embarrassing moments at work.

[DHTiling]

Would you die if this happened to you...


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I was doing a bathroom once and i was asked by the customer if i wanted a coffee.. yes please i said...

In the mean time i went out to the van to get something.. bent over into the back of the van and felt the urge to fart...so i did.. and then i heard dave!! here's you coffee..customer stood right behind me..:lol:

Have you done anything to embarrass yourself

 

[Aston]

love it dave!!!!! i'd of loved to have seen how you made light of that mate
:lol::lol:

 

[doug boardley]

err doing a complete new buid, no site toilet, and in need of toilet desperately!! Boss disappeared, doon with the trolleys and released the bats into a bucket... down the ladder towards the front door to jettison aforesaid mentioned down a manhole, when in pops next door neighbour with a "you deserve a brew" routine:yikes:, "hmmm thanks" I say, "but, boss has left this here, and I really want to get rid of it!", Never got offered another brew

 

[White Room]

Had a bit of a dicky tummy, went to use the toilet next to a utility room in a house I was working.

Checked the toilet had an expelair, turned it on and done what was neccessary, came out and realised the expelair was blowing out into the utility room.

About ten minutes later could hear the sound of a air freshener being blasted every where and the owner coughing to hide the sound of the air freshener sound.

Just wanted to climb under a tile and die

 

[Daz]

Following the offensive odours theme, I better get in quick before Wivers dominates this thread.

I'd been working away in customers bathroom for majority of the day and mid afternoon felt the need to drop my guts. I figured that as the customer had not been up to offer a cuppa all day I would be fine. Two minutes later customer appears at the doorway offering a cuppa :mad2:.

"I think I need to re-cover the soil pipe, there's a nasty smell been coming out all day", I says. Didn't get offered a cuppa for the rest of the job - doh!

 

[CDS]

Did a job where parking was a nightmare - Couldn't park on the road so had to drive down a long, very narrow and winding driveway between the houses to the back of the property - no where to turnaround so had to reverse the van out again... this took me nearly 10 mins on the first night brushing bushes and constantly stopping to straighten up.

Next day I took the car in thinking it would be much easier to get out again. All was well until I 'lined up' for my rapid exit and mounted a 3 brick high wall (that I'm sure wasnt there before) ripping the bumper skirt to shreds. Had to jack the car up and remove a row of bricks to get the car off....I was mortified....

..........the customer was laughing so much she had tears in her eyes!

Found out next day that the wall had been 10 bricks high when they moved in but after several simalar scrapes the height had gradually been reduced!! 😳

 

[The D]

I was tiling a house on a new build site in the middle of nowhere, there was pressure to get the tiling finished so me and three other lads did the ghost shift to get it done. As it got dark we realised that the toilet was a good hike across a pitch black field. So rather than go across the field in the dark, we decided to put in one of the toilet pans that was in the living room. Needless to say we all did our business and flushed it with buckets of water. We finished the job about 5.30, locked up and left.
About 9.30 I got a call from an irate site agent asking if it was us that put the toilet pan in. "Yes why"?
He said "the contents of the pan was in the basement as it was not connected up, and to make matters worse the building inspector was the first one in there". :mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2:

 

[Andy Allen]

i hate haveing poos in customers houses; why is you dont hear a peep out of them all day ;then the second your bum hits the toilet seat and the turtles heads coming out you hear them running upstairs with tea ;biscuits; and a chat to see how its all going.:yikes:

 

[diamondtiling]

i hate haveing poos in customers houses; why is you dont hear a peep out of them all day ;then the second your bum hits the toilet seat and the turtles heads coming out you hear them running upstairs with tea ;biscuits; and a chat to see how its all going.:yikes:

Wow!!! too much info Laddie!.........:lol:

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I used to have a partner (tiler) who loved Guiness and curries. He could almost play a tune with his rear end. One morning we were doing a bathroom in a very posh lady's house when my mate let a really loud one rip, we then heard a little girls voice saying mummy the workmen are making rude noises in the bathroom. I was so embarassed

 

[murf]

A mate of mine was walking from a tile shop with a bag of adhesive on his shoulder when he suddenly sharted. It would'nt have been so bad if he wasn't wearing shorts at the time.

