...to not provide lunch for a joiner?

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We've got someone coming Mon-Weds next week to build some cupboards and change kitchen layout a bit. One bloke. I was going to buy nice biscuits and make sure tea/coffee/milk/sugar is well-stocked. DH thinks we should make him up some sandwiches and get in some extra crisps and chocolate bars. We live a 3 minute walk from a large supermarket and an excellent chippy. Who IBU?

No no they bring thier own or go to a cafe

DH thinks we

Does he mean you?

Er no, you are not a canteen!

I tld dh, hes in the trade, he said no

For gods sake biscuits and tea is more than enough! U don't make trades people lunch!

I didn't. I've only known workmen to either work through lunch or stop and eat it at a cafe.

Definitely not if we are here and having they get tea or coffee and biccies or shown where they are but totally expected to bring their own lunch or go out for it!

I have only ever made tea/coffee. They are capable of bringing food for themselves. My kitchen fitters even bring their own kettle and stuff for making tea. They were fab!

We are having lots done in our house at the moment I've had trades people of one type or another in every day for the last 4 weeks.

Tea/coffee and offer good biscuits.
(Make sure you have sugar in the house!)!

Most people working in your house take a break at lunchtime for a bit of peace and quiet in their van or nip off to the local cafe.

If I was at home making myself a sandwich I would make them a sandwich too. I have never met a workman who would say no to a bacon sandwich!

My bfs hb is a joiner and he has moaned about not being offered a drink at all and being asked to go elsewhere for the toilet. He is a really nice bloke and very clean...honest! But no, YNBU.x

Wtf? No

My DP is in the trade and he would find it quite uncomfortable if a client provided him with a full lunch mostly because he has an enormous appetite and would eat them out of house and home. Tea and maybe a few biscuits is plenty.

If we have anyone in doing work then I leave a cold lunch for them. DH normally comes home and does lunch for his staff as well if they want some. They even eat it in my kitchen and use my toilets. According to some posts I've read on here people don't allow "workies" to use ther toilets. I even have a loo brush for them to use.

my dp is a joiner.

a client made him lunch once years ago and he still bangs on about it.

because it was so unusual.

and delicious

I knew I was right!

Preferred biscuit? I'm thinking dark choc hobnobs, pink wafers and crunch creams? (definitely not thinking of myself...oh no)

And obviously allowed to use loo and to use garden for smoking.

Will even let him park on the drive!

I've had work on an extension going on since before Christmas (went way over schedule) and found most of the assorted builders, electricians, plumbers, carpenters etc didn't seem to eat much. My brother, who is a gas engineer, is the same. I think they find it hard to bend on a full stomach.
I didn't offer food, not even biscuits! Did make regular drinks though...

Nah, choc digestives, ginger nuts and custard creams...,

Serious question OP, is your DH Chilean? It's obligatory to provide lunch for anyone working at your home for a full day there, but not here in the UK.

My DP is a tradesman and whilst tea / coffee and use of a loo is always welcome even that isnt expected.

He said if someone made him lunch he'd be scared they wanted him to do the job in the buff

My dad is ex trade and he always offers tea/coffee/soft drink and biscuits as standard, and if he makes a bacon butty he offers since he's already cooking .. its roughly a 50/50 take up on it :)