Having a laugh at work

[TOMO 29,225]

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

[jukel123 9,771]

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.

[TOMO 29,225]

2 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

That's Orwellian mate.

I know mate.....the face of capitalism...power to the people mate....lol

[jukel123 9,771]

Just now, TOMO said:

I know mate.....the face of capitalism...power to the people mate....lol

Glad you've converted bud.

[WILF 51,086]

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 2 hours ago by WILF