Dealing With Wimpy Husbands.

Chris G

I think men who are bullied by their wives are my new least favourite client. The wives seem to treat them as whining messengers. It sucks.

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Susan Betz

Shut up and bake me a pie.
















that's meant to be funny, in case you missed it.

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BuiltByMAC

I laughed, Susan! Actually, "snorted" would be a better word!

Hey Chris, at least you have no doubts as to who you have to please when working for them!

Mac

threaderman

I agree with Mac,I work both ends but key in on the decision maker.There are guys out there that are just not mechanically inclined ,or they're not involved as much in the decision making.I don't mind dealing with the women.

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Chris G

Dude, I love dealing with the woman. Usually I get the initial call from the husband, who has some whacked out idea of what he wants. Then I just wait it out until his wife comes out and says "he's an idiot, we want this..." The next call goes something like: "ya it's Bob, uh ,uh, uh...I think Susan has a pretty good idea of what she wants, so uh, uh, just deal with her, so ya, see you next next week man!".

I far prefer dealing with the female of the household. They actually make decisions. But this is one those situations where the wife just barks orders at her husband, and he relays them to me.

Maybe I should ask him to bake some cookies for me.

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OCRS

Had one 2 summers ago. When his wife wasn't around he'd be all piss and vinegar. She'd show up; tail between the legs and quiet as a lamb.

dkillianjr

Thats a funny one!


I too like dealing with the women of the household, they seem like they know what they want and make desisions fairly quickly. A lot of the men either ask their wives anyway or they ask me so many questions like can you do it like this or is that gonna hold, stuff like that. I just wanna say shut up just tell me what you want. Heck I even recently did a job where there were two women of the household, if you know what I mean it was one of my favorite jobs so far!


Dave

nlgutters

i had a customer 3 years ago. i dealt with her the whole time. We where there doing the install and husband was out watching us (trying i hid from the wife). all of i sudden i hear this scream like she was being murdered i look over and hes triming the rose bushes. She starts screaming and swearing calling him every name in the book after shes done screaming out the window at him i thought he was gonna cry he just stood there in awe. He went in the house and never saw him again. I dont know how he lived like that but seemed quite used too it but maybe a little embarased about it

A W Smith

I guess there are many Govenor Mcgreevey/s in the world. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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22rifle

Our landlords at one place in CO were sorta like this...

She drove a Harley and he drove a bike. And that pretty much symbolized everything we knew about them.

deckman22

That was good for a fathers day chuckle Susan.

I agree, nothing worse than a wimpy man. Well maybe a bull dike.

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rubber duck

I gotta go, i here my wife calling.

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AtlanticWBConst

Generally, on 99% of the remodeling, additions, & home improvement contracts that we do, it's the wives we deal with. The husbands usually stay out of everything. It's actually kinda weird to see the husband getting involved with decorating, colors, etc.

It seems like the only times the husbands are heavily involved, are when they are engineers...and they usually end up being a PITA (overly involved). Honestly, we would rather deal with the wife.

Personally, I have no problems dealing with the wives.

It's the wack-jobs (male or female; winers, panic-buttons, and nervous types) that I can't stand.

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rbsremodeling

Nice one Sus err Mrs. Betz

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POST OF THE DAY!!!

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22rifle

Men: Think they know how to do it. PITA.

Women: Know they don't know how to do it but neither can you BS them. Convince them you know what you are doing and you are good to go.

I know I am generalizing like crazy here. But I have seen this too often to not notice a trend.

Best of both worlds? Lesbian couples where neither is too butchy. Never had a problem with those.

Worst of both worlds? The "woman" in a gay male relationship. Worlds worst PITAs. Too confused I guess.

Susan Betz

My husband is actually a 275 pound baby gorilla and he said, "HEY, YOU'RE MAKING ME LOOK LIKE SOME KINDA WIMP HERE."

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Stone Mountain

Over the 30 seasons I've been doing this, the market has changed. Today, probably 70% or more of my customers are women. I often don't even meet the husband. As mentioned above, today's woman is much more sophisticated, and if you talk down to them, or treat them like a man would have years ago, you might as well just leave.
Honesty, education, treating them as` equals(they are), gets you the job.
Steve

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Chris G

Totally agree.



I think this is the problem here. I have a closeted gay male/momma's boy who has somehow been put in charge by his wife (or not really) and can't make a decision to save his life.

Just say it man!!!! If you want me to change something, don't start crying and running for cover, the job will never friggin' end!

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A W Smith

Over the years I have experienced mostly that it is the women who make the decisions, The husbands generally take the attitude that they "don't give a ****. Just make the wife happy so she don't complicate my life." Except when it comes to building a Tiki bar, pool house, workshop. garage, deck, etc.

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