05-02-2020, 01:31 AM
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Make him a cuppa
I read something quite amusing in the paper.Apparently up to half a million tradesmen, mainly Electricians, Plumbers, and Heating engineers regularly have lady customers offering them a romp rather than pay their bill !
What's more, 5,000 of the men admitted taking them up on it.
Gardeners and painters are less likely to be propositioned, probably because they are either wet and muddy or covered in paint!
Federation of Master Builders, Andy Stevens, reckons he was propositioned three times.
However, the top ten gripes of tradesmen were:
1. Not being offered a cuppa!
2. Late payers.
3. Offered sex instead of pay.
4. Asked to do ' quick' other jobs for free, while he's there.
5. Being told a job was an emergency, when it wasn't.
6. Being watched.
7. Customers buying their own materials.
8. Paperwork.
9. Fixing another tradesman's bad work.
10.Customers changing their mind during the job.
So there you go -
Just make him a cuppa and cough up.
05-02-2020, 01:44 AM
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Number one, especially among the younger customer. No etiquette or manners whatsoever. I've even had some of those make and drink a cuppa for themselves and not even ask me.Have had all of the others except for the being offered sex one, number six and number nine being the most irritating. When someone has made a complete balls-up of a bit of DIY electrics, they are then looking over your shoulder to see what they've done wrong. Then there's the "I could have done this myself but the wife wouldn't let me" routine. Yeah, right.
05-02-2020, 02:15 AM
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Wen I was working with British telecom I had a job in Wandsworth to provide a telephone extn in a bedroom. After I had completete the installation the coloured gentleman offered me his wife to erm "enjoy" instead of paying the installation cost Obviously I refused, so his next offer was not only his wife but also his daughter. I couldn't get out fast enough outside. The flat on the second floor up there was a corridor to other flats ,so I stopped to get over the shockA lady came along and asked if I was ok a she was a district nurse. I told her about what i had been offered and she aid thats nothing in this area. She said a flat further along the woman had just given birth, the husband went to the pub to celebrate and came back and had intecourse again . yet another coloured couple but it turned me right over when she said that
This is absolutely true and our area had a black book on certain premises where we would only go in paired up with another engineer. This was because customers were making claims about damage , even where the engineer neve a working
Oh yes in the 24 years of working with BT in houses and business premises you came up against all sorts of people
Having been on that side of the fence, now any tradesmen that do work here always get offered a coffee or tea. I know what it is like dying for drink and not being offered one
05-02-2020, 08:26 AM
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I’ve always either been offered a cup of tea or , asked ( very politely, or jokingly) for a tea or coffee, now any contractor that comes to the nursing home where I work, always gets offered a drink, same. At home, and , apart from some harmless flirting, I was never offered a bit of the other..
05-02-2020, 10:03 AM
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Re: Make him a cuppa
Originally Posted by summer
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I always offer tea or coffee I think offering a bit of the other was wishful thinking on the part of the journalist....it made a good headline and has us all discussing it 
Heating engineers get customers steamed up, while electricians spark plenty of saucy offers too ... Gardeners are less likely to rake over bedding and decorators tend to be brushed off.
05-02-2020, 12:46 PM
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Re: Make him a cuppa
Originally Posted by Mups
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I read something quite amusing in the paper. Apparently up to half a million tradesmen, mainly Electricians, Plumbers, and Heating engineers regularly have lady customers offering them a romp rather than pay their bill !
What's more, 5,000 of the men admitted taking them up on it.
Gardeners and painters are less likely to be propositioned, probably because they are either wet and muddy or covered in paint!
Federation of Master Builders, Andy Stevens, reckons he was propositioned three times.
However, the top ten gripes of tradesmen were:
1. Not being offered a cuppa!
2. Late payers.
3. Offered sex instead of pay.
4. Asked to do ' quick' other jobs for free, while he's there.
5. Being told a job was an emergency, when it wasn't.
6. Being watched.
7. Customers buying their own materials.
8. Paperwork.
9. Fixing another tradesman's bad work.
10.Customers changing their mind during the job.
So there you go -
Just make him a cuppa and cough up.
As an installer, I have experienced eight out of the ten listed. I'll let you decided which ones.
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