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Workman making coffee

36 replies

Redglitter · 29/01/2016 21:25

I'm really not sure if I'm being U about this so ill go with the general consensus.

I stay in a rented flat. There's work needed done and a company have been in twice. Their 3rd and final visit was this week and involved a 3 hour job. Since I was working the agency suggested giving them the keys and getting on with it. As it's a company they use a lot that seemed fair.

Came in and the jobs done and the place exactly as I left it. Except for one thing. There's a mug in the sink. It's a mug I forgot I had and very very distinctive. I know 100% I haven't used it which means the workman must have.

Personally I feel that's out of order. He had no reason to go into the kitchen. He's obviously give into a cupboard to find it then had to find coffee etc and milk.

If I'd been in I'd have offered him one but is it really acceptable to root around and help himself. Makes me wonder where else he's been

Needless to say no one will be getting my keys again.

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BlackEyedPeas · 29/01/2016 22:24

Well, estate agents are happy to look around the fridges, so why would someone be upset about a tired plumber / painter / electrician....
maybe the man had low blood pressure....

shazzarooney99 · 29/01/2016 22:25

I cant beleive how uptight some people are!! they had a cup of coffee, so what? he may just have used your cup and brought his own, its amazing how tight arrsed some people are.

Redglitter · 29/01/2016 22:29

It's not a case of being tight arsed if you read my post you'll see that it was the fact he was in cupboards in a room he didn't even need to be in that I wasn't comfortable with.

And as I already said TWICE I'm happy to accept I was BU

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Justmuddlingalong · 29/01/2016 22:31

I hope he hasn't left an opened pint of milk under the floorboards/ behind the plasterboard/ in a cupboard. Now, that would be out of order. Wink

shutupandshop · 29/01/2016 22:32

Oh dear

bibbitybobbityyhat · 29/01/2016 22:41

Of course you are not bu! What a load of ol' bollocks people are spouting on this thread. He was there to do his job, not help himself to your things. He could have brought his own coffee in a thermos or gone out to a cafe for a drink if he needed it! Being offered drinks is a perk of the job, not some sort of weird God-given right.

Yanbu op.

Marshy · 29/01/2016 22:44

Feck off cup Grin

It was only a cup of coffee. Leave some out next time.

OhSoGraceful · 29/01/2016 22:45

In a rented flat, you're not necessarily able to choose the workmen you have in, or benefit long term from the work they do. For a 3 hour job, they should bring their own, or the landlord should provide, they should not be going through the stuff of a person who didn't appoint them, or choose to have them there.

I supply tea/coffee/ biscuits for anyone I choose to have in my house.

chipsandpeas · 29/01/2016 22:46

it wouldnt bother me cos if i were around at the same time it saves me offering

PlumpFiction · 29/01/2016 22:49

YANBU. If you'd been there I'm sure you'd have offered, and yes in an ideal world leave supplies out with a note to help himself - but as you didn't invite him to help himself, he was rude to do so. Grown ups can, and do, go for 3 hours and longer without a drink...

Squiff85 · 29/01/2016 22:57

I always make tea or coffee or tell them where it is & to help themselves so you are being unreasonable, for being so thoughtless!

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