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as a pro installer i do not expect a tip, (other than, `the best way to get that cable up is via this route sort of tip !!! NOT!!!) all i want is the invoice paid at the end of the job!!!!!
but copious amounts of tea are always nice!!!
choccy bikies please and please make it with SUGAR and proper full fat milk!!
but then again we have our own tea box in the install vans, pick up fresh milk on the way to the site, so normally we only need a supply to connect the kettle to, if the supply is off we bring the generator with us!!!!
tea is Very important!!!!
but copious amounts of tea are always nice!!!
choccy bikies please and please make it with SUGAR and proper full fat milk!!
but then again we have our own tea box in the install vans, pick up fresh milk on the way to the site, so normally we only need a supply to connect the kettle to, if the supply is off we bring the generator with us!!!!
tea is Very important!!!!
Cool - similar in my sector, IT services.. lots a tea is nice and ideally free! Sometimes we just get dumped in a corner and ignored, and have to pay for tea. Booo.
Cool - similar in my sector, IT services.. lots a tea is nice and ideally free! Sometimes we just get dumped in a corner and ignored, and have to pay for tea. Booo.
Isn't it more a case of you having the right to a smoke free workplace rather than the occupier being forbidden from smoking? i.e. you have the right to refuse to work there, but nobody has the right to make them stop?
AIUI aren't there are similar grey areas/overlaps with places like prisons, psychiatric hospitals, off-shore oil platforms etc, where places of work are also people's homes?
The comment I made was about the odd flipside - where both you and they are smokers, and you have no problem with them smoking, and they none with you, the law prohibits you. (And of course is rigorously enforced...) I know someone whose wife is a social worker, and she is a smoker and faces the same ban when she visits clients who smoke in their homes.
I know customers get very excited about their new kitchens, but would prefer that they did not fill the cupboards until we had done the second fix. Nothing worse than having to empty a cupboard of crap to fit the socket for the waste disposal, washing machine, or these days (nearly always) the 'hot tap'.
When supplying tea, I would prefer you did not remind me every 5 minutes that it is getting cold. And that line that we always hear "Oh you like builders tea" after many years is now wearing thin!
And anyone who has to establish a temporary supply while changing a CU is obviously taking far too long doing a board swap! Even with the testing! Don't make such a meal out of it, just get on with it and don't waste even more time with the temporary supply!
When supplying tea, I would prefer you did not remind me every 5 minutes that it is getting cold. And that line that we always hear "Oh you like builders tea" after many years is now wearing thin!
And anyone who has to establish a temporary supply while changing a CU is obviously taking far too long doing a board swap! Even with the testing! Don't make such a meal out of it, just get on with it and don't waste even more time with the temporary supply!
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The "tip" was a joke, from the use of sweeteners.
I never expect one, and have often refused when offered.
If pressed it goes to the "lad".
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Lectrician - temp supply takes minutes to install and means you can have a cuppa, keep the fridges on or (in one case I had) oxygen supply to customer...! Nice to have some light as well if you're working in the cellar/under stairs
The post about the tea being left at the bottom of the loft ladder reminded me of a story (maybe on here) where someone (not me!) was working up in the loft the night after a curry. Space a bit tight, so bum in the air just over the loft hatch... Let one rip, just as the customer had climbed up the loft ladder to see if he wanted a cuppa...
That'll learn you!
Sb
The post about the tea being left at the bottom of the loft ladder reminded me of a story (maybe on here) where someone (not me!) was working up in the loft the night after a curry. Space a bit tight, so bum in the air just over the loft hatch... Let one rip, just as the customer had climbed up the loft ladder to see if he wanted a cuppa...
That'll learn you!
Sb
I believe that's correct. I also think it's probably still the case that (although very few do it) hotels are allowed to have 'smoking' guest rooms. However, in most/all of those cases, I'm not sure what the situation is as regards other members of staff who necessarily have to enter the room in question (to service/maintain rooms, visit patients etc.) - who presumably have a right not to be asked to work in a smoke-free workplace.
Kind Regards, John.
I never find I have the power off long enough to warrant faffing with getting a supply to the freezer.
While a cuppa nice, I cant see the point in going out of my way to provide a socket for a kettle. Most people take a flask if they want.
Lighting can be an issue, and this is the only time I may consider a temp supply.
I just don't see that a CU change warrants a temp supply these days. In my earlier years, you would bodge in a double socket as a matter of course for your drill, but these days just get on with your work and don't worry about a temp supply!
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Well we're all different!
I often work for customers who are at home (and with small children) so I see it as a 'service' to be able to provide them (and me) with some power during the day.
And of course ona 6 or 7 bedder with 20 plus circuits the T and I and board change can take a little longer!
As for thermos flasks - gave them up a long time ago and always managed to break them! Anyhow, prefer a nice expresso from the customers machine.....
I often work for customers who are at home (and with small children) so I see it as a 'service' to be able to provide them (and me) with some power during the day.
And of course ona 6 or 7 bedder with 20 plus circuits the T and I and board change can take a little longer!
As for thermos flasks - gave them up a long time ago and always managed to break them! Anyhow, prefer a nice expresso from the customers machine.....
Yes it is the most reliable test of success for me, forget T/O or profit, no for me it is how many customers I work for a month who offer a coffee from their top of the range machine. mmm
Do you mind dogs?, no; but I prefer them not to be licking my ears when I am working.
This is why i've never gone house bashing!
Changing a CU isn't house bashing! And certainly not an all day job!
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