raymundo:
You’ve got to hope now that the other chap don’t come on here, even more so if he likes a scrap now and again …
It ■■■■■ working as an Agency driver, but is also an employee (kinda). They expect all of the rights as an employer but offer little rights to you as an employee.
The health and safety defence is a good one. I would say 50kg is a 2 man lift, especially if it’s awkward. The fact that he took them and delivered them quickly, without asking or waiting for help from you or the manual handling equipment you said you’d get is telling. I would say you’ve got nothing to worry about as you’ve done nothing wrong, but then you are an agency driver, but you seem well liked.
Actually, he should be in the firing line for not sticking to the companies manual handling policy.
I wouldn’t worry about it, but I would definitely be telling your agency you want paying for going into work for your interview (after it’s all blown over). You’re not an employee, they can’t call you to come running whenever they want for free.
But you know the parties and companies better than I do, but I would be sending the agency an invoice.
Not really mate. If I get binned from this job, which I love even though it’s proper hard work, I will have been binned on the word of someone else, another agency dude, and the allegations are totally untrue. I want the opportunity to confront the alligators! Oh…wait…no…that’s not what I meant
I might just phone up and say “That guy, with the T shirt? Yeah, big fella, that’s right. He offered me marijuana. Is this another JL line? Or did he mean another type of line?”
ArcticMonkey:
Putting the grassing bit aside which is totally out of order, 20 or more years ago this thread would have had a totally different reaction by way of you been told to be a man and bloody carry the 50kg piece, but over the years so many people have been brainwashed into accepting this H&S culture and taking every last bit of it literally. So what if you get a few aches, pains, scrapes and bruises from a bit of handball, many years ago it was accepted as part of the job but the cottonwool brigade are takingover the asylum.
No, what has happened is over the decades many of us have knackered backs that affect us pretty much every day beyond a few aches and pains. Sciatica is a real issue with many older truck drivers after years of handball, ■■■■■■■ heavy tarp sheets onto the top of loads, pulling up to 2 tonne pallets off the backs of trailers with a pump truck, jumping off the backs of trailers. Myself personally I’ve got three knackered discs in my lower back, two have been operated on, the third which happened after is inoperable because of the damage to my spinal chord from the other two and the op I had. If you experienced the level of pain I’m currently going to work with this week I can guarantee you’d not have the clever ■■■■■■■■■ attitude you’ve just posted.
And, on a more positive note, I’m in work tomorrow.
Gonna be supervised by a senior JL partner who will give feedback to management as to my work ethic
Oh well, 14.34ph, bring it on, I can most definitely take it.
What grips my ■■■■ is that one bloke can make a complaint, an unfounded complaint, and I get screwed over. ■■■■■■■ ■■■■ bolloxing ■■■■■
DF40:
2 hours late. [zb] happens. This happens to me 2/3 times a week through no fault of my own.
I cringe when I hear management/ agency/ whoever conducting their selves in this way.Taking the morale high ground.
Suppose they’ve got to investigate L**** complaint though.
I’m sure youll be fine. Answered in a good manner & they obviously rate you.
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■■■■, thought I’d asterisked em all. Can you delete the guys name please? Thanks.
Just deleted the name from this quote as well.
Thanks
Paths cross? well, they will, at the rack full of the days trays full of manifests and ■■■■,. I am really, truly, not bothered. If, as said before, I’m guaranteed 4 days a week (I don’t think this guys name is on the list) I will just get on about my bidness.
When I was a skinny 17-year-old, middle-class, wimpy kid, I was expected to handball 50kg bags of Nitram.
I’d say I had to strain every muscle in my body to do it, but I didn’t have any muscles!
A while back I ordered one of those wheeled tool chests, and a smaller box to sit on top of it.
The parcel company classed it as a 2 man consignment. And indeed it was…the big guy carried the wheeled chest and the little guy the box that sits on top of it!
steviespain:
And, on a more positive note, I’m in work tomorrow.
Gonna be supervised by a senior JL partner who will give feedback to management as to my work ethic
Oh well, 14.34ph, bring it on, I can most definitely take it.
What grips my [zb] is that one bloke can make a complaint, an unfounded complaint, and I get screwed over. [zb] [zb] bolloxing [zb].
Yeah but you can also get your point across to the senior partner so long as it’s done in a way that doesn’t sound bitter if you get me
One thing for sure, you’ll be in better health and likely live longer than this guy if he’s pushing his body like that esp with “substances”.
Work ethic is something you show over time not a one off being monitored by a senior person, so it sounds like they are box ticking so they can keep you.
Let it slip to the senior partner that you saw him taking dianabol (little pink pills. The name is printed on the box, that’s how you know what they were). That should get him out of your way for a good while.
I’m so glad that I don’t work with a drivers mate, like my own company so much better.
