Lessons from working with AMAZINGLY friendly contractors | Thomas Nagy
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Working with other contractors can be such a joy. This video is a short ramble on how nicely some fellow contractors treat you. Was offered an AMAZING lamb kebab which tasted awesome. Life can be good!!!
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I saw this on a tradesman's van many years ago - 'You've tried the cowboys, now try the Indians', Shah & Sons.
It's so nice to come across a video with such a positive story. There's just too much hate in the world right now. THANKS Thomas
my boss is a sikh. brings in homemade food every day, it's the most beautiful food I have ever had without a doubt. we also have Indians next door where we live, every Thursday they bring round home cooked food, even smelling it walking past that they're cooking the food is mouthwatering. super friendly people!
One of the things that I truly enjoy about your channel is the emphasis you place on the neatness of the work. It does matter even if the work is hidden from view. I applaud you for that.
Amazing to see so much positivity about a group of people.
I to grow with Indians and can honestly say the majority of them were some of the friendliest and polite people I would ever meet.
I’ve been watching some of your videos, as a retired ex sparky, they bring a lot of memories back, some which I had completely forgotten about. Thanks for stirring up my brain cells!
It speaks volumes about the British born tradesmen. There is no cost or shame in being good mannered and polite.
yes thanks Tom for making us so very hungry
When I worked at a phone shop, we would go to a wholesaler in London that was literally based in a huge attic upstairs somewhere, and it was run by Muslims. It was an all day job getting stock, and around 12-12:30 they'd go out and get the same sort of food you was talking about, and we'd all sit around a table or something. I think it's in their culture to eat like a family even if you're a complete stranger. These people aren't all the same, it's a shame some ruin it for the majority.
Mr Tom! What you had was a lamb Shawarma , its layers of marinated lamb lightly spiced with tahini ( a special sauce made out of sesame seeds) , inside an Arabic thin bread which melts in your mouth as you eat it! To anyone who hasn’t tried one, they haven’t eaten Lamb yet! they need to try one to find out what Properly cooked meat should taste like! They are absolute heaven! I am a British Pakistani and in the 80s working on our building sites with my dad, would insist that all the workmen on the site sit around this large round table and have a proper dinner together as a ‘family ‘ it’s our Asian culture & We find it offensive if people refuse our hospitality and food ,even more so when you have employed these people to work for you .It’s like a duty of care. Anyway the lads on site couldn’t believe their luck with the way they were fed with proper curries /rice & slap up’meals every day! It might of seemed a luxury to them but is the standard customary thing abroad
Especially in Asian & Muslim countries
its nice to be important, but its more important to be nice
- Scooter -
it's a different culture, some bosses take pride in taking care of the help
I’m a trucker. Really agree with the sentiment of your vid. Superb.
That reminds me of when I worked in London in the 70's with a Cypriot electrician - he would always take time to stop in a cafe to buy me a good lunch which he always paid for. The first day I worked for him he left me in an empty flat with a cold chisel and club hammer as well as a countersunk socket box. He came back later to see how many I had chased out in the brickwork - I guess I had done enough, I learned a lot working for him!
working with different background of people is really good experience. Yeah it's like insult yet you can offer too but they see it differently as in honour and pleasure being generous:)
Ahmed Cable
3:42 This is normal in friendly cultures e.g. asia. I am german guy but have had work and live in Thailand some years. We "Western" talk it "family" if we see us in a run and on hand eating a McD Burger - they make free a eating place and sit down for food and drink normal food; normally with all people together (friends, co-worker, family) for half or one hour.
You will learn how goes away your stresses life and come back your live. Specially here in asia they do it her / his long life - so they can't understand our western do. Be calm and sit with them together, in UK all people talk english language, so no problem for you. Here in Thailand they talk mostly thai, not easy sometimes.
In asian culture the people talk to other people with "respect" to non-family member. If it friends or co-worker you use fast the first name, but they use different respect words for older/younger, own/other company, police, boss and so on. In english language you have only mister / misses - so they use this words ...
I have some students - they call me "mister" since years. Long time ago my best asian friend and co-worker says "mister" to me - till she found out that she can full open coconuts with 3 cuts only - i stop after 30 times (no hole!). Now she see that I am "not better / higher" in hierachy as she self - have I know that earlier we make the coconut game years befor in the past.
It is not easy this asia culture - after UK was long time invated in asia - the most people not understand it after so a long time. Sure you think right now: "Hey, they are in London (England), why they not accept MY english culture?" The answer is easy, they can't it so fast.
