(Rant) My Favourite Sidecutters...gone!

[Evans Electric]

Went back to this paper warehouse I was at on Wednesday because I knew my missing sideys must be there.   Regular customer. 

Theres only one guy works there , he says " Ah come for your snippers ?   I put them over here ,they were on the floor." 

They're not there .    We search.   They've gone . 

Only other person thats been in there since Wednesday was the guy from the alarm company .

The one with a name like a freshwater fish .......just saying .

So , £25  for another pair of CK sideys with two stripping notches and the 3.5mm screw cropper .

Rant over.    I'll get over it .   He who steals my purse steals trash ...he who steals my tools needs a Toetector boot up his Aristotle!!!     (Shakespear)  

 

[boltonsparky]

You'd expect other tradesmen to know better.

 

[Evans Electric]

Very true Fred ,  no proof , but I've been going to this customer for 20 years , never lost anything before with just their staff there .

 

[ProDave]

When I had a "proper" job, I left a pair of sidecutters on a job at a factory in Bristol.

I went back several months later, and the guy their who I saw every time said "here are your sidecutters, you left them here last time"

So folk are not all bad.

I went into a customers loft up here a while back, and found the neon screwdriver I had left there on my last visit many months ago.

 

[Theorysparky]

working in a school last minute job poor some guys putting in a projector board etc and needed a socket

trying to isolate cct i put my socket tester in one i was going to spur from

these two muppets heard the tone asked what it was

did the socket for them tested and put the socket tester in  switched it off instead of removing it went off back to the board and forgot about it

20 mins later they have gone and so has my socket tester !!!!

 

[Evans Electric]

I hope it blew up in their face next time they tried it .  One piece of sheet that crawls from under its rock makes you forget all the decent guys unfortunately.

 

[Sharpend]

Minority rules uk!

 

[steptoe]

Went back to this paper warehouse I was at on Wednesday because I knew my missing sideys must be there.   Regular customer. 

Theres only one guy works there , he says " Ah come for your snippers ?   I put them over here ,they were on the floor." 

They're not there .    We search.   They've gone . 

Only other person thats been in there since Wednesday was the guy from the alarm company .

The one with a name like a freshwater fish .......just saying .

So , £25  for another pair of CK sideys with two stripping notches and the 3.5mm screw cropper .

Rant over.    I'll get over it .   He who steals my purse steals trash ...he who steals my tools needs a Toetector boot up his Aristotle!!!     (Shakespear)  

want me to get the missus to bollock him Deke?

strictly speaking not her area, but Im sure she could find out who his boss is.

 

[Evans Electric]

Does she work for the freshwater fish company then Steps?    Can't be definite it was them so you can't say anymore .

Why the warehouse guy didn't put them in his office is anybody's guess TBH  :C

 

[steptoe]

yeah, she does Deke, but on the hot side of things,!

 

[ProDave]

Another story I may have told:

I had just bought a new cordless drill and used it for the first time.  Packed up my kit and went to the next job.

What, No F In cordless drill.  Panic.

I phoned the last customer, who luckily was still at home. He went outside and looked, and there it was sitting on the pavement still right next to where I had been parked. It had been there over half an hour and nobody had walked off with it.

So not everyone is a crook by any means.

If it had been in the centre of B'ham, it would probably have been subject to a "controlled explosion" by then 

 

[Evans Electric]

Major incident I should think PD !!! 

Your post  reminded me of something I heard in a documentary about the holocaust  .    In Denmark they realised that a Nazi invasion was inevitable so they moved thousands of Jewish people out , to Sweden I think.  

Their houses were locked up with their belongings inside as time was of the essence.

When the war was over and the Nazis gone , the Jews returned ...........and not one house had been ransacked , vandalised or robbed .   

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Another story I may have told:

I had just bought a new cordless drill and used it for the first time.  Packed up my kit and went to the next job.

What, No F In cordless drill.  Panic.

I phoned the last customer, who luckily was still at home. He went outside and looked, and there it was sitting on the pavement still right next to where I had been parked. It had been there over half an hour and nobody had walked off with it.

So not everyone is a crook by any means.

If it had been in the centre of B'ham, it would probably have been subject to a "controlled explosion" by then 

I went  to pick up my mate for work at 7.30am. As i pulled up there was a guy walking his dog looking at some stuff on my mates garden wall. He had left his Dewalt 18V combi & Makita sds in the boxes there all night.

