Some of you are vultures

tesuhoha

Tell you what. You are all a lot nicer on this forum. If I'd posted the same thing on DT I would have been SLAUGHTERED.

greenwheels007

I am sorry but am I supposed to have sympathy for a gas fitter! I am sure he is a nice bloke and all that but let us cast our minds back!
A few years ago I needed some work doing on my house. Where I didn't have the skills or qualifications myslef I employed people. The minimum was £150 per day for a basic builder. I asked a couple of local builders to quote to move a door in an external wall and to install a new one, including a simple lintel and a bit of carpentry. I was quoted £1500 for two blokes, two days, plus materials! That equates to £90K per year!! (and yes I know they have to pay for transport and have to pay tax etc... so do I!)
I am a public sector employee and was at the mercy of these people, so to expect some sympathy now is a bit much.
Jobs are out there, maybe they ar £7 an hour but there are still jobs. So if these guys haven't saved their money in the good times then I'm sorry but they don't get my sympathy when the going gets tough. Surely they just use their savings to live becasue I find it hard to believe they still have a mortgage with what they were charging!
Ok, I will stop monaing now!!

DirectDebacle

I thought I saw this or something similar on the Is This Quote Fair? thread.

DirectDebacle

mewbie wrote: »

It's from Life of Brian. A joke.

I was joking too. Sorry if that didn't come across.

carolt

tesuhoha wrote: »

Tell you what. You are all a lot nicer on this forum. If I'd posted the same thing on DT I would have been SLAUGHTERED.

Thank you.

What is DT though?

tesuhoha

greenwheels007 wrote: »

I am sorry but am I supposed to have sympathy for a gas fitter! I am sure he is a nice bloke and all that but let us cast our minds back!
A few years ago I needed some work doing on my house. Where I didn't have the skills or qualifications myslef I employed people. The minimum was £150 per day for a basic builder. I asked a couple of local builders to quote to move a door in an external wall and to install a new one, including a simple lintel and a bit of carpentry. I was quoted £1500 for two blokes, two days, plus materials! That equates to £90K per year!! (and yes I know they have to pay for transport and have to pay tax etc... so do I!)
I am a public sector employee and was at the mercy of these people, so to expect some sympathy now is a bit much.
Jobs are out there, maybe they ar £7 an hour but there are still jobs. So if these guys haven't saved their money in the good times then I'm sorry but they don't get my sympathy when the going gets tough. Surely they just use their savings to live becasue I find it hard to believe they still have a mortgage with what they were charging!
Ok, I will stop monaing now!!

You are tarring them all with the same brush because you were ripped off.

They do have very high overheads and have to pay out thousands for Corgi Registration and training, tools, insurance etc and so £7 per hour will hardly pay for all that. Would you work for that if you had to pay out more than you were bringing in to keep going?

lostinrates

tesuhoha wrote: »

Tell you what. You are all a lot nicer on this forum. If I'd posted the same thing on DT I would have been SLAUGHTERED.

Oh my word, I think we should keep this as our slogan. someone called us NICE. Maybe this should go in the signature of all th regulars, lol.

I hink, from both sides of very vehement debates we have reasonable regular contributers, who really do want to have a good understanding of the whole picture rather than scream cliches at each other(in the main). We have different experiencs and slants on things, and as you have seen very strong opinions often, and of course the odd rat bag, but this is a frightningly addictive forum, so there must be good stuff that keeps us here

lynzpower

tesuhoha wrote: »

Tell you what. You are all a lot nicer on this forum. If I'd posted the same thing on DT I would have been SLAUGHTERED.

which is exactly why many of us didnt want economics threads to be dumped in there with the baying mob.

sarkin

greenwheels007 wrote: »

I am sorry but am I supposed to have sympathy for a gas fitter! I am sure he is a nice bloke and all that but let us cast our minds back!
A few years ago I needed some work doing on my house. Where I didn't have the skills or qualifications myslef I employed people. The minimum was £150 per day for a basic builder. I asked a couple of local builders to quote to move a door in an external wall and to install a new one, including a simple lintel and a bit of carpentry. I was quoted £1500 for two blokes, two days, plus materials! That equates to £90K per year!! (and yes I know they have to pay for transport and have to pay tax etc... so do I!)
I am a public sector employee and was at the mercy of these people, so to expect some sympathy now is a bit much.
Jobs are out there, maybe they ar £7 an hour but there are still jobs. So if these guys haven't saved their money in the good times then I'm sorry but they don't get my sympathy when the going gets tough. Surely they just use their savings to live becasue I find it hard to believe they still have a mortgage with what they were charging!
Ok, I will stop monaing now!!

but what you dont understand is they work without a saftey net, maybe you should compare pensions.

mewbie_2

DirectDebacle wrote: »

I was joking too. Sorry if that didn't come across.

That's the problem with forum humour, especially when its so edgy and off the wall (like Life of Brian rehashes). Doesn't always come across. I remember calling DD a patronizing !!!!!!! but of course I meant it in an ironic post modern Gervais style. It didn't work, he has only recently stopped sending the abusive messages - thank God.

I'm joking btw. Oh..and I'm sorry too.