Working with obnoxious people
Discussion
The rant went on a bit longer than I thought so TLDR : Don't be a t
t on site.
How on earth do people manage to work day after day with people they hate? I ask as me and my partner have just returned home after spending a week working with the two biggest bell ends we have ever had to work with. Luckily it was just a few days but I can't imagine waking up every morning until the end of time knowing you have to spend the better part of the day with toss pot tim from sales or whatever.
We do a lot of site type work both at home and away, not the usual massive skyscraper type building sites you normally see with hundreds of people about but usually smaller sites with only a few tradesmen on them so you get to meet a good few different people over the year, some of them you work with a lot and get to know them really well but sometimes you come across someone who really has absolutely no place on a building site and this pair of muppets we met this week are the ideal candidates of what that is.
If you work on a building site then I think there are a few qualities you need to have, firstly you need to be able to take a joke or a bit of ribbing, you need to be able to talk to strangers, you need to be helpful, you don't snitch on anyone, you treat labourers as equals and brew up for them and you certainly dont try to prove you are king of the job.
These two though, fk me, it was a father and son team, a pair of brummies, now I'm not sure who here is brummie but if you're not then I can only describe the accent as a heavy metal door blowing about in the wind with squeaky rusty hinges and they did not shut up taking st to each other all week, it was relentless and nothing at all they said made any sense what so ever. yet they wouldn't say two words to us. As they were doing the joinery/tiling/decorating etc we asked them where the best place to put things were and they would tell you one thing one minute and then say "why have you done that, I won't be able to tile that now, the other electrician wouldn't have done that".
When they brewed up they only made themselves a brew and didn't even ask us even though I bought a pint of milk and coffee they used on the first day, I had one coffee out of it. But what really yanked my chain about these two pricks was on the last day (Friday) - Sometimes the jobs we do are miles away and the one the other week was about 3 hrs away from home, we were trying to get finished so we could get home at a reasonable hour and the pair of labourers who were local to the job walked in, they saw we were almost done and said "dont worry about any mess or rubbish we will put everything straight for you, you get yourselves off home" and that is exactly how it should be, help each other out.
This time the job was 6 hours from home, it was 1pm yesterday (Friday) and we were just about done and all packed up trying to get out of there when I spotted a lid that hadn't been put on, it was literally 2 screws, now the brummie was staying the weekend working and had an apartment round the corner from the job so he was in no immediate rush, he was doing a bit of painting in the corner right under the missing lid. I said to him is there any chance I can get in that corner and just put this lid on, he was well aware we were trying to get off but he replied obnoxiously "You can wait for moie to finish" Now I had to use every bit of resolve I had not to wrap the pair of step ladders I had in my hand right round his head and managed to walk out the door instead, my mate put the lid on by hanging over the edge instead and we just got in the van and fked off.
I can really see how even the slightest thing can push people over the edge when they have taken a lifetime of st, for me it was only 5 days but it was 4 days too long and I will never work with those two wkers again.
As a foot note they definitely fk each other when they get back to the digs.
t on site. How on earth do people manage to work day after day with people they hate? I ask as me and my partner have just returned home after spending a week working with the two biggest bell ends we have ever had to work with. Luckily it was just a few days but I can't imagine waking up every morning until the end of time knowing you have to spend the better part of the day with toss pot tim from sales or whatever.
We do a lot of site type work both at home and away, not the usual massive skyscraper type building sites you normally see with hundreds of people about but usually smaller sites with only a few tradesmen on them so you get to meet a good few different people over the year, some of them you work with a lot and get to know them really well but sometimes you come across someone who really has absolutely no place on a building site and this pair of muppets we met this week are the ideal candidates of what that is.
If you work on a building site then I think there are a few qualities you need to have, firstly you need to be able to take a joke or a bit of ribbing, you need to be able to talk to strangers, you need to be helpful, you don't snitch on anyone, you treat labourers as equals and brew up for them and you certainly dont try to prove you are king of the job.
