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  • What I hate about being a sign maker

    Posted by Phill Fenton on October 6, 2014 at 10:38 am

    I love my job – I really do. Sign making is a very satisfying and rewarding occupation, but there’s one hazard of the job that really gets me down.

    Bad Weather..

    More specifically, trying to plan a day to fit some exterior signs only to wake up in the morning to find it blowing a gale or pouring with rain. Meanwhile you’re feeling pressurised by the customer to get the job done when conditions make it very unpleasant if not downright dangerous.

    What do you hate most about your job?

    Colin Crow replied 9 years, 6 months ago 9 Members · 11 Replies
  • 11 Replies
  • Raymond Doyle

    Member
    October 6, 2014 at 11:34 am

    Winter Phil….. Just had to order our first gas bottle for the factory today, £85.00 per week from now till the sun reappears in march/April 😀

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    October 6, 2014 at 5:34 pm

    weather is a killer at every level from signage to vans…
    nothing worse than it being cold. im actually getting electric central heating installed in the next couple of weeks.
    been trying to get gas for years but the is an issue with the local gas main, so electric central heating it is!

    still, isnt going to solve trying to hold cold screws with numb fingers whilst using a cordless and it skids off and catches skin… :yikes:

  • Graham Shand

    Member
    October 6, 2014 at 6:16 pm

    I cannot understand, three Scots complaining about the cold, as my Mother used to say put another jumper on LOL

  • Raymond Doyle

    Member
    October 6, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    Behave graham, I only said I bought gas, I never said I was going to switch it on lol

  • Denise Goodfellow

    Member
    October 6, 2014 at 8:24 pm

    I hate the customers who know they want something but don’t know really what they do want, but it’s not what ever you show them, and when it’s done, it’s not what they wanted……… FFS

  • Jon Marshall

    Member
    October 7, 2014 at 8:20 am
    quote Raymond Doyle:

    Behave graham, I only said I bought gas, I never said I was going to switch it on lol

    😛

  • Ewan Chrystal

    Member
    October 7, 2014 at 9:53 am

    Funny all this talk about hating the bad weather. I gave up window cleaning to become a signmaker cause i hated the long cold wet winters. LOL

  • Cheryl Smith

    Member
    October 7, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    moaners… 😛 (of course I never moan myself) 😮

  • Tracey Vaughan

    Member
    October 7, 2014 at 7:52 pm

    :funky: Get a grip peeps, it could be worse could snow LOL !!

  • Cheryl Smith

    Member
    October 8, 2014 at 5:25 pm

    no..now I’ve thought of a really good one which really stresses me out…computers and machinery playing up…and it always tends to be when I’m really really really busy… 👿 👿 👿 👿 :baby:

  • Colin Crow

    Member
    October 9, 2014 at 11:03 pm

    Artwork supplied in Word documents!

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