<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Daniel---please don't take this personally, brother, but you've triggered off a rant.<DIV>What the HELL are you people doing----working without getting paid? That's insane.</DIV><DIV>You really need to check your approach to life, IMO, if you submit to this kind of bullshit.</DIV><DIV>Raising the pitch on a piano takes WORK---intense work, between 20 and 40 minutes, if done right. To not get paid for that, or to work for people who don't intend to pay you for that, is dysfunctional. Period. What are you thinking about? Would you ever ask any other kind of service tech to come to your house or business and work for 20-40 minutes FOR FREE?</DIV><DIV>Never. NEVER.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Wake up. WAKE UP. You need to start valuing your time, your life, and your skills.</DIV><DIV>Stand up for yourself, and tell that a**h**le who owns that store to sell you a piano for his cost.</DIV><DIV>See what he says. Wake up.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Until we demand respect and acknowledgement for our immense knowledge and skillset we'll be treated like field hands, or dismissable underlings, or naive idiots, or pathetic losers.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There. I feel better now.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>David Andersen<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 11, 2007, at 8:21 PM, daniel carlton wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">The owner of one of the stores explained that they don't want to have to spend more money than they have to on the used pianos in particular if they can only sell it for so much. I guess I do see the logic in that, but what about all the pitch corrections I have to do on the new pianos? I don't get anything for my time.</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>