Plasterers treated like dirt!

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I did a full house skim in this ladies house last year. Really big house, everything that went in was brand new from skirting boards to furniture. They even had one room just fitted with a copper bath in the centre of the room and that was it, loads of money etc.
She used to lock the toilet door all the time (her and her husband who was a solicitor didn't live there at the time). When we asked where were we supposed to go to relieve ourselves she said " Oh you'll have to go to the pub or something, i'm not having workmen use my new suite" !
BITCH!
Now i was cards in at the time so i couldn't just walk off the job and our boss has never paid for a porter loo in 6 yrs.
Needless to say 12 months later i jacked it in and went it alone.
Does anyone know why plasterers get treated like this?
Pi@@es me right off. >:( >:( >:(
 
We did an insurance job recently for a building firm who I do a lot of work for, was repair water damaged ceilings & Walls & reskim house & the house was empty but the house owner had ripped the bathroom out therselves so I phoned the contracts manager at the office & said we need a portaloo on this job his reply was there's a sainsburys in town or if your desperate go in a carrier bag!!!!
This was a few weeks after a health & safety meeting with the same firm where they said you should have somewhere to eat, toliet & handwashing facilities,
f u ckin jokers!!

Had to use bin liners in me tall bucket loads of times, s hit ain't it ;D
 
Oh & another job the customer she took all the door handles of the doors(bedrooms lounge etc) apart from the rooms we were working in - kitchen, dining room, utility & the bog.
I dont know what she thought we was gonna do ::)
 
Plasterers seem to be seen as the scum of the building trade >:( dont know why as its the most skilled job :)
ive heard stories about people not wanting workmen drinking tea/coffee out of the regular cups so they hoak out the old unused cups for use .
it really is all about snobbery , I say F U C K em . just charge em plenty :D
 
PhilPlaster said:
I did a full house skim in this ladies house last year. Really big house, everything that went in was brand new from skirting boards to furniture. They even had one room just fitted with a copper bath in the centre of the room and that was it, loads of money etc.
She used to lock the toilet door all the time (her and her husband who was a solicitor didn't live there at the time). When we asked where were we supposed to go to relieve ourselves she said " Oh you'll have to go to the pub or something, i'm not having workmen use my new suite" !
BITCH!
Now i was cards in at the time so i couldn't just walk off the job and our boss has never paid for a porter loo in 6 yrs.
Needless to say 12 months later i jacked it in and went it alone.
Does anyone know why plasterers get treated like this?
Pi@@es me right off. >:( >:( >:(
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You should have lifted the man hole and filled the pipe back about a foot with cement or gone down the local pet shop , got yourself a load of mice and let them free in the house with lots of food stuffed around the place to keep them going.
 
I worked for a right posh T wat a few years ago who treated us like dirt, he had a massive pool in his garden with a cover on it, anyway on our last day my lab found a huge half rotten rat ........ before we left we slipped it under the cover to his watery grave :)
 
Even when I was on the cards for a firm we would get sent to jobs ie small builder single house build with no toilet on site and a distinct putrid stench emanating from the back garden where all of the previous trades have been no' 1 & 2's ing for months. We just said to the boss he hasn't got a toilet we ain't doing the job if you don't like we'll f**k off. It is 2009 for christ's sake and I am not an animal. I have not got time to get changed, get in the van and then find a pub or public toilet to use so f**k em. It is an inevitable basic human function for us plasterers up and down all day long tends to get your bowel moving more. So a toilet should be a basic necessity for a building site. We f**k*d off a couple of weeks ago from a job lovely single new build all board work clean and everything ready. Get out of the van, builder turns up. First question: Morning mate, got a toilet, to which he replies: No, To which we reply: See you later mate! You've got to draw the line somewhere. There's no hardship in rigging up a temporary one which you can just chuck a bucket of water down afterwards. I see them as having a right result because they are going to get a top class, clean job out of me which they will not be disapointed with but if they cant provide a toilet. I will not plaster their house.

As you can see one of my gripes!

Clint
 
i went to a job when an apprentice to pebbledash a gable end... the lady of the house said she was worried about us looking through the toilet window which was very frosted ( you couldnt see jack s**t ) so the boss said to put something over the window like duhh... a curtain or something so we couldnt perv... hahha anyway she humed and harred... the gaffer ended up telling her where to stick her job and we all left..
 
It aint just plasterers all building workers get treated the same, the amount of time ive had rows with H&S bods enforcing hard hats and all the rest of it and when i try and show them the bog were supposed to use they are not interested, housing sites are the worse every one is treated as an animal.
Lucius
 
simplybesty said:
PhilPlaster said:
I did a full house skim in this ladies house last year. Really big house, everything that went in was brand new from skirting boards to furniture. They even had one room just fitted with a copper bath in the centre of the room and that was it, loads of money etc.
She used to lock the toilet door all the time (her and her husband who was a solicitor didn't live there at the time). When we asked where were we supposed to go to relieve ourselves she said " Oh you'll have to go to the pub or something, i'm not having workmen use my new suite" !
BITCH!
Now i was cards in at the time so i couldn't just walk off the job and our boss has never paid for a porter loo in 6 yrs.
Needless to say 12 months later i jacked it in and went it alone.
Does anyone know why plasterers get treated like this?
Pi@@es me right off. >:( >:( >:(
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You should have lifted the man hole and filled the pipe back about a foot with cement or gone down the local pet shop , got yourself a load of mice and let them free in the house with lots of food stuffed around the place to keep them going.
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:D :D :D :D :D
 
I dont know what your all complaining about if i got told to go down the pub to use the toilet they would have to expect me coming back to the job half cut or not even coming back depends how many i have had ;)
 
We were working on a house earlier this year and there was no toilet in the house wen i priced the job,i mentioned to the guy we would need a toilet installing as wed be working here for 4 weeks.2 weeks later when we went to start the job still no toilet installed,he said he will install after to save it getting dirty....so we lifted the floor boards and pissed and s**t under the floor boards.
As we skimmed out each room we left a nice suprice for him lurking underneath !!!!!!

Whenever he came round in the evenings to check on how things were going he would coment on the smell,we just told him its the hardwall /plaster.
Not particulary proud of this but f u c k him.
Did anger me of his attitude
 
bodplasterer said:
I dont know what your all complaining about if i got told to go down the pub to use the toilet they would have to expect me coming back to the job half cut or not even coming back depends how many i have had ;)
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Exactly , man after my own heart , they would only tell to use toilet in the pub once ;D ;D ;D
 
i ripped out the toilet on a job once then popped down to the only toilet around the area in a garage and hit them hard with a weekend of KFC and Stella in one hit. next day i felt it couldn't go back there again so i held it in.
 
bodplasterer said:
I dont know what your all complaining about if i got told to go down the pub to use the toilet they would have to expect me coming back to the job half cut or not even coming back depends how many i have had ;)
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I was told on site that if we went to the put at lunch time then we'd have to take the afternoon off as well. Cheers boss! I was just gonna have the one but..... ;D
 
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