 

[doug boardley]

I was skimming a ceiling and was reaching into the corner on my tip toes on a trestle scaffold by the doorway, John Thomas pops out as I'm reaching (flies must've been down) same time lady of the house appearred through the door with a brew and a biccy😳

 

[murf]

Lucky you didn't step on it Doug:yikes:

 

[jamie B]

years back whilst working for persimmons in a sweltering summer,I decided to chance it and at the end of the day I took off my overalls and jumped in the ensuite shower of the plot I was working in for a cold hose down.
I heard steps up the stairs then before I can get out and get my kecks on the site agent and sales girl bowl into the room:yikes: the site agent came out with a classic line tho..he turns to the sales girl ( who was nearly as embarrased as me!) and says "is the (expletive! xxxx) in the shower standard in the townhouses or an extra?"
I had people on persimmons jobs taking the pee outta me YEARS later.

 

[wivers]

I've had a few but for the funniest one i've ever had was with TJ and the bucket of slop. http://www.tilersforums.com/tilers-forums-arms/9996-never-laughed-so-hard.html



Saturday i was working at a house with TJ doing a porcelain floor.

The weather was quality and there were patio doors out of the room we were tiling to the back garden, so we set up all the tools out there.

As we were setting up the customer told me that there was no-one living next door so if i needed water at all i could jump over the fence and use their tap as the customer didn't have an outside one fitted yet.

About halfway through the day yet again my belly started to make so of the famous glugging noises that most of you will have read about at some stage in previous threads.

I knew that it was already on its way so i made a dash to the toilet upstairs, but someone was already in there!!!!!

By now my brain had told me belly i was on me way to the toilet,and the log was on its way down the flume.

I rushed downstairs and grabbed some kitchen roll, then ran into the garden picked up a builders bucket and jumped over next doors wall.

I just managed to squat on the bucket in time.

TJ poked his ead over the wall and started to laugh hs nutts off at the sight of me balancing on a bucket in someones garden.

I started to mop up but just as i did the customers son walked in to the gaden to play football.

I quickly pulled up me shorts and shoved the bucket under the tap and began to fill it up with water.

Once the bucket was filled i climed back over and placed the bucket of wivers ready mix next to the wall ready for me to dispose of once the lad had gone back in the house.

Well the lad was out there for a while and myself and TJ carried on working and i began to forget all about the bucket. Mre to the point so did TJ.

About 2 hours later TJ told me he was going to start packing the tools away, and wash the trowels.

All of a sudden i heard a horrible high pitched screaming from the garden so i rushed out to see wot was the matter.

TJ had forgot what was in the bucket and shoved his hands in it to clean off the trowels. Realising what he had done he began screaming and by the time i had got outside he was running around and aronud the trampoline, screaming like a big girl with his hads in the air.

I swear the look on his face was one of pure horror and disgust.

I was completely weak with laughter and my belly hurt so much.

Imagine a 34 year old bloke running around in a circle screaming like a girl at the top of his voice coz he's dipped his hnads in hs mates poo bucket!!!!

He scrubbed hs hands for half an hour with a brillow pad lmfao!!

OHHHH THE FUN WE HAVE LMFAO!!

 

[Andy Allen]

:lol::lol::lol::lol: i got tears in me eyes reading that one :lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[mikethetile]

thats got to be the funniest one yet:lol::lol::lol:

 

[Deleted member 9966]

get Wivers to tell u about the one with the Silicon stuck to his bum

 

[CJ]

Posted this b4.

Doing a bathroom in a terrace house, for a lady driving instructor.

