Just me having a vent (read winge)!

[M O P]

We've had a shearing team here for 10 days shearing our sale sheep and crutching everyone else. Before they arrived I spent a while making sure the shearer's quarters where clean. This involves sweeping out all 5 bedrooms, the kitchen and dining room and 3 bathrooms as well as washing all the mattress protectors (16 beds) and cleaning out the transportable house we have for them as well.

They left yesterday and we went over there today to just pack some things away and turn off the water and gas.

What a blooming pig sty we found!!
They've left a car, yes a car. The beds are in weird places like the kitchen, there's rubbish (coke cans and chip packets) everywhere- inside and out. Then I pulled dirty but not broken crockery and cultlery out of the bin!

We're so angry that they left it like that! What grots! Angus will be ringing the contracter today (a family company we've used for years and never had this before) and putting in a rather large complaint.

[M O P]

And now I'm even more cross cause I just had a random stranger ring up wanting to come out shooting!
As if we want people we don't even know running around our place with guns!!!

[Melo]

Oh my goodness Kazza, that is SO rude! I think you have every right to be pis*ed off! :hugs: to you!

And to think that you guys were doing these guys a favour by giving them work and look how they turn around and re-pay you guys. :thumbsdown:

[M O P]

Thanks Mel.

Like your new name btw. I've been really busy and away from the pc for a while and only just noticed.

[Duchessa]

That's so off Karen!

We have a lady down the road put our shearers up - means they have to drive 1/2 an hour to get to work, but bugger it - there is nothing worse than cooking, cleaning etc for a bunch of very blokey blokes, although ours are pretty nice ;)

I hope the contractor gets the message!

[Bearskin]

That's ordinary Karen!

Get into the contractor - shearers may be 'blokes' but they don't have to be pigs! Sometimes they have you by the throat though - not many shearers around anymore.

I've seen teams around here just put down their handpieces and walk out of a shed because the owner had private words with the boss about how one of the shearers couldn't shear Merinos well. They walked out in 'protest' of their mate being criticised....

They have voted our sheep wet and walked out a couple of times too...and they were not wet! Just wanted the afternoon off to "shear me own sheep", as one guy said. We sent one guy home after he hit a couple of sheep with his handpiece, hamstrung about 5 lambs, then cut one so badly it needed stitching and no one had a needle and thread. The sheep died and another shearer took it home for dog meat. Gee thanks for that.

Thankfully, ours go home every night!