AIBU - Your kettle must be broken

[TellMeItsNotTrue]

AIBU to not offer a drink to workmen who say this or similar 5 minutes after arriving?

it pisses me off! If you want a drink then ask for one, if you had given me a chance I would have offered you one but not 5 minutes after you turn up while you are still unloading the van and haven't even started doing anything!

I always offer a choice of tea, coffee, cold drinks. I make sure I have biscuits in, I've even made homemade soup for workmen in the past when they were working on the garage in horrible weather!

So it's not like I'm mean when it comes to that sort of thing, comments like that just get my back up and then I don't want to offer them anything! So AIBU to reply "yes it must be" and then not offer a drink?

I was once asked by workmen, that had only just arrived!!
Quote “ here love, I haven’t any fags can you pop to the shop and buy me some !!”
Needless to say “the fags” didn’t arrive

Ugh. I’ve been asked that, they were doing the bathroom and had literally just arrived. I was also asked by the man doing some plumbing ‘if I’d like to be his receptionist for the day’ as his phone kept ringing 😒

Very cheeky! DH thinks I shouldn’t offer hot drinks at all but I don’t mind as long as it doesn’t stop people working. I pretty much always offer when I’m having one myself.

'They're getting paid to do a job. They're not doing me a favour. Do the job, get paid, leave. If they want snacks, they can use their extortionate earnings.'

Prepare for a roasting! You selfish, don't want to share your beverages (even if you do not drink them yourself), they will do a shittier job if you don't make them drinks, serve them drinks, make them lunch. Lighten up, it was only banter. You are not an employer, you are a customer.

So please tell me again, in which other profession, in which I am paid and contracted to do a job, do I demand, by any means, for my client to proffer me hot drinks as soon as I am at the door, serve them regularly, feed me lunch and snacks, and respond to rude requests to do, and expect to get more work or a compliant response? Because such offerings are a courtesy and not a right, IME, to be followed up with, 'Thank you,' not further phone conversations on my bill, about a non-existent other half who doesn't have a meal provided on a table, or 'tight bitch' or any of the other situations people have posted about.

I'm no Stepford Wife and find that comment offensive.
I have no idea if you are male or female but if you are a woman then you are spouting misogynistic twaddle and your comment is even more disgusting
If you want to make goady comments sort out your username - other wise you just look like you popped by to just be insulting.

PowerfulPerm!!!! I'd have taken the phone and "accidentally" dropped it down the toilet

How do you know it was aimed at you, Ladybird?

tbh if their work isn't essential I wouldn't let then into my home again.
rude bastards

Err how do you know it was aimed at me ?? lamagrey

You said "I'm no Stepford wife"? You seemed to be taking it personally.

I'd be making nae tea for rude fuckers!!
I did make the boiler guy a tea yesterday, he'd been here quite some time wrestling with the thing trying to fit a new part! It wouldn't go in..... He admitted defeat after 3 hours! Waiting for him to come back this morning with a another new part so fingers crossed coz it's chuffing cold!!!

Oh, we don't do coffee until eleven in this house and then provide the smallest cup you have (preferably luck warm).

We had workman charge their phone without so much as a by your leave. They'd even unplugged mine that was on charge. I just swapped them back and kept an eye open.

I'm happy to make a drink for people in my home but I wouldn't be making meals. My worst experience was having packers in before a house move abroad. One man came in , looked around, then went on my drive and phoned his girlfriend to say the playroom was full of toys and my children must be spoiled brats!

Once a man at work started making weird raspy noises and stroking his throat. I was very and asked him what was wrong. He said his throat was dry and he needed a cuppa.. directed at me!! I pointed to the kitchen with the same on my face, cheeky twat!

I always offer drinks but a comment like that would make me go the other way!

I find it's only British workmen who pull this crap. Never had it from other nationalities.

They do tend to charge their phones, but that doesn't bother me.

The ones who wanted to know my domestic arrangements were certainly not British. Not sure where they came from but English was clearly not their first language.

They left a lot of mess on the floor as well, bits of polystyrene. I would have expected them to ask for a broom or dustpan and brush and clear up for me.

Companies are very quick to want feedback in the form of reviews which as I was happy with the things ordered couldn’t be anything but bad. I contacted them seperately and said I felt their delivery men were inappropriate with the questions, never heard anything back.

Oh should have said its the constant tea demands that I've only had from British workmen.

Slightly random conversations have not been limited to any nationality.

'Once a man at work started making weird raspy noises and stroking his throat. I was very hmm and asked him what was wrong. He said his throat was dry and he needed a cuppa.. directed at me!! I pointed to the kitchen with the same hmm on my face, cheeky twat!'

What an asshole!

Yes, that's really rude. I had this when some workmen were doing something to my student house, albeit not after just 5 bloody minutes. I didn't really know that it was the done thing to make tea etc and had made an effort to keep out of their way. It made me feel silly and embarrassed.

I don't expect to be bossed about in my own home. I do always offer now during that first greeting conversation. I'd be v pissed off with anyone expecting bacon sandwiches!!