Grown man just cried

Pablo · Post: # 37556Post **Pablo** Sat May 09, 2009 4:38 pm

Had my guys doing some planting off a plan the last few days had all the plants on site labelled and sized off. Sent one of the guys to the yard for some fabric and left them to it. When i went in this morning to pick up some gear I noticed the fabric was still there and 900 quids worth of geotextile was gone. You can guess the rest monday morning the sparks will fly. They're all experienced guys I can't believe none of them noticed.

Post: # 37560Post **Tony McC** Sat May 09, 2009 5:03 pm

Never mind: think of all the unpaid overtime they'll have to do to pay you back!

henpecked · Post: # 37561Post **henpecked** Sat May 09, 2009 5:10 pm

Bar springs to mind

It does happen mate.

HP

Sun May 10, 2009 3:01 am

mistakes alway happen from time to time,the mark of a good boss is how he deals with them
LLL

Post: # 37592Post **Dave_L** Sun May 10, 2009 7:40 am

Jesus! I'd have been hopping mad!!!!

Not good, hope you can get around it somehow...........

Pablo · Post: # 37622Post **Pablo** Sun May 10, 2009 6:32 pm

Dave no chance of salvaging it all the plants have been put through it so it's shredded. They haven't used it all but will need to buy some more for the job it was meant for next week. I'm preety sure they knew that they were using the wrong stuff but being a friday they couldn't be arsed with the 20mile round trip. They probably didn't appreciate how expensive it is and thought it was similar to the membrane you know how slack people can be when it's not them paying the bills.

Post: # 37627Post **seanandruby** Sun May 10, 2009 9:08 pm

O well at least the job got done. man who never made a mistake, never made anything :;):

Rich H · Post: # 37631Post **Rich H** Sun May 10, 2009 10:51 pm

Well that's right but there's mistakes and there's laziness. We have two tp's local to us, one had the 3.6m deck boards we needed, the closer one had only 4.2's. They bought 50 odd of the 4.2's and trimmed 2' off each one after fitting. Sort of thing that drives me in like a tent peg.

Injured · Post: # 37632Post **Injured** Sun May 10, 2009 11:16 pm

thats what happens when its not their money. Something that has always annoyed me.

Rich H · Post: # 37661Post **Rich H** Mon May 11, 2009 5:29 pm

Stop now or we'll get onto lads breaking tools all the sodding time

henpecked · Post: # 37663Post **henpecked** Mon May 11, 2009 6:16 pm

Come on then , Pablo what happen today?...give us the full run down, blood, snot and all :;):

HP

Pablo · Post: # 37720Post **Pablo** Tue May 12, 2009 6:35 pm

I was right when I said they didn't know how expensive it was and were very apologetic but there was no point giving them a hairdrying. All I could do was tell them I was disapointed with their lack of thought and I needed them to be super efficient with materials and their own effort for a while so I can recoup some extra profit. Couldn't ask them to work overtime or pay me back because they wouldn't and I could have prevented it by giving clearer instructions to the guy who picked it up. Just got to suck it up and get on with it.