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Mikey_C
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Location: Bournemouth, Dorset

Post: # 39144Post Mikey_C

everyone is referring to large/heavy/expensive pieces of kit in dodge areas, a former colleague lost was working on there own house in £500K+ per house street and lost a barrow worth circa £35 from the front garden having left it unattended for 10 mins max.

lutonlagerlout
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Location: bedfordshire

Post: # 39225Post lutonlagerlout

I have worked for multi ethnic groups and find it hard to generalise,although the pakistanis in luton are mainly from kashmir which is a relatively poor part of a poor area.
i cant match their mate who will bodge it up for £500,on the whole hindus and sikhs are slightly better payers, but still not great
. but as soon as you pigeon hole people it comes back and surprises you

best payers are working class folk,they understand why we go to work.

retired engineers are the biggest pain
:;):
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Dave_L
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Post: # 39232Post Dave_L

lutonlagerlout wrote:retired engineers are the biggest pain
:;):
LLL
Exactly! We have one locally - we quoted to do his drive but we were too expensive. Thank god we never got the job.

Someone else did his drive and there are more joints in the tar than there are currently smouldering at Glastonbury!

They have all the time in the world to become instant tarmac experts and want everything millimetre perfect.

Talking of millimetres, we sometimes work under a highways guy who is so fussy - we call him "Millimetre Mick".....drives us mad! :angry:
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