Help! Workmen from hell

Takeaway_Addict

GwylimT wrote: »

Aspergers is not a lifestyle choice, it is a neurological condition, I suggest you go and educate yourself.

So the company should pay for the food situation which could and should have been avoided?

Takeaway_Addict

deannatrois wrote: »

Yes, unfortunately, this is not the first time this has happened because of the way the fitters are paid. I've got the number of a private fitter, he gives a quote and does the job properly, word spreads and he's always busy.

Unfortunately your job has now turned into more than carpet fitting.

Which is exactly the same method as the OP's fitters...price per job.

arcon5

Robin9 wrote: »

My Father In Law was an Aspergers sufferer and I can understand some of the challenges the OP faces. He had particular problems with preciseness - time, quantities and weights- and relationships. Logic - like what to do with OP frozen food -goes out of the window.

To him and the OP the things we take in our stride or just get on with present real problems. Living with a sufferer - I suggest Arcon5 doesn't - is particularly challenging as well.

I have a son (19) with aspergers and I find it quite startling the amount of people who think if he tries hard enough he will 'get over it' and be able to do something he previously couldn't. Like getting dumbfounded and stuck over choices, not being able always to see what seem to others obvious ways of solving a problem.

There's a difference between trying to get over something and trying to live with something. Nobodies suggesting op should 'get over it' just that if they can't live with it then it shouldn't be to others detriment where a situation was reasonably avoidable.

hollydays

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

So the company should pay for the food situation which could and should have been avoided?

It could have been avoided by the fitters not leaving stuff stacked up against the freezer

wealdroam

spidermaaaan wrote: »

I do not view what has happened as a minor upset.

Nothing you have described is anything more than a few minor upsets.

OK, maybe you were unable to cope with them - for whatever reason - but that does not make the incidents themselves any more severe.

Blackpool_Saver

I would have been bloody furious with that standard of workmanship. Workmen need supervising :-) They will try to get away with low standards if they think they can. A woman on her own/a person with mental health issues others don't understand etc. etc. I would write a letter, stating what you are deducting from the cost, and enclose a cheque for the balance. They won't take you to court it would not be worth their while.

Mupette

wealdroam wrote: »

Nothing you have described is anything more than a few minor upsets.

OK, maybe you were unable to cope with them - for whatever reason - but that does not make the incidents themselves any more severe.

Well it depends on how well you cope with situations, i suffer anxiety and will avoid at all costs going out on my own apart from work. Its not a case of being told to pull my socks up, i just can't do it.

spidermaaaan

No laminate was ordered which is why I was so shocked to have piles of it in my kitchen. my sons bedroom is still full of rolls of carpets and my doors look like Hannibal Lecter has knawed at them.

spidermaaaan

They have destroyed my doors that is not a minor upset.

Gastines3

The fitters don't sound like they offer a very good service but having been a carpet fitter for 35 years plus,it is amazing how customers can be just as unhelpful.I used to measure and estimate for one large Hypermarket and on the estimate form I used to add any details regarding old carpets/furniture/door easing/ etc. Whether it was 0ne or two fitters required etc. Customers used to say,"We will clear the old carpets and the room will be empty". The surprise was when I turned up to do the fitting and nothing was moved! I've been to houses where customers have been sitting watching the T.V. and said" We didn't know which end you would start so we didn't move anything! I used to reply that one end would have been a help. Over the years you could label the customers who would get things ready and those who wouldn't.The OAP's were usually the best,Army/Church/Council the worst.Iv'e even had to refuse to work in some houses because of the state of them ,from dog and cat crap on the floor to absolutely stinking rooms.Quite an insight working in peoples homes and worth the customer realising that we get paid usually on square meterage and not to clear the place out first.We did make a point of bagging up rubbish and having the job checked before leaving the property.It is worth customers remembering that most Councils will not allow a trade vehicle to tip rubbish FREE and obviously if you removed it from each job you would need a separate vehicle.