Any CF Karma stories

[Bethany83]

Inspired by yesterday's thread of the bill splitting karma, which was very uplifting to read, can anyone share any stories where CF got their come uppence? These will be a wonderful read for all especially victims of CF!
I don't have any to offer I am afraid...

Hope it was his wanking arm . Shame it wasn't his cock instead.

He died suddenly at the most emotionally charged time of year.

Or her partner died suddenly at the most emotionally charged time of year. Either way both were responsible for having destroyed me and several others emotionally and mentally some years earlier.

Excellent, absolutely top class 👏 👌 😆

That warms the cockles of my heart 😉

This is such a good one.

Not so much karma.
A builder came to my flat. He gave me the bill and asked for an extra tenner on top to pay the congestion charge. I said no. He looked sad.
We don't live in the congestion charge zone!

Reminds me of the mobile hairdresser who increased her prices because her “electricity charges had gone up”. It was her customers’ electricity that she used!

So?

Presumably her hairdressing income is what she used to pay her bills - food, telephone, council tax and, yes, electricity.

Pretty sure she didn't use her customers electricity in order to heat her home.

This is such a CF thing to do, brass neck of her.

One mobile hairdresser I know is mostly mobile from her home. As in she didn’t like travelling to her clients’ homes. Sort of contradicts the mobile meaning of her term. She used to work for Toni and Guy for years in a big SE England town so had lots of experience with colour and cuts and was one of the reasons why I used her sometimes. I didn’t like the fact I had to wash and rinse the colour off (and do same eg wash my hair) plus I was always aware her DH (who wasn’t friendly) and DC were in the living room. Much prefer a salon!

It is a bit cheeky though to increase charges though of electricity and water etc when it’d be factored into the bill she charged clients.

How can she factor a price increase into what she charges clients without increasing the amount she charges clients?

My nan lost her wedding ring, so my grandad got her cheap replacement. Many decades later he was ripping up some old lino and found her original ring under it.

When my nan died, my mum and auntie took a ring each. Auntie (well known for her grasping, grandad never trusted her) launched herself at the bigger ring, so my mum took the one that was left.

A few weeks later auntie told my mum they should swap rings because she "deserved the bigger ring, as she did more for their parents really after all". Mum declined and said she was happy with the ring she had thanks. Then told us "I suppose she got the replacement ring valued...".

When I was 10 my older brother had to come from his grammar school to my junior school and walk me home.
Brother was a swot (his words) after this event. Glasses, satchel and horrible uniform.
2 lads from the local comprehensive school were bullies.
One day brother was late so I started to walk home. These 2 lads thought it would be fun to steal my bag and push me over then stamp on my hands.
At that moment brother came round the corner saw what was happening and went into fight mode.
One boy received a broken arm and broken nose.
Other one got a badly damaged knee and broken fingers.

If she’s a mobile hairdresser, she will be doing the hairdressing in her clients’ homes, so the costs of heating her own house are immaterial, surely, @NeverEnoughPants?

No?

Don't you think that wages should go up as the cost of living goes up, to help cover what they have to pay in order to live?

The rates a self employed person charges is the equivalent of that, and they need to increase their rates as the cost of living rises.

It's really not that complicated.

But surely their increased utility bills should not be passed onto clients who they visit at their own home?

I mean say one client has solar panels so ends up not paying much if at all for their heating, what happens there?

Why not?

Should supermarkets not pass on the cost of increased wages to shoppers? It's essentially the same thing. The cost of living goes up, so wages go up. What a hairdresser charges is effectively their wages, which needs to be paid by their clients.

If it wasn't ok for self employed people to pass on their increased costs to their customers, they would never be able to increase their rates.

It is the wording choice, cost of living, price increase in products, travel cost if fully mobile, all fully valid.

My hairdresser cited these reasons along with electricity which was valid as I go to her

It was the diesel in the explanation which caused the eyebrow raise. I don't cause her travel.

So you think that self employed people should only increase their prices if it's based on an increase in business costs? Despite the fact that's how they make their living?

If that's the case, businesses shouldn't increase wages, as their staff don't have increased business costs...

In that case, it was worded badly, @NeverEnoughPants. I take your point about wages going up, so perhaps the hairdresser should have simply said she was putting her prices up in line with inflation.

I am SE. I can raise my prices as much as I want whenever I want to.
I have to figure out how much more I can charge before I lose business but its entirely up to me and I certainly wouldn't justify it to my clients with a list of my overheads

Oh I completely agree that the hairdresser in no way needed to explain why she was raising her prices. But she's not a CF because she's raising her prices because her living costs have increased, which is what was being said on the thread.

This makes more sense “putting up prices in line with inflation”.