East Dulwitch Hunt

[the-e-dealer]

Only one way to sort this out ! Fight ! :)

[Sue]

steveo Wrote:

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> They wouldn't let it lie

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I tried to.

But if you were me, would you just let DJKQ's most recent post stay there without responding?

If you would, you're a stronger person than me :-S

I made every effort to resolve the situation two years ago, as the letter I just posted makes clear. Short of going round to DJKQ's home and physically forcing her to discuss things with me, what more could I have done?

Admin asked us not to continue this on the forum, and it is not me who has started again, but I really can't take this lying down.

[alice]

ridiculous

[Sue]

It may be ridiculous to you, but it is extremely stressful to me.

[StraferJack]

Sue

I can't see that replying on here alleviates that stress in anyway. If Admin has told you both to stop it, I would just report whoever breaks that request and have the posts removed

[alice]

let go

[Sue]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Sue

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> I can't see that replying on here alleviates that

> stress in anyway. If Admin has told you both to

> stop it, I would just report whoever breaks that

> request and have the posts removed

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Yes you're right, and I will.

I have asked Admin to delete DJKQ's post and my subsequent posts.

However if she posts in that vein again then she can expect me to respond.

[DJKillaQueen]

Ok just to illustrate what kind client Sue is (because I'm not taking any more of this nonsense) here are a couple of examples of how she operates;

When the floors were sanded some wood worm damage was uncovered. Nothing major and concentrated to two small areas and I knew it would impact on the finish once the floor was painted. So I gave her the options, the wood worm could be filled, or the boards replaced. She opted to do neither and instructed me to paint over them saying that ?it?s an old house and it adds character? (a favourite line of hers for going for the lower level of finishing (a cost factor) before then complaining the finish wasn?t high enough ? and then expecting us to deliver the higher finish at no additional cost). She then wasn?t happy with the visibility of the wood worm damage and accused me of not knowing what I was doing!!!!

Another example, I advised the alcove shelves should be painted with melamine paint for obvious reasons (she didn?t want gloss or any shiny paint, so melamine is a good option). She instead told us to use the same paint as the walls (under some insane impression that white melamine would make her shelf look like a kitchen cupboard). I reminded her that the wall paint was a water based emulsion and would not be easy to clean and most likely would mark once she put things on it. She didn?t mind that she said. So we did it, books went on the shelf and then she complained that that paint became easily marked by the books?????..it was a constant (and I by that I mean daily) barrage of nonsense like this.

The floor varnish was I think the final straw. Before we even get to that??once the floor had been painted protective coverings were put down to keep it clean prior to varnishing. But with 24 hours, Sue had muddy footprints all over the stairs and hall (the coverings were no longer there). Wine had been spilt, she had gone and bought 10 or so potted plants and plonked them down on the painted floor in the sitting room!??the walls were getting marked??she just wasn?t very careful at all and then expected us to clean/ make good, or touch up all of that at no charge!!!!

There was an issue with the varnish (a manufacturers issue) but only half the sitting room had been varnished so the remedy was to lightly sand the areas that had the issue and repaint?.perhaps a days work (and not really enough to seek issue with the manufacturer of the varnish) and something I would have happily done at no charge just to get it sorted. But again Sue made the ludicrous demand that the entire floor throughout (including that only painted so far but now getting increasing scuffed by her careless disregard for it) should be completely sanded back down to the boards at my expense!

To help me on this the TV production company sent an independent flooring expert to have a look and he told her EXACTLY THE SAME AS I HAD, that a light sand of the affect areas and repaint was all that was needed. He also said the varnish was the correct varnish to use, i.e. polyurethane based, on porous paint ? so effectively validated that not only was the work fine but that the problems were easily remedied?..oh and I forgot to say that she moaned about the wood worm to him too. But even after this she STILL continued with her ridiculous claim that it all had to be redone from scratch!

This is what I was up against.

We were blamed for damaging things we hadn?t. Remember the washing machine Sue? And how even though we replaced the doorbell (which should have been the end of the matter) you continued to bully and accuse my young apprentice? (we replaced the doorbell because there was no way of knowing why it stopped working and for a quiet life).

And that's another thing...when Sue wanted to talk about something she wasn't happy about....it wasn't a quite calm chat.....she would quite literally through a tantrum. Thinking back I have no idea why I tolerated it. And to add that in the middle of this work I found out that my mother had died....to which Sue could only say that she 'didn't give a toss' when her parents died......not relevant I know but that is just about the sum of Sue.

In the end, once the final day of filming was complete, I took the Thursday and Friday off (plus the weekend) because I?d worked something like 17 days in a row (and then Sue had the cheek to say I was unreliable!!!). On the Monday Sue asked me not to continue to work and requested a meeting on the Wednesday. I agreed but removed my tools as I had a little job I could do over two days and also because most of the tools were no longer needed on site. This in itself seemed to infuriate Sue. Wednesday came and a few hours before the meet Sue cancelled, but didn?t arrange another meet?.then accused me of not wanting to meet with her and the madness continued with a bombardment via email and post of pages of irrelevant complaint. I decided to cut my losses and have nothing more to do with any of it (having decided she was insane) and nobody at the time who knew what was going on blamed me for it. In fact, many wondered how I put up with it for as long as I did. So her bathroom did not get finished but it was left tidy, and the three snags/ outstanding things to finish did not get sorted.

Enough is enough Sue......I am not going to pick over every bone with you again and especially not in a public forum. Your behaviour was disgraceful when I worked for you and it has been disgraceful on this forum since (remember the claim that iroko couldn't be used in a bathroom????).

To anyone on the outside reading this, the only thing that is clear is that there are two people at loggerheads, who will never agree. There is no opinion to be drawn other than that.....not on my character, work, or anything else....and anyway, who in their right mind wants to read all this?

Admin...time to lock this one I think.

[*Bob*]

DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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who in their right mind wants to read all this?

Oh, just a few thousand people, I reckon. Give or take.