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So , £25  for another pair of CK sideys with two stripping notches and the 3.5mm screw cropper .

Rant over.    I'll get over it .   He who steals my purse steals trash ...he who steals my tools needs a Toetector boot up his Aristotle!!!     (Shakespear)  

This wont help you, i have two pairs of those cutters as i won a pair here from CK simply by filling in a survey (thank you again CK) just as i was going to buy some as the old ones were  getting rather blunt.

 

[Evans Electric]

:red card

 

[apprentice87]

I know of someone that had a knock on their door from irish "pikey" types doing tarmac. They said that they would need to be paid up front [several grand] but would not be able to do the job until the weather got better.

This person goes to bank, gets the money and gave it to them, cash!! Off go the pikeys....

Much laughter all round....

Some months later in the spring, said Pikeys actually return and do the job, so there are a few good people out there, people of all sorts...

john...

 

[betty swollocks]

Few weeks ago I was called out for a fault while kitchen fitters were installing kitchen, 60 mile round trip, simple drilled cable but it was only as I pulled on the drive at home later did I have that awful feeling, hand in pocket, no snips! :-( I knew I had left the on top of the consumer unit, rings kitchen fitter, he's left but will be back in three weeks after granite is delivered..... Thursday I'm reunited with my baby's, it's not till you lose something dear, do you realise how much you become attached to stuff

 

[kerching]

Lost my underwater camera diving in kerrera sound in Oban

It had my phone number on it

Bloke rings me a week later....found your cameraman in Tobermory, what's your address and ill posts it back!!!! Sent him a cheque for 5 times the postage ...to do with as he wished. Not an expensive camera by any means, prob £150

Just saying...

Back in the day we had all our makita batteries swapped for the knackered ones by the ceiling fitters. Whilst they were distracted I removed the hubcaps from both their Vans, part filled cap with gravel and refitted.

Passed them on the hard shoulder looking totally confused as the rattling got worse the faster they Went and stopped when they stopped

Another bloke wronged me....so I put talc in his air vents and turned the blower to full blast

Moral........don't **** with the old spark

Just saying

 

[batty]

Call out last night failed voltage operated trip so customer has no electric. This is at about 7.30 pm as I had been doing a CU change and this was the earliest I could get there. Luckily had a spare RCD and box that I had used that day on CU change for temp supply. Fit RCD and luckily global insulation was 112 meg ohm  so RCD stays in. Have a cup of tea with customer but have left tools in garage. Its about 9 pm by this time so quickly put my gear in the van and shoot of. Was going to have a day of today to do VAT but get another call out. This time its an old Wylex with burnt out fuse on a ring. So put in temp board as this looks like its going to be a bad one. Loads of rubber cables and even some lead. This is when I realise I have left my Fluke clamp meter and volt stick in the garage on the previous nights job. Gave the lady a ring but she hasn't been in. Hope fully get it back before Monday. Moral don't work late at night and have a good scout around for tools before you leave.

 

[Evans Electric]

Few weeks ago I was called out for a fault while kitchen fitters were installing kitchen, 60 mile round trip, simple drilled cable but it was only as I pulled on the drive at home later did I have that awful feeling, hand in pocket, no snips! :-( I knew I had left the on top of the consumer unit, rings kitchen fitter, he's left but will be back in three weeks after granite is delivered..... Thursday I'm reunited with my baby's, it's not till you lose something dear, do you realise how much you become attached to stuff

I'm the same , hate it when a tool disapears , specialy ones I've had since Adam was a boy .   Plus the confusion when you open the toolbox at another job  and those snips or that driver are not there !!!

Guy I work with a lot (for years TBH)   is terrible , loses stuff on a daily basis  almost, drives me up the wall .     Typical example , start on a job, he grabs my new voltstick ( 'cos he,s lost his) says " Flick the breakers off one at a time , I'll hold the voltstick on the cable "     We find the circuit .  

My voltstick has dissapeared , he,s had it  in this small room , we both search until it gets silly  and we give up .     

Never to be found .  I book a replacement out on his account !!    

 

[Andy™]

Whilst they were distracted I removed the hubcaps from both their Vans, part filled cap with gravel and refitted.

Passed them on the hard shoulder looking totally confused as the rattling got worse the faster they Went and stopped when they stopped

Ill have to remember that one...