He Installed A Glass Door For A Business, But When The Owner Wouldn’t Pay The Invoice, He Took The Door Back
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Skipping a bill is one thing, but ignoring the contractor who installed your storefront door adds a little extra risk.
One glassworker gets ghosted for weeks, so when the shop owner keeps refusing payment, would you keep chasing him or reclaim the work?
That standoff leaves one unpaid contractor choosing a very literal way to remind the owner exactly what had never been paid for.
Oh, let’s see how this one played out. Should be REAL good.
Don’t pay your bill, I’ll remove your door
My friend has a glass business, replaces broken doors, windows etc! One time this Donair shop got broken into and they hired him to replace their broken glass door.
My friends business replaced it and billed him.
He viewed the invoice and didn’t pay for weeks.
My friend kept following up and he’d ignore him. Never paid the invoice!
It got worse.
He ended up blocking my friends number –
My friend calls from a different number and says if you don’t pay I’ll remove the door. * IGNORED AGAIN*
My friend waits until Friday at midnight and goes removes the door himself, alarms go off. Store wide open in the middle of a busy street.
Now the shop owner is willing to pay.
All of a sudden he has 30 missed calls from the shop owner begging for the door back and that he’ll pay the invoice!
He told him he can hire another company to install a new door for him and he doesn’t want his business.
Shop owner was begging and my friend didn’t budge and blocked his number
You can’t have it if you don’t pay for it, and this shop owner learned that lesson the hard way.
Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.
This person would’ve reinstalled the door for an inflated price.
Another person thinks he did the right thing.
This person would’ve played it differently.
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If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an employee who was denied a raise for “not being dedicated enough,” but then went on to discover what was really going on behind the scenes.
The shop owner didn’t actually own the door.
The shop owner ignored invoices, follow-ups, and even a final warning that the unpaid glass door might be removed.
Late one Friday, the contractor followed through, leaving the storefront wide open and suddenly generating dozens of desperate calls.
Rather than reinstall anything, he poetically declined the owner’s sudden change of heart and offer to pay and told him to find another glass company.
The customer spent weeks closing his wallet, so the contractor simply returned the favor by opening the store.
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