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Workmen who turn up late

  • 20-09-2016 11:12am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    What would you do?

    What would you do if they say they'll be there at 11 and don't turn up till 2? 99 votes

    Kill them
    0% 0 votes
    Prevent them from breeding
    32% 32 votes
    Ah sure
    32% 32 votes
    Tell their mammy on them
    35% 35 votes


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Pretend to like shoes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    The same thing I do to people who put up polls with the results hidden.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,203 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    I have selected all the options.

    If you don't like it, tough, I've had my fun, and that's all that matters.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Working women turn up late too sometimes. Blatant sexism in this poll!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    People not being punctual should be shot at dawn .Not a minute after and not a minute before.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Winterlong wrote: »
    Working women turn up late too sometimes. Blatant sexism in this poll!

    You can take 'workman' to mean all men or women who come to do work in your house. If your carpenters, plumbers, builders, electricians, plasterers and bricklayers are women, consider them included.

    For me, though, this seems a particularly male form of narcissism: phoning someone and saying you'll be there, and then not phoning to say you're delayed. In America, they recognise it, and it's in the contract that money comes off the bill for every hour the job is late.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    You could have that time watching Jeremy Kyle berating People less fortunate than you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    Ask them to give you their mobile. Smash it in front of them. :):):):):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,640 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    People not being punctual should be shot at dawn .Not a minute after and not a minute before.
    Civil, nautical or astronomical dawn? You should also specify a location as dawn varies with latitude. Dawn can be over an hour long depending on where you are taking your observations.
    No wonder workers can be late when we can't be arsed to be specific about times.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Civil, nautical or astronomical dawn? You should also specify a location as dawn varies with latitude. Dawn can be over an hour long depending on where you are taking your observations.
    No wonder workers can be late when we can't be arsed to be specific about times.

    Jaysus Old goat you have me all over the place with that :D:p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    What would you do OP?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,661 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    If they turn up the same day they're expected I'd consider it a bonus.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    I'd get a new contractor and tell the guy who turned up late. If the original guy starts arguing he wants the work I'd ask what kind of money he's taking off the quoted price


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    I'd get a new contractor and tell the guy who turned up late. If the original guy starts arguing he wants the work I'd ask what kind of money he's taking off the quoted price

    Good point, and if it was myself I'd do the same. But unfortunately I ask this in the context of a neighbour in her late seventies who's got up early and waited in all day several times for a surly Scot who rings early to say he's coming, then doesn't arrive. She's too nice to do that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,426 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Sorry im late , I had to go down the wholesalers to get the whatchamacllit and then the traffic was in ****e , there was a funeral blocking the road.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,434 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    We had a situation once when I booked a chimney cleaner to come, I was out briefly but my husband was home. Knock at the door and a soot-blackened man stands there and says to hubby 'I'm cleaning chimneys' or something to that effect. Oh right, come in, says hubby, chimney is cleaned and man is paid and off he goes. I get home. Knock at door, second soot-blackened man stands there, I have come to clean the chimney he says. Oh right says I, come in. Hubby emerges, what's happening, he says. Its the chimney cleaner I said. But he came a little while ago, he just left, says husband. Sigh. And he really was not all that late.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The same thing I do to people who put up polls with the results hidden.

    Which is what???????????


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    As the poll results are hidden I wouldn't give a toss.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Circumstances can happen to anybody, I wouldn't be too annoyed if they weren't on time the first around, and I'd usually be easy going enough if it happened the second time.

    I definitely wouldn't be annoyed at all if they were late a third time, in fact I'd be over the moon, because I'd be getting someone else who wants the job and dodged a useless cnut.


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  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭Letree


    Knowing that profession count yourself lucky if they turn up on the same day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,797 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    As the poll results are hidden I wouldn't give a toss.

    Even the poll results have arrived late.


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