Tricky-Ricky Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 (edited) I hate unprofessional and rude trades people, the misses booked a local heating engineer to service our 3 year old external oil fired boiler, nothing special just the usual nozzle replace, clean and combustion check, I will be doing it once the five year warranty runs out. Anyway today its raining and not very nice, however the misses sees the van arrive but looks like he cant see the house number, so the wife nips out to verify, ( I think he was already looking for an excuse to leave before he started) Right from the start he was looking for a reason not to do the job to the extent that he was making obstacles and being just downright unprofessional and rude to extent where the wife called me and I said his attitude sucked, at which point he fooked off! He basically dint want to do the job that he booked in the rain, now after going around the side of the house to look at the boiler he took the hose reel off the wall and chucked it on the ground, then proceeded to tell the wife that his gazebo would "crush the plants", and "you will be suing me because your boiler electrics get wet" fair point but but why not either just ring and cancel the job politely because of the rain, or just turn up and say sorry to let you down etc etc, but instead he is a complete knob end! Edited November 7, 2015 by Tricky-Ricky Quote
Ekona Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 Sounds like he was having a bad day, but no excuse for behaviour like that. No excuse at all. Quote
Jonnymonno Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 Well at least you know you can cross him off your list for next time Quote
valy Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 annoying when this happens but there is always a small percentage of this type of poor professionals who forget the customers come first as they are the ones keeping them in their jobs probably a local web review will suffice so that others are aware of what service they can expect Quote
Juggalo Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 (edited) And that's partly why the Polish tradesman are mopping up. Service with a smile. Any weather, any time. They're grateful for the work. Leave a review on Ratedpeople.com Edited November 9, 2015 by Juggalo Quote
veilside z Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 Disgusting. Hope he in particular does not come back next visit. Quote
350zedd Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 Found this a lot when building my house. Tradesman around these parts are thin on the ground at the best of times so I did as much work myself as I could and saved a packet. Some of the work done by ''tradesmen"" left a lot to be desired. Quote
Tricky-Ricky Posted November 11, 2015 Author Posted November 11, 2015 I would only ever employ a so called specialist for jobs that I really can't do (and that's not much) or when a guarantee needs a specific certificate number, unfortunately this was one of them, anyway a new contractor booked for next week......I can't wait! Quote
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