TOMO 29,227 Posted 7 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 7 hours ago 11 hours ago, jukel123 said: I used to work for a building company. The owner was a really decent bloke. Paid top dollar and, unless you took the piss was very easy going . He did us lots of favours and in return we grafted away without supervision. So his son fresh from uni with a Micky Mouse degree joins the firm. He decided he would fix what wasn't broken. His big idea was to introduce a clocking on machine. " To improve efficiency ." The first week it was kicked off its fixings. Only to be re_fixed. The second week it was placed in a barrel of water and was rendered knackered. A new machine was bought and he threatened us with dire warnings if it was damaged. It mysteriously ended up in the boss's home garden pond . The son gave up after that, and in a special meeting, said he'd had a " major rethink" and sheepily apologised for the " confusion". I would love to do that with our cameras in our vans...watching us and the road....and this light foot system that monitors your driving....f***ing thing thing actually talks to you.....telling you to slow down...take it easy....joining a motorway is worse...put your toe down to join safety and it has a meltdown gives you penalties on the app thing....drives me nuts Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jukel123 9,771 Posted 6 hours ago Report Share Posted 6 hours ago 7 minutes ago, TOMO said: I would love to do that with our cameras in our vans...watching us and the road....and this light foot system that monitors your driving....f***ing thing thing actually talks to you.....telling you to slow down...take it easy....joining a motorway is worse...put your toe down to join safety and it has a meltdown gives you penalties on the app thing....drives me nuts That's Orwellian mate. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 29,227 Posted 6 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 6 hours ago 2 minutes ago, jukel123 said: That's Orwellian mate. I know mate.....the face of capitalism...power to the people mate....lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jukel123 9,771 Posted 6 hours ago Report Share Posted 6 hours ago Just now, TOMO said: I know mate.....the face of capitalism...power to the people mate....lol Glad you've converted bud. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 51,088 Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago (edited) 2 hours ago, TOMO said: I would love to do that with our cameras in our vans...watching us and the road....and this light foot system that monitors your driving....f***ing thing thing actually talks to you.....telling you to slow down...take it easy....joining a motorway is worse...put your toe down to join safety and it has a meltdown gives you penalties on the app thing....drives me nuts I remember years ago they put trackers on all the big removal firms lorry’s to monitor their movements etc Now, removal work pays very badly in order that lads do overtime because obviously commercial removals is all out of hours, weekends, evenings etc etc so the lads needed to do it to make any decent wage. If they had a clearance from say a big corporate insurer or similar firm the firm just wanted it cleared and dumped and the removal firm would obviously charge them for that, the lads would supplement their income by swinging by my yard and I’d buy all the good stuff off them…..it was win/win, the stuff was only going to the tip anyway and the lads got a nice few quid in the back pocket and I made a living and the stuff still got cleared. Anyway, when they put trackers on one of the things that happened was they wanted to stop the lads having their little tickle and monitored if their route deviated, say to my yard, and they got in trouble if it did. End result was, they lost half their workforce within months because the lads just said “f**k this”……one of the firms which had been one of the biggest in London eventually ended up going skint, all their good blokes who knew the job, the buildings, the facility managers just left ! Without the tickle the job just wasn’t worth it…….technology…..some of it all seems like a great idea at the time ! Edited 4 hours ago by WILF 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 51,088 Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago Some things that may be funny to me may not be funny to others but here gos with one: Years ago I was busy on a couple of things over central and west London and having a fair bit to get through this one day I asked a lad who used to work for me and provide a few blokes for Labour if he had anyone to supplement my normal lads that I had with me……anyway, he says yeah and I land at 5:00 the next morning to lift this lad….he arrives at 5 past so right away I’m in a terrible mood and have already written him off as a wanker, in to the motor climbs this half chat geezer and he says “aright” in that put on slang wog accent. I can see my normal lads out here corner of my eye grinning to each other…..but I’m now f***ing steaming and don’t say a word to anyone as we travel into London which is about an hour at that time of the morning. So anyway, we land at the first place I need to go and the first thing this f***ing idiot says as we get out the van is “What time do we normally have breakfast ?” Now, I never normally used to stop for food when I was working much preferring to get finished as quick as possible and be home early enough to have a meal with the family….stopping for tea/lunch etc in the day is just a plain waste of f***ing time ! My lads are almost biting their lips trying not to laugh and I’m ready to murder this c**t and we ain’t even started yet……anyway, the morning gos on and all this prick is on about is eating ! Finish at the first place and in the way to the next place I have to be and he is like “Is there a McDonalds ?”………we would be about 30 miles from home at this point, so I say “Yeah, I’ll find one” Get to the outskirts of London and there it is, a big McDonalds so I pull in and say “there you go” Matey says “ Can I have a tenner off my wages and Do you lads want anything ?” So we say “No” In he trots and I just drive away and leave the useless prick there ! ……his face as he watched the van go past the window was amazing ! lol Bloke who sent him phones me about an hour later “Was there a problem with Calvin (or whatever his f***ing name was), he don’t know how he is going to get home” So I said “Tell him to f***ing walk !” and put the phone down ! lol My lads were crying but I was seething, only a week later after I’d calmed down did I have a giggle about it. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 29,227 Posted 57 minutes ago Author Report Share Posted 57 minutes ago I can picture your chaps sat there....wanting to laugh...brilliant lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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