Things that give you the sh1ts

[Brodlach]

Had an electrician here for an hour, charged $176 for labour alone. Crazy.

[Spargo]

Had an electrician here for an hour, charged $176 for labour alone. Crazy.

That can't be true.

[woodublieve12]

- waiting for people to call you back!!!

[Footy Chick]

- waiting for people to call you back!!!

Has it been less than 24 hours?

IF yes, you have no right to be shitty. People have other stuff to do and can't drop everything for you.

If it's been more than 24 hours, do your nut

[dedja]

Well it depends on what the original call was about.

If he had just declared a bomb threat then 24 hours wouldn't be appropriate I'd imagine, but if it was about getting a quote then I'd agree.

[woodublieve12]

- waiting for people to call you back!!!

Has it been less than 24 hours?

IF yes, you have no right to be shitty. People have other stuff to do and can't drop everything for you.

If it's been more than 24 hours, do your nut

No...

It's always about me

Just waiting for call backs regarding some jobs and i'm just becoming impatient. Hopefully will find out by the end of the week. Just been a long process.

[Psyber]

Had an electrician here for an hour, charged $176 for labour alone. Crazy.

That can't be true.

As a guide, J-Mac Electrical in Brompton who did a job for me recently charged $80 an hour including GST.
A local bloke in the hills I used until he retired recently was $80 per hour plus GST.

[Brodlach]

Had an electrician here for an hour, charged $176 for labour alone. Crazy.

That can't be true.

As a guide, J-Mac Electrical in Brompton who did a job for me recently charged $80 an hour including GST.
A local bloke in the hills I used until he retired recently was $80 per hour plus GST.

I expected around the $80-90 mark but was shocked at the price. Reckon he was there 50 minutes, had two very basic jobs. Another $120 in parts too which would have cost about $20

[heater31]

Had an electrician here for an hour, charged $176 for labour alone. Crazy.

That can't be true.

As a guide, J-Mac Electrical in Brompton who did a job for me recently charged $80 an hour including GST.
A local bloke in the hills I used until he retired recently was $80 per hour plus GST.

I expected around the $80-90 mark but was shocked at the price. Reckon he was there 50 minutes, had two very basic jobs. Another $120 in parts too which would have cost about $20

Call out fee is usually worth 1 hour before actually showing up. Then they were there for 1 hour as well....

[Brodlach]

Really, perhaps I'm just a Scrooge.

[heater31]

Really, perhaps I'm just a Scrooge.

Yep works out to be $80 an hour plus GST.

[sandleball]

Dealing with people who are oblivious to their surroundings.

[DOC]

Channel 9 and there hour long news.

Cats in trees, its hot today-just ask the people at the beach, three car accident in yhe UK, yada yada yada

Padded out to buggery.

[bennymacca]

Channel 9 and there hour long news.

Cats in trees, its hot today-just ask the people at the beach, three car accident in yhe UK, yada yada yada

Padded out to buggery.

I noticed this the other day. They had a full length story about a girl who got attacked by a shark - only at the very end did they say it was a 1 metre shark!

Contrasting with that, I flipped over to sbs world news and they had a really interesting and sad story about the normal everyday citizens of Aleppo, which is right on the front line of the ISIS vs Syrian government conflict - one dude is living in a half finished apartment block because he had to flee his other house. They also showed some students of the local uni, and how they tried to have some sense of normality, even though less than 10km away there was fighting - they were all going to a club and dancing etc - but it was in the day because it was too dangerous to go out at night.

But yep, some 14 year old who coped a nip on the foot from a gummy shark is much more important.

[Coach Bombay]

Victoria Bitter ads

U2's shameless marketing putting their shite music on everyone's iPhone and playing their crap song on commercial tv during adverts.

[Pseudo]

U2's shameless marketing putting their shite music on everyone's iPhone and playing their crap song on commercial tv during adverts.

A few years ago when the band's then-recent album achieved unexpectedly low sales, the pillock lead singer publically grizzled that it was because of piracy and free downloads.

It must cause a severe amount of cognitive dissonance inside his sanctimonious skull to find that he now has to force his music onto other people, and that most of them don't want it.

[dedja]

I'm sure the $60n Apple gave him helped ease the pain.

[Psyber]

As a guide, J-Mac Electrical in Brompton who did a job for me recently charged $80 an hour including GST.
A local bloke in the hills I used until he retired recently was $80 per hour plus GST.

I expected around the $80-90 mark but was shocked at the price. Reckon he was there 50 minutes, had two very basic jobs. Another $120 in parts too which would have cost about $20

Call out fee is usually worth 1 hour before actually showing up. Then they were there for 1 hour as well....

Neither of the guys I mentioned charge a call out fee.
It is the big companies that use that technique to ramp up the cost.
I always use individual tradies never the big companies that spend money advertising on TV.

[Hefty]

Channel 9 and there hour long news.

Cats in trees, its hot today-just ask the people at the beach, three car accident in yhe UK, yada yada yada

Padded out to buggery.

On the flip side, does give you an hour of Kate Collins!

[Sorry Dude]

waiting to hear about my application status for a new (way better) job!