These two though, f
k me, it was a father and son team, a pair of brummies, now I'm not sure who here is brummie but if you're not then I can only describe the accent as a heavy metal door blowing about in the wind with squeaky rusty hinges and they did not shut up taking st to each other all week, it was relentless and nothing at all they said made any sense what so ever. yet they wouldn't say two words to us. As they were doing the joinery/tiling/decorating etc we asked them where the best place to put things were and they would tell you one thing one minute and then say "why have you done that, I won't be able to tile that now, the other electrician wouldn't have done that". When they brewed up they only made themselves a brew and didn't even ask us even though I bought a pint of milk and coffee they used on the first day, I had one coffee out of it. But what really yanked my chain about these two pricks was on the last day (Friday) - Sometimes the jobs we do are miles away and the one the other week was about 3 hrs away from home, we were trying to get finished so we could get home at a reasonable hour and the pair of labourers who were local to the job walked in, they saw we were almost done and said "dont worry about any mess or rubbish we will put everything straight for you, you get yourselves off home" and that is exactly how it should be, help each other out.
This time the job was 6 hours from home, it was 1pm yesterday (Friday) and we were just about done and all packed up trying to get out of there when I spotted a lid that hadn't been put on, it was literally 2 screws, now the brummie was staying the weekend working and had an apartment round the corner from the job so he was in no immediate rush, he was doing a bit of painting in the corner right under the missing lid. I said to him is there any chance I can get in that corner and just put this lid on, he was well aware we were trying to get off but he replied obnoxiously "You can wait for moie to finish" Now I had to use every bit of resolve I had not to wrap the pair of step ladders I had in my hand right round his head and managed to walk out the door instead, my mate put the lid on by hanging over the edge instead and we just got in the van and f
ked off.I can really see how even the slightest thing can push people over the edge when they have taken a lifetime of s
t, for me it was only 5 days but it was 4 days too long and I will never work with those two wkers again.As a foot note they definitely f
k each other when they get back to the digs.Macneil said:
Make my tea you Brummie tt is possibly not the best opening gambit on the first day on site
Maybe not but you treat people as you find them. there is absolutely no need to try and be superior or a smart arse, we are all on the same team at the end of the day. My partner is of the opinion that he would never sink to their level so all week he tried being ok with them and asking them if they wanted a brew or anything from the shop etc. (but hardly even got a response). I on the other hand would gladly drive right past them, beep and wave if they were broken down on a dark and rainy wind swept hard shoulder of a bleak bleak motorway.t is possibly not the best opening gambit on the first day on siteAlgarve said:
Have you never wondered why you always seem to run into a lot of aholes, and what the common factor there is?
Well yes, there are a lot of aholes, and what the common factor there is?holes about, obviously. It never used to be that way, folk used to be decent, helpful people grateful for what they had, now its all about making sure they are first in line so they can be assured of the next payment on their leased white Audi Q5 and their sub prime mortgage on their newbuild 3 bed detached shoebox build on a filled in swamp.mike80 said:
I thought this was going to be a thread full of amusing anecdotes of various odd people that we've all had to work with at some point or other.
Instead it appears to be an angry man ranting about other angry men. Disappointing.
Well it could have been but it all went wrong when one of the PH warriors brought up a completely irrelevant thread that I posted months ago for some reason, not for the first time. You have to wonder why someone who quite clearly doesn't like me keeps on reading any replying to my threads, maybe he has dreams of being a moderator and this is his little way of administering justice. There could be a vacancy as a covid marshal if he looks in the right places. Instead it appears to be an angry man ranting about other angry men. Disappointing.
scottyp123 said:
Maybe not but you treat people as you find them. there is absolutely no need to try and be superior or a smart arse, we are all on the same team at the end of the day.
Yet here you are, apparently feeling that you are superior, and doing down those who are supposedly on the same team as you.This attitude that you’re displaying on here, is there no chance that you’re also displaying it at work, and rubbing people up the wrong way?
Kent Border Kenny said:
scottyp123 said:
Maybe not but you treat people as you find them. there is absolutely no need to try and be superior or a smart arse, we are all on the same team at the end of the day.
Yet here you are, apparently feeling that you are superior, and doing down those who are supposedly on the same team as you.This attitude that you’re displaying on here, is there no chance that you’re also displaying it at work, and rubbing people up the wrong way?
ts from day one. gazza285 said:
All part of the joys of sub-contracting I am afraid. Luckily now I have reached a position on site where if they annoy me too much I can tell them to get their tools and fk off.
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