daytripping Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Moving hoose.....simple enough? shouldn't be a problem I thought. Dreams.... the bed people turn up with one bed base instead of two complete beds, the missing stuff is god knows where, they don't even know! BT.....Gave them plenty of notice, they now tell me the phone, broadband etc will be delayed till the 15th. Scottish Power......give them my final readings for the old place, my reading is hugely less than the last actual meter reading according to them! Have a Polish dude coming round later tonight to quote me for laminate laying, decorating etc, I bet he turns up on the dot. Our Country has lost the way somewhat imo. Link to comment
Dynamo Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Aye, they're good workers. Rather a Pole than a mink fae Torry/Tilly any day. Link to comment
vanderark14 Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Moving hoose.....simple enough? shouldn't be a problem I thought. Dreams.... the bed people turn up with one bed base instead of two complete beds, the missing stuff is god knows where, they don't even know! BT.....Gave them plenty of notice, they now tell me the phone, broadband etc will be delayed till the 15th. Scottish Power......give them my final readings for the old place, my reading is hugely less than the last actual meter reading according to them! Have a Polish dude coming round later tonight to quote me for laminate laying, decorating etc, I bet he turns up on the dot. Our Country has lost the way somewhat imo. went through similar when moving house. BT said it would be all up and running within a week of moving hoose. Took 3 weeks for the phone to come on and 8 weeks for Broadband. Link to comment
minijc Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Aye, they're good workers. Rather a Pole than a mink fae Torry/Tilly any day.Most of them are pretty much Torry loons now. Link to comment
tup Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Aye, they're good workers. Rather a Pole than a mink fae Torry/Tilly any day. The Poles fit both those criteria in any case. Link to comment
tup Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 I found moving hoose to be easy. I've still not unpacked most of the boxes several years later. Link to comment
daytripping Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 I found moving hoose to be easy. I've still not unpacked most of the boxes several years later. Luckily the house came with a nice big garage, I've just piled that high and left the other half to unpack. Said I couldn't get holidays. Link to comment
BrianFaePerth Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 We moved hoose about a year ago. The van showed up wi two local Norwegians and a Polish boy. The Norwegians took breaks every 2 hours, plus sitting in their van for an hour tae eat lunch, all the while the Polish boy was unpacking things, putting Ikea type furniture together etc etc. Ye could see the Norwegians didnae like him showing them up We've since had a Polish boy dae up two bogs and a laundry room. On time, on cost. We've also had Lithuanians build a deck, even showing up at 7am on a Sunday morning coz we asked them. Western European workers are lazy f**ks. Link to comment
tainboy Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Norwegians are THE laziest f**kers I've ever had the displeasure of working with. Everything is a problem with the nyaffs. max allowed to work 10 hours a day, max 60 hours a week without having 35 hours off straight. Doing a rig upgrade is an utter ballache in Nog. we brought in a stack of romanians - they are top dollar. Link to comment
BrianFaePerth Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Norwegians are THE laziest f**kers I've ever had the displeasure of working with. Everything is a problem with the nyaffs. max allowed to work 10 hours a day, max 60 hours a week without having 35 hours off straight. Doing a rig upgrade is an utter ballache in Nog. we brought in a stack of romanians - they are top dollar. Aye, unfortunately it is a result of living in a country that is rich as f**k, and where it is almost impossible to lose yer joab. There are no consequences for lazyness here. But, it can also be a cultural thing. Norwegians dinnae respect authority at all. There is no such thing as a boss saying "do this, do that", abody gets on wi things, albeit slowly, and a boss being direct and giving out orders is completely counterproductive. Link to comment
tainboy Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 yeah I got a bollocking the other week for telling three of them to get the f**k off my job. Apparently there's some pash routine about discussing their failings and coaching them to improve. f**k that, they are paid a fortune to do a f**king job. Not to be coached how to do the job. If you can't do it, get your sorry ass off my project. this working time authorities are a bunch of erse too. Apply to get permission to work more than 37.5 hours a week, with names of anyone who will be working here, and then have the authorities visit you and interview your staff, what a waste of f**king time - the boys want to graft and earn cash, not sit in a chuffing hotel for 35 hours once a week. As the heid romanian boy said to me yesterday, "I thought we were working in Norway - this place is No Way." Communist country this! Link to comment