In Ko Samui we starts with traffic light at a t-bone crossing first time, after a year you see that really 99% driver stops at red light. Sometimes things need time. 😆😂
BTW: I not know your restaurants in London but here in Samui I know that food from the muslim village market days. It is so delicious! They served it fresh lamp meat inside this greek pita bread (I not have a name for this) - it's so great!
Sounds like proper Kebab like you get in the middle east. A lamb shawarma.
I used to go to a little place in Bahrain and eat them till I couldn't eat anymore.
I can only describe it as the lamb from the best Sunday roast.
The only place I have had one in London was the bottom end of the Kings Road,
"The Kebab Kid" it's probable not there anymore.
i just googled it! its still there. im totally going to try one out from there! i'll update you!
No shit!!!! Last time I went there was over 25 years ago.
Fingers crossed they still do shawarmas
Can confirm I’ve been here and eaten one of the Shawarmas and they are indeed the muts nuts!
I do work for Indian people dr, consultants and surgeons, they always want to feed me even though i never eat during the day, the taste is phenomenal too, even had some take me to top restaurants for food too and I'm dressed in my work wear scruffy and covered in crap and they respect everything you say and do, i only work for them now because they have respect for you
Bit late to the comment but food is given priority over work in northern india and pakistan. Its tools down for lunch.
As an courtesy if you do end up in this situation then offer to buy them lunch on your last day or buy them a small gift just to return the favour. Juat be carefull of dietary needs ie veg, halal, alcohol etc but they would appreciate the thought.
Love it , I worked on a site with around 30 Indians , they was so friendly ugh more polite than fellow English men
They were polite because they cant speak english
@@DerekHundik They were probably saying "Banchode" behind his back.
I have had the very same happen on some jobs, I find its the clients who know your work is profesional and up to standard, hence they see this and reward with being very friendly and with food or other gifts.
Camaraderie - it's what makes work enjoyable!
Thanks for sharing
Your way with words makes your channel!
I did a PAT test in an Indian restaurant in London, all Indian staff. They wouldnt let me go buy lunch would insist they cook food for me. Never happened in any other restaurants 😂
It'll be super marinated and spiced... Prepared authentic, by either a 'proper' Middle Eastern restaurant (c.f. main street ones) or at home... Made the way it would be made in wherever he hails from. Whereas the kebab shop stuff is just on a shish and cooked rapidly for mass market consumption.
Great Story Mr TOM, 😂officially our new name. Sound like lovely people. Great Chinese accent btw 😂😂😂
As an apprentice sparky in Canada, i was once gifted with Portuguese-at-work-Easter-Dinner. Dee-lish! I love that the tradesman bond ocassionally supercedes the "keep your head down, get the job done" tradesman mantra.
i love how you made a video about people being nice..... london is a funny place XD
They've seen all the McDonalds and petrol station food you eat and are trying to get you to eat better food 😉
Hey, leave the junk food out of this...real contractors live of that. No one got time to go get something normal
you'll probably find they get a better finished product if the workers a happy and fed
Hi, I'm from Pakistan,
I really like your work
It's "home food". Nothing beats home food. It's what people eat at home, not the commercial stuff that they sell to others. I love home food from all around the world.
"You wouldnt think bread has a taste" - And this is the difference between continental europe and a tunnel in between ;-)
... when you need printing ink to make the taste of your food better (fish&chips) :-) :-) :-)
- Do you accept food care packages ? :-)
sounds like a lamb shawarma kebab in a naan bread
There is some good ones but certainly also bad ones, i've been on a job renovating apartments for a guy called hassan who i believe is of turkish or middle eastern origin, who would be late on payments constantly, look over everyones shoulders even though it was a fixed price for the job, he even cheaped out on the plasterers and bricklayers and got alcoholics and drug addicts, polish workers etc. Nothing against the polish though honestly because they seemed to know what they were doing but the plasterers left empty beer cans everywhere and even light up a joint one time. It was noones surprise when the jobsite was shut down.
Shield FleeT sounds better than Miami Florida
I know what you mean, really nice when that happens, also Kebab done right is food heaven. :)
Best alf garnett impression ive ever seen
I was doing snagging on an estate in East Acton where there was an Indian team. Competent and also extremely nice. The British team were a bunch of cowboys and stole my mobile phone out of my bag.
Were you Polish?
It's probably more efficient for his job as well to not have all the subs leaving and getting lunch, just keep working and he gets the food
I'm hungry now....
