Isn't that standard practice in the building trade? When I have had building work done at home (drains, conservatory, bathroom) The way I always do it is: (1) I pay for all materials myself directly at the building supplies yard; (2) I make frequent stage payments for the work as it progresses; and (3) I inspect the work done every day. This means my builders are at minimal risk of being left out of pocket with me, and I am at minimal risk of them failing to turn up or doing the job wrongly. It seems to work OK.
You a rare breed mate! That is the way forward and pretty much how i insist deals are done with my clients. unfortunately although it does minimize the risk it doesn't stop guys like this costing me just by messing me around. i should count my blessings that i hadn't started before he showed his true colors. Its a complicated thing when competing for work as in being clear and concise about how and when you want payments before you have even started often makes people weary (and you dont get the work) and failing to do so seems to let them think you are goin to do the job, bank roll it and wait for payment till it is convenient.
funny you say that as i was discussing that very idea with a mate not half an hour before he text me. because of the five odd times he had already blown me out i was thinking now i have another job in the bank i'll leave him hanging but being he's a mate of a mate i wouldnt do that... if i had of i can bet that our mutual contacts would think me a cvnt... ive already heard today that i was unaccommodating and rude...... funny old world eh?
bollox to him, i work in a small area with a lot of garages, been kissing customers asses for years, then last year i thought feck em, they get good work on time v.good prices if they start getting smart and pissing you about, screw em. the fella that owned the fiat dealership i worked fore's favorite phrase said in his northern eglish accent "they all come back" and guess what? they do.
Right, a real piss-boiler here. First, some background: MS Windows 7, locked down corporate PC builds and the S***n Mini Keyboard. Each thing, on its own, can be a true PITA but all three together? M.O.T.H.E.R.F.R.A.C.K.E.R! The S***n Mini Keyboard is made for dwarves and miniature people who cannot handle the width of a standard keyboard - i.e. people who should be drowned or burned, or both. The Mini Keyboard is about a centimetre narrower than the width of the portion of the standard keyboard without the integrated number pad and Arrow/Insert/Delete keys. WTF? Why? Why do you need a narrow fracking keyboard? What the christless fuck is wrong with you? As a result of the Mini Keyboard being narrower, you need to double up the letters on the keyboard with numbers - because there is no integrated number pad on the Mini Keyboard. Oh. Wait. No you don't. You already have christless fucking number keys along the top of the keyboard, for goat's sake. What the christless fuck is wrong with you? So, the numbers and letters on the dual-purpose keys are toggled using the NumLock facility on the keyboard. Turn on NumLock, you get numbers instead of letters, and vice versa. Except - MS Windows 7 has a fracking cretinous mania about the NumLock. "Win7 has noticed that you have started to type a password and has turned on the NumLock." "Win7 has noticed that you have turned your back on it and has turned on the NumLock." "Win7 has noticed that you have turned the NumLock off and has turned the bastard right-the-fuck-back-on-again-fuck-you-very-much." "Win7 has noticed that you are getting extremely pissed off with Win7 and is going to fuck with you by turning the NumLock back on. Again." Why do miniature people need Mini Keyboards? Why does Win7 want the NumLock on? Why do businesses insist upon locked-in builds and locked-in BIOSes which do not allow you to configure the christless fucking NumLock? I am hoping for some time off work soon, by the way.
I could spit fury across the internets, and indeed I'd have every right to. But these two words will suffice: London. Traffic. However, I'm home now, the shorts have been donned, and I'm off to the pub to get fucking wasted. And if anyone tells me that drinking is bad for me I'll rip their heads off and spit down their necks. I feel much better now, thankyou.
I am a facilitator by profession and resolve peoples problems or worries for a fee. So why when you have successfully resolved the issues do people object to paying the fee. This just creates an additional issue for me and usually results in the aforementioned being extremely distressed. I know I need to get a proper job but this is all I know
Nah, I don't support any football team, just happened to take in all the recent stuff on the news about said team and I started to feel really sorry for the owners..
I deal with morons. Every second of every fucking day, I am up to my ears in fucking morons. :Rage: So I ring an engineer to arrange what he is doing next week on a project. We are a couple minutes into the "conversation" - I say conversation but it was mainly me trying to prise usable words out of the bloke - and I have concluded that I am speaking to an actual cretin, in the medical sense of the word. Eventually he says, "I'm driving". I told him I want to end the call, what time can I ring you? "In an hour or two's time". I said, "OK, either that or I'll ring you tomorrow". "I'm not at work tomorrow". Oh Goat. I said I'd ring him in an hour or so's time, just to get him off the phone. unch: Why didn't he say at the outset, "I'm driving"?. Why did he even answer the christless fucking phone in the first place? Most importantly, do I really have to work with this ass-hat next week? FFS! Morons, millions of them, stacked thousands of feet deep, for miles and miles around me. I am drowning in moron. :Arghh::Muted:
