What are your biggest pet peeves?

[Gary Prentice]

22 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Couples arguing in front of you about what they want.

Maybe I'm odd, but I find that situation quite amusing  

[Ty Korrigan]

It is a waste of my valuable time and I don't want to be a part of this kind of 'menage trois'.

    Stuart

[openspaceman]

15 minutes ago, Gary Prentice said:

Maybe I'm odd, but I find that situation quite amusing  

What's the maybe??

[Ty Korrigan]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

....who then try and drag you into their argument.

 

'Well what do YOU think?'

I think... thinking is so important.

 

 

[Gary Prentice]

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

What's the maybe??

Oy!!

 

The amusing bit is listening to the disagreement, waiting for someone to invite me to take sides and then saying that it's an entirely subjective debate! I'm only there to price whatever work they want doing, not to advise them on the work to do. I can provide options towards resolving a problem but ultimately it's not for me to decide what to do. Their tree, their cash. 

 

If I'm feeling particularly perverse, I then try to find a third alternative that neither has yet considered just to cause even more conflict and argument. This can backfire though, as you end up writing a quote for even more options than you originally started with. 

 

Sometimes the little pleasures in life are just so rewarding. 

[Mark Bolam]

If the lass is fit I normally take her side.

[Mick Dempsey]

When they ask you to take sides...

 

Edited August 14, 2018 by Mick Dempsey

[nath]

Climbers who seem to think its a massive hardship to climb a tree with a chainsaw and insist on having it tied on once they get to the top.  This seems to be a newbie thing, or a company specific thing.  I'm all for making things easier for my climber but does strapping a small saw on his waist as he climbs really cause too much inconvenience?  Then they get to the top and everything both top and bottom has to grind to a halt while he the groundies work is interupted to tie his saw on, then the climber hauls it up.  Might be being a bit pedantic, but its a completely unnecessary pause in the work flow.

Edited August 24, 2018 by nath

[Mesterh]

I await the responses to that post! 

[Mick Dempsey]

58 minutes ago, nath said:

Climbers who seem to think its a massive hardship to climb a tree with a chainsaw and insist on having it tied on once they get to the top.  This seems to be a newbie thing, or a company specific thing.  I'm all for making things easier for my climber but does strapping a small saw on his waist as he climbs really cause too much inconvenience?  Then they get to the top and everything both top and bottom has to grind to a halt while he the groundies work is interupted to tie his saw on, then the climber hauls it up.  Might be being a bit pedantic, but its a completely unnecessary pause in the work flow.

I think I remember that being a thing at college, and you’re right, it’s stupid, it’s always handy to have the saw on the ascent anyway, cut a few things on the way up.

Edited August 24, 2018 by Mick Dempsey