Got in our hired FM this morning to find half a cheeseburger amongst general litter thrown in the passenger footwell. I also noticed the air freshener I mentioned before has gone walkies. What is the mentality or should that be level of retardation, of someone that leaves crap behind but bins the item that says, “you stink you dirty git!”
Many years ago I had a driver working for me on Euro work, so was away for a week or more, but always managed to turn up a the yard looking a mess, don’t get me wrong he was a very tidy person but one of them people that attracts dirt like a moth to a candle, one day the MD pulled him to one side and warned