Great channel - subscribed! Now I'm starving... 👍🛠
Gosforth Handyman I subscribe to both you guys... it seems like a lot of new cool channels are popping up in the UK :)
It's called hospitality
Hi Tom, you may have answered it in another post but I just wondered how long you have worked in London and if you are looking to live there permenantly ie: buy a house or if you will move back to Devon. Great videos.
lived up here about a year now. dont see myself moving anywhere else for a while now. I like London quite alot. ;-)
Cheers tom great videos keep it up.
great vid of some of the perks of working in london :D
Its nice to be nice
Mista tom
In eastern cultures nobody eat alone
From experience very few eat with mouth closed either, you can see and hear how it's all going....
You wouldn’t think bread has a taste? Lol. You’re too used to McDonald’s .
It's the 'special sauce' the guys put on it for you that makes it taste so exotic
The British reserve can be off-putting, even in a one-on-one. Social profiling is such a terrible habit - I’m a true believer in the value of multi-cultures and like you, I’ve encountered very nice people from a myriad of cultures. You catch more bees with honey than with vinegar 😉
Can you do a video detailing how you price jobs. A lot of your day to day seems to be small jobs perhaps an hour or two. How does this tally up and make a days wage.
Ryan Foley I work in a trade but not as an electrician. Working for yourself is a little different from working for someone else. One or two jobs, at least in my respective trade, are easily double/triple/quadruple a standard days pay.
Was it the tastiest bread though?
How would you handle working with another electrical contractor (out of your control) who is working to a poor or unsafe standard?
Cerberus256 tell him to sign the job off in his name.
As long as he was in charge it should be ok, if the other contractor is in charge then you just have to walk away from the job.
" it takes only one to ruin it" yes, such a truism, one bad apple.... Its such a olde saying, Indian people have a " guest" mentality, you cannot go to a punjabi person's house without eating or drinking, as its the high of disrespect, to have a person ask for even water, without you offering everything from water to juice or pop aka soda, you disrespect the guest and yourself and family, its the village aka simple life, where it is better to give than receive, we are all equal in the eyes of the Creator, OK trying to explain is hectic, how about a sentiment, in the olde country, if your neighbour has a guest ( relative / friend or anything) they are not in, then it is incumbent on you the neighbour to act in their stead, so you invite them in, give them refreshments, food whatever, no is not an option, the best plates, cutlery, etc, the best food, as to not disrespect the guest, it's a case of honoring the guest, if or when the neighbours return, that of no consequence, the person shall be catered for, then leave when totally full, its a case of respecting others, there is no 3rd party, no other, in the UK you can tell when the area you are driving in is good, when people give you way, it then rubs off on you, small ripples in a pool, it's almost 12, ZZZZZZZZ,
Shawarma I suspect
food description sounds a bit like shwarma, middle eastern dish.
"his name isnt ahmad ah what the hell we will call him ahmad''
Its more realistic than Timothy.
And is there a problem?
This is the truth then we have Brexit lol. Always nice people.
brexit would be best!
Ahmed. So H is pronounced as breathing out so its like AHmed
Nice story 😀
Veryvery nice! :D
Probably Amit
and that would be short for Amitabh.
I don’t suppose it’s a firm called cheema?
MR.TOM sounds like lamb shawarma. None of this Donna rubbish. shawarma is the real deal basically its layers of 100% lamb steak. Working in london you are lucky as there are a lot of arabic shawama places there. Yes Edgwere road is famous for these..check out Helens cafe on Edgware road... they do lamb and chicken.. and they make there own chilli sauce and garlic mayonnaise off the hook!
Here is a link to show armour for people that haven't had the privilege of trying
ruclips.net/video/iM4v5uYMC0E/видео.html
hy I am new to jor chanel just subscribed
He must have some great weed😂😂
3:04 naan? Lol
That's lovely wish my workplace was like that
I hate you, now I am hungry... :)
This sounds like Shawarma mate
nan bread
👍🏼🇬🇧
mr tom, aren't you at least half hungarian? nagy is a hungarian last name
My wife is Nagy but not Hungarian 😋
Hungerian or Serb
Great
Lamb shune
Please bro give me the job
And this is after the british decided to invade us, take our diamonds and other natural resources, forced our farmers to grow crops that they could take back and sell in the rest of the world to make money, left our farmers and people to starve, treated us as slaves and then finally dividing the country into multiple parts. Anyway, no hard feelings, we'll still try to be the warmest people and try to offer whatever we have to make others happy :)
Well, Thomas didn't do any of that...
Where do you live?
I know this isn't about race but I work in security and the majority of trouble we have are white British really makes you think..
John Smith /
Who knew Indians could be nice people huh