If any of you folks are in the legal profession, please don’t even get me started on how much overpaid anyone else is…
My encounters with my a previous attorney was nothing but *interesting*…
Some interesting tidbits from my itemized bills..
$75/hr for photocopying by a paralegal???? Are you fvcking kidding me…$175 for answering an email that took 15 minutes???
WTF???? WTF????
But nothing tops that off then calling a plumber or appliance repair person…Last time I made the mistake of calling sears because my fridge (stupid kenmore) broke down. Repairman says MINIMUM TRIP charge is $150, and then $100 PER HOUR for dianoses (with a minimum $100 charge). I ended saying no thank you since it was an old fridge It ended up being a $20 switch I bought from repairclinic.com…..Or how about the time my dad called because his garage door was stuck…The garage door technician minimum repair charge was $150 to come out, and then another $75/hr for any repair work….Screw it I say, costco sells a brand new garage door opener for $300 with a 2 year return policy….
WTF???? WTF????
And let’s talk about traffic tickets that the fuzz loves to write…Carpool lane violaton tickets use to be $270 (10 years ago). They’re over $400 now…Well, I guess we have to meet the pension shortfalls somehow..
WTF???? WTF????
Contrast that with technology… Today you can get a kick ass computer for around $1000 in today’s dollars. 10 years ago, it would have cost you $4000 and you would have gotten 1/100th of the processing power…
I wish I could charge folks $10 per line of code, and then another $10 for every bug I find in each line a code, and then $10 for each bug I created that I subsequently fixed.
…..So no, I don’t think realtors are overpaid. I can think of several other professions that are…And I can think of people in technology being completely stupid…But realtors aren’t overpaid… I guess that’s why a lot of enginerds end up doubling up in real estate. Because while they initially think that might be smarter than others, sooner or later they realize that they’re the dumbest people around when it comes to making money.
But you know what, this does inspire me to post a poll.
