worset working day in my life!!!

feva · Post by **feva** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:11 am

had a job booked in for yesterday and today, easy job paper a room and gloss the wood work. customer said that she'll get the room ready for me coming, got there, she tried to strip the wall and got feed up, so she left it to me, i told her straight away that it will take me longer to do, theres one thing i really really hate about decorating is stripping wallpaper, drives me nuts, i wont even do it now, if i get a job that needs wallpaper stripping i get a labourer in to do it, i forgot to take my pain killers on the morning and forgot to take them to work with me so my hips and back were killing me all day i couldnt even eat my dinner! theres was four layers of wallpaper to strip off! i was working away thinking i fecking hate working like this, i was even thinking about changing careers!!!
just wondering what has been your worse't day at work?

Telmay · Post by **Telmay** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:20 am

To be honest mate if I turned up at a job like that on the understanding that it would be all set to go and it wasnt I would just give her the option to re-book when it was or just have it on my toes!

panlid · Post by **panlid** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:18 am

me too feva.

i would just tell her to call me when it is stripped and go home.

panlid · Post by **panlid** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:21 am

to be fair feva, not wishing to diminish your pain but that sounds like a mere hindrance.
it hasnt cost you anything. you havnt broken something. you havnt dropped your cigarete onto a dust sheep and burnt there expensive carpet. ( yes

)

its all relevent.
i tend to find it is an accumilation of things that tends to turn a day into a nightmare. things seem to escalate.

feva · Post by **feva** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:13 pm

i know what your saying lads, it was just one thing after another yesterday but such is life!

Welsh Decorator · Post by **Welsh Decorator** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:11 pm

Yep had simmilar.

Started out as a quiet Sat mornings work, hang two rolls of paper, by the end of the day, a compleatly different story!
Paint ceiling and three walls, collect paint for this, gloss woodwork, then paper the wall.
Worsed of it, the idiots that had sent me to it, knew all about it!

What a day!

panlid · Post by **panlid** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:24 pm

so basicaly a dreadful days work for you lot is having to do more than you thought you were going to do?

FFS i must have had some bad luck

Welsh Decorator · Post by **Welsh Decorator** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:26 pm

Not at all pan, just when you are told one thing, make plans around that, turn up at the job, only to have the goal posts moved while you were not looking.

panlid · Post by **panlid** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:30 pm

as a self employed person it all makes more money for me

Welsh Decorator · Post by **Welsh Decorator** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:31 pm

At that time I was emloyed!

Telmay · Post by **Telmay** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:48 pm

To me a bad day at work is when I b*llox something up that costs me time or money, but yet to have a disastrous day, even when I was younger I had a parachuting accident but even that wasn't disastrous - that was just unlucky.

I worked for two people last year that changed my outlook on what the definition of bad was, lady number one, an older Scottish lady lived in France in her twenties and married a French Dr, when she was told she was pregnant with twins she waited till the next evening to tell him so she could cook a special dinner, he died in a car crash on the way home. Then one of the twins died at childbirth and when the other twin, her son reached 18 he was murdered.
Lady number two is just 42, lost her first child just after his 6th birthday, then the next child was born with what is now know as ADH and learning difficulties and a year later the next child had severe autism and practically lives in a padded room, and then her husband died of a brain tumor at 40.

panlid · Post by **panlid** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:48 pm

glad to hear you took control of your life and became your own boss then

i havnt had a boss since 1992 so i cant remember.

my worst working days all seemed to have happened when i was doing bathrooms

panlid · Post by **panlid** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:50 pm

Telmay wrote:To me a bad day at work is when I b*llox something up that costs me time or money, but yet to have a disastrous day, even when I was younger I had a parachuting accident but even that wasn't disastrous - that was just unlucky.

I worked for two people last year that changed my outlook on what the definition of bad was, lady number one, an older Scottish lady lived in France in her twenties and married a French Dr, when she was told she was pregnant with twins she waited till the next evening to tell him so she could cook a special dinner, he died in a car crash on the way home. Then one of the twins died at childbirth and when the other twin, her son reached 18 he was murdered.
Lady number two is just 42, lost her first child just after his 6th birthday, then the next child was born with what is now know as ADH and learning difficulties and a year later the next child had severe autism and practically lives in a padded room, and then her husband died of a brain tumor at 40.

and indeed, we hear things like this and for 1 or 2 weeks we strive to put shitty days into perspective.
then we return to crying over f*ck all till we hear another bad luck story.

Telmay · Post by **Telmay** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:53 pm

just puts it all into perspective, mind you still enjoy a bloody good moan

panlid · Post by **panlid** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:08 pm

the key to contentment is to remember these things all the time which gives perspective.

but 99% of us soon forget and like you said, start moaning because the waiter served you cold red wine