Tradesmen Suck!

By MissyBoo On November 20, 2009 · 7 Comments · In domesticity, mutterings, Uncategorized, whine

Dear Mr Electrician

I am very disappointed that you stood me up today. I have friends arriving from overseas in an hour or so… you promised you would have the job done by 4.30pm at the latest.

I give you more credit than Vas at Martin Craft* (the plasterboard man), who didn’t contact me to tell me he wouldn’t be arriving at 7am after all (so I could go back to bed), in fact he didn’t contact me at all, avoided my calls and NEVER turned up. At least you phoned to tell me you could come at 4.30-5pm, unfortunately I need to leave for the airport at 5pm.

I don’t care that your wife had a meeting and couldn’t collect your kids from school, let the little blighters fend for themselves. Oh and by the way, don’t tell me I should understand being a mum myself!!!

Your wife has probably gone for Friday drinks… either that or your using your wife as an excuse so you could do Friday drinks???

Have a lovely afternoon at the pub with your children while I still have an extension cord running halfway through my house to power my kitchen appliances, and no lighting in my sunroom!

Don’t you dare let me down on Monday.

Cheers

I instlled my own shower rose today – it works wonderfully and I just had the best shower ever

* I have used real names to identify the guilty!!!

7 Responses to Tradesmen Suck!

Trish says:

November 20, 2009 at 18:14

well done , did you do it PC style ?

It must be very disappointing they let you down ..it does suck.

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jeanie says:

November 20, 2009 at 19:14

Oh they can be unbelievable!! I do hope you get excellent service when he does come!

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Tracey says:

November 21, 2009 at 19:05

Bloody tradesmen. Reliable ones appear to be the exception rather than the rule.

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Trish says:

November 21, 2009 at 20:37

…on I remember you still have 3.5 hrs left of today …hope you are having fun laughing and enjoying your friends.

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rhubarb says:

November 22, 2009 at 10:37

Speaking as the wife of a sparky, it is hard to tell how long a job is going to take, especially when mrs housewife calls and says she wants a power point installed in the kitchen. Sparky arrives and finds she wants 7, has 100000 year old illegal rubber wiring and all points need to be wired through double brick.

Having said that – there’s no excuse for manners, he should have called.

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MissyBoo says:

November 23, 2009 at 22:55

Trish – We have had a wonderful few days and wish they wern’t leaving us for a few days And the Sparky came and did his 20 mins of work today!

Jeanie – Yep he knocked some cash off the price for stuffing me around on Friday!

Tracey – I’ve forgiven the sparky!

Rhubarb – He did call to confirm he was on his way… and then called to cancel 10 mins later

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Iris says:

November 24, 2009 at 03:21

Great letter!

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