Afghanistan Megathread

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So I hired a guy to paint a shed out back. After the first couple of days I check in on him and it turns out nothing has been painted. He tells me the structure of the shed is breaking down, so painting it is useless. He asks for two weeks and a lot more money to rebuild the shed. So I go for it, wanting to get the problem solved.

After two weeks I check back in. Nothing has changed. He says that initial estimates were over-optimistic and he needs at least another month and more pay to hire extra help. I go for it, because im assured its the only way to recover my sunk costs in this project.

5 weeks go by, and there still is little progress on the shed. I finally tell him just to pack it in and give up the job. He agrees, but needs a couple days to gather all his materials and to make good on agreed payed days of employees etc.

After a couple days he says we needs another week. A week later its a couple more days. Finally you just tell him to leave at once and hes not getting a penny more.

The next day my wife is harassing me about the mess he left and saying ""why didn't you just have him clean up before letting him go!?"