Dont leave your tools lying open at tea time......go into the canteen and sit in with everyone else, if the refugees come in selling DVD's have a rummage through them with everyone else and there may be some joking about the ****o ones.....dont have shiny boots, as they will take the p!ss, I know in the Navy everything has to be shiny or you get a smack but its the other way round outside that gate, I learnt that the hard way LOL.......dont call money dibs, just say cash, Notes or Sheets....
Buy a really cheap crappy Radio as that breaks the silence that there is sometimes when you are new, just leave it on when youre on a break as then if somebody goes to pinch it the other trades will say Oi !!!!! put the Radio back (ON) and if somebody does pilfer it, just get another crappy 5 pound one in town, dont make a big deal out of it....
Take all your tools off site and into the car/van at night incase the place gets looted by crooks, standard kit is a box of tools and a Drill with its carry case and spare batteries in it, close it up and take it away every night....
And you are going to have to bite the bullet and eat food from some really shady places that would make a green lid puke, you cant go "uck is that roll cooked right" just have to gulp it down and wash it away as fast as possible with a can of fizzy juice, or if really bad just say "thats shy te "and throw it aside, theres a peculiar thing about being seen to eat the same as everybody else, I dont understand it but its there...
wear a Blue Boiler suit if you are going to wear them, DONT wear a Red one as thats Plumber/Pipe fitter colours and you will get a hard time, Hard hats- if you have to buy your own due to a shortage, sneak it in so nobody knows you bought it yourself, and never a white one as thats site manager colours....
