Labouring

fastwunz said:
dont worry, im sure he intended to be helpful but im pretty sure he is speaking from experience and therefore has had a very bad one at that. I just hope people i work with are a little more 'intelligent'. Lol to the 50's scotland comment.
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No I havent had it, I've had to put stops to that and various similar scenarios in the places I have worked.

You would be surprised the reasons someone is being bullied or beat upon when you actually get down to the bottom of it.

I had to sack a guy once because he could not stop picking on a guy who had a bit of a high pitched voice.
 
atpbx said:
No I havent had it, I've had to put stops to that and various similar scenarios in the places I have worked.

You would be surprised the reasons someone is being bullied or beat upon when you actually get down to the bottom of it.

I had to sack a guy once because he could not stop picking on a guy who had a bit of a high pitched voice.
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AND you will notice that i did not criticise your comment.

Its very sad indeed that things like that happen. Although, iveworked with many a labourer / dirty commoner in my time and know how to smack the ego out of them.

Sounds as if you know what you are talking about though. I do realise that stuff like this happens bt if you let it stop you then you would end up unemployed, drinking yourself to death lol.
 
fastwunz said:
well thanks to all of you. I really think ill go for it. And Lewism - good chap on getting the alarm job. Fire regs certainly comes into surveying but (and NO disrespect inteded AT ALL) surely this is a stop gap job until you get a more construciton based role?

It actually sounds pretty interesting? can you enlighten me a bit more on your job role and where it is? I may look for similar work in the future if things dont work out with labouring.
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Yep, it is a stopgap job and nothing more but unlike say, working in retail, it is providing me with atleast some construction experience that i can take to an interview and say that there were bugger all surveying jobs so i went and got something that would give me some more relevant experience.

basically the company i work for fits fire systems, intruder alarm systems and cctv. it's easy enough since i can actually read the plans and i'm good with electronics but we deal with installation, commisioning and maintenance. worked with some listed building etc and at the end of the day it's pennies in the bank.

but it's a crap time to be a construction student. i have mates in every discipline struggling to get work because for every graduate with a degree theres some poor sod with 5/10 years experience being laid off by a rival firm. that said, building surveying is my career choice and hopefully i'll be in it once we're out of recession.
 
IMO, it will be good for you (career wise) to have an understanding of the industry from the sharp end. A lot of graduates in the construction industry have no idea about actually "building", having only read about things in textbooks; they get taught how something "should" be done, but have little experience or knowledge of the practicalities of doing it.
 
atpbx said:
No, its what will happen, perhaps not in the fairy tale land you live in, but in the real world where the rest of us live.
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So you think someone is going to 'stove your face in', which will of course put them behind bars for GBH and possibly several other charges, because he mentions he has a degree?

One of us is living in a fairy world yes.

As long as he doesn't shove it in peoples faces why would anyone care? the most he will get is told to F off.
 
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