Loot, I take it u mean plunder!

Carpenters are daylight robbers, if you let them. Most of them are wide men.

I've dealt with one when my late ma sent Harry to my semi-detached to build a small cupboard under the stairwell alcove at her expense, back in Scotland years ago. The bill was excessive, ma paid it, in my first wife's view. He even charged for 20 nails. Ma had told me to give him a carton of McEwan's Export 440 ml cans as a tip. He told me he would rather have had whisky, damned cheek. Ma was too easy to rip off.

Brewery employees received a carton = 24 cans a month as a perk, hardly generous in my view. About the only perk you got!