A bit council (Vol 3)
Discussion
ntiz said:
God no!!! Definetly not CAB. She is a sewing machinist and they are not easy to find. It's not that she is non replaceable it's that she is very good just every now and then mouths off and messes us around with her holidays but I have another 30 employees that do that.
Probably should have said the reason she has lasted so long is that my parents when confronted by her give as good as she does so don't have leg to stand on if had to fire her. I am much more calculated and have already given her official warnings for breaking company policy and have made it very clear if she ever spoke to me in the way she has to my parents the only reaction she will have from me will be a letter informing her of dismissal. Being younger than all of my employees I feel the need to make it clear I won't stand for piss taking that has gone before.
I am by no means trying to get rid of her but I will if I have to. Unfortunately being in manufacturing I have a lot of fairly council employees I have had to seize wages on behalf of the government for benefit fraud, had the police over to question employees, people missing because of domestic abuse. You name it I have probably had it happen. Last week had some one work for me a whole 3 days before he stormed into my office and threw the contract of employment at me.
Thinking about it maybe I should run the CAB
Not massively away from something we were once involved itProbably should have said the reason she has lasted so long is that my parents when confronted by her give as good as she does so don't have leg to stand on if had to fire her. I am much more calculated and have already given her official warnings for breaking company policy and have made it very clear if she ever spoke to me in the way she has to my parents the only reaction she will have from me will be a letter informing her of dismissal. Being younger than all of my employees I feel the need to make it clear I won't stand for piss taking that has gone before.
I am by no means trying to get rid of her but I will if I have to. Unfortunately being in manufacturing I have a lot of fairly council employees I have had to seize wages on behalf of the government for benefit fraud, had the police over to question employees, people missing because of domestic abuse. You name it I have probably had it happen. Last week had some one work for me a whole 3 days before he stormed into my office and threw the contract of employment at me.
Thinking about it maybe I should run the CAB
Inbound call centre work, predominantly woman and loads of piss takers. E mails through from DWP that they wanted info on such and such a person.
Once a year pre invited (! by e mail) visits from DWP to check names (they were quite amused and grateful that I allowed them to sit in an interview room and go through ALL our staff names to check them out
What else ? Attachment of earnings for stuff like child support payments
Young women not understanding a dress code
A personal favourite was a call from the benefit people to ask if I know how old an employees daughter was as she was my book keeper I knew her quite well so told them she was 28. Was told that was interesting as my book keeper was claiming child benefit for all 3 of her kids all of whom had left home.
Fired her a year later for paying all of her mates extra bonuses they weren't entitled to. Turned out she was a massive lefty and felt as the company could afford higher wages she would just start giving our money away.
Fired her a year later for paying all of her mates extra bonuses they weren't entitled to. Turned out she was a massive lefty and felt as the company could afford higher wages she would just start giving our money away.
One place I worked at we ( management ) were asked by the police to monitor one member of staff but not actually do anything about her - she was responsible for providing staff with mobile phones and it transpired she'd given one to her boyfriend. The police wanted it kept quiet so they could monitor any activity from the phone, as the boyfriend was a suspected drug dealer - he was eventually arrested and convicted, while she was charged as an accessory ( and fired of course ). Icing on the cake - this was in a large DWP office 
I'm actually on a council estate right now through work.
I have just witnessed a chap who I assume is a classic car enthusiast. He was shouting the name of his favourite car marque, Riley,
Turns out Riley wa his son.
My initial thought was council name but then I thought, don't judge. Maybe he's just old school strict and addresses his son my his surname in the manner of a 1950s teacher or sergeant major.
I have just witnessed a chap who I assume is a classic car enthusiast. He was shouting the name of his favourite car marque, Riley,
Turns out Riley wa his son.
My initial thought was council name but then I thought, don't judge. Maybe he's just old school strict and addresses his son my his surname in the manner of a 1950s teacher or sergeant major.
Wildcat45 said:
Turns out Riley wa his son.
My initial thought was council name but then I thought, don't judge. Maybe he's just old school strict and addresses his son my his surname in the manner of a 1950s teacher or sergeant major.
Riley isn't council, it's old fashioned. Nothing wrong with it...My initial thought was council name but then I thought, don't judge. Maybe he's just old school strict and addresses his son my his surname in the manner of a 1950s teacher or sergeant major.
Unless of course it was spelled Ryeleigh.
It's a grave topic, but we'll all go one day. Graves...
As the son of a vicar I feel quite at home in a graveyard, my childhood window looked out over one. 30 years ago graveyards were sombre places and headstones typically had a stately grace about them. OK the local land owning family might have something a bit big, or worse something massive you have to walk around within the church they probably paid for the construction of.
Recently I've seen some incredibly elaborate monumental masonry. We're talking full colour, etched illustrations of faces, poems, huge carvings of hearts or teddies. In particular, and what really prompted this post, is that I've seen some with (to my mind, ironic) paintings of rolling baccy and cans of stella on them.
I'd have taken pictures but I didn't want to offend individual families.
As the son of a vicar I feel quite at home in a graveyard, my childhood window looked out over one. 30 years ago graveyards were sombre places and headstones typically had a stately grace about them. OK the local land owning family might have something a bit big, or worse something massive you have to walk around within the church they probably paid for the construction of.
Recently I've seen some incredibly elaborate monumental masonry. We're talking full colour, etched illustrations of faces, poems, huge carvings of hearts or teddies. In particular, and what really prompted this post, is that I've seen some with (to my mind, ironic) paintings of rolling baccy and cans of stella on them.
I'd have taken pictures but I didn't want to offend individual families.
idiotgap said:
It's a grave topic, but we'll all go one day. Graves...
As the son of a vicar I feel quite at home in a graveyard, my childhood window looked out over one. 30 years ago graveyards were sombre places and headstones typically had a stately grace about them. OK the local land owning family might have something a bit big, or worse something massive you have to walk around within the church they probably paid for the construction of.
Recently I've seen some incredibly elaborate monumental masonry. We're talking full colour, etched illustrations of faces, poems, huge carvings of hearts or teddies. In particular, and what really prompted this post, is that I've seen some with (to my mind, ironic) paintings of rolling baccy and cans of stella on them.
I'd have taken pictures but I didn't want to offend individual families.
So, this?As the son of a vicar I feel quite at home in a graveyard, my childhood window looked out over one. 30 years ago graveyards were sombre places and headstones typically had a stately grace about them. OK the local land owning family might have something a bit big, or worse something massive you have to walk around within the church they probably paid for the construction of.
Recently I've seen some incredibly elaborate monumental masonry. We're talking full colour, etched illustrations of faces, poems, huge carvings of hearts or teddies. In particular, and what really prompted this post, is that I've seen some with (to my mind, ironic) paintings of rolling baccy and cans of stella on them.
I'd have taken pictures but I didn't want to offend individual families.
Crumbs there's something a bit Jeremy Bentham about that one.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project/who/autoicon
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project/who/autoicon
Gary29 said:
idiotgap said:
It's a grave topic, but we'll all go one day. Graves...
I've seen some with paintings of rolling baccy and cans of stella on them.
Maybe it's a warning to others as to what put him there in the first place?I've seen some with paintings of rolling baccy and cans of stella on them.
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