A little hogmanay amusement!

 

I'm reading through a couple of build specs that I found online, to see if there's anything I want to pinch for my spec, and came across this in one of them, which is clearly an amusing test to see if the contractors actually read the spec, and I thought I'd share it!!

 

"Site Meetings
The Architect will hold regular site meetings to review progress and other matters arising from the administration of the contract. Contractor to provide tea in blue china mugs on yellow place mats, accompanied with Scottish shortbread."

🤣 🤣🤣

 

We once had something similar, requiring the contractor (us) to provide bacon sandwiches for all site meetings, though I don't recall any mention of the china...

We did bacon Monday and beer Friday. Nothing in writing but our subbies appreciated it and in the grand scheme of things it was peanuts. 

My mate, a niche industry steel fixer, had something on the lines of ".....clear site of any materials superfluous and/or deleterious to the fix". 

 

The main company he worked for would often mess up either over or under supplying parts. The times they over supplied he'd put it back in his stores. Meant he could grab anything they were short of that evening and sort the next day rather than going back to the firm with the associated hassle. 

 

Also if another contractor left a box of bolts or screws on his install it got removed and put back in his stores. 

Several years ago, a neighbour of mine was working for a large, London based legal company.  She had it written into her contract that she could use the companies IT facilities to do her Amazon trading.

One of her duties was to post many legal documents, she used to slip in her own packages with no one noticing.

Edited December 28, 2025Dec 28 by SteamyTea

A previous job, one of the engineers never seemed that bright to many of us, and nobody was really sure what he was doing.

 

Then after a while he was sacked and marched off the premises immediately.  It turned out he was spending most of his time running his own business.

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