My mom was in full aggro mode today. And here’s why.
A “workman” and I use the term loosely (also why it’s in quotes) came to the house yesterday to flatten the backyard with a mini bulldozer and remove some brick pavings. This was in preparation for the building to be done soon. He left having felled three panels of fencing facing the opposing neighbour.
As a building contractor, he should have known he can’t dig too close to the fencing. Otherwise, they’d collapse. But fine, accidents happen right? You learn from your mistakes right? N-uh.
He came back again today, and mom specifically said to him, “Do not dig too near the fences.” She even had our two neighbours come by to watch the proceedings. And what did the dick wad do? He broke another two panels from the fencing facing our next-door neighbour. This amidst them all yelling over the noise of the bulldozer, “Stop, stop, STOP!!!”
AND he broke a water pipe. Fucktastic.
Mom was lost for words, a very rare happening. So she apologised to the neighbours and said to the “workman” to patch up the broken panels temporarily until she can get a fence builder to repair the fences. And he said,
Are you going to pay me for that?
To which mom said,
Pay you? You’re lucky I’m not asking you to pay for the damages!!!
And what did the fucktard do? He stormed off home. This ain’t ha-ha funny. This is just sad funny. You would laugh but you are also crying inside.
That wasn’t the worst of it. Mom could have sworn she caught a whiff of alcohol from him when they were arguing. A drunk psychotic man in a bulldozer. Ho ho ho. You can’t top this. Or can you? 
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is it bad if I was laughing as I was reading it?
a good builder is hard to find.Mine damaged my door and proceedeed to pretend-paint all over it to hide the holes.we only noticed it cause it was so glaringly painted white against our cream door
and and they stuff sandpaper down the loo after having done a no. 2…leaving me to happily discover that upon checking the toilets.
wah lau….
dun pay him liaoz.
Some people have no pride in their work. We have workmen at MPOW and they’re so slack it’s not funny. They say they will come at 7am – they turn up at 11am. Then they have an 90 minute lunch break at 12pm – and they knock off at 2am. And what’s worse is they do this in front of the rest of us workers.
I definitely wouldn’t pay him – and I’d hire someone else!
Did he storm off on his bulldozer, running through the precious flower beds and other remaining fences? LOL!
I wasn’t laughing in a sadistic manner btw… That fuckwit’s really unprofessional…
sourrain: ouch. sandpaper down a loo would have blocked up that thing. Idiots.
mf: we had to because he did complete the main job he was hired for, even though there were a lot of peripheral damages.
CW: oh man that is so common that it’s not funny anymore. How can tradespeople are the only ppl that can get away with bad behaviour like that?
ian: unprofessional is the word. He was recommended by a tradesman that my mother trusted. The tradesman was profusely apologetic about it, saying the bulldozer guy wasn’t like this before. Emotional problems or not, being unprofessional is one thing but it could have been dangerous too.
the problem is with the housing boom these @#$%wits aren’t short of cash or the next job at the moment. so he really doesn’t care if he’s left a great big mess in your property, he’s got 10 more guys begging for him to trash their properties next week.
I’m not sure the details of your contract with him but maybe you can withold part of the payment as compensation for the damage to your property.
wtf. hope you lock down that dipshit.
That guy really DOES sound like a fucktard!
Whenever builders/electricians/plumbers etc. come to our house they say ‘I’ll be there between 8am and midday’ or ‘I’ll be there anytime after 3 o’clock’. I hate this! It means you’ve gotta hang around the house waiting for them the whole time, until they come either right at the end of the time frame they’ve given or even AFTER it! Dunno if this happens to anyone else but it always seems to happen at our house.
Never had anything quite that bad happen to me though, your poor Mum…
Rob: there’s no contract – it’s like getting a lawnmower man to mow the lawn kinda thing. He was meant to only flatten the ground and dig up the brick pavings. But you are right about the arrogance of these ppl due to the labour shortage.
the screwy skeptic: would have been too big of a man for my mother to handle. Plus he could have been drunk. Too dangerous.
girlstar7: oh he was late for both days too. I thought there was no point mentioning that since everything else just eclipses that. And you are not alone – tradespeople being late happens to EVERYONE.
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