Terrace house, bathroom right at top of stairs.
Anyway, I was working away and felt the seal head poking out. Guts doing the twist.
The customer was on her way out to give a lesson, so as soon as the yale lock clicked, my shreddies where down to my ankles in the nick of time. The niff would have knocked out a rhino at 50 paces :yikes:

Problem was there was no bathroom door...........and my guts had only 1/2 emptied, when I heard the un-mistakable click of a key in the front door. (Bathroom as mentioned was at the top of the stairs, and you could see the top of the front door sitting on the lav)

The customer walked in, and shouted that she had forgot her diary, and glanced upstairs, and just saw my knees and above. 😳

She apologised and grabbed her diary and ran out.
I didn't see much off her for the rest of that job.

She did give me a £20 tip.
I gave her a bottle of domestos :lol::lol::lol:

 

[Aston]

wivers, you are the funniest undiscovered talent in the country mate :lol::lol:
your antics are legendary...

ed

 

[macten]

Wivers knows about this one.
I was blowing down a 22mm pipe to clear water 'cos I needed to solder a joint and I blew so hard I sh*t myself - proper filled my pants. The customer was in the room at the time (she was gorgeous too!!!) I tried to re-created the huge noise my *** made with my blowing noise to try and cover up.
No way of covering the smell up though so I made my excuses (something about popping to the plumbers merchants for a couple of elbows I believe) and cleaned myself up in the back of the van. I left it 20 mins or so thinking I may have got away with it but when I went back I clocked 2 Glade plug-ins in the landing and hall!!!

 

[macten]

Phew - had to double check this was in the Arms!!!!:lol:

 

[DHTiling]

Wivers knows about this one.
I was blowing down a 22mm pipe to clear water 'cos I needed to solder a joint and I blew so hard I sh*t myself - proper filled my pants. The customer was in the room at the time (she was gorgeous too!!!) I tried to re-created the huge noise my *** made with my blowing noise to try and cover up.
No way of covering the smell up though so I made my excuses (something about popping to the plumbers merchants for a couple of elbows I believe) and cleaned myself up in the back of the van. I left it 20 mins or so thinking I may have got away with it but when I went back I clocked 2 Glade plug-ins in the landing and hall!!!

:lol::lol:.. Name change... Ploppy...!! :smilewinkgrin:

 

[doug boardley]

my Ex boss and my brother were discussing the size of some knickers on the washing line, (you could've sailed a yacht with them), of course I was wise and sniggering come shoulder dancing, but then again I was at the right place in the garden to see the knickers owners sat on the garden bench..... my bro and boss saw her too, alas for them, too late:20:

 

[Rob Z]

This one didn't happen to me, but it happened to a guy I used to know some time ago. When he was younger he worked at a glass shop, and he told me that they had a customer that was a royal PITA. The company had installed a lot of glass in the house over the previous year, and the owner of the house made their lives miserable everytime they were there. When they went to install the final pieces of glass, this guy I know writes a lot of profanity with the mirror mastic on the wall...he writes out in cursive just about everything that you can think of. They all had a good laugh and left for the day and went home. The next day, the boss calls them in and starts raising hell about the PITA customer...she called and told the owner of the company that she wouldn't be paying for the recent glass work in the house. It turns out that these nitwits I know had used the wrong glue for the mirror, and it burned through the silvering on the back of the glass, and every "FU" was right there for the customer to see.:yikes::yikes::yikes::mad2::mad2::mad2:

:lol::lol::lol:

 

[Rob Z]

This is actually the reverse situation, and this is one where the customer put her foot in her mouth. :lol::lol::lol:

We were doing a basement finishing job for a married couple a few years ago. The wife was one hot banana, and the husband was always gone for work. One of my guys was there working alone and the lady of the house had a couple of friends over. They were gossiping and talking about the how our customer had been tagging some boyfriend on the side and her husband didn't know anything about it. The whole time they are talking as if my employee couldn't hear them or understand what they were saying. I could see why, because I rarely speak English to him on the job site. But his English is pretty darn good, and of course he followed the entire story. We managed at another time to set it up that I started talking to him in English and he responded to me in English.

