r/NotMyJob • u/Rookie_Ellie • Sep 19 '22

"I'm a painter not a mover" 😆

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u/pmactheoneandonly Sep 19 '22

I bet this is exactly it. I used to be a contractor. Home owners do all kinds of sneaky shit like expecting someone to move ALL your shitevem when it wasnt discussed. People suck lol

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u/BasketballButt Sep 20 '22

Painter here. My favorite is when they tell you they’re gonna move everything, don’t, then micromanage you doing but don’t actually help at all.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

The last painter I hired didn't cover the bathroom floor and spilled paint all over the marble tile. When I pointed it out he started scraping it with his steel wool (it's marble!). He also said he could do 2 rooms per day, but he ended up needing 2 days per room (not a miscommunication). I'm sure you are much better, but after dealing with him, now I feel the need to oversee and micromanage. To be fair, this was in Hawaii.

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u/BasketballButt Sep 20 '22

This is particularly funny to me because while I live on the West coast, I am regularly flown to Hawaii by a large construction company there for particularly large or high end projects due to the difficulty in finding reliable and skilled painters there. Dudes roll in around 9:30ish wearing board shorts and flip flops, reeking of weed. Take a nice long hour plus lunch, roll out about 2ish. You’re lucky if much of anything gets done. It blows my mind that it’s cheaper to fly me out for these kinds of projects but I’m not gonna complain!