RANT: JPA Construction and their Sub-contractors

[Bonnie]

A big huge rant to the owners and employees of JPA Construction. My husband was walking home from dropping our car off for an oil change and walked past the construction site on 39TH AVE SW & SW BARTON in the Fauntlee Hills neighborhood. Employees of JPA Construction started yelling obscenities to him, with the F word, etc. for walking through the neighborhood. OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. Shame on you JPA Construction. I’ll never send any business their way!

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[MissK]

Bonnie – was he walking through their construction site? It would seem odd for them to just start screaming obscenties for no reason at all???

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[Caduceus]

They might have had it blocked off, and you husband ignored/didn’t see the signs.

It’s usually very dangerous to walk close to a construction site, they might have been yelling at him for his own good.

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[RonM]

Bonnie, thanks for the warning! There’s too much disrespect these days and plenty of other construction companies to do business with. I’d suggest that you file a report with the Better Business Bureau. It may be an old fashioned way to handle these situations, but the BBB is still very effective.

And nevermind the negative comments this RANT will receive. A very few seem to take delight in other’s misery, but they are loud.

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[charlabob]

Ron, I see nothing negative about the comments here. People were simply asking questions. As they were when you posted a rant that you felt wasn’t respected. Perhaps people are trying to avert the misery of someone being hit by a falling scaffold.

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[austin]

Yelling construction workers? Yell back!

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[Bonnie]

No, he wasn’t walking through the construction site. We’d never walk through somebody’s property!

Updating to add that the sub contractor was Martinez Painting.

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[Bonnie]

Oh, and Caduceus, the construction site has a sidewalk on one side and an alley on another. He was not walking TOO NEAR a construction site.

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[MissK]

Wow Bonnie and Ron simma down now. We were just trying to ask questions. Sometimes people can unknowingly walk through, by, near, etc a construction area and not know it. I just found it odd that they would yell at someone without any provoking or anything like that?

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[Caduceus]

I’m not sure what type of construction we’re talking about.

But seeing how I’ll be an Apprenticed Iron Worker soon, and the fact that half the people I know are involved in construction in some way. I know most construction sites have some form of machinery, and when the machinery is in use they normally block off the sidewalks/streets in case something goes wrong and no one is hurt by said machines.

Usually there will be a sign saying “SIDEWALK CLOSED”

Also in larger projects there is the danger of things toppling over or falling.

No one ever said anything about walking through a construction site, we’re all assuming your husband is sane.

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[Bonnie]

Well, he was walking back from dropping our car off at Dere Auto (great place to go btw) and one of the construction guy yells something about him looking like a loser and about the fact that he should get the f out of the neighborhood because he looks like a thief, etc. Um…my husband is 41 years old! He is not trolling the neighborhood at 10am in the morning!

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[JenV]

that is just awful, Bonnie. I hope that come Monday you will call the contractor and let them know how their subcontractors behaved!

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[datamuse]

I used to get yelled at by construction workers all the time, due merely to being female and sixteen. If there’s anything I don’t miss about being a teenager, it’s that.

Bonnie, have you called the company? If I ran a contracting business I’d want to know if my employees were being unprofessional. Especially in this economy.

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[Trisket]

This is just a ridiculous story.

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[Bonnie]

LOL Trisket, I just love to get the trolls out there so they can make ridiculous comments.

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[Trisket]

Sorry Bonnie– Your story just doesn’t pass the Judge Judy sniff-test. :(

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[hopey]

I am disgusted that two honest businesses have been defamed and libeled in this thread, just because one person thought it would be funny.

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[WSB]

Bonnie, I need you to clarify that #15 does not mean you are admitting you made this up, which is how it was interpreted by someone who just flagged me to this thread. If it was made up, I will delete it. If you don’t post here shortly clarifying that it happened (if indeed it did), I will delete it anyway because I would have to err on the side of that interpretation. Rants and raves are difficult enough things to post and host online without anyone making them up. – TR

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[JenV]

why is everyone jumping all over Bonnie? why is it so hard to believe this is real? just curious….

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[mellaw6565]

TR – thanks so much for asking people to verify that their rant against a company is real and that all steps have been taken to rectify the situation with the company before posting. I have really been bothered by blanket dissing of businesses on this forum without a lot of attempts to fix problems that the business may have been unaware of.

I don’t know if Bonnie’s story is true or not, but to ask her to verify with more information is fair, especially in light of her statement.

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[WSB]

Though I have been mulling the policy (I know of at least one other very successful neighborhood-news site elsewhere in the country that has a policy of no business rants till you’ve complained/talked to the business in question first – obviously that’s still an honor system thing because it’s not like a site operator has the time to subsequently contact each such business to verify that, but at least if the business in question then sees and responds to the post, if the OP was NOT being truthful, they could say, who did you talk to and when, we have no record of that) — it’s not so much that I’m asking for proof, but trying to verify that post #15 isn’t an admission this was made up “to get the trolls out there.” I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt but as I said, this was flagged because someone interpreted it that way and wanted us to review – and like many sites, this is operated in the “everybody’s a moderator, flag us if you think something is a violation” mode. — TR

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[Bonnie]

Why would I make it up? No, I did not make it up.

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[Bonnie]

Okay, I simply made the statement in #15 because the poster in #14 jumped all over me. No, I did not make this up and I didn’t believe I was violating any code of conduct. I see rants like this all the time. I won’t post here again.

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[WSB]

Thanks for clearing it up. The thread stands.

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[Bonnie]

For what it’s worth I was NOT trying to defame a business or make anybody look bad. Trisket simply jumped all over me saying the thread was stupid so I sarcastically said he/she was a troll, etc. Obviously somebody took that out of context. I would never deliberately try to make a business look bad because I realize that people are all out there to make money and make a living. I’m not going to call the business and try to get the employee fired, as somebody did last year with a construction worker. I simply believe people should not make rude comments to people walking by and yell obscenities. I wouldn’t want people working on my home who acted like this. (it is a home that was sold recently and is now being remodeled, etc.)

That being said, I will take a break from these forums. Sure, I said my rant re: the business(es) I had problems with but others called me a liar. I’ll just keep reading the original news blog but refrain from posting here. I enjoyed getting to know many of you from your posts but feel there is too much bashing going on here.

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