Wife needs a slap!!lol

[Jay Sparks]

Just thought Id share this with you and see if any has had anything simular?


The other day the wife is filling some forms in for us both...it asks in one section, "whats your partners occupation?" The wife puts "Domestic electrician"!!!!
I said why have you put that??? She said well thats what you are, arent you? Cow bag!! The air turned blue as I explained what she had just called me.

Now she is a qualified nursery nurse, so I pointed out that it would be like me calling her a "Baby sitter"!!!lol

Anyway, she wont make that mistake again!!! She will now call me a "plumber" LOL.


So whats the worst someone has classed you as???? And I know you will all be tempted to to use faul language but please keep it firking civil!lol


Jay

 

[monkeyelectric]

Some old git called me a handyman on the phone to his son once!

 

[bigbaddave]

Ive had handyman off the in-laws once.. Cost me a rewire. The wanted an Electrician

 

[pennywise]

All the people I use to go to school with still call me a builder, I've given up correcting them, though I get quite a nice reaction from a mate who's a barrister when I call him a solicitor :tongue3:

 

[Doomed]

Called called a caretaker once

 

[Guitarist]

Not so much what they call you, but how they do it... When friends arrive.
"Oh don't mind him, he's just the electrician come to sort out a small problem with the wiring thingymajigs. Shouldn't take him long..."

 

[Geordie Spark]

Called called a caretaker once

I've been called many things by many folk in my lifetime - some nice things, some not-so-nice things and some downright .... well, you get the picture - but I've never had the indignity of being called a caretaker !!!

You have my deepest sympathy.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

'We've got the workmen in' is a common comment from self appointed upper class old bags of a certain age......

 

[pennywise]

'We've got the workmen in' is a common comment from self appointed upper class old bags of a certain age......

When I get that as they're normally knocking around In a large house after their husbands die, I stand quite close in the next room on the phone to a mate and say loudly. "yes mate not too bad today, just working on one of those tiny little houses down the road" it tweaks a nerve

 

[wildgoose]

Been called 'The Maintainance Man'.

Also had a pompous retired mechanical engineer, actually say to me "your job can't be that difficult can it - red to red & and black to black, so don't try to make out it's any more complicated".

Such an ignorant deluded man!

 

[trev]

Not so much getting called something but an example of how very blonde my daughter is (come to think of it we've not had one of these in a while)
Daughter (on phone) Dad I'm getting a new cooker, will you be able to fit it?
Me, Is it gas because you're supposed to get a registered guy out to do that but no problem, you're uncle Rick(gas fitter mate) owes me a couple of favours
Daughter, No Dad an electric one, I don't like gas cookers
Me, Of course then. No problem.
Daughter, You can do it properly though can't you?
After all the work she's seen me do over the years at home and for family.............

 

[Geordie Spark]

Not so much getting called something but an example of how very blonde my daughter is (come to think of it we've not had one of these in a while)
Daughter (on phone) Dad I'm getting a new cooker, will you be able to fit it?
Me, Is it gas because you're supposed to get a registered guy out to do that but no problem, you're uncle Rick(gas fitter mate) owes me a couple of favours
Daughter, No Dad an electric one, I don't like gas cookers
Me, Of course then. No problem.
Daughter, You can do it properly though can't you?
After all the work she's seen me do over the years at home and for family.............

That's a bit like my late Mum.

Dad wouldn't have central heating or a gas fire in the house. He insisted on an open fire burning smokeless coalite, and it was his job to clean it out and light it etc.

After he died, Mum couldn't manage it, so I offered to fit central heating for her. She refused because "Your Dad didn't like central heating" !!! So I persuaded her to let me fit a gas fire in the place of the open fire, and a gas heater in the hallway.

I was halfway through fitting the gas fire, when she said: "You shouldn't be doing that - you should get a man to do it" and there I was,doing the job I was trained and qualified to do and which I did most days of the week for other folk, and I had my CORGI card in my wallet ...............

 

[markc123]

Like above, Maintainance Man & Handyman are the most common ones i've been called. I quite get often called my dads son, which is fine because he did get alot of the older clients i have and start up the business from nothing many years ago...would quite like to be called my own name from time to time though now a days...still can't complain on that one though.

Funny story though...recently a client of mine said "Mark, have you been watching that new BBC comedy program 'White Van Man' ?" I said No, she then said "Oh, well you should it's really funny and the guy reminds me of you"

Thought right okay, got home, went on iPlayer...and had a watch and then realised what a complete insult it was lol! Although i did proceed to watch the program, because did find it rather funny.

I was halfway through fitting the gas fire, when she said: "You shouldn't be doing that - you should get a man to do it" and there I was,doing the job I was trained and qualified to do and which I did most days of the week for other folk, and I had my CORGI card in my wallet ...............

Were you wearing your dress at the time Geordie lol?

 

[Geordie Spark]

Like above, Maintainance Man & Handyman are the most common ones i've been called. I quite get often called my dads son, which is fine because he did get alot of the older clients i have and start up the business from nothing many years ago...would quite like to be called my own name from time to time though now a days...still can't complain on that one though.

