You bend it....you mend it..

aom said:
As I told you earlier marra, the Jag now has 8K on it after 2 years, nothing more than a glorified shopping trolley, the jeep has 12K in about 10 months, don't ask how many the trucks have.
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I took advantage of the scrapage scheme and weighed in the missus p reg escort when I bought her a new Toyota,miles on her escort...........19,000 miles and the car was like it'd just been driven out of the showroom,a real waste to scrap it,the new one I picked,2.2 litre 180 bhp hothatch and I actually drive this one quite a bit,needless to say it's in no way as near as good condition as the escort was lol:cry:
 
southernpoofter said:
Here's a question for the forum..i'd be interested to hear the differnt veiws.
You give a guy a start who uve knoen for sereval years & is a good scaff he's given a van & fuel card to get to & from work.and is asked to keep it clean & tidy.- if he wishes to use it for personal trips around town he must use his own fuel. Any further use out of hours must be ok'd by me... does that sound fair.

During a bank holiday week end the scaff abuses both the van & fuel card to the tune of £300 whilst using it to help one of his family members move down to the west country. Neither ok'd by me. & he cant see what he has done is wrong...
Several months later after. Once again the van is used out of work hours unortherised, only this time he has a rear end shunt over 200 miles away & rights off the van....

So either as a boss or as a worker i'd be interested to know how youd deal with this situation.i know what i did but just wanna get other peoples veiws
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Sack him ,he's a pi$$ taker
 
southernpoofter said:
Here's a question for the forum..i'd be interested to hear the differnt veiws.
You give a guy a start who uve knoen for sereval years & is a good scaff he's given a van & fuel card to get to & from work.and is asked to keep it clean & tidy.- if he wishes to use it for personal trips around town he must use his own fuel. Any further use out of hours must be ok'd by me... does that sound fair.

During a bank holiday week end the scaff abuses both the van & fuel card to the tune of £300 whilst using it to help one of his family members move down to the west country. Neither ok'd by me. & he cant see what he has done is wrong...
Several months later after. Once again the van is used out of work hours unortherised, only this time he has a rear end shunt over 200 miles away & rights off the van....

So either as a boss or as a worker i'd be interested to know how youd deal with this situation.i know what i did but just wanna get other peoples veiws
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From a Scaffolders (my) point of view... i think hes taking the piiss.
 
southernpoofter said:
Here's a question for the forum..i'd be interested to hear the differnt veiws.
You give a guy a start who uve knoen for sereval years & is a good scaff he's given a van & fuel card to get to & from work.and is asked to keep it clean & tidy.- if he wishes to use it for personal trips around town he must use his own fuel. Any further use out of hours must be ok'd by me... does that sound fair.

During a bank holiday week end the scaff abuses both the van & fuel card to the tune of £300 whilst using it to help one of his family members move down to the west country. Neither ok'd by me. & he cant see what he has done is wrong...
Several months later after. Once again the van is used out of work hours unortherised, only this time he has a rear end shunt over 200 miles away & rights off the van....

So either as a boss or as a worker i'd be interested to know how youd deal with this situation.i know what i did but just wanna get other peoples veiws
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Why not prepare a vehicle hand over agreement? Its simple to do. Set out clauses such as vehicle usage times, daily vehicle inspection and log add some do's amd don'ts and get the employee to sign. If they break the agreement take disciplinary action. I had to sign and agree to a similar thing in Australia which included no off road driving and no driving the vehicle outside of the Shire of Roebourne.
 
Thx to everyone who took the trouble to post. - think most of the normal crowd have posted, so i'll put flinty outta his misery lolo
After the intial fuel sarga i took it all out of his wages in 1 go showing him the same courtesy by not informing him...& when he came to ranting that he was short i let him have it with both barrels.. i gave him a verbal & written warning about the misuse of the fuel card, along with strict written instructions on the vechiles use.also putting a new section within the company handbook which was then re-issued to everyone.
After the accident i called him into the office to rip him a new arseole - whilst being fair & told him that i expected him as he had used the vechile out of work hours and unauthorised to pay the excess @ the rate of £50 a week...which i thought was more than fair.....he got all naughty & threatened to punch my lights out..i had no choice but to instanly sack him for gross missconduct & threatening behaviour....when he went for me i gave him a slap and a couple of minutes of educational behaviour therapy before he got kicked outta the yard...

Moral of the story- never allow understanding & politeness to be taken as a sighn of weekness....& put it all in writing
 
Maybe not strictly by the book but seems fair enough to me, never easy.
 
Effot marra give them enough rope and thell hang them self althow i wouldnt of left the office till i beat you ;) lol can you imagine the embarrasment of getting an new arse hole ripping off the gaffer then a can of woop arse opend on your arse and to top it off sacked lol good effot
 
A bad day at the office for sure marra.:eek:
 
Sounds it marra 50 quid a week after you crashed the van i would have face to do anything but agree i would of probbly offerd first lol i know insurance it there for a reason but so is excess but 50 quid a weeks better than losing ya job but hey he has now ya crnt have a lad swing at ya asd a gaffer you wouldnt have a bussiness with in a few months coz every yan would tek ****
 
Apart from the Grand Finale I guessed right SP:amazed:
 
And the moral of the story is don't try it on ,coz some gaffers are tasty! Lol
 
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southernpoofter said:
Thx to everyone who took the trouble to post. - think most of the normal crowd have posted, so i'll put flinty outta his misery lol
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The tension was killing me :laugh:

Think you did everything as right as you could have there. Allowing him to get away with it would've p!ssed off the other lads who have vans and look after them.

Suppose I better go clean mine now, suns out..... :idea:
 
I once took the work van home as the scaff didn't need it that night, I decided to take my birds sister to work about 20 miles away, I had no license and the gaffer didn't know I had it. Stopped off to fill it up en-route to her work and proceeded to put £20 worth of diesel in it, IT WAS UNLEADED. Didn't realise and it just kept whirring and whirring trying to tick over until I burnt the starter out. Cue phone call to the boss to try and explain why I was miles away with his van and it was fuc.ked :laugh: Went down like a lead balloon.
 
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