Building Sites

[Lab 10,979]

You know the minute you go into a new site if the site agent is going to be a prick or not if the first question is "where's yer hi-viz??"

Was working in a place Friday/Monday, a food packing place and you couldn't do nothing out of turn there. No parking beside the job, designated smoking areas, no camera phones, no eating on site.....ffs!!!

[alfie71 24]

I been on sites bricklaying for 15years and the site agents are getting worse ,had one say to us the other day im not here to make friends im here to do a job lol

[Wildling 520]

Most site agents I've come across are Chippys by trade and know f**k all about anything, although the worst to deal with are Project Managers the come from a purely degree based background and think everything should run like a bloody production line................

 

c**ts !

[deanflute 550]

Im a painter, been on sites where gloves are mandatory. I got caught caulking up without my gloves on and then the lecture began! He told me I could wear fingerless gloves, I asked him what the main purpose of wearing gloves was, he said they reduced cut and grazes by upto 60%. So I said, so its ok to cut all my fingers to bits as long as the backs of my hands and my palms are protected! load of bollocks, on the same site we werent allowed to use hop ups, only podiums and room mate scaffolds.

[Wildling 520]

And yet prices are still going in cheaper and cheaper !

[Its_grim_up_norf 577]

had a gaffer leave before, site was running cracking. new gaffer turns up, throws about five lads off site for 'violations' gives us a 'big i am' speech before he shuts the site down for wooden ladders up the scaffolding until metal ones turn up, because 'we wouldnt allow them on barrat sites' So from then on he kept banging on about barrat and how they ran their site and comparing what went on, on our site to what they did. Nightmare.

As a plumbing and heating engineer we get the same if lads come from british gas 'British gas did it this way so thats how i want it doing' as if they're the be all and end all of the trade.

[albert64 1,882]

I was on a job in brighton fitting the aircon in a new store, so it comes to the brazing so goes for the hot works permit

only to be told I had to prepare the braze then get them to check it, do the braze then wait an hour before the hole process starts again

I had 16 brazes to do, so this jobs worth says how many have you got to do the reply was 2

so brazed the lot waited an hour had to go and tell them, they sent this bloke who says right mate I'm here to check the brazing

I said crack on then, he's stood there looking gormless, what am I looking for he says

f*cking priceless

[Qbgrey 4,091]

And yet prices are still going in cheaper and cheaper !

thats its mate,all the prices are shit,site work not worth the agro