Lazy buggers at builders merchants

[bodgeitandscarper]

Is it just me or are some blokes at builders merchants lazy ba5tard5. If there was a list of lazy ba5tard5 a guy from buildbase of longridge would be on it. They must think we have all bl00dy day. Is also pi55e5 me off when you see the guy you want when you arrive and by the time youve opened the door the twats gone!!!! Like magic.......

I told buildbase, longridge to put an air raid siren on the weigh bridge so that everyone knows your bloody waiting for a f!$*?@@ing reading.

RANT OVER!!!!

[Ted]

If you don't spend enough in a particular place the service is usually dire...

That's what happens when the guys in the yard are paid minimum wage.

[DeckmanAdam]

IME 75% Or more couldnt give a monkeys

[lutonlagerlout]

independent supplies are usually better when it comes to this
butterfields and pine wood in my neck of the woods are much more on the ball than jewsons or grahams or travis perkins. gibbs and dandys are 50/50
isnt it stupid that you have to load yourself, but then they have a half wit on the gate checking what you have nicked?
surely they would be better employed loading you in the first place???
its not rocket science is it?
LLL
:;):

[bodgeitandscarper]

in some places i think you could drive out with a pickup full of gear and no one would notice.

[Ted]

In some places you can just help yourself! Not that I advocate that approach!

But if you go to a place regularly, you should insist on swift service or take your orders elsewhere. Even if the guys are on minimum wage they should still do their job. The Buildbase I spend the most in serves me well.

[bodgeitandscarper]

i made a suggestion of putting a remote door bell at weigh bridge to notify them of your arrival. but nothing has been done and you still have to get out to find the bloke that just watched you drive onto the bloody thing.

[matt h]

sounds about nright. Mind you covers in my area do give me good service, only because i kick up hell every time they f up with their deliveries... which is 9 times out of ten. they usually deliver to my home address instead of site... the missus gets well peeved.

[flowjoe]

Strange how attitudes change, working in the yard used to be the best way of finding work when you were out of pocket.

Show some interest and pester every bugger passing through daft to find out who was doing what and where. Must be a Kushy number now and well paid ???

[Dave_L]

This is why we have fappin' huge air horns on each of our lorries!

Our local buildbase (our main supplier, locally) and Keyline are pretty good. Keyline, huge yard, if no-one about, I load myself and go into the store and tell them what I've had, informing there were no willing and/or able yard persons about to assist. But I'm always honest. I can't sit around waiting for a yardie while we've got perhaps 4 blokes waiting with a footpath open, waiting for kerbs and concrete. They need a day out with us at the sharp end, then they'd see how it is.

[seanandruby]

ive loaded up in B Ms and depending on if im in a hurry,or, not i will drive out.... im always in a hurry. its called the 5 finger discount :;):

[Tony McC]

I've been away doing me training job for the past two weeks, but I've a message to contact a certain person relatively high up in the food chain at Buildbase on my return - I wonder if it's owt to do with this thread???

[Dave_L]

ive loaded up in B Ms and depending on if im in a hurry,or, not i will drive out.... im always in a hurry. its called the 5 finger discount :;):

Classic one Sean!!!!

[seanandruby]

It works both ways...a mate and i were doing roof repairs one time and went to a BM who stocked slates. The bloke loading us kept winking and nodding at the slates, as if to say .." Ive put extra on". so when he finished loading i slipped him a fiver ( a lot in those days). when we got back to the job and unloaded, there was 50 light, so had to buy more to finish the job. DOH!! :p