights, and non-code wiring to existing fixtures. Plus we are changing his lighting grid around, and we are charging him for disposal costs of the lamps and ballasts. Oh and we pay our electricians decent money instead of doing what some places do which is charge 80/hour but only pay 20/hour to the workers, and take the rest for the company's profit.

In our case our pricing schemes are dictated to us in unit prices (i.e. a certain fixture takes x$ of labor to install/retro/whatever) by the utility company. so we CAN'T mark stuff up for a nice thick profit like others including union shops.

Even if he paid us cash we might be able to knock the price down by MAYBE $500...and even so that is damned close to a loss for us. The margins are tight and as far as I am concerned he can go fark himself with a red hot poker or just have his asshole brother do the project.