Careless talk cost money

[Gazzer]

A while back i was chatting to a tiler in my area about work and mentioned the type of work i was doing and who i was doing it for. This guy was supposed to be a mate, but he went to the companies i had metioned and poached work from me, now i know its all fair in love and war etc etc but i found this to be really sneaky.
I didnt find out until recently, i put the lack of work coming my way from this company don to the current climate and i adapted by doing other work.
If it wasnt bad enough that i had lost some work due to this guy it seems while working he was also saying i had loads of work and didnt want to work for this company anyway.
By chance a carpenter on the jobs contacted be regarding some work for him and that was when all this came alight. Within a week i had put my side of the story to the company and told them that i was available, I also informed them that what the other guy had said had been untrue.
I wasnt expecting much from the company to be honest but then i heard they were happy that i was available as they had issues with his work.
I have already dne one job for them since this happened and another 3 in the quoting stage...as for the other tiler......he has been told they dont require his services :smilewinkgrin:.
Normal service is resumed....Be careful who you talk to because these days you never know who will stab you in the back.

 

[dagger]

i hope he is an x mate!!!

the thing with this buisiness is you meet other tilers of a good standard,
so you do not mind putting them in the frame for work if you cant do it for whatever reason, and they do the same in return...but you must explain that if they abuse the trust you put in them, there will be no more work from you...it should be give and take but some people are just not capable....
sad but true...

the sad thing is it does not just destroy a working relationship, it also destroys a friendship!!

 

[david campbell]

swine,backstabber,low-life:incazzato:.........aaarrrgghhhh!
far too many people willing to screw you for supposed mates to get you!

 

[DHTiling]

i hope he is an x mate!!!

the thing with this buisiness is you meet other tilers of a good standard,
so you do not mind putting them in the frame for work if you cant do it for whatever reason, and they do the same in return...but you must explain that if they abuse the trust you put in them, there will be no more work from you...it should be give and take but some people are just not capable....
sad but true...

the sad thing is it does not just destroy a working relationship, it also destroys a friendship!!

That statement is spot on...

I pass work on to other tilers as and when i cannot do it....if they ever poached my work from my contacts then i would not be a vey nice person to know..:smilewinkgrin:...simple as that.. i like to be treat as i treat them....

Neale..when you gunna chin this ***..:incazzato:

 

[Gazzer]

The thing is i may have a job coming up that i was going to ask him to help out with. I will wait my time before saying anything to him.

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Blimey a bit of a strange way to go about getting work.

If you cant relax and chat shop with a mate at the end of the day then what the point? Then to find they are pumping you for info!

 

[dagger]

you can not trust this guy at all, let alone employ his services again... as you said there are people that have issues with his workmanship...and you have issues with his morals!

fool me once shame on you, fool me twice.....shame on me!

best regards
Dagger.

p.s get shot of him, it is going to cause you heartache and grief all the way!!!!

IMO.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

nasty,sneaky, snake bin him m8

 

[diamondtiling]

To be honest I am not a violent person ( this only counts for sundays between 6am and 6.10am) but I think you should meet him and land your size 12's cleanly and evenly between his obviously small potatoes and send him quickly back under the stone from where he has crawled from, dirty no good dog that he is.

 

[White Room]

That is so out of order, like a stab in the back.:incazzato::incazzato::ban:

 

[CJ]

Dirty low life dog .............He's got his come-uppance in loosing work.

 

[Spud]

In a funny way Neale ,this scum bag has done you a favour ,the builder wont be tempted away again which means you have consolidated your relationship with him and you should be confident when pricing his work that you will get it so the couple of jobs he pinched off of you will benefit you long into the future ,send the scum bag to coventry rather than getting yourself in trouble slapping him ,he will soon get the message

 

[Perry]

i just had someone Neale who applied for a job asked a lot of questions next thing i know he is doing a job that i am unable to do through ill health and the adhesive i was supplying was no longer needed as he had rung my adhesive suppler and was getting it direct cheaper than i would buy it needless to say i am looking for a new suppler as i used over 110 ton last year but they had the cheek to ask me how to do it just hope i keep the contract thats why i have been asking about prices

 

[dagger]

i just had someone Neale who applied for a job asked a lot of questions next thing i know he is doing a job that i am unable to do through ill health and the adhesive i was supplying was no longer needed as he had rung my adhesive suppler and was getting it direct cheaper than i would buy it needless to say i am looking for a new suppler as i used over 110 ton last year but they had the cheek to ask me how to do it just hope i keep the contract thats why i have been asking about prices

that quite a few pallets PJC, sounds like you have had a rough time too,
how did he manage to get it cheaper than the guy buying 110 pallets ish?

no wonder you want to change suplliers,try and get a mapei account!!

best wishes

Lee.

 

[brian c]

loads of snakes around,sorry to hear this lads..i also had this done to me before hence the reason i dont tell anyone too much info if i can help it.

 

[Perry]

the wost thing he done was told the client what i pay for it :yikes:

 

[bearwithme]

what goes through the amoebic brains of scrotes like the two discussed here! :mad2:

 

[faithhealer]

Some people!, agree with Gary on this one neale.

 

[jay]

friends like that who needs enemys :8:

 

[chrisroe]

i had it happen to me it wont happen again

in fact its put me off using other people shame really as its good to work with someone once in a while

 

[Dan]

Ahhh, you're always best keeping your contacts to yourself when it comes to chatting to your competitors. Glad to hear you have your workc oming to you again Neale. Hopefully the guy will find his phone not ringing for a bit. Kama and all that.

 

[Fred]

Good to see that you phone call to the company worked out, thats the main thing.

 

[murf]

The lesson we should all learn from this thread is to always keep contact with our regular clients.You never know what the competition are up to. Glad to hear that you have it sorted Sir Ramic.

 

[White Room]

the wost thing he done was told the client what i pay for it :yikes:

Lower than pond life:mad2:

 

[LM Ceramics]

same as i only used to tell trusted tiler of my work on a need to know basis ive heard alot of stories of pinching work

 

[RockCeramics]

dog eat dog in this world.
what usually works is " bit slow at the moment bit of luck it will pick up soon".
Some times its best you dont brag

 

[Spud]

the wost thing he done was told the client what i pay for it :yikes:

not only has this idiot done you over, the moron has done himself over by giving your customer supply price information p.m me if you are looking for a new supplier I buy around the same amounts as you pete and i get a really good deal at the moment and have had no problems with the material so far