just lost my temper with an auto shop

[JB3]

Rant time.

I don't understand these guys who ferret out and start doing repairs without calling the customer. It just blows my mind, had to tear some poor kid a new one because his father committed him to 3 hours of pointless work on my car.

So the back story, I have an 86 VW diesel. Since I was busy with some other projects and work, I figured, hey, ill farm out the timing belt on this car and have it done by a nearby shop that specializes in VW and MB.

Now, in relation to the story, the car is currently a rolling restoration project, and not a daily driver, has no interior, is missing everything but the dash as im doing lots and lots to it over time. The fact is that it was blatantly obvious its not a DD, and of course I made this clear shooting the ***** with the vw guy there.

Call the place, kid on the phone says "we're just buttoning up the brakes now" What?
owner of the shop authorized without calling me hundreds of dollars of rear drum brake service on the car, and doubly ridiculous as I am upgrading it all to calipers and rotors anyway.