YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS!!!!!!!

[pj.dickson]

Just had a quarterly meeting today with work and other heads of dept. (Yawn!!!) And big bosses asked me to stay behind and talk about something delicate.

"Theres something we are not happy about and we we need to talk to you"
"Whats that I said"
"Its your car"
"Why whats wrong???"
"We feel its not apropriate and if we new you were going to buy a porsche we would have not agreed to it"

Now ! I have worked with this co for 2 years. Negotiated an allowance for A car and have previously been driving a golf TDI. Paid my £18500 for a great spec car but decided to swap it for something more fun. As I do no lumping around and only motor way miles I decided to get back into the porsche mark again. After previously owning a 911sc and a 3.3 turbo.
I sold my golf and bought a jem of a lefty 964 in amethyst with amethyst leather £14500. 12 years serviced at Stuttgard (previosly owned by an aunt, cousin or something, to a director of porsche. Brought into the country by Adrian crawford and then looked after bt a gent in newcastle and serviced only at an OPC. Now this car is mint and has been looked after by the best all its life so on with the zymoll and off I wnt to work in my stunner as proud as punch!

THIS GETS WORSE!!!

"Its got nothing to do with you what I drive" I said
"I negotiated a car allowance to buy a car of my choice"
"Well we are not going to fund your car if thats what you are going to drive. We are very disapointed in you and you should have warned us"
This after I have worked my bollox off and saved them over £200,000 in two years and them driving a fullty spec'd 4.2 A8 quattro ££££££ and a fully loaded range rover sport ££££££

"Are you serious" I said in utter disbelief
"Yes"

Now some fu**in scroat driving some £12,000 shit heap loosing squillions per year on depreciation spending all of his wages on fags and booze has obviously made some sort of snide comment to my boss on me driving a PORSCHE!! irrelivant of it being 16 years old

I and sick to death of peoples attitude to porsche. If I had rolled in in a bmw 535touring £35000 nobody would bat an eye lid. Instead I get Flash fu**a who does he think he is driving a porsche


I am seriously pissed off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Sorry about the swearing)

[jaker]

just out of interest, who pays your fuel? Is that an issue for them?

[Irish]

OH MY GOD...........

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

We specify to our guys what we consider to be acceptable before they buy their cars, and put basic rules in writing.

If your firm didn't do that, or put a caveat in about them having a say in the selection, then they've slipped up really.

I'm sure you can work out a solution though.

[Vesuvius 996]

pj.dickson said:

Just had a quarterly meeting today with work and other heads of dept. (Yawn!!!) And big bosses asked me to stay behind and talk about something delicate.

"Theres something we are not happy about and we we need to talk to you"
"Whats that I said"
"Its your car"
"Why whats wrong???"
"We feel its not apropriate and if we new you were going to buy a porsche we would have not agreed to it"

Now ! I have worked with this co for 2 years. Negotiated an allowance for A car and have previously been driving a golf TDI. Paid my £18500 for a great spec car but decided to swap it for something more fun. As I do no lumping around and only motor way miles I decided to get back into the porsche mark again. After previously owning a 911sc and a 3.3 turbo.
I sold my golf and bought a jem of a lefty 964 in amethyst with amethyst leather £14500. 12 years serviced at Stuttgard (previosly owned by an aunt, cousin or something, to a director of porsche. Brought into the country by Adrian crawford and then looked after bt a gent in newcastle and serviced only at an OPC. Now this car is mint and has been looked after by the best all its life so on with the zymoll and off I wnt to work in my stunner as proud as punch!

THIS GETS WORSE!!!

"Its got nothing to do with you what I drive" I said
"I negotiated a car allowance to buy a car of my choice"
"Well we are not going to fund your car if thats what you are going to drive. We are very disapointed in you and you should have warned us"
This after I have worked my bollox off and saved them over £200,000 in two years and them driving a fullty spec'd 4.2 A8 quattro ££££££ and a fully loaded range rover sport ££££££

"Are you serious" I said in utter disbelief
"Yes"

Now some fu**in scroat driving some £12,000 shit heap loosing squillions per year on depreciation spending all of his wages on fags and booze has obviously made some sort of snide comment to my boss on me driving a PORSCHE!! irrelivant of it being 16 years old

I and sick to death of peoples attitude to porsche. If I had rolled in in a bmw 535touring £35000 nobody would bat an eye lid. Instead I get Flash fu**a who does he think he is driving a porsche


I am seriously pissed off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Sorry about the swearing)

Jealous little cvnts. With no apology for the swearing.

