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All this talk of wanting workers to speed up how many of you have been asked to slow down??

 

I know I have, I used to climb for a guy who always had very strong money on his jobs, he often asked to slow down my dismantles, as he'd told the customer it was a tricky, time-consuming job and he did not want me finishing it too quickly :lol:

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All this talk of wanting workers to speed up how many of you have been asked to slow down??

 

I know I have, I used to climb for a guy who always had very strong money on his jobs, he often asked to slow down my dismantles, as he'd told the customer it was a tricky, time-consuming job and he did not want me finishing it too quickly :lol:

 

Yes I've been asked, and have had to put the brakes on my own jobs. I usually just string out the teabreaks.

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Your obviously the best tree Surgeoun in the whole wide world :lol:

 

Thank you for your opinion.

 

I will weight it with your past performance, going as you have from the bones of your buttocks to earning several grand a day over the space of a couple of months.

 

Having done that I will then chuck your opinion in the round file where it clearly belongs.

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Our instinct is to crack on and get home . We do a good job and scratch up well and people have us back but the other day we were on " day rate " and due to habit found that we were still cracking on and finished the job before the day was up . We had to fanny around for an hour till the bloke came back . Sometimes it does pay to slow up some ...

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Our instinct is to crack on and get home . We do a good job and scratch up well and people have us back but the other day we were on " day rate " and due to habit found that we were still cracking on and finished the job before the day was up . We had to fanny around for an hour till the bloke came back . Sometimes it does pay to slow up some ...

 

Hate day rate, you end up cleaning leaves out their gutters.

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