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frd_mrshall
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 4:20 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 176 Location: The Park

so i have been emailing this guy who was going to give me some work at his bike courier place and i just emailed him asking if he wanted to come to the greenlake race. about 5 minutes after that he sent me this email

"Sorry Fred but I just lost interest in working with you."
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Alex
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 4:37 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 3128 Location: Roosevelt

I don't know if this thread or the AndrewW thread is more disturbing.
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Eric_s
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:31 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 1691 Location: the dirty south

please allow me to point out that if you didn't actually have something to start with, then you can't have lost it.
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m_e_perry
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:02 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 59 Location: West Sound

Hope?

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frd_mrshall
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:07 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 176 Location: The Park

m_e_perry wrote:
Hope?


What?

Eric_s wrote:
please allow me to point out that if you didn't actually have something to start with, then you can't have lost it.


true but in was in the bag and .83 cut that bag in half
too funny, job <. 83
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mcrawfor
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:58 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1039 Location: Ballard

Did you follow up at all to figure out why exactly the greenlake race or .83 put him off?

Was it just our propensity to ride unsafely? I suppose you'd be interested in safety running a bike business.

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Jace
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:19 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 601 Location: Seattle

There are only two people who have been asked not to ride with point83.
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frd_mrshall
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:23 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 176 Location: The Park

mcrawfor wrote:
Did you follow up at all to figure out why exactly the greenlake race or .83 put him off?

Was it just our propensity to ride unsafely? I suppose you'd be interested in safety running a bike business.


i don't know, i asked but did not get a answer
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lantius
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 12:56 am Reply with quote
1337 Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 6705 Location: right over

jace nailed it. some jobs you're better off not getting.
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tehschkott
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:32 am Reply with quote
daywalker Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 6108 Location: Hatertown

Roy's a douche. You're better off without it.

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frd_mrshall
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:36 pm Reply with quote
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how did you know it was roy
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tehschkott
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:41 pm Reply with quote
daywalker Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 6108 Location: Hatertown

Because I know who've been asked not to ride, and know Roy Wilke has been trying to start a shitty little courier service since he was a fat IT guy working at Real in 1999. When later I found out he'd found and been thrown out of jerkythree in record time... Well, can't say as i was terribly surprised.

You're better off working for jimmy johns or snoose junction.

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joby
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:30 am Reply with quote
goes to eleven Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3899 Location: The Cloud

tehschkott wrote:
Because I know who've been asked not to ride, and know Roy Wilke has been trying to start a shitty little courier service since he was a fat IT guy working at Real in 1999. When later I found out he'd found and been thrown out of jerkythree in record time... Well, can't say as i was terribly surprised.

You're better off working for jimmy johns or snoose junction.


Ah Yes. Roy Wilkie. He makes $50,000 a year.
We know, because he told us all about it at the greenlake race.
After he tried to pick a fight with paul.
This dude is awesome.
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tehschkott
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:36 am Reply with quote
daywalker Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 6108 Location: Hatertown

Hey Fred, do you feel like posting the contact info? Pretty sure Aaron Bradford would like to apply.

Enemy of my enemy and whatnot.

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Jace
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:47 pm Reply with quote
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I just want to throw in my two cents here. Roy has defiantly mellowed out since we first met. He stopped drinking. He works really hard. He actually cares about his clients, unlike most messengers who just want to get drunk at work all day. As far as I'm concerned he provides the best messenger service in the city.
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jsmg
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:31 am Reply with quote
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Jace wrote:
I just want to throw in my two cents here. Roy has defiantly mellowed out since we first met. He stopped drinking. He works really hard. He actually cares about his clients, unlike most messengers who just want to get drunk at work all day. As far as I'm concerned he provides the best messenger service in the city.

So what you're saying is that he's mellowed out, but not quite enough to avoid hiring a dude because he rides with us?

Interesting definition of mellow.
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henry
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:06 am Reply with quote
somewhat piggish Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 5415 Location: on porch with shotgun

Jace wrote:
I just want to throw in my two cents here. Roy has defiantly mellowed out since we first met. He stopped drinking. He works really hard. He actually cares about his clients, unlike most messengers who just want to get drunk at work all day. As far as I'm concerned he provides the best messenger service in the city.


We used to have a fax machine that would never drink on the job, but this damn email thing is drunk all the time! Oh for the old days.

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lantius
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:13 am Reply with quote
1337 Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 6705 Location: right over

no real surprise that zillow uses exchange.

only one email server has ever been asked to never ride with point83.
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fourfingersdown
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:24 pm Reply with quote
r.w. = rainn wilson! Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 1078 Location: NOT FUCKING ENGLAND

lantius wrote:
no real surprise that zillow uses exchange.

only one email server has ever been asked to never ride with point83.

Let's bring back the old days when there was such a thing as messengering, or couriering, or whatever. Bring back Kozmo!

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dennyt
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:03 pm Reply with quote
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tehschkott wrote:
Roy's a douche. You're better off without it.


Confirmed - he showed up for Pub & Pedal ride once. Got sent packing by a 5'4 Masshole.
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lantius
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:09 pm Reply with quote
1337 Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 6705 Location: right over

the marathon is the original messenger alleycat.
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