So is getting ghosted the new norm?

[Ron H]

Oh man, I did 3 hours of lathe work today and I'm beat after getting another rear end ready to weld up!! And I'm only 70 fixin to be 71!

Lol, as much stuff as I usually do requiring some physical effort, I was sore working on the truck and ground level work is a bigger not wanna do anymore. Well, enjoy your 71st, 81, 91, and 101...if ya want more lemme know.

 

[ruffcut]

I can tell you as a contractor myself, that my profession has a bad habit of not returning calls and not showing up for appointments! With that being said, I was well aware of that many years ago and will return calls. If I don't want the job or can't do the job, I'll tell you! Most don't realize the position they put that customer in.

 

[Secondyellow76]

...we are hiring anything with a pulse. I don't get to choose, I just have to clean up after them. Let's go Brandon.

Edit to add, most of these new idiots make more than me, I still have to clean up after them...

Damnit.

 

[ZR9B]

I run an injection molding shop...getting people to show up is near impossible.

They say they need a job and really want to work...ya rite. We even put a crazy price out there and...nope .
I'm now also the maintenance man on top of everything else.

 

[#41]

Yes, it's the new normal. I've had some HVAC work, a fence, and gutters recently and went through the same. The people who did eventually do some work all told me the same story: Lots of work to do and nobody to hire, so people are picking and choosing what work to do... sometimes dropping jobs for the easiest or most lucrative ones.

 

[eldubb440]

help wanted signs everywhere, like every single store..... and yet I saw a young woman begging with a "please help me pay my rent sign" in a walmart / shop rite shopping center parking lot

I figure 20-30 bucks and she's on her way to cop drugs.......

 

[Gus chiggins]

I get this. I can't get good employees either. But when they say they will be over to do an estimate then never show up really pizzes me off. I just wasted an afternoon waiting on someone.

i had a guy do that, and then showed up two days later(no phone call) he looked shocked when i said i already hired somebody.

 

[BeepBeepRR]

Well there's the cue to make it political !! Let's keep in mind if the orange man had acted on the Covid threat instead of downplaying it, this would probably be all over by now and a good number of your folks would still be alive.

Oh, and ...

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Fixed the picture for you... This statement would make you even more tough.. LOL

 

[BeepBeepRR]

help wanted signs everywhere, like every single store..... and yet I saw a young woman begging with a "please help me pay my rent sign" in a walmart / shop rite shopping center parking lot

I figure 20-30 bucks and she's on her way to cop drugs.......

I see a person begging for money... Too bad. I worked for what I have. Its not a massive layout like some people have but its mine. But If I can do it so can they.

 

[eldubb440]

I see a person begging for money... Too bad. I worked for what I have. Its not a massive layout like some people have but its mine. But If I can do it so can they.

if jobs were scarce, I could maybe understand the panhandling..... but jobs are everywhere.......

handjobs for crack lmao

 

[Gus chiggins]

Well there's the cue to make it political !! Let's keep in mind if the orange man had acted on the Covid threat instead of downplaying it, this would probably be all over by now and a good number of your folks would still be alive.

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Well fjb said trump should not be president allowing that many deaths. Joey two scoops already surpassed Trump's covid death numbers, and i don't see him stepping down. Trump puts a travel ban on china, and then is called a racist, and xenophobe. FJb. Btw FJB says nothing can be done about wuhan-19 at the federal level.

 

[BeepBeepRR]

if jobs were scarce, I could maybe understand the panhandling..... but jobs are everywhere.......

handjobs for crack lmao

Totally agree. I dont mind helping some one out when its clear they need the help. But I also have been swindled by a chick with a kid. I was working at a Quick Trip gas station re wiring the drink fountains. I was about to go home and decided to fill my truck up. This chick comes up to me with her kid in tow. Excuse me do you have a dollar or 2 so I can get gas to go to my mothers house. Me thinking Well, **** im already pumping gas on the company card I tell her to pull in behind me and I would get her some gas. She does and I put 10 dollars worth of gas in her car. I finish getting my tools and whatnot into the truck and go back out into the parking lot. Guess who is still out there trying to get 2 dollars for gas from every person pumping gas.... Yup that same chick. So never again.

 

[eldubb440]

never understood why some of the Canadian guys were/are so Trump butthurt ....... they have their own tootie fruity to worry about

 

[sam dupont]

The corner beggars make $15 per hour and don't have somebody ordering them around. Worked like a real job, that's $30K per year.

 

[Hemi2Much]

I've been having the same issue. for 6 months I've been calling tree trimming companies to try to get 3 trees cut down and one tree trimmed back that is hanging over the house. All 3 trees are completely hollow on the inside and are very big trees.
The last thunderstorm that came through had some big winds and sure as **** one of the trees came down on the house and another one split in half just barely missing the house and leaving half of the tree standing. and in danger of hitting the propane tank. I bet I have called 12 different tree service companies and most won't even call me back and the few that have, have stood me up and said they would either call me back or set up a time to come out and never show up. I finally got a company to come out and give me an estimate to cut one hollow tree down and trim the big tree and cut down another one that is too close to the house. $4800 and no debris removal just pile everything up in the field. Then another $300 per stump to grind the stumps. Crazy prices. The two worst trees have already fallen and been cleaned up.
Same ordeal on my engine. I dropped it off in May and was told it would be ready by November. Almost January and still don't have it back.
I do not understand what is going on with people not wanting to work.
Willing to spend good $$$$$$ to get things done and get crap service if any service at all.

 

[moparedtn]

Most don't realize the position they put that customer in.

Oh, they realize it....they just don't care.

 

[f569]

Joey two scoops

 

[gkent]

Fixed the picture

LOL ... you realize that picture is on YOUR post, right !!

 

[BeepBeepRR]

Yea... But I quoted your post.. LOL.. I saw that posted elsewhere and figured it would be worth a laugh. But you would have to be tough to hold your dads fleshlight indeed. I do remember back in the day holding the FLASH light for my dad and no matter how hard I tried I could not stay on what he wanted me to point it at.

You or someone deleted your post but my quoting you kept it in the archive

 

[Donakey]

Tradesman want more money, people have said for decades the tradesman are no better than labourers. Put your kids in University, college and computers. DONT PUT THEM IN TRADES SCHOOL. NOW THERE ARE NONE. We have a society of Dog Fuckers and They dance with the stars!

In Canada we promote welfare, why work the Goverment will take care of you. Eastern Canada is that way. They promote that **** to keep the people voting Liberal and take Equalization payments from Provinces ALBERTA MAINLY.