Painter needed.

shoes

shoes

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Yeah, you should stop moaning about the rates of trades people.

Should you be nursing in your condition :monkeydance:
 
shoes

shoes

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Well that depends on your perspective... what kind of rates are you being quoted?

We have a painter in the family and I know what they charge (which seems a fair day's wages to me) so can tell you if you're being quoted much higher than that (I think it's around £120 for a full day including travel and disbursements but not the paint itself). You get 8 or so hours for that, which equates to £15/hour.

I was only making a suggestion too.
 
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stafford-resident101

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shoes said:
Well that depends on your perspective... what kind of rates are you being quoted?

We have a painter in the family and I know what they charge (which seems a fair day's wages to me) so can tell you if you're being quoted much higher than that (I think it's around £120 for a full day including travel and disbursements but not the paint itself). You get 8 or so hours for that, which equates to £15/hour.
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Telephone

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Public service mentalty right there.

Been to uni for three year therefore deserve mahoosive pay and pension contributions. WTF, your looking for a decent tradesman who is willing to work for less than you earn - why?

Life choices - Marwood land !!
 
shoes

shoes

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Hang on a mo.... so you didn't start this thread to talk about your pay, yet you focused the whole thread on it?

What ward do you work on? I want to add an exclusion to my living will so I never have to come across you in real life. Chances are you'd somehow see my total lack of education and salary which is nearing double yours and kill me out of spite.

On the plus side, the Overtly Olive feature wall we had painted last year is looking superb!
 
Glam

Glam

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Not at all. I did nursing to care for people. I'm ending this thread it's pointless. If I'd wanted a debate on my pay and others I'd have put that in the post. Goodbye staffotd forum. Utterly futile.
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You asked a question, you got an answer, quite a sensible one imo.
From the tone in your reply, I detect that you are not quite the caring nurse you should be.
shoes said:
What ward do you work on? I want to add an exclusion to my living will so I never have to come across you in real life.
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Something tells me that he/she is not someone any of us ever want to come across, nor have any of our familys meet.
I'm not a qualified, nor do I earn buckets, but I hope to my patients I am someone they are happy to be looked after by. 26k is the wage a newly qualified gets, still not a kick in the teeth, is it?
 
littleme

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stafford-resident101 said:
So in my opinion I think 29k is too high for a painter.
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Get down off that high horse.


You get what you pay for.....if you pay for shite you'll get shite ...


*2nd edit - I was so disgusted with the statement that I forgot to say that I was disgusted with it!
 
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Id say £120 - £150 a day is the going rate round these parts. Numptys like the OP fail to realise that a trade is a very tough job and you have to usually train for a minimum of 4 years to qualify. what the hell makes the OP feel that they should only take home something like 300 a week after tax? Most trades are physically hard jobs and require a lot of skill even decorating. Most trades have to spend a fortune of tools and kit and replace and maintain them, they have to travel to and from their places of work with materials for the job, work their arses off for a day and some twat who sits on their arse for most of the day or filling in paperwork thinks they deserve twice their wage cus they went to uni? What a self adulating tit.
 
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