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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 04:08:06 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   My landlord keeps putting me in awkward situations by constantly trading favours and money back and forth. It's impossible to judge how much or how little is owed by any party at any given time because you can't put a price tag on everything.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 04:10:19 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      For example, I'm doing a job for him to install a network in a building, and he's paying for that. Since he thinks I'm overcharging him, he asks me to check out the network in his house free of charge, which I foolishly did because his Polish electrician "thinks he's a nice guy" and "I should help him out". Yesterday, he called me to ask which computer monitor to buy, and now "his icons won't appear" and he wants me to troubleshoot for free.

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 04:11:28 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         Oh, and of course, a few days prior to asking me for this favour, he said I was welcome to install a sign to promote for my business on his fence next to the road.

         1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 04:13:05 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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            So there's always this complicated balancing game going on. How much is being allowed to install a sign on a fence worth versus doing a job for him? I mean, the sign hasn't made me a single cent yet despite being there for a week, so to me, it's currently worthless, but he of course feels he did me a favour. Doesn't cost him one cent to let me do that, though...

            1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 04:14:43 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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               Every time I do business with this guy, it always ends up with him extending favours to me, and then expecting favours back in addition to what I was paid for.