Annoying Things Guys Do On Site

[eggsarascal]

I don't smoke much at work but I do need that awful 'hit' from time to time.

 

I roll 3 or 4 to last me the day before I go to work. I usually only have a few draws off each one then throw them away. It's the people that think it's ok to have ten or fifteen minute smoke breaks that wind me up.

 

Another thing that winds me up is when someone books me in to do a days work on Monday then ring me at 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon to ask if I can do the job on Saturdy....... This happened yesterday.

[Gary Prentice]

I don't smoke much at work but I do need that awful 'hit' from time to time.

 

I roll 3 or 4 to last me the day before I go to work.

 

What you don't do is sit in the truck for a thirty minute ride, get to site, step out of the vehicle and turn around putting the baccy tin on the seat and start fecking rolling one................

 

 

 

Reading through these post's I'm glad to see that ALL the things that wind me up are a stressor to others. This thread wants renaming as 'I'm new to the industry, what should and shouldn't I do?'

[R Mac]

What you don't do is sit in the truck for a thirty minute ride, get to site, step out of the vehicle and turn around putting the baccy tin on the seat and start fecking rolling one................

 

 

FFS!! that'll take about 30 seconds

[Daniël Bos]

However short it takes, spending 30 minutes idle, then using working time to roll up is unforgivable.

 

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[eggsarascal]

FFS!! that'll take about 30 seconds

 

But why not roll a few smokes while you're sat in the passenger seat?

 

Another thing that winds me up is when someone pours a drink out of a flask then stands there nursing it when it's to hot to drink.

 

Get the fecking tools out whilst the drink cools down!

 

I can feel myself becoming a grumpy old man.

[R Mac]

However short it takes, spending 30 minutes idle, then using working time to roll up is unforgivable.

 

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That's Bull$hit, nothing more than fault finding for it's own sake.

[R Mac]

But why not roll a few smokes while you're sat in the passenger seat?

 

Another thing that winds me up is when someone pours a drink out of a flask then stands there nursing it when it's to hot to drink.

 

Get the fecking tools out whilst the drink cools down!

 

I can feel myself becoming a grumpy old man.

 

The point I'm getting at is that in the greater scheme of things the time taken to roll a ciggie is irrelevant. In all honesty if that's all it takes to annoy you you need help, seriously.

 

'Becoming' a grumpy old man?

[eggsarascal]

The point I'm getting at is that in the greater scheme of things the time taken to roll a ciggie is irrelevant. In all honesty if that's all it takes to annoy you you need help, seriously.

 

'Becoming' a grumpy old man?

 

I don't need any help. I'm a subbie more than doing my own jobs these days. I see lads stood about when work is to be done, the same lads want to know what time they will be 'getting off'. Then they wonder why main contractors only want to pay sh1t money. They don't help themselfs.

 

It's not so much getting annoyed it's about folk thinking they are owed a living.

[RichieR]

Smokers.

Queuing at the chipper when there is brush still in the garden.

Yelling from the top of the tree: "Just found a pigeon nest!".

Dog poo.

Driving the truck like they stole it. Wouldn't do it if they paid for it!

Groundies that leave the chipper on full throttle when there's nothing happening. Wouldn't do it if they paid for it!

Continuing to use a saw with a slack chain. Wouldn't do it if they paid for it!

Fuelling tools in the wrong place. Wouldn't do it if they paid for the consequence!

Using the metal rake like a shovel. Wouldn't do it if they paid for it!

Using the plastic rake on the driveway. Wouldn't do it if they paid for it!

Using the metal rake when they should use the broom!

Using the plastic rake when the should……………...

 

Is there a page 2 Al?

[R Mac]

I don't need any help. I'm a subbie more than doing my own jobs these days. I see lads stood about when work is to be done, the same lads want to know what time they will be 'getting off'. Then they wonder why main contractors only want to pay sh1t money. They don't help themselfs.

 

It's not so much getting annoyed it's about folk thinking they are owed a living.

 

I take your point and the help comment wasn't directed at you specifically, but in all seriousness if people are stressed to the level they seem to be where even the smallest thing is attracting their attention then their health is at risk and they need to sort it, if that means they need to let staff go then so be it.

 

What's starting to come across in this thread is that some people believe themselves to be perfection personified, faultless and beyond reproach and everyone else is useless/lazy/careless/clueless. As for the pay issue, Chicken and Egg comes to mind.

 

When someone uses the term 'Unforgivable' to describe rolling a ciggie regardless of how long they've sat in the truck on route then I'm sorry but that's Bull$hit IMO.

Edited December 3, 2016 by R Mac