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If you have grafters working in your house do you always offer them a brew
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Always. And always polite and friendly.
I want them to do a GOOD job, and will do all I can to make sure they do (well, almost all )
Also, it’s just manners innit? |
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I do yes but I know that some workmen get offered fuck all as a lot of my friends are house bashers.
Lads cutting trees up the road a few weeks back in the heat and I went out with pints of cordial for them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Yes...it's the done thing, surely.
I bet all the workmen love coming to your house. Miming wolf whistles and silent FWOARS  "
Sounds like a bawdy British 70s sex comedy. Probably starring a young Robin Askwith |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Absolutely. Cold cans of soft drinks or tea/coffee and biscuits for all workmen in or near my house. I want them to do a great job and to come back promptly if I need them to.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's nice to be offered, tbh you sometimes end up doing a little more than priced if people are good enough to make you drinks. I once did a job, working in the kitchen and the couple made themselves a tea/coffee, asked their friends if they wanted one, but never offered me one. Whilst you don't just expect a drink making, I did find it rude.
I have been offered a beer a few times on a job, which I did find strange, but thanked for the offer and declined.
At one house they were teaaholics! After 12 cups one day, I said no thanks to number 13, they were shocked as I had never refused one before, I literally couldn't drink another cup that day. |
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"Yes...it's the done thing, surely.
I bet all the workmen love coming to your house. Miming wolf whistles and silent FWOARS
Sounds like a bawdy British 70s sex comedy. Probably starring a young Robin Askwith "
No fooling you mate ha ha
Confessions of a window cleaner  |
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By *..WillowCouple
over a year ago
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Having been a tradesman for 25 years plus I have found the vast majority of customers would offer tea or coffee while there working. It may depend upon how long the job is going to last. An hour or so a few didn't offer a drink. Most of my work lasted between a week and a couple of months, in which case I took my own coffee and milk so as not to be a sponge. Very often I would have made a drink for the client while making my own  |
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Always, although regulars like the gardeners or the lawn man I never really know when they're coming. If I see them in the summer I offered cold drinks.
One off or new workers I'll always offer a drink when they get here. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oliver Read used to take the builders renovating his mansion to the pub every day.
Then he'd complain six months down the line, that they hadn't done anything to the house. |
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what if they ONLY drink tea of coffee. Then what? 