People who work on building sites


In the south (around Cambridge) for having sufficient skills to push a broom you will currently be paid £200 per day. If you are a trade- chippy or bricky you will currently get £500 per day- mugs you say?

Yep, and even offering that type of money some sites are struggling to get enough workers because of Br-youknowwhat. Often meet lads from the NE, Liverpool etc who have moved down to work on sites here because of the better day rates.
 
not many on the books these days unfortunately

might be on a decent hourly pay, but many won't have holiday or sick pay, or a pension, or many employment rights.

some of them like it that way. certainly works out better for the main contractors

i think if you have been on through agency for a certain amount of time you automatically gain some rights, like a paid days holiday etc... which i image was fought hard for by the unions

its a shit game to be in unless you are doing some specialist, niche operations.

general groundworkers etc.. get treated like shit most of the time. there is a high proportion of absolute c*nts working as site managers, and there is no where near the camaraderie that there was 20 years ago. bait cabins are deathly quiet as everyone just stares at their phones
 
Couldn’t pay me to sit behind a desk all day looking at a screen.

Each to there own , nowt better than being on site though the craics class
Love it me, banter is great, as you say and money to burn if your a grafter.
Yes, its price work and they are getting £500 a day out of it. Any trade that is not on price work is generally a chancer/ blagger or not fit for purpose
Or directly employed cards in.
 
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Done almost 50 years in construction, hated it, but I would have hated sitting in an office more, I've had two stints doing so, once when I was 21 and once to see me to my retirement, what a boring mind-numbing experience, I'd take manual work over that any day.
 
Especially in this type of weather .

Could pay me a fortune and I'd still be sick as a chip doing it.

Getting up early doors Monday to Friday, working all day for next 8 and a half hours ,sometimes longer .

Absolute mugs game imho .

Anyone on here do it.?

Glad I got out of it when I could

Discuss..

Full marks for using the phrase "sick as a chip".
 
Done almost 50 years in construction, hated it, but I would have hated sitting in an office more, I've had two stints doing so, once when I was 21 and once to see me to my retirement, what a boring mind-numbing experience, I'd take manual work over that any day.

I did 15 years on the tools and now done 20 years in a office- the work I do is related to construction, so I still get out and about doing site visits.

With regards to being on site I loved and hated it in equal measure. I made some great friends, had some great times and worked on some really interesting sites- prisons, airports, Palaces, House of Commons etc but I also worked on some mind numbingly boring sites in the middle of nowhere. Things have changed these days, but the welfare facilities were shocking and health and safety was not great in the 80's.

In my mind I still think I miss being on site- but in reality spending 8 hours in the freezing cold is not my cup of tea these days
 
In my mind I still think I miss being on site- but in reality spending 8 hours in the freezing cold is not my cup of tea these days
Never anyone's cup of tea, at any time, is it, but waking up to go to work in an office, where there's no crack or conversation, staring at a screen 8 hours a day, a day that feels like a month, used to make me depressed, I didn't like going to work in the cold, but it didn't depress me, the way office work did. Anyway, I'm finished with it all now, so I could give a fuck.. :lol:
 
Couldn’t pay me to sit behind a desk all day looking at a screen.

Each to there own , nowt better than being on site though the craics class

A lot each to talk bollox on SMB when working in a office. Explains a lot of the demographics on these pages during the working day.
 
Hard working lads. They certainly put the graft in and I wouldn't fancy it in the cold either.
When I have done a full day in the garden or doing DIY even just at my own glacial pace I'm ready to fall asleep the minute I get back in the house. Those lads are far fitter and work much harder.
This. Good honest work. Deserve their dough.
 

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