Pet hates

[kingeri]

Just wondering what everyone's pet hates are. You know, those things that really get on your ----. I went to a job last week and there was a massive gap between the backboxes and accessories - I'm talking about a 5cm gap here. I thought the accessory and backbox were supposed to form an enclosure! It really annoys me!

 

[onions1066]

young boys who assume they know it all and answering their constantly ringing cell phones to their untrusting girl feinds
-----rs

you lads who call me blood and bredge. My name is Steve it always has been and always will be ( at least until the operation anyway :gorgeous

 

[Taylortwocities]

Something reminded me today of one of my pet hates.....
Bloomin' carpet gripper strip. Slashes your fingers to ribbons, and the wounds stay nasty for a couple of weeks..

 

[ETradesmen]

The nuts on them ****ing up and down wall lights.

Great design...

 

[ETradesmen]

People that only use 2mm of brown sleeving.

tight ****s.

i could write a 1000 things...

 

[ETradesmen]

T+E clips used on flex GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[ETradesmen]

Tape measure snapping when measuring spots...

(fat max 7.5M)

 

[accordfire]

Phone ringing at 05:30 and the P***k on the other end asking if I have found Jesus yet. I sh*t you not.

I can't print my reply. Anyhoo, I'm awake and committing that particular cult's biggest sin...COFFEE.

 

[tigerpaul]

Tray screwed to the wall back to front.
People that say "in terms of" all the bloody time!
Stuck up people.
Middle lane hoggers.
Teenage shop assistants that don't give a f!
Lying bosses!
Lying agencies!
Payment companies that charge blokes a fee to get their own money!
Young lads at work that are full of it and don't listen,
Do gooders/jobsworths
Ed miliband
Reality tv
Pikeys
Nob heads that turn up on the job with hardly any tools then want to borrow everyone else's
That'll do for now

 

[Taylortwocities]

Don't get me started on light fittings. Not just wall lights:
screws on those ceiling lights that aren't long enough to line up with the fixing bracket
Floodlight brackets that mean you have to fit a half inch screw, a nut and two washers while 15ft up a ladder.

I think that the MD of lighting companies should, BY LAW, be made to install every one of their products before they are sold on the market.!!

 

[indy]

Other sparks who think they can take tools out of my tool bag with out asking.

 

[telectrix]

plumbers, kitchen fitters, & builders that know more about electrics than the IET.

 

[glasgospark]

geeks on electrical forums

 

[Pat Tester]

People whose idea of clearing up ready for me is to push the cat litter tray under the bed so I can stick my hand in warm crap.

 

[glasgospark]

pat testers yuuuughk

 

[accordfire]

pat testers yuuuughk

PAT testING --- YUK!

 

[stueelad]

Customers who think you can just magic cables anywhere they want

 

[pete555]

apprentices who won,t make the tea properly and think the world owes them a living

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

Forklift drivers, one of them ran over and mullered one of my SWAs today, and didnt own up or apologise :furious3:

 

[Guest112]

old school sparks who think apprentices should make tea...

 

[onions1066]

old school sparks who think apprentices should make tea...

Apprentices who think they shouldn't make tea

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

everyone should have tea

 

[Guest112]

Apprentices who think they shouldn't make tea

but i never drank tea during my apprenticeship nor do I now... think of what the apprentice might do to your tea, my mate used to rub his bellend around the rim of the cups everytime he was told to make the tea...

and if your wondering, the person on the site who made the tea had to get to the cabin before everyone to start making it giving him plenty of time...

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

but i never drank tea during my apprenticeship nor do I now... think of what the apprentice might do to your tea, my mate used to rub his bellend around the rim of the cups everytime he was told to make the tea...

and if your wondering, the person on the site who made the tea had to get to the cabin before everyone to start making it giving him plenty of time...

dude, that is GRIM!

 

[dim_bulb]

I'll have coffee thanks.
btw customers should make tea.

 

[dan86]

can't stand coffee. even the smell. couldn't even drink the stuff to be polite if anyone made me one.
I'm a tea man, always have been and always will be

 

[dim_bulb]

I can always tell when I doing work at a nice house because I get lovely filtered coffee and not some morrisons sludge

 

[onions1066]

Bell end round the rim! How continental, forget the latte ill have bell end flavoured one please, two sugars no milk just cream!

Now that's pretty grim

 

[sparkdog]

Working in the same space as any of the other trades.Just on one job alone plumber cuts the main 16mm earth in two places under the floorboards,painter ruins sockets with solvent and paint,chippy pulls 13A sockets off and bodges reconnecting them,floor gets screwed down before I'm finished,someone just had to install a light fitting on my new cable and bodged it."Where's me ladder gone?Who blocked my access with plaster board,Who installed the insulation before I was finished??"Aaaaarrrrggghhh!!!

 

[firespark]

No metal cable ties, or fixings rated to the same fire rating as the cable its supporting on fire alarm installations...

 

[frank3323]

house bashers calling themselves electricians bring it on!