House: Electrical Help/Power Issue

[Abz]

Yeah I don't like to tar people with the same brush it was self-depricating humor. But yes doley's have more free time on their hands to smoke fags and watch jeremy kyle, which is pretty much what I did until I got over my self pity and focussed all efforts into getting employment. But from working as a council sparky and going into unemployed tenants homes I generally found them ruder, overly selfish and arrogant compared to employed tenants. They seemed to think the world owed them something and would contantly argue about what you were doing and how you were doing it. FFS I was helping them out (for free as the council paid for the work) and a little respect wouldn't go amiss. My point stands about not getting another unemployed tenant though, however if you do get the council to pay YOU the rent instead of the tenant it can be done as when I was unemployed I had the option of entering the DD details of my landlord when applying for housing benefit.

In the end I managed to get the council to pay me directly but the last 2 months she still owes me. She says to me she will take it to court & then say she can only pay £5 a month & chances are she will get away with it.

 

I 100% agree with you dude! Thanks very much for your input, it is much appriciated.

[danny1987]

But from working as a council sparky and going into unemployed tenants homes I generally found them ruder, overly selfish and arrogant compared to employed tenants. They seemed to think the world owed them something and would contantly argue about what you were doing and how you were doing it. FFS I was helping them out (for free as the council paid for the work) and a little respect wouldn't go amiss. My point stands about not getting another unemployed tenant though, however if you do get the council to pay YOU the rent instead of the tenant it can be done as when I was unemployed I had the option of entering the DD details of my landlord when applying for housing benefit.

 

I had the same thing happen to me, when the company I’m working for had the Kings Lynn council contract, we got a report that the electric fire alarm kept going off in this house, so I when out there and found out they had been smashed off the ceiling!!! So I replaced them and the tenant had a go at me saying, if they go off again she would make a complaint and make sure I lose my job!!! But she was the one which set them off by smashing them off the ceiling!!! Lol luckily we don’t have this contract any more because on other occasions we were getting called out at 11o’Clock at night to change a light bulb and stupid things like that!