ripping us off!!!!

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supaspreadste

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hi everyone. got in from another busy week working my B*****ks off, checked my bank to see if the wages are correct and guess what. been ripped again. it seems that firms these days in our area only want to pay an average wage and will do anything to keep your money down. i mean we are only on about 1.70 - 1.80 a meter square. and they still do it. is anyone else having trouble at the moment? cause this is really winding me up.
 
yeah that was on that one job mate but a fair bit of m2 to be done and I got it at just over £3.ish myself.
the norm for me is £3.50. dont be offended honey x
 
f-ckin hell 3.50, we are getting ripped. everyone is paying no more than 2.20 if ur lucky up here. they just keep blaming it on the recession. were having no joy up here. we are doing a big refurb in salford the plots are 2 bedders with 2 bathrooms , half skimming on concrete so were having to paint the concrete with blubond (for free). and dab the window walls for £550. last year in the 1st block they were paying 1100 for the exact same plots. were a gang of 2 with a a lad and managing 3 in a week. and this week to slow us down they moved us to chorlton to give a push on another job. We done the Chester HQ job by the race course in chester for mansells and they doing it too. the qs on there wouldnt answer his phone when our money was low, and whenever we tried to ring the office he was on holiday. this area is full of cowboys rippin ppl off. i guess were just a bunch of muggs cause we still do good quality.
 
take it off the walls mate if they wont return calls and the measures wrong take the fcucking lot off
 
me and me mate had this with a firm we did a load of float and set corridors with loads of expansion joints the surveyor agreed to pay us 5.50m2 on the f+s and after haggling 50p a linear on the beads we put on skimming stops on the hardwall anyway we told him that at the time we were doing no more when we got paid he knocked the price down to a fiver and nothing for the back to back beads about 350 linear metres so we went down on a saturday morning and ripped every one off and put a hammer through all the angles as we had pushed the stops into the hardwall you would have never been able to set them back in to make good they had to chop back to the blockwork and put in 10mm stops oh and i got a bit carried away and ripped a load of another gangs work on one corridor because i forgot where we had stopped
 
grand wizard said:
me and me mate had this with a firm we did a load of float and set corridors with loads of expansion joints the surveyor agreed to pay us 5.50m2 on the f+s and after haggling 50p a linear on the beads we put on skimming stops on the hardwall anyway we told him that at the time we were doing no more when we got paid he knocked the price down to a fiver and nothing for the back to back beads about 350 linear metres so we went down on a saturday morning and ripped every one off and put a hammer through all the angles as we had pushed the stops into the hardwall you would have never been able to set them back in to make good they had to chop back to the blockwork and put in 10mm stops oh and i got a bit carried away and ripped a load of another gangs work on one corridor because i forgot where we had stopped

Nice one grand would have done exactly the same as you mate...
 
Your deffo from Tottenham Grand its the only answer sometimes had to do it in Germany once lost a bit of money but had great pleasure doing the damage.
 
he was a proper smarmy c**t about 25 looked at you like a piece of s**t he was outside oneday showing the foreman his new beemer one click and the roof went back into the boot good job his car werent there i would have put battery acid all over it :D
 
supaspreadste said:
H+R. from the same ppl that brought us the famous ripoffs CAPS
CAPS as in the crew from manchester did a load of flats in north wales where all the ceilings fell down
 
plasterjfe said:
supaspreadste said:
H+R. from the same ppl that brought us the famous ripoffs CAPS
CAPS as in the crew from manchester did a load of flats in north wales where all the ceilings fell down

ceiling and partition systems, never worked for them rang a few times to do fixing and they rang me a few times for plastering but heard their rates were bad, they had a massive job in manchester but im sure its the same job they went bump on.
 
plasterjfe said:
yep thats them
where do you work flynnyman

ive moved from manchester but ive worked for 99% of all the plastering firms in manchester, i dont bother too much with site work at the mo.
 
that's them alright. not surprised the ceiling fell down. they are real rough. yeah they done the big job on langworthy road (upside down houses lol), made such a mess of that job they went bust. owe us a few grand and plenty other ppl we know. cant believe people are still earning a decent wage elsewhere. thought it was this bad everywhere. anyway spoke to the boss and their excuse for holding back money is that they hadn't checked our apartment, to make sure our quality was fine. cheeky f*ckin c*nts what a load of bullshit, they just cant bare paying more than everyone else on site. does any one know anythin about the media city in salford, heard its full of foreigners. i know mansells have some part of it. but would be nice to know as thats all we can see from our sh*tty refurb buildings lol
 
supaspreadste said:
that's them alright. not surprised the ceiling fell down. they are real rough. yeah they done the big job on langworthy road (upside down houses lol), made such a mess of that job they went bust. owe us a few grand and plenty other ppl we know. cant believe people are still earning a decent wage elsewhere. thought it was this bad everywhere. anyway spoke to the boss and their excuse for holding back money is that they hadn't checked our apartment, to make sure our quality was fine. cheeky f*ckin c*nts what a load of bull(german word), they just cant bare paying more than everyone else on site. does any one know anythin about the media city in salford, heard its full of foreigners. i know mansells have some part of it. but would be nice to know as thats all we can see from our sh*tty refurb buildings lol


mansells were bad before the resesion too many cards in lads workin for f**k all.
 
grand wizard said:
me and me mate had this with a firm we did a load of float and set corridors with loads of expansion joints the surveyor agreed to pay us 5.50m2 on the f+s and after haggling 50p a linear on the beads we put on skimming stops on the hardwall anyway we told him that at the time we were doing no more when we got paid he knocked the price down to a fiver and nothing for the back to back beads about 350 linear metres so we went down on a saturday morning and ripped every one off and put a hammer through all the angles as we had pushed the stops into the hardwall you would have never been able to set them back in to make good they had to chop back to the blockwork and put in 10mm stops oh and i got a bit carried away and ripped a load of another gangs work on one corridor because i forgot where we had stopped

just shows plasterings bad for the memory

about time some one stood upto them, only prob they got us by the short and curleys :(
 
pftmonojetman said:
Colorend were looking for blokes the other week


worked for mike loads of times bit kaotic but nice bloke and your moneys usually right, i saw that job they were lookin for someone to set beads.
 
that would probably get danny in trouble i would love it because you get treated like s**t on site not enough old school site managers now its all graduates who think you can work on top of each other
 
flynnyman said:
pftmonojetman said:
Colorend were looking for blokes the other week


worked for mike loads of times bit kaotic but nice bloke and your moneys usually right, i saw that job they were lookin for someone to set beads.
I was talking to him last week hes pretty busy,wanted me to do some spraying for him, not heard off him since,
 
oh thats a point, maybe hes busy working so he can pay for it haha. ask bruce, he worked with him so might be able to get hold of him?
 
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