Recent content by Puffin

One lad I know tries to get me to subi for £10 an hour, reckons that’s all he is getting, yet he has a half a million pound house, no wonder if all his lads are getting a tenner an hour.

Another good one was someone wanted me to put some new guttering up while I was at it, they would give me £20 for it As it’s only a few screws I said i can do it but not for £20. Offered to loan them my ladder and they could pop a few screws in, apparently ”oh no it’s too high I might fall”...

got the cash, in the end, she is local, doesn’t acknowledge me now, I’ve not lost sleep did it off my own scaffolding tower as well, told her to go find out how much scaffold hire alone was.

The client thinks every penny they pay is wages, no clue about the costs

I find those in “good” jobs the worst, rendered a house the other week, the woman goes I’ve had a calculation about the hours you have been here & that’s more than I earn and started trying to pay me her wage. Told her I’d rather take it back off.

just checking, I’m a bugger for getting Sucked in, the wife goes mad says we aren’t desperate your not a slave they earn x amount, have holiday and sick pay and have everything provided when they rock up to work, let them go do it theirselves or find someone else, move onto the next job. Except...

How do you deal with the small jobs people want doing, jobs that basically take 2/3 hours semis local. i normally try and time them with days I’ve finished a bigger job and I’m passing, but as im sure you all know people don’t want to wait, but don’t understand unless I have another job to tie...