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I was supposeto be doing a kitchen ceiling today. This is for a landlord. Gets to the job bang bang on the door lazy feckers still in bed. Gets to the kitchen the place is a s**t hole nothing cleaned or ready for me fecking gear all over.
Passed on it gave the landlord a bell he says will sort it but not today so am out of pocket.
 
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charge his for the wasted journey he knew you was comeing today so its his problem
 
in times past you could shout the odds about wasted time but nowdays they can so easily tell you do one and you lost a good contact for work.
 
Kin hate that, was doin a loft conversion last year and was to start it on the sat, guy phones me fri night at half ten asking if i could come after lunch as him and the family like a lie in so i told him he either lets me in at eight or he could find someone else, lets just say his misus and kids werent to amused. clowns!
 
people who dont work dont usually value anyones time. But ironically they r the ones who kick off wen ur 10 m late. I had a girl in one of my houses last yr. I kid u not she sat in front of the telly from dawn till dusk fillen her fat face with food and daytime telly. My plumber is a good lad and is always busy. I call her to say your gas safety check is due im sending the plumber round tommorrow. She replies im only free at x day at x time. FRIGGIN PRICELESS. No regards for anyone except herself
 
Had the same thing happen to me a few Mondays back. Ceiling to be repaired and skimmed. Arrived at the job for 9 as requested. Rang the bell about a dozen times, rattled the letterbox and finally gave up and put a card through the door. The cheeky cow phoned me a week later and asked if i had forgot about her!!!! I told her i was there AND even put a card through to prove it!!! She was speechless!!! errrr, can you still do the job? Yes says i, i'll be over first thing. I went and did the job a wee bit faster than i would usually do and left the rubbish for her!!!!!
 
I like them jobs when you turn up and all the dust sheets are down or up the stairs water already for you etc.
 
Some of them are right fukwuts. Had one where I needed the upstairs windows opened to clean them right so I asked the sloth inside to open them. As I'd already noticed that she was a waste of arms & legs I decided to jump in the van for a brew while I waited for her. TWENTY fkin minutes later she still hadn't opened them, so I knocked and asked again. She told me "My nan will be back from the chipshop soon, she'll open them:RpS_crying:
 
got a nice one atm. a chinese guy. keeps offering more tea than i can drink, and the cups are like bloody pints. and at the end of the day always comes out with cans of coke. nice guy

on the other hand, did a job for a guy we used to work for a while back before he quit building. was a lot to do. me and me mate went in and said as a favour as hed given us a fair bit of work in the past wed work late and do it for 200 each. now hes always been a tight **** at the best of times, but he stood there from 8 in the morn until 10pm when we finished just watching us. when we said go on, make us a cuppa, he got all stroppy and wouldnt. didnt offer us anything to eat either. think we got 3 cuppas the whole day. we had to load out about 20-30 bags of hardwall and about 10-15 finish from his garage about 30m away, when we said come on mate, grab a bag, he just laughed and tried to look busy. proper t**t
 
had some woman phone me last year to do some plastering for her, so went to see job her husband was there and was going on about how they needed it doing asap, was a full dryline & skim 4 bed house, told him i only had 3 days free betwen jobs,
now his mate was with him and he works for a local large plastering company and he said that he would ask lads if they would come blitz job over the week end & couple of evenings, i told bloke that that would be best answer :RpS_thumbup:, but he still wanted me to go and do 3 days on daywork rate ! so we agreed a price, he told me he would be there in the morning to let me an lab in, we turn up at 8am knock, ring bell and phone his mobile for 20 mins, not a f<king peep from him :mad: asshole ,
 
Good to hear everyone has nightmare story to tell.

Had one where i went to help a builder with last minute floor screed. Did it with a mixer on my own. about 4 tonne of sand. Lashed it down all day so would have appreciated a cuppa. But the owners watched me through the conservatory doors all day sipping tea. They never offered a drop. Anyway id had enough by 3 and just wanted to get in my van and the owner came out to moan that the wind had blown the cement dust on his BMW. He nearly got a floor rule right up his backside. I was not amused. Put a bit on the price for that one.
 
:RpS_laugh: would have served him right :RpS_thumbup:, spent 2 wks on a job, saw the owner every day and 10mins b4 we finished the job he asks if we would like a cupa ! told him he was 13 daye to late :RpS_lol:, but im sure we all done private jobs were ya wouldnt take a cupa off them without a biohazard suit !
 
Yeah worked in an immaculate house once and the ol dear offered us a cuppa. It was the dirtiest mug you could come across. needless to say it got chucked out the top floor. cup as well.
 
thats just the way it is im afraid some people i work for are brilliant i had one the other week every morning i would get to site and the owner would have a tray with 4... yeas 4 count them slices of toast with peanut butter on, cuppa tea with a pot for a second one if wanted and some biscuits then at about 10 would go down to the bakers for get fresh as you like cream buns for anouther cuppa.
needless to say diddnt want to leave that job and i diddnt mind letting it run the time, even got a nice tip at the end of it:RpS_thumbup:.
on the other hand have worked for people who do the same come in and watch ya with a cuppa dnt offer you one, even when you say "flipping thirsty here" just get told well you should have bought a bottle of water then shouldnt ya:mad:. and people who agree a price an start date then either dnt bother getting out of bed in the morning or ring ya just as ya getting into bed to say oh can we put it off for tomrow im not ready yet, then you never hear from them again.
 
I never work for landlords unless i can meet the tenant as well, i'm sick of being messed about, the landlord never lets the tenant know when you a due to start the work!!!!!!
 
well I was there at 7am this morning kitchen empty ready to go landlord did it last night and posted the key this morning. Anyway boarded and skimmed done for 1 pm thats more like it
 
When we were having our drive done a few years back my Mrs baked fresh cakes every day for the guys , made tea on the every hour, and gave then cold drinks in the afternoon.Then she wondered why i got the hump when i came home to a ******* ham salad.
 
haha i came home last night to toad in the hole mash veg and gravey with home made oreo icecream cake for dessert then tonight a nice cheese ham and chicken pasta bake and strawberrys evaporated milk and a little bit of sugar for dessert.

ohhh bollo*ks this means she wants summit expensive:RpS_crying:
 
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