Do you ever know when to say NO!!

[White Room]

I do now, have over booked and then found problems that need time to sort out so then delayed again........

Start shuffling customers about, not anymore.

 

[bearwithme]

i keep saying yes, then working all the hours god sends and stressing. get it all done and promise myself i wont do it again, before you know it i do it again!! just hate to say no!!! finally reaching the stage where i'm thinking enough is enough tho!

 

[Perry]

Dave what else are you going to do at the weekend

 

[DHTiling]

Stay sober now pete..

 

[doug boardley]

Stay sober now pete..

:yikes::yikes::yikes:

 

[hillhead]

I'm on site work this week(and possibly for plenty more) and have a customer looking a bathroom tiled this week,i might just squeeze it in thursday and friday and go back to site next monday !! I find it hard to say no too although one i priced last week will be a NO when and if the call comes... yuk job.

 

[Daz]

I keep saying "yes". Wish I could say "no", but somehow it comes out as "yes" :mad2:.

Finished at 2pm today, but next weekend may end up being longer, again :yikes:.
Luckily the 120sqm quote that I was going to do today was cancelled, as he is going to use the builders tiler, so that's a bonus .

 

[Perry]

I keep saying "yes". Wish I could say "no", but somehow it comes out as "yes" :mad2:.

Finished at 2pm today, but next weekend may end up being longer, again :yikes:.
Luckily the 120sqm quote that I was going to do today was cancelled, as he is going to use the builders tiler, so that's a bonus .

Daz does that meen you havent done that bathroom for er indoors yet ?

 

[Daz]

Correct Pete,

I took a look at the wetfloor former again this afternoon and then decided that I'd mow the lawn instead. Everything is still stacked in the garage :mad2:.

I might get it done over the Xmas break but I don't want to get her hopes up just in case I say "yes" to another large job :yikes:.

 

[CJ]

Trouble is in trying to squeeze "that job in" to please someone may or may not come back and bite ya if you get to exhausted and possibly start making mistakes.

I hate rushing jobs just because you need to start on another............but we have all been there and done that. Not getting any younger and the odd weekend work will not kill us.......every weekend could do some harm.

Only yesterday did I have to turn a job down because they couldn't/wouldn't wait until I am fit again.

Trouble is you can't help but think "I hope the guy makes an ar55e of it"

 

[strummerman]

i never so no just try and fit it in i always manage to

 

[CJ]

Wife says no far far too often

 

[SandyFloor]

I keep squeezing them in, working all hours and making money until it all catches up with me...... It's just the way I am. But recently it's really caught up with me and I'm feeling really down and really tired but I've just booked a weeks holiday for three weeks from now and am looking forward to recharging the batteries. I have jobs booked in for when I come back and I'll just carry on again hell for leather again. Like I said it's just the way I am. I've always liked a bit of stress to keep me going but recently I've not been enjoying things as I usually do.

What I will say is when things catch up with you the way they have with me, you find yourself getting slow and jobs taking a lot longer than they should and then you're not making good money any more.

 

[kilty55]

good point sandy,look after yourself mate

 

[Ken Bruty]

I also find myself saying no coming out yes, and, as a result, all my normally free weekends are now fully booked, I promise myself every year I'm not going to do this at this time of year :dizzy2:, but I really enjoy my work so it's not too bad really