Angry worker

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gazza285

9,810 posts

208 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Been there, haven't done that, although my business partner did have a finance director by the throat once, after dragging him over his desk. We got our money.

wc98

10,401 posts

140 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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OldGermanHeaps said:
Legend. Shame he wasnt a bit smarter about when he done it though. If everyone who tried to bump workers out their hard earned received this level of retribution the world would be a more honest and better place.
he could have been a lot smarter with what he did as well. when i was 19 i took a van with the contractors ames taping tools home at the end of one contract that i hadn't been paid in full for. got the money the next day. i was a bit stupid as well seeing as i only had a bike licence at the time, but that wasn't going to put me in jail.

should have kept it though as we were all working sc60 at the time (i think that's what it was called) and it turned out the tax he took every week went to a new car and his house and when everyone applied for their rebates at the end of the year we didn't get them. think he ended up getting 5 years.

Grandad Gaz

5,093 posts

246 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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I think the main contractor will have difficulty claiming that off his public liability!

Biker 1

7,730 posts

119 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Amazing what a small machine like this is capable of!
I'm surprised something like this hasn't been used in a terror attack - it wouldn't take much to knock out the main structural elements of a hotel or smash a shopping centre to smithereens....

Langweilig

4,326 posts

211 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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£600? That's a year's wage for a Scouser.

Dog Star

16,132 posts

168 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Where were the police?

He had time to do all that, then trundle across the carp ark and then do a runner and they hadn't even arrived.


Oilchange

8,462 posts

260 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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I sympathise with the chap, it might not sound like a lot but £600 could mean he can pay his mortgage this month. I suspect there will be mitigating factors when it goes in front if the beak...

Trolleys Thank You

872 posts

81 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Dog Star said:
Where were the police?

He had time to do all that, then trundle across the carp ark and then do a runner and they hadn't even arrived.
In Tory Britain, we can no longer afford Police.

Camoradi

4,291 posts

256 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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"Do you have a reservation?"

"No, I'll do just about anything"

smile

Trolleys Thank You

872 posts

81 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Let's be honest, we've all left Travelodges in worse states. Standard fayre isn't it?

Gameface

16,565 posts

77 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Langweilig said:
£600? That's a year's wage for a Scouser.
How old are you?

snake_oil

2,039 posts

75 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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BrassMan said:
mac96 said:
He'll be regretting that now. Even if he was owed £600, it won't be Travelodge who owed it, and he won't be getting it from anyone now.
Unless the contractor magically goes bankrupt, why not? Shouldn't his wages and the damage be separate matters?
Well. Would you believe that a gofundme appeal was set up for the digger driver after this story broke and it's now nearly at a grand?! laugh

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-new...

https://www.gofundme.com/unpaid-travel-lodge-digge...

andy43

9,722 posts

254 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Gameface said:
Langweilig said:
£600? That's a year's wage for a Scouser.
How old are you?
Calm down, calm down, eh?

Promised Land

4,724 posts

209 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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gazza285 said:
Been there, haven't done that, although my business partner did have a finance director by the throat once, after dragging him over his desk. We got our money.
Finished my apprenticeship in ‘92 right in the recession, firm I was working for went to the wall, we got sent to the office and informed, while there a plumbing contractor got wind and turned up, receivers were around the table with the two directors and the bigger firm who were going to take on our work afterwards.

Plumbers went into an office with some suited bod, voices got louder, they came out jumped across the boardroom table and lept on one director, got him on the floor and just kept stamping on his head in his steel toe caps shouting ‘you promised us’ over and over.

19 year old me had never seen anything like this!

They went, director looked had it, a minute later a phone call from other directors kids, bricks had gone through their home windows, that was below the belt I thought.

An hour later we went back on site to collect our tools and they were there sitting in their van with plod. Their firm went to the wall because of being owed tens of thousands.

Bit different to a driver losing what a weeks money? Still doesn’t make it right though.



mgtony

4,019 posts

190 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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lost in espace said:
If he had ripped that RSJ down a lot of people could have been killed.
Kicked the bucket? getmecoat

dazwalsh

6,095 posts

141 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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dhead for causing so much damage, just the front door would have been enough to cause 600 quids worth of damage.

I love the internet at times though, first the gofundme page and has anyone seen the google reviews for the hotel now? A lot of people complaining about the dtaughty lobby lol

MDMA .

8,895 posts

101 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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New pictures have been released.


snake_oil

2,039 posts

75 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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fk me it's over 2k now. Jesus Christ.


gazza285

9,810 posts

208 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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lost in espace said:
If he had ripped that RSJ down a lot of people could have been killed.
No they wouldn’t. Doubt that machine is big enough to rip it out anyway.

DaveTheRave87

2,084 posts

89 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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What an amateur, he didn't even concrete amour plate the digger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer