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Post by tomplum on May 22, 2017 19:39:35 GMT
I went to my job this morning, his name is Mark, this is the first job I've done for him, It should have been a half day job first fixing hot and cold services to a sink in a newly built extension, and first fix for a rad, When i got there the builder had filled the extension with all the funiture from the back room in the existing house, I said to him I can't get round all that shite and needed it moving, " you'll have to work round it lad, we've no time for shiftin' stuff, ",, So i jumped back in the car and fucked off, I had another little job round the corner, While I'm there he phoned me, " where are you" I said I'm doing a set of taps in Ashton then I'm going to do some urgent gardening at home, " We need this first fixing today are you coming back",,I asked " have you cleared it all out" he said " no, I told you , you will have to work round it" " I'm not coming back then" ,,," rant rave swear fuckin' plumbers not worth a wank etc etc,,,," This builder was given my name from another builder i do work for, I phoned him asked " how long has this Mark been building" He laughed, " he was a quantity survayer in a big firm, when the firm went bust he started out on his own with the redunancy money he got, why, is there a problem" " yea, he needs another plumber",
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Post by rocketmanbkk on May 22, 2017 19:49:15 GMT
Nice one
Piss takers.
Vote with your feet Tom
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Post by jcplumb on May 22, 2017 22:15:40 GMT
Haha, love it. He's probably used to needy trades who kiss his arse. You did exactly the right thing Tom. What is it with builders/spreaders and occasionally sparks? They seem to always put their shit in your way or fuck up your work. It's like some unwritten rule on sites. You leave your centres perfect with instructions for the plasterer, you come back 2 days later and you're lucky if they've not buried your pipes, filled em with plaster or knocked the centres out by miles. I remember one time I was hanging rads on new builds, one stud wall was chock full of leccy cables and other water pipes so took an age to find where to drill through for rad brackets. I put the brackets on and left a note for the plasterer to either go round them or leave screws hanging from the plugs so I can find the fixings when I come back. Told the project manager aswell. 3 days later I get back to a beautifully plastered wall with no idea where to drill through for the brackets so I just twatted away at it with my 'persuader' until I found studs and cut out a hole big enough for some 12mm ply, hung the rad on the ply leaving a right mess. I was about 3 rads further down when the project manager pulled me to one side and said 'how much do I owe you for what you've done so far?', I told him, he paid me and told me to fuck off. I was happy to be walking away from it, I wasn't far from walking off myself. Never liked site work and often say no to it cos it's rare to go on site and have a better day than just doing 4-5 piss easy jobs in peoples houses. Chippies are usually a good bunch though, helpful and if I ever need a lift on site they usually help out. Wonder why the rest aren't?
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