Funny story though...recently a client of mine said "Mark, have you been watching that new BBC comedy program 'White Van Man' ?" I said No, she then said "Oh, well you should it's really funny and the guy reminds me of you"

Thought right okay, got home, went on iPlayer...and had a watch and then realised what a complete insult it was lol! Although i did proceed to watch the program, because did find it rather funny.



Were you wearing your dress at the time Geordie lol?

Howman !!! We're not all like Jimmy Nail ye knaa.

(In his younger days, he was in a band and wore a dress and hobnail boots on stage)

 

[trev]

Howman !!! We're not all like Jimmy Nail ye knaa.

(In his younger days, he was in a band and wore a dress and hobnail boots on stage)

, I worked with their guitarist a couple of years back. Poor lad's a roofer but he's a canny auld stick

 

[ipf]

Was asked if i was an electioneer once.....she was getting on a bit, though.

 

[markc123]

The biggest insult though comes when they don't offer you a brew and you have to start dropping sly little hints.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Was asked if i was an electioneer once.....she was getting on a bit, though.

Could have been worse ..... she could have asked if you had an erection.

 

[ipf]

Even worse an erectionhere.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

'We've got the workmen in' is a common comment from self appointed upper class old bags of a certain age......

accompanied by a patronising glance...lol...

 

[Paul.M]

Couple of years ago I was throwing in a new display lighting circuit for a Victorian shopping arcade for the walkway and shop fronts. Full on PPE, tower scaffold, hard hat, signs & barriers the full works when a woman walks past and says my name.

"Paul, I have'nt seen you for years (since a teenager). What are you doing now?"

"I'm an Electrician."

Her reply still reply still makes me cringe.

"Ho, just an electrician?" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to bite my tongue at this stage, she really rattled me with that 4 word sentence. (Paul, count to ten and smile so not to offend her:devil: ).
In my head I thought about her and her husband + family which I knew very well back then and nothing has changed since. Without sounding elitist or putting anybody down for what they work as for a living, all I had in my head was what she and her husband does to pay the bills. She is a full time cleaner (nothing wrong with that, my mum did a part time cleaning job for over 20+ years after her full time job). Her husband has worked in the same timber yard for over 30 years and only getting a quid above min wage and he is the simpleton that will do anything and everything for the bosses although he has not had a pay rise for 4 years?


"JUST AN ELECTRICIAN" is the worst one I've had due to the background. What did she expect of me to become when she knew me as a teenager? A doctor or something? We all got brought up in the same area and only age separates us, not many people from that estate make anything of their lives but to say "just an electrician" was a blow under the belt.

 

[trev]

There were these two brickies on a job I was on once, They'd built up a thriving business hiring brickies and labourers out to building companies and still liked to get their hands dirty, one of the (very nice) houses we'd built had been handed over to the owners who wanted a wall building so these two lads got stuck in. After a while the guy who'd bought the house came out and started talking down to them and I heard the phrase "Well your just bricklayers what would you know"
Quick as a flash one of them asked him what he did for a living and how much he earned last year, he replied "I'm in IT and I pulled in 80k, why?"
The reply wiped the smile right off his smug face "We're only bricklayers but we eached grossed £120k last year" exit one red faced homeowner. Obviously they didn't tell him that the 240k was their company's turnover but he didn't spot that

 

[Rockingit]

Boys - we're 'only' electricians until the lights go out, the heating goes off and Corry can't be watched. At that point, that very instance in time, we become Gods. We become knights on chargers, we become the men who wear our underpants on the outside with our capes flying in the breeze, we become the very centre of their universe. It's only afterwards that they forget all that and start to remember the bill.

 

[Guitarist]

Unless we have worked on the installation in the past. If we've even so much as taken a screwdriver to a light switch and months down the line a blown lamp takes out the RCD, then it's our fault as it "has only done that since you touched it."
Then the customer expects it done straight away for free as really it's our fault...

That said, I had a customer this week give me more than I asked for at the end of a job as she was so pleased with what I had done.

 

[SparkyJoe]

Unless we have worked on the installation in the past. If we've even so much as taken a screwdriver to a light switch and months down the line a blown lamp takes out the RCD, then it's our fault as it "has only done that since you touched it."
Then the customer expects it done straight away for free as really it's our fault...

That said, I had a customer this week give me more than I asked for at the end of a job as she was so pleased with what I had done.

was she hot?

 

[Guitarist]

was she hot?

lol, she was in her 60's and the "extra" was a fiver

 

[Silly Sausage]

A 'Fiver' is a Hand Job round my way! :smilielol5:

 

[Des 56]

lol, she was in her 60's and the "extra" was a fiver

So lets recap,in order of reply

You were given more than you asked for
You were asked if she was hot
You replied,she was in her sixties
You also said the extra was a fiver
You have been informed that a hand job elsewhere is a fiver

Do you have more to add or shall we take your future non contribution in this thread as a measure of guilt

You tumped a 60 year old hot customer and it cost you a fiver for the privelege

 

[ipf]

was she hot?

was he shot ?