What do you reckon- give a him another chance or not?

[ThoseBlinkingTradesmen]

Semi-light hearted but not really.

This week we had a bloke coming to give us a quote (electrician.)
He promised he would call if he was unable to make the time and was stuck in traffic (I know his route so a delay of 30mins was possible.)

Well...out of the 2 hour window he gave us, he didn't come. I gave him another 45 mins then called- voicemail. Left message to ask if he was coming and said if it was going to be much later (after X time, we couldn't do it.)

No reply. Sent text to say the same.

The next morning- so a whole evening later - he sent a text to say sorry, he'd had a 'bad day' in the city where he was working and could we rearrange.

I've not as yet.

DP is 'shielding' as much as possible as he is Clinically Vulnerable ( horrible, serious stuff with health) and we had prepared the house around this- back doors unlocked, to avoid him walking through the house etc, new masks ready for him, our dinner delayed. And of course we'd lost the whole day from 3.30 - gone 6pm.

Would you give him another chance? I just feel it's so inconsiderate as how long does it take to call us once he'd stopped driving and got home? (His home town is ours.)

No. He can get lost. Very unprofessional to give the excuse of a ‘bad day’.

Ordinarily I would say not to reply but he may turn up out if the blue so make it clear to him by replying.

‘Your services are no longer required.’

Nope, not a chance. Tell him so. Tell him he messed you around too much and you need someone reliable so you've found someone else.

He obviously doesn't actually want the work that much.

No way

I'm glad you are thinking like me!

DP was all for giving him another chance, but we have had such a worrying 2 years with DP's health, putting off getting things done in the house as well to avoid mixing, that I cannot have any patience with people who mess me about.

The next tradesman may also mess you around so I’d give him another chance. You really didn’t loose the whole day though 3-6:30 did you?

@Brogues

The next tradesman may also mess you around so I’d give him another chance. You really didn’t loose the whole day though 3-6:30 did you?

Sorry @Brogues but that's madness.

The next tradesperson might be absolutely amazing.

Why would she waste time on the original guy who's clearly unreliable, unprofessional and doesn't really want/need the job, when there are other electricians out there?!

@Brogues

The next tradesman may also mess you around so I’d give him another chance. You really didn’t loose the whole day though 3-6:30 did you?

Well if he does, he won't get the work either!

I said I lost the whole day FROM 3.30-after 6pm. So in effect we were on standby from 3.30pm, not knowing if he was going to turn up or not. I gave him a cut off time, in the end,

The issue is, they are all like this though, they're all so busy that even getting one to agree to come out in the first place is hard. I'd probably give him one more chance, then I'd write him off. Unfortunately it's a tradesman's market at the moment - from my experience anyway.