You should have seen that look of "OH SH*T" in the eyes of the customer. :yikes: I didn't have any problems from her after that, and we definately got paid for everything we did, including all the extra work. 😀

 

[doug boardley]

nice one Rob:lol::lol:

 

[Rob Z]

Doug, we still laugh a lot about that one! Hahahahaha!

 

[Rob Z]

Man, this makes me remember another one just like this.....my other employee was working on another job of ours.....big house, wealthy people, husband was a bigshot DC attorney....and the super **** of a wife had been banging the lead carpenter on the job. We didn't know about it until she was telling her friend about it in whispers...and you guessed it...in front of the latino worker that took English for 18 years from the Dominican priests from Spain.......LMFAO! This guy's English is better than a lot of native speakers here.

The great thing is that the lead carpenter is a buddy of mine. I got A LOT of mileage out of that one...for years...."Hey Joe, when are we going to do more work over at the __________'s house?" 😀

 

[lewis1967]

I've had a few but for the funniest one i've ever had was with TJ and the bucket of slop. http://www.tilersforums.com/tilers-forums-arms/9996-never-laughed-so-hard.html



Saturday i was working at a house with TJ doing a porcelain floor.

The weather was quality and there were patio doors out of the room we were tiling to the back garden, so we set up all the tools out there.

As we were setting up the customer told me that there was no-one living next door so if i needed water at all i could jump over the fence and use their tap as the customer didn't have an outside one fitted yet.

About halfway through the day yet again my belly started to make so of the famous glugging noises that most of you will have read about at some stage in previous threads.

I knew that it was already on its way so i made a dash to the toilet upstairs, but someone was already in there!!!!!

By now my brain had told me belly i was on me way to the toilet,and the log was on its way down the flume.

I rushed downstairs and grabbed some kitchen roll, then ran into the garden picked up a builders bucket and jumped over next doors wall.

I just managed to squat on the bucket in time.

TJ poked his ead over the wall and started to laugh hs nutts off at the sight of me balancing on a bucket in someones garden.

I started to mop up but just as i did the customers son walked in to the gaden to play football.

I quickly pulled up me shorts and shoved the bucket under the tap and began to fill it up with water.

Once the bucket was filled i climed back over and placed the bucket of wivers ready mix next to the wall ready for me to dispose of once the lad had gone back in the house.

Well the lad was out there for a while and myself and TJ carried on working and i began to forget all about the bucket. Mre to the point so did TJ.

About 2 hours later TJ told me he was going to start packing the tools away, and wash the trowels.

All of a sudden i heard a horrible high pitched screaming from the garden so i rushed out to see wot was the matter.

TJ had forgot what was in the bucket and shoved his hands in it to clean off the trowels. Realising what he had done he began screaming and by the time i had got outside he was running around and aronud the trampoline, screaming like a big girl with his hads in the air.

I swear the look on his face was one of pure horror and disgust.

I was completely weak with laughter and my belly hurt so much.

Imagine a 34 year old bloke running around in a circle screaming like a girl at the top of his voice coz he's dipped his hnads in hs mates poo bucket!!!!

He scrubbed hs hands for half an hour with a brillow pad lmfao!!

OHHHH THE FUN WE HAVE LMFAO!!

Ive been crying laughing for 10 mins after reading this 1 ...

 

[Brindle]

I haven't laughed out loud like this for ages, thanks!

I have an old story....
When I was 16 working for a concrete stamping firm we were on the way back from a job when the landrover broke down. Being the skivvy I was volunteered to walk the half mile or so to a hotel to phone the gaffer...but I needed a dump...badly...so jumped over the stone wall in the layby we were in. It was dark, and the 4 ft wall my side was at least 8 feet into the field!! Bit of a shock that was.
That's not the embarrassment though...
we had these all in one overalls with a hood and pockets for knee pads, really well made, so I carry on with my dump, only to realise that I'd actually crapped in my hood!! So I reappear from the field after climbing up the wall (now in the rain) minus my overalls!
I did have jeans on though so was still able to walk to the hotel to phone!