The Mad Repair Company
The boss was called Eagle, he was a born-again hippie and it was fair to say, nobody wanted to work with him. Don't get me wrong, his work was brilliant, but every two hours, he stopped work and meditated. So, a two-hour job, sometimes took four to five hours and it drove everyone mad. Every morning when the work was handed out, they all hoped they didn't end up working with Eagle. He was a great boss, he paid well, the working conditions were brilliant, it was just, well, Eagle was completely mad and weird.
Grandad, had called the Mad Repair Company, because he had a leak in his bathroom. Eagle and Dave, were on Grandad's doorstep within the hour, they went straight to the bathroom and began to repair the leak. Grandad was making himself a coffee and went to ask them if they wanted a drink, Dave was there, but Eagle was missing. Dave explained that his boss, Eagle, was a weird hippie and has to meditate every 2 hours. Grandad went to find Eagle and found him sitting on top his shed, crossed legged and meditating.
Dave suddenly needed to go to the toilet, but Eagle had turned the water off, so he couldn't flush the toilet and he erm, wanted to do a number 2. What made it worse the house was out in the country side and there were no other houses. Then he remembered, that a mile down the road, they were preparing for a summer fete and there were portable toilets. So, he jumped in the van and raced down to the site and run fast over the field, to get to the portable toilets. There was talk, you could see the steam from miles.
Eagle was offered a contract to fit bathrooms and kitchens in a block of flats, he was very excited, but if he knew the problems he was going to have, maybe he wouldn't have been so excited. He had to recruit kitchen and bathroom fitters and as soon as they ripped the old kitchens and bathrooms out, there was a problem, all the floors were wet and very springy. After a survey was done, it was discovered all the floors needed to be replaced.
The fitters, said the cost of this was down to Eagle, but Eagle, pointed out that they agreed a price and had to do the work, they said no and walked out of the job. Some of Eagles employees heard Eagle crying in his office, they asked what was wrong and he told them, Dave then said, "Boss why didn't you asked us first, we can do it and we know people who can do the floor, at a great price. Four weeks later, the job was done, Eagle gave everyone a huge bonus and threw a big party for them.
The owner of the flats, were so pleased with the work, that Eagle's company had done, they asked him if he could do some landscaping for them. They wanted some boulders and rock moved, but he couldn't use a digger, because it would ruin the garden. Eagle knew a man called Paddy, who had a very unusual wheelbarrow, it was electric.The day Paddy arrived on site, almost immediately all work on the site stopped, as everyone was watching Paddy use his electric wheel barrow.
One of the things Eagle would rather forget, was the day he was asked to dismantle a machine in a factory. He and a group of 12, arrived at the place on a Sunday morning. There should have been a security guard at the gate, but he wasn't there. The site was huge, but Bill who had been to see the machine before, said he knew where to go. The problem was, Bill when he came the first time, forgot where the machine was. He knew roughly where it was and was pleased when he found it.
For 4 hours, they dismantled the machine, when the security man arrived on his round. After talking to Eagle, he giggled and said, "don't know how to tell you this, but you are in the wrong building, you want building 1, this is building 11." Everyone stopped working and looked at Bill, who couldn't say anything. Eagle went with the guard to ring the owner, 30 minutes later he returned smiling. "Bill, it's your lucky day, the owner was going to ring me on Monday, to ask me to dismantle this machine too." All Bill could say, was, "PHEW."
6 years later, Eagle was still running his Company, still in his little shed, where he started his business and his company was a huge success. He didn't go out much on jobs any more, but every now and then, he went out on a job, with one of his repair people. Lol, yes still nobody wanted him on the job, no he wasn't a hippie any more, but he loved to chat with the customers. This made the job longer and he never wanted to leave, some things never change, but everyone loved Eagle and I bet you do too.