A pet peeve possibly.
The plethora of sales people that call to your door - usually in the utility area.
Itâs my house. If I want to change Iâll research it myself. Fuck off.
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Is it not a bit early. The fuckers usually leave it until around 6.
Youâd also think theyâd have some kind of a list of current customers. The amount of times Iâve had lads from Eir knock on my door only to be told each time that weâve been with them for 6 years now
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Fucking numptas
If itâs any consolation, they dont want to be there either. Cunt of a job
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Phone watch have called to me 5 times since Christmas. Cunts
They never have the customer data with em and havenât a scooby what houses are customers⌠I always say â i switched to ye last week â âŚâ Have a good eveningâ
Tbf, I had one instance of this a few years back where it was dead handy - had gone over the contract on leccy and had it on âthe listâ to switch. I pulled up to the house one evening and there was an SSE fella walking out the driveway to the next house on the road. I nearly ran him over in my eagerness to have a chat. Five minute convo and, as @iron_mike would put it, the job was oxo.
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My pal went up to his house yesterday to meet the builder. The house is now coming along and the tiler had put down 120m out of the 150m of floor tiles going down in the ground floor hall, jacks, back kitchen, pantry etc.
And of course, the wrong tiles had been sent accidentally, and nobody checked, and they are absolutely horrible.
My pal could live with most things, but not these. His first thought when he saw them was âsheâs going to go absolutely mentalâ
He rang the tiler
âAre you in a good humour?â
âI am, why?â
âThey sent the wrong tilesâ
âWhat do you mean the wrong tiles?â
âThe floor tiles, theyâre the wrong onesâ
âThe floor tiles?â
âYes the floor tiles are the wrong onesâ
âYou are fucking joking meâ
At which point the tiler hung up the phone on him, and wouldnât answer the phone again.
My pal had to placate his wife, talk to the builder who was, as ever, lovely and told him it was only a small thing in the general scheme of things (which it isnât really), whilst desperately scrolling through emails with the sinking feeling it was his fault.
He emailed the tile company today what had happened, but in fairness to them they were on the phone first thing this morning saying it was their error, they were really sorry, and would do whatever it takes to put it right. He said he should have checked them but he wasnât about. They said no, it was their fault.
Bollix.
Couldnât actually recommend the tile company enough but fcuk it.
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Thatâs good service in fairness âŚhow big a job is it to take them up? Worse than putting them down I bet
This is a dream come true situation for the tiler, 180 yards of the same floor tile and heâs being paid twice
He didnât answer the phone because heâs gone celebrating
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Piece of piss to take them up especially in a new build situation, a young fella will get that gig
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Big job id imagine.
The tiler actually just rang him there thirty seconds ago to apologise.
My pal will probably pay the extra work because it was partly his fault for not checking
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I donât think he was celebrating. He threw the phone on the counter and took the dog out for a walk. His wife apparently pointed out that my pal.and his wife are decent people and it wasnât their fault.
My pal thinks heâs under pressure to start his next job.
Jeez they are not great now
Yes, they are truly awful.
The tiler does not have much interest or taste.
Your pal is right thry are awful. Imagine going through all the pain of hours of shopping with his wife, her humming and hawing to pick some, then for thise to be the choice
They look like what youâd see in a hospital morgue or mental institution. They are awful. He could live with most things but they are bad. The ones that should have been sent are much plainer, a polished concrete look.
He actually showed the tiler the ones they were ordering to make sure the tiler thought theyâd look ok, so the tiler had seen what should have gone down.
Anyway
Fcuk it.
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What kind of a bollix doesnât check the tiles before you let the tiler put them down.
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