To have reported these builders ?

[beanieb]

At lunch time I walked to the nearest shops to work and passed a site where there are retirement homes being built. As I walked by a couple of builders whistled and shouted 'oy' . I noticed a sign outside the site saying something about 'considerate construction' so rang it immediately! I wasn't rude but I did point out that shouting at people walking by was hardly considerate.

Why do I feel so guilty then!? MEH!

Beanieb has done absolutely nothing wrong here and I would probably have done the same in her shoes. Good for you beanieb.

If the company they work for are part of the considerate construction scheme, then the builders show know better. I am always tempted to phone those 'how is my driving' numbers when some idiot van driver cuts me up, but can never catch up with the blighters to note down the reg

Professional working people should be considerate, regardless of whether they are buliders, drivers or bankers.

pmsl @ kerrymum

Dangerous driving is completely different to someone whistling at you. Was you really that offended? I am shocked that so many people find it offencive only because a swift finger or fuckoff if they are annoying you usually does the job.

Did anyone see the Dom Joly show on channel five when all the builders kept shouting abuse at women Dom Joly dressed up as a woman and walked past the site got them all going and then pulled up his skirt to show his bits to say the least the builders were angry very funny stuff I bet they don't whistle at people no more.

PMSL Kerrymum thats funny stuff

Pingping i was making a point about professional working people being considerate, i wasnt saying dangerous driving is the same as being whistled at

pingpin, you mean this one?

beanib, yaNbu. Doubt they will get sacked.

pingping i posted a link at the beginning of the thread

Not you VT OP said she also complains about dangerous drivers I too would complain about them if I could catch there reg and telephone number.

I just think rather than complaining about a couple of arsehole builders you could of made them look likes arses and carried on about ya business.

I usually have a comeback or two for arrogant men on the streets for example

Drunk man said = OI OI sexy girl didnt I f*ck you the other night

Me= O yeah your the one with that little dick I wouldnt call it fucking it was more like a pin prick.

Drunk man goes red
Drunk friends LOL

Drunk man then thinks twice before shouting abuse at women walking past him.

Sorry J20 I didnt see your link did you watch it on the TV Dom Joly is hilarious wonder if he is doing a new series

Some women just dont have the confidence to put these men in their places with witty retorts though, i myself, would let out a swift 'fuckoff tosser' and carry on walking, but i still think its rude inconsiderate and intimidating, you dont see any other professional working people doing it, so why should builders be allowed to act like tossers, when in groups? And i am not saying all builders do, the the small majority that do give them a bad name imo.

I work in the construction industry and all of my sites are signed up to the Considerate Constructors Scheme. YADNBU to have complained about them because they will know that one of the Site Management Rules is to be considerate to all persons on or walking past their site. Wolf whistling and hollering is definately not being considerate.

What will happen is that your complaint will be registered against the site and when it gets its next inspection (all sites signed up to the CCS get inspected twice a year) the inspector will discuss it with the site manager and a few points will be deducted from the overall score. Nobody will be sacked but all workers on the site will be reminded that this sort of behavious isn't appropriate.

I think it would be very different if the builders were actually working for you though. That's why you can't really make comparisons with going to the Dr etc. If the builders who are working on my house at the moment made any remarks then I would be extremely offended (can't imagine they would be that type as they are lovely). It is slightly different to builders working on a site.

I did PMSL at the van of young builders who whistled at me a few months ago as I was unloading my DCs from the car. Should have seen their faces drop as I turned sideways to reveal a 0 month pg bump!

That should read 9 months pg!

"Was you really that offended?"

like I said I wasn't using the word Offended.

I felt like my space had been intruded without invite by people who work on a site which claims to be considerate to the environment they are working in.

Thats interesting to know Pootle, in that case they should definately have know better, which just makes them arrogant tosspots imo.

"Did anyone see the Dom Joly show on channel five when all the builders kept shouting abuse at women Dom Joly dressed up as a woman and walked past the site got them all going and then pulled up his skirt to show his bits to say the least the builders were angry very funny stuff I bet they don't whistle at people no more. "

this is linked to on the first page. I think the thing with that is it was playing on the homophobia that some men feel.

There has been building going on at my place of work for months, and they have the 'considerate construction' board up too.

I find that what happens as I walk into work (you have to walk past the builders to enter the building) is that they fall silent and stare at you.

It makes you feel extremely uncomfortable but because they are silent you can hardly call it harrassment or whatever.

In my experience yelling back at idiots who shout abuse at you simply makes them worse and the obcenities get stronger.

I was walking along in the summer and an older guy said to a younger guy 'nice tits shame about the face' as I walked past. I was absolutely outraged but what can you actually do? Any response at all is just going to result in 'calm down dear' etc.

I think it's a disgrace that young men entering the trades are taught that part of the job entails passing personal comment on any woman who walks past. I notice they are respectful if you're with a bloke though.

These guys are pathetic and YANBU to report them if there was a number there asking you to do so. If only more people would do this.

As for the commenter who said 'you must think highly of yourself', jeez. What decade do we live in?

I wouldn't shout back at them either. Why should I stoop to their level?

No Dom Joly was proving a point to the builders it was not a Homophobia issue its a complaint show he also went to Capital the credit card company and left loads of junk mail through there letter box.

I think your find its more groups of men that feel its ok to try and intimidate women or try to look good in front of there friends not just builders I am sure that alot of city men have been out in a bar shouting abuse at me and my friends whistling coming up behind us trying to touch us etc.

I'm with beanie. Its sexual harrasment and intimidating to a lot of women and makes them uncomfortable. Why should women have to put up with it?
Why were these blokes thinking it was ok to behave like arses and shout at and intimidate women? Do they think its clever?

If there was a phone number to complain about rude and abusive city boys then I'm sure the OP would have rung it had she found herself in that situation. In this situation, it was builders.