Are You Gonna Do Anything Today Or What?

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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Got back to the yard today, fuelled up etc, did some trailer defecting and then went back to the office for my next job and the ‘new’ big boss is in there giving it large and how he’s ‘old school’ blah, blah,blah. (Had to laugh-he looks about 15!)

I’m stood in the queue behind another driver who is getting some detailed instructions and when he’d finished and moved away from the communication hole (drivers window) this new boss who had seen me about an hour earlier said the above.

I said good morning to you too and politely pointed out to him that while he was still in his ■■■■■■ I was doing my daily checks and driving for a couple of hours back to the yard to help him achieve his goals for the day and I had taken a 15 to do my ablutions before getting my paperwork for my next run.

Why do these tossers always have to be smart arses before they’ve even said good morning or asked after your well being - must be trying to impress those who look up to him. He didn’t have a clue what I’d been doing but obviously assumed (incorrectly) that I’d been swinging the lead! These are the kind of people that decide our worth.

Roll on retirement!! :wink:

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That’s appalling. :cry:

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Sounds like the bell ends at our place, can’t even ride a pushbike…

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Correct reply should of been…

“well I’ve done your wife already” :grimacing:

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Sounds like the kindf TM who I excell at knocking down a peg or six.

Admittedly, my agency driver status allows me to do this.

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billybigrig:
Correct reply should of been…

“well I’ve done your wife already” :grimacing:

Bwahahahahahaha. Nice

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billybigrig:
Correct reply should of been…

“well I’ve done your wife already” :grimacing:

Made me chuckle but unfortunately because I’d already ‘met’ his twin daughters I didn’t have enough energy left for his wife! Age and all that!

I’ll get her next time!! :wink:

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Don’t forget-

When you start at 4am & they start at 9am, your first 5 hours don’t count ! (its the Law/in their eyes :laughing: )

They still expect you to still be there at 8pm ‘Holding the Fort’ while they languish at home with their slippers & Horlicks ! :unamused:

(We’re only 2 a penny drivers in their eyes !)

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So what did he say next Fred ?
Was he suitably chastised or did he have another witty gem for you ?
Or did you just zb off ?
Jim

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Am i going to do anything today?
Good question. You see while i was waiting for you lot to pull your fingers out, I was checking my dividends and they are much more than i anticipated, The economy is definatly on the up don’t you think?
£50,000 this quarter is much better than the £35000 i had in the same quarter last year. I still like driving lorries, Money making is just a passtime of mine, It’s nice to get out and about, I’d simply go mental stuck in the house 24/7.
Can you let me know who your tailor is? Just so i never use him.
Thanks pal.

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JFC999:
So what did he say next Fred ?
Was he suitably chastised or did he have another witty gem for you ?
Or did you just zb off ?
Jim

I just did one before I said what I was really thinking. But his expression said it won’t be the last time we speak! :wink:

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I’ve been fortunate most of my life, to work the people who spoke to me decently. I did have an altercation back in my agency days though.

The firm was working for ran an incinerator attached to my local hospital. They also had a number of other incinerators, notably one in Sheffield and one near Heathrow. They were forever shunting waste between one and another to smooth out the workload. The site was small and crowded and they had four trailers.

One morning, just before setting out to Sheffield, the foreman asked me to shunt some trailers around the yard. As I said, there wasn’t a lot of space, so the first trailer I moved out of the way, I dropped behind some parked cars. I was just coupling up to the second trailer then one of the managers came out. “Hey! You.” He shouted. Naturally I ignored him assuming that he couldn’t possibly be talking to me. “HEY! YOU!” He shouted again. Is there anything more calculated to raise the hairs on the back of your neck that to have someone shout at you like that?

This time I turned round to see who he was shouting at. He was standing in front of the trailer I dropped looking straight at me. “Did You Drop This Expletive deleted Trailer Here?”

I climb down off the catwalk. “Err, yes.” I said.
“Well, ■■■■■■ well move it.”
“Okay. I’ll just drop this trailer onto the loading bay, then I’ll shift it.” I had now shifted into doing-everything-very slowly-and-carefully mode

At this point he was quite red in the face, and hopping up and down like he needed a pee. “I’m late for a meeting. If you don’t shift it now you’ll be in trouble.”

I climbed back in my without a word, took my tacho out, picked up my bag, climbed out, and headed for my car, which, unfortunately, I hadn’t blocked in. I put my bag in the boot, climbed into the driver’s seat and drove off. The last I saw of him, he was standing with his mouth open (maybe he was wishing me goodbye) and his hands on his hips.

The really weird thing was that a week later the agency sent me back there again.

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Nice one :wink: The worst one for me is Oi! I tell people that I’ve not been called that since I was at school!