Is it ok for a colleague...

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JonRB said:

stuart-b said:

Customer could have been "in on it". "Drop me £50 and I'll do it here and now, if you go through the books it will be at least £100". Happens all the time in various trades...

Indeed. I've been offered different prices based on whether it's "off book" or "on book" for extra services at a tyre fitters before now.

Yep

"Foreigners", "spanish practices", call them what you will, loads of companies get ripped off by employees to varying degrees. Loads of opportunities in procurement, awarding contracts/tenders, Goods Inwards Checkers....

[JB!]

24lemons said:

JB! said:

Is it a service your business provides?

He shouldn't have done it in work time, but if its not something you offer, it should have been an "after hours" job.

It isn't a service we advertise, and had it been done in his own time I dont think I'd have an issue. This individual has been known to 'fish' for tips in the past too!

Someone needs to have a chat about what he should & shouldn't be doing while being paid...

[Shuvi McTupya]

RizzoTheRat said:

Funnily enough tyre fitters was my immediate thought too, quite common to be offered a reduced cash price for a puncture repair or fitting a tyre you've supplied. I wonder how many of those ever go through the companies books if the boss isn't about?

Erm, not very many...ok, none.

[Mexican cuties]

Knew a person who also lost his job as although he kept hinting what a senior manager might be up to where he worked, as he did nowt about it, totally incriminated himself, luckily did not go to jail

[Jasandjules]

24lemons said:

To charge a customer for a service he has performed, then keep the money for himself?

No.

I would suspect a termination of employment on grounds of Gross Misconduct will result from the employer discovering this information.

I would also suggest that your duty to your employer is to notify your manager of this situation and let them take whatever (if any) steps they wish.

[iva cosworth]

Make sure all meat cleavers are safely locked away when matey gets fired.

Thread in SPL.

[Marvtec]

Blackmail him for half the money plus half all future cash gained this way.

[Tango13]

I work in engineering and I get asked to make specialist tools for working on cars quite a bit. We're talking stuff that can take hours of machining and then case hardening. I have three golden rules that so far have kept everyone happy.

I always ask the boss first before I start.

I always make the parts on my time, not the companies.

I always give the boss his end of any money I make for the use of his machinery and material etc.

Anyone that asked me to do a cash job on the side without it going through the books would get told to FRO!!