never work with family.

sorry for my rant but here it goes. so my older brother (30) found a car (the talon ive talked about on here before) and we decided i was going to help him scrap it and we would split it. so this week i find out, not from him, that he scraps the car behind my back without explaining anything to me. yeah no big deal, but what pissed me off the most was i tought this guy everything i know about scrapping and was the guy who introduced him too it. the week before he called me about a different car he was scrapping and asked what to take off and stuff, and of course i told him everything that brings in more money. so the two lessons ive learned today is to keep everything you know to yourself (except for on here of course) and try to avoid working with family. -end rant

Sorry to hear about your riff. I know I hate mixing it up with my siblings...... tears me apart. Hope you can patch it up with him firstly, and hopefully he'll understand you not helping him out anymore.

too bad vamped....I hate it for you and also hate it that I have no advice either. I just hope like KZ and Hypo said, that you can mend your fences and go on and learn from it.

Money should never come between family. Yeah it may have been a sucker move but when it comes down to it and lets say you got hurt and couldnt work anymore. Its family that will be there for you. I mean it couldn have been more then a couple grand right? Now if it was a winning lottery ticket and he cashed it an ran ide have to hunt him down and open a case of whoop-a$$...

thanks guys. im for sure gonna have some hard feelings for a while but ill get over it. id understand if he gave me a call and explained he was in a pinch for money and needed to do it, but to do it without me knowing really set me off. but really this isnt the first time weve had a mix up due to scrapping but thats a different story. im gonna be a one man crew now i suppose lol

Hate that happened. Maybe he needed the money. Well where I'm from family is family. I would not do that or would my brothers do that to me. Good Luck

-end rant

Ok now give Hoss his soapbox back.
One thing I've learned in my 60 some years on this earth is you don't mix money with family or friends. I think a friend will screw you over money faster than a stranger.

some times the road is a little smother for us old farts, but that only becuse we have spent years hitting the pot holes. but then again us old dogs still get hit now and then. I have been concintrating on computers, the wife wants in, so ok no prob, then she wants the 2 boys to earn $ tearing them down, next half goes to who ever finds the computer , course then there is gas money, and parts and weqar and tear on the truck. by the time my family gets done "helping" me I figgure it will only cost me a grand or so a month more then Im making.