BrianFaePerth Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 yeah I got a bollocking the other week for telling three of them to get the f**k off my job. Apparently there's some pash routine about discussing their failings and coaching them to improve. f**k that, they are paid a fortune to do a f**king job. Not to be coached how to do the job. If you can't do it, get your sorry ass off my project. Completely agree wi ye, but can also see why ye've had run-ins wi them The thing that gets meh goat the maist is the amount of fowk on the sick here, especially in the public sector. Mrs Byen used tae work at the main hospital here and 35-40% of the staff were on some sort of sicknote at any one time. Link to comment
brownie Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Have a Polish dude coming round later tonight to quote me for laminate laying, decorating etc, I bet he turns up on the dot. Aberdeen area ? Did he come recommended ? Im looking for someone to lay a wooden floor. Link to comment
tup Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Western European workers are lazy f**ks. And there speaks the voice of authority. Who can deny this obvious pearl of wisdom? Coming as it does from a man who sits on the internet all day, every day, doing the square root of f**k all. He kens what he's talking about. Link to comment
BrianFaePerth Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 And there speaks the voice of authority. Who can deny this obvious pearl of wisdom? Coming as it does from a man who sits on the internet all day, every day, doing the square root of f**k all. He kens what he's talking about. Says the man wi over 10 times as many posts on this site than me Link to comment
tup Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Says the man wi over 10 times as many posts on this site than me I'm not the one bandying about throwaway generalisations about westerners though am I? And this proves my point. I work 10 times as hard as you. Link to comment
BrianFaePerth Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I'm not the one bandying about throwaway generalisations about westerners though am I? True, you restrict yer generalisations tae the English. Link to comment
tup Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 True, you restrict yer generalisations tae the English. Hardly. Read the Scottish shitholes thread and you will see my generalisation tentacles spread far and wide. BTW all Norwegians are close-eyed, helmet headed creeps who would think nothing of eating their own children if the mood took them, sinister, dull, tight fisted bunch of c**ts that they are. Link to comment
BrianFaePerth Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Hardly. Read the Scottish shitholes thread and you will see my generalisation tentacles spread far and wide. BTW all Norwegians are close-eyed, helmet headed creeps who would think nothing of eating their own children if the mood took them, sinister, dull, tight fisted bunch of c**ts that they are. Yer jist jealous my sweeping generalisation was much more sweeping than the kind you usually come up wi. Link to comment
tainboy Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 get a room - daytripping has a spare one with a nice new laminate floor Link to comment
tup Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 get a room - daytripping has a spare one with a nice new laminate floor The pertinent question is, who put down the laminate? A Pole? A Lithuanian? Some cowboy, a lazy local c**t fae Torry? Gaytripping? :tup: Link to comment
tainboy Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Some cowboy, a lazy local c**t fae Torry? yeah, it was Marion Morrison. plus I do like the way the gay emoticon is not colon tup colon Link to comment
BrianFaePerth Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 plus I do like the way the gay emoticon is not colon tup colon No the first time tup has been associated wi colons Link to comment
tup Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 yeah, it was Marion Morrison. plus I do like the way the gay emoticon is not colon tup colon I take it you mean 'now'? :tup: Link to comment
tainboy Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I do. I also apologise profusely for my spelling error. How I will get through the rest of this mild and overcast day in Norway with this regret hanging over me I do not yet know. Link to comment
tup Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I do. I also apologise profusely for my spelling error. How I will get through the rest of this mild and overcast day in Norway with this regret hanging over me I do not yet know. Norway! That explains why you're such a dull b*stard. It's not you, it's the country making you like that, a bit like Billy's Boots, you're probably brand new! I had you all wrong Seb min. Link to comment
daytripping Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 The Polish dude did turn up on time, that's where the good news ends! To skim two small bedrooms, paint them and lay Laminate flooring the cheeky fecker quoted Link to comment
oldyoungloon Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Aye, they're good workers. Rather a Pole than a mink fae Torry/Tilly any day. Aye the Uk stole a lot of good polish workers, Living in Poland it's nigh on impossible to find a decent workman, lazy, half arsed b*stards are all thats left in this country, Link to comment
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