best complaints stroppiest customer

[Geordie Spark]

I was on the rocket for a day mate I got put there because they had a lad off. I liked the sandwich shops in Dunston, Simply Deli was cracking bait, can't remember what the other one was called. Who was your gaffer on the rocket?

Aye, The Rocket's all gone now.

When that was being built, I worked nearby and every night after work, I stood at the bus stop on Ellison Road waiting for the bus home and watched it being built - all the way from the foundation (which was built above ground then sunk into the ground) to completion.

I never thought I'd see it being knocked down though, but I did.

 

[trev]

Racecourse estate- the problem is some of the occupants of them.

Credit where it's due though most of the older tenants were absolutely fantastic

 

[Geordie Spark]

The whole of Gateshead is interesting mate.

Watch it !!! :angry_smile:

 

[Geordie Spark]

Credit where it's due though most of the older tenants were absolutely fantastic

I agree. The trouble I had was with a stroppy young bint who wasn't happy because I isolated her gas fire because it was in a dangerous condition and somehow - in her eyes - it was all my fault !!!

 

[tanna]

Got moaned at the other night by a family friend who I'm doing their whole 6 bedroom house for dirt cheap ( occupied as well) for not getting the job done, the wife said she can't live like this no more because I have not second fixed the new kitchen exstention they have had built, told me she has not had any lights or power in her kitchen, well, the ceilings are not even plastered yet and the room is empty, kitchen is getting fitted till end if march, and she was having a go at me, unbelivable , oh and the kitchen people ****ed up their drawing which I told them a month ago that it did not measure up correct but they insisted it was correct and to first fix so they could plaster the walls, guess what?? All I'm saying is never working for family friends who have not got a clue in the building game again. The other classic was I told them prior to works that the chasing out was going to cause dust and they said no problem, after one day of chasing out they where both on the verge of a breakdown, even tho I hired a wall chaser and dust extractor out if my own money and told me there was to be no more chasing out done!!!!!!!

 

[Geordie Spark]

Got moaned at the other night by a family friend who I'm doing their whole 6 bedroom house for dirt cheap ( occupied as well) for not getting the job done, the wife said she can't live like this no more because I have not second fixed the new kitchen exstention they have had built, told me she has not had any lights or power in her kitchen, well, the ceilings are not even plastered yet and the room is empty, kitchen is getting fitted till end if march, and she was having a go at me, unbelivable , oh and the kitchen people ****ed up their drawing which I told them a month ago that it did not measure up correct but they insisted it was correct and to first fix so they could plaster the walls, guess what?? All I'm saying is never working for family friends who have not got a clue in the building game again. The other classic was I told them prior to works that the chasing out was going to cause dust and they said no problem, after one day of chasing out they where both on the verge of a breakdown, even tho I hired a wall chaser and dust extractor out if my own money and told me there was to be no more chasing out done!!!!!!!

And the moral of the story is, never, ever work for or employ friends or family !!!

 

[DaveyD]

And the moral of the story is, never, ever work for or employ friends or family !!!

Or work with a customer who "project manages" themselves but has no idea how to do that We've all done it.

 

[AndyOz]

One job that i think about was fitting a new doublesocket in the hall for a lady in her later years. House was really welldecorated so I took the trouble to chop out the back box really carefully.Positioned socket on the other side of the wall of an existing socket to cutinto the ring. Result was no patching up and looked like no one had beenworking.
Lady then told me that I had cone it wrong and needed torun wires and chisel out her walls, otherwise the socket would not work.
“What do you want to use this socket for” I asked.
“Hoover” she replied. I plugged the hoover in and itworked to her amazement. After reflecting on things she said “Batteries…..Youhave fitted batteries, haven’t you”
I tried to convince her that I did know what I was doingbut in the end I promised that I would replace the batteries when they were flat.
That was best part of 30 years ago and to my knowledgethe socket is still working.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Or work with a customer who "project manages" themselves but has no idea how to do that We've all done it.

Oh yes !!!! :death:

 

[jon small]

i was fitting a night storage heater in a housing association property, using a hammer drill to drill for fixings lady has a sh fit it and demands i fit a silencer to the drill as shes got a hangover, probably shouldn't have asked what her huge belly had to do with needing a silencer, sometimes mouth bypasses brain - if i could have got a silencer would have got the gun to go with it

 

[MarkieSparkie]

The Gaffer send me to do a board change (25 final circuits) at a large house in the stockbroker belt at Sandbanks. The client had insisted that it had to be done after lunch because the lady of house "Didn't do mornings!" I arrive at the agreed time of 1pm, greeted at the door by the lady of the house who's first words to me are "You must be finished by 4pm because my afternoon tea group can't miss Countdown." I told her the conundrum was a seven letter hyphenated word (4&3), starting and ending with F!

 

[bigbaddave]

Watch it !!! :angry_smile:

You from the Gateshead side of the water bud?

 

[ian.settle1]

Sunny South Shields, you?

Sand Dancer country :yes::yes::yes:

 

[bigbaddave]

Originally Low Fell but now Whickham

 

[trev]

Sand Dancer country :yes::yes::yes:

You obviously know it Ian

Originally Low Fell but now Whickham

Oooo get you going up in the world