I've sat on this review for a while now, and contemplated whether or not to write it - but my experience with Jack has been bothering me for weeks now, so I've decided that it's time.
I've worked with Jack on two occasions - and this previous time will be my last, without question.
I'll start with the pros first, to be fair: Jack was able to come over the day that I called him, and has always been good with follow up/staying on me if I get busy with something else. The jobs themselves have always been completed with care, and I have no doubt in his abilities as an electrician. I've ultimately been happy with the work that was performed, so if you don't care about personality or having Jack offend you/everyone you know, then I guess I would recommend him.
However....
Over the course of 45 minutes (the last time Jack was in my house), he and his assistant managed to offend the following people/communities: My neighbor (who we love), the LGBTQ community (mostly transgender individuals), pretty much all women (saying that they shouldn't be allowed to inspect homes or work in certain fields like construction), lower income households, real estate agents, etc etc etc. The list honestly goes on. I eventually just stopped replying to him altogether and wanted him to finish the work so he would leave my house. I felt gross afterwards, and continue to feel angry about the topics discussed. It was literally nonstop, and he would jump from making fun of one marginalized group to the next. It's almost like he wanted to get a reaction out of me? I was shocked when he finally left.
I also continued to ask Jack, over the entire 45 minutes, if he was able to provide me with any sort of estimate or even just an idea of what the job would cost. He would laugh and say things like 10 million dollars, and then never actually answer my question. I wasn't hassling him on price - I just wanted to know what to expect so I wasn't left with a huge bill that I wasn't ready to pay for. I needed him to fix a tiny issue with just 1 switch that I couldn't do myself, but he had his assistant pull out all of the GFIs in my kitchen, re-wire them, lengthen the wires in each box, etc. All that would have been great, but I did not ask them to do that and it added to the cost. I continuously asked him to just focus on the 1 switch I needed help with, but my requests apparently fell on deaf ears. I would also ask him what the issue was with each box, trying to make sense of them pulling everything apart and he just kept saying well, it's not wired right. He would never elaborate beyond that, no matter how many times I asked him.
The entire time that his assistant was doing work (that I had not asked them to do), they both joked/laughed about all-gender bathrooms, mocked transgender individuals, called them names which I won't repeat here and made sure they let me know their stance/beliefs on gender.
This job was completed over a month ago at this point, and I'm still angry with how I felt after it was done. My (tiny) problem is fixed - but I will never allow Jack or his assistant in my homes ever again. The bill ended up being $275. I don't even know if that's an appropriate cost of not (45 mins of work, 1 switch re-wired for my garbage disposal and a couple of ground wires lengthened, basically), but I just wanted to give people an idea of what to expect cost-wise.
Oh ya - and you can forget about any sort of mask wearing. The first time we used Jack was during peak covid (summer 2020). I had to continuously ask him to wear his mask inside the house, but he just kept pulling it down and coughing all over my house. It was lovely.
I felt this review was necessary, given how upsetting my last experience was.