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Wow those drinks go so fast! nmbexcuse 04-07-2008
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Posted by RicodJour on April 8, 2008, 7:14 pm
>
> >I have hired a team of electrician (3 of them) to do some re-wiring of
> > Something that bothers me.
>
> > I hooked up a fridge and told them to help themselves, I asked them
> > what they like and everyone seems to like Arizona ice tea or
> > Gatorade. So I stock the fridge full with those drinks.
>
> > Problem, at the end of the day I go around and between the three of
> > them it is not unusual that I found 15 or more drink bottles. They
> > drink a lot? Noooooo... most of those are 80% full. So they worked
> > in the kitchen, went and got a drink, took three sips, leave it
>
> Grin, happens. I'll go against the grain of the others and say this isnt
> really a problem although it's not all that much fun if you have to cleanup
> after them and they leave cans in the attic.
>
> Had some plummers here, working til 10pm on a split pipe. It was cold
> (possibly no more than 20F). I was running the tea pot with lots of hot
> tea, powdered fancy coffee, and even made up a batch of hot spiced cider
> (non-alchohol type). I fed'em home made dinner, showed them the phone if
> they needed to make a call, and said anything in the fridge was fair game.
> Then we made any runs they needed for supplies.
>
> Great guys, great job, lots of cups let go cold as they concentrated on the
> *work* and would forget they left a cup of now lukewarm tea or whatever
> someplace <grin>.

There is a bit of a difference between an emergency repair at night
and a planned project extending over a number of days. I'm entirely
with you about treating the guys right, but that's a two way street
and they shouldn't treat the owner poorly, which is what MC's guys are
doing...at least as far as the drinks and materials are concerned. I
think that's indicative of their attitude, don't you?

I also wonder how they could be so far off on estimating EMT
couplings. Do you think that they all have early onset dementia or
that the house is so freakin' huge they couldn't find their way back
to where they left the boxes of couplings? They knew they didn't
finish a single box - 50 couplings goes a _long_ way on a residential
job. From the cheap seats it smells like those couplings, and
whatever other materials aren't nailed down might take a stroll with
the guys when they leave. Why else ask the owner for 150 couplings?

R

Posted by cshenk on April 8, 2008, 10:54 pm
"RicodJour" wrote

>> Great guys, great job, lots of cups let go cold as they concentrated on
>> the
>> *work* and would forget they left a cup of now lukewarm tea or whatever
>> someplace <grin>.
>
> There is a bit of a difference between an emergency repair at night

Emergency yes, but they started at 10am. Fed'em lunch then dinner. One
wasnt able to eat green peppers as I recall and the other was a vegetarian.
Had hot food snacks going all day suitable for both so they could come in
and warm up. No, this isnt required, but it just was how my Mom raised me
to be. I sent'em home with a loaf of home made rye bread from the
breadmaker after they raved at the first loaf. After all, they were there
long enough to let the breakmaker cook and spin out a second one <g>.

> and a planned project extending over a number of days. I'm entirely
> with you about treating the guys right, but that's a two way street
> and they shouldn't treat the owner poorly, which is what MC's guys are
> doing...at least as far as the drinks and materials are concerned. I
> think that's indicative of their attitude, don't you?

I saw a worry about the partly drunk drinks but I didnt see the note on the
materials. Perhaps I missed that?

I'm not even remotely enough electrically savy to know what a coupling is.



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