JimmyMcGill wrote: » No doubt but she would. You'd just be hoping most of her acquaintances would know the form and see the wood for the trees. She left herself short not Joe, and if I were in his position I'd consider doing one job for her and her ilk one too many. Job done, paid, done. Only caught for time and diesel dropping back the 20.
the_pen_turner wrote: » yes and the next thing she would do is tell all her fellow stinges that joe miss measured her floor and that her dream kitchen is now a disaster and its all joes fault
the_pen_turner wrote: » also I have had one woman go into the floor shop to get a sample, then send in her sister , then send in her father to get more just so they could get the last 3-4 boards to finish the floor. crazy carry on.
pgj2015 wrote: » i used to go through at least 4 pairs a year, working on building sites.
sligojoek wrote: » I did a job for a woman a few weeks ago. Part of it was to tile a small kitchenette floor. After measuring the floor I told her she'd need to get 8 square metres of tiles. She said she measured it and it only came to 7m . I said it was actually 7.2 but she'd still need 8 to allow for waste and mistakes. I didnt tell her about the potential mistakes. Anyway the tiles came and there were only 7.5m . 5 x 1.5m boxes. I did my best but I was 4 tiles short to finish the job the evening before she was moving back to Spain till xmas. So she paid me in full for the job and gave me 20 quid to get another box and keep them till she got back. Today I went in to get the box and threw a 20 on the counter only to find out the box cost 35. I'll get it back off her but it'll take me half a day to do what would have taken me a half an hour to do if I'd had enough tiles at the time. Sorry about the big long rant but I'm still annoyed over it.
sligojoek wrote: » Contrast that with the job I finished at 10.30 last friday night. Paid in full plus 24 cans of Guinness and a bottle of red wine.
Dan Jaman wrote: » Stinges can't see the world beyond the end of their nose. Most sensible people would just accept that tiles come in boxes and it's best to get them all at once in case the next box you need to finish the job is from a different batch and slightly off-colour. Anyway, having a half-box of tiles spare is a bonus if one or two crack and need replaced at some point, and the chance of getting an exact match diminishes with time. They can't see that though, because they think they've saved a few quid.
nee wrote: » Hennessy is the same price as a pint, about €4.50 - €5.50 at the priciest, unless you're getting VSOP or something, which is wildly inconsiderate in a round.
sligojoek wrote: » the_pen_turner wrote: » also I have had one woman go into the floor shop to get a sample, then send in her sister , then send in her father to get more just so they could get the last 3-4 boards to finish the floor. crazy carry on. A lot of shops charge a fiver a sample now. refundable if you make the purchase. Tiles are gone so big and expensive that some tiles cost more than a fiver each anyway. The last ones I was using were 6 kg in weight each before there was any back buttering or blobs of adhesive on the back of them. Sorry to be drifting away from stinginess. We'll leave it at that.
gozunda wrote: Invited friends to a BQ last summer and they brought a packet of crackers with them ...
davidk1394 wrote: » A fella I was in college with was mean out. In the summer time when he was driving he'd give out stink if you turned on the air conditioning as it used an extra litre of petrol out of the full tank. When he would be driving down a hill he'd put the car in neutral. Driving on the motorway he wouldn't go over 100km as he'd use too much petrol. He'd bring a tea bag to college because he could get the hot water for free.
davidk1394 wrote: » When he would be driving down a hill he'd put the car in neutral.
Kolido wrote: » This can't be true, is it?
BelovedAunt wrote: » Ah ffs lads we're going to have 17 pages of Air Con talk now aren't we...
ablelocks wrote: » we could do Con Air instead?
razorblunt wrote: » D'ya know who's not stingey? Jonny 23, with room on his arm for more baby.
MarcusP12 wrote: » Years ago when my mate and I started work around the same time, we both got our first mobile phones. Soon after when we'd be arranging to meet for pints or lunch or whatever, I'd always notice that I'd a missed call from him so i'd ring him back to see what the craic was. I couldn't understand this until he called another time and it rang, but cut straight off after a couple of rings before I could answer. Didn't take too much notice until it kept happening and then the penny dropped. The tight f**ker was basically ringing me for a couple of rings and long enough so that I'd see I'd a missed call and instinctively ring him back, thus it would be me paying for the call all the time instead of him. Called him out on it and didn't happen anymore!
