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White Room

A mate of mine works on ground works and on site the rules are: No drinking tea in your van, Must use the canteen, No smoking, No radio's and most are sackable offences. A guy got the sack for having a tea in his van mind he did throw over a guy who told that him he must use the canteen, Smoking you lose your head then get sacked:huh2:
 
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MrSpoon

ive never even been in the canteen, dont have the free time, only ever eaten my sarnies once and that was while was working. mobile phones i presume arent allowed but i hear them going off all the time and when asking the guy in charge he just said they arent supposed to be used but nobody listens, as for radios, they are fine aslong as others nearby are ok with it, dont even have to wear my hardhat when im in my room tiling, so quite often i go outside without it on then swiftly turn back round to go back inside to put it on again
 
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MrSpoon

on the second day i did infact take my own water and mixed up bagged stuff with a hand paddle thing :joker: and i had my first case of other tradesmen getting in the way today so a very slow day, and to top it off i had to leave early to get to my other job, and... i had to pluge cut using my master tiler, i can honestly say ive never created so much mess in all my life, i got more in my eye than anywhere else :mad2: so a trip to the van with a J cloth to fish out the sharp bits.

word of advice, dont buy eye protection that has a sporty look cos theyre just plain useless, ive gone back to the big ugly ones, but my eyes are safe so thats all that matters :thumbsup:
 
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bigneil

It is a bit difficult to work without power and water, if there is none avaliable and your site agent won't help out with a generator then politly sugest that he/she calls you back when they are a little bit more organised. and if they don't, then, it just means that some other poor sod went and cut round all the sockets with a pair of nippers and used freezing water from the nearest stream. While you are on an other job with power, running water, and a kettle with a tall blonde sweedish nymph to make the tea for you.
 

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