Personally I've come across quite a few gas people who see wet plumbing as something 'below' them. They are the kind of people I refuse to associate with.
In a discussion not too long ago, a Twatter friend and I spent some time jotting down the 'difference' between these so called Gas Engineers, wet plumbers and real plumbers.
It turned out that the snobbery was mostly associated with people not too long in our industry. People who were swayed by the BS advertising of courses and promises of huge sums of money. Interestingly we also found those same people were also more likely to be the ones ripping folk off!
What we found was that those people had a very limited knowledge of plumbing as they had no interest in it. Their gas knowledge seemed very high but some had little idea of system design.
Wet plumbers on the other hand generally had very very wide knowledge but it was no where near as specialised until you got to sad s0ds like me and say taps or shower systems.
Then we go to what we termed real plumbers. The guys and gals who took teh time & trouble to (annoyingly) learn it all. They tended to enjoy fault finding, the more challenging jobs, solving problems. These people were the sages, the thinkers the more considered ones. The people who, no matter what,
knew they would NEVER know it all.
Fact is, we all come under the huge umbrella of Plumbing. But just like say food the variation and passion for the variant is huge and deep. Me, I'd never eat Tofu again cos its sh1te. Some people love it tho. Does that make 'em a bad person? No it doesn't it just goes to show we is all different and should cut one another a little more slack more often rather than jump down one anothers throats.
Happt Easter!