[loach]

That is absolutely typical. Some people are so stupid that they genuinely don't know that they're stupid. With rock solid residuals, fantastic economy and reasonable running costs it takes a particular breed of ignorance to dismiss your old LHS 911 car as a flash-harry mobile.

Never mind. Put that stupidity to work for you, I say. get yourself a nice E30 M3 and rebadge it as a 318i. They won't have a clue.

[Paul Dishman]

Show them your invoice, that'll make them really sick

[Dr JonboyG]

Teach them a lesson by finding the most highly depreciating car you can. Like a big 4-door Citroen or something that loses 50% of its value in a year. Then change it every year.

[griffgrog]

Cretins. We actively encourage company car drivers to order prestige models, including Porsche. It shows the competition we're doing well, encourages the best sales staff to want to work for us and demonstrates to customers that we're a serious company. Small minded and petty.

[BRoCceRs]

Understandable as an employee, you obviously have stirred up emotion and rocked the boat - you have to see it from the person's paying your wages view. Plus if I thought you needed a car allowance Id want you driving something that didn't alienate the punters either.

Edited by BRoCceRs on Tuesday 12th September 22:21

[ATG]

Depends on the exact circumstances, but personally this might edge me towards drawing a line in the sand. I'd put it to him politley and in private that he needs to try justify his objection to you. If his position is as irrational as it appears to be and he insists on sticking to it, I'd explain that he is deeply undermining your confidence in his judgement by pushing an irrational point for the sake of it, and that that is no basis for a working realtionship, i.e. you're prepared to walk unless he drops it.

Honestly, "we are dissapointed in you" ... there really is only one answer to that and it starts " off you patronising, manipulating imbecile, and try to grow up while you're at it"

[c2look]

pj.dickson said:

Negotiated an allowance for A car

Is this an allowance to buy a car as an alternative to having a company car? If so then you are buying your own car to use on behalf of your company and are getting the equivalent of what they would spend over a period of time, say 4 or 5 years, on what it would cost them to provide, insure, service it etc in the form of an allowance, which if it's anything like mine, the car you buy could have a criteria to meet. The only stipulation with mine is it has to be lees than 6 years old to qualify. If when you negotiated your allowance, you weren't given a criteria to adhere to, then what is there argument? Obviously it has to be that they don't want someone in your position arriving at work in such a nice car.

Fcukin' muppets!

[Pickled Piper]

Your decision to own and drive a Porsche shows you as an individual with some aspirations. This is what they don't like. Coupled with the likelyhood that some of the Senior Managers probably aspire to owning one, I think that unless you are prepared to chop it in for a grey Mondeo diesel then you and your employer will probably part company some time soon.

I had a similiar situation several years ago over a BMW would you believe. The employer and I parted company soon after. I work in a very small industry and I now have to visit them from time to time in my 993.

pp

[BliarsGoing]

Read your contract... If they havent stipulated what you can buy but have given you a written allowance to fund a vehicle what can they do?

[Sundeep]

do they know it's just a 964

[AndrewD]

LOL

[james_j]

What a bunch of f**cking r_soles. It sounds like a bit of left wing chip on shoulderism to me.

[Podie]

Go and buy the cheapest shed you can find, and drive that to work for a few weeks... see if they prefer the Porsche to a knackered old banger...

[pj.dickson]

Thanks for your support guys. Just to clear things up. I pay for my insurance, fuel, running costs etc. I do get millafge allowance @ usual p per mile but there was no contract or advice on car whern I started. I guess when I first bought a golf they were happy. As it is a great job financially with good job satisfaction I dont want to go down the F**k you and Ill see you in court thing so Il have to sell my new baby..... Dont want to start a north south devide thing, as Im a northener but 18 years in lonon and none of that crap, 2 years back up north and......

"large portions of chips on both shouders please!!"

[Podie]

Nooo....! Don't sell it.

Surely you can get a rep-mobile for the daily stuff and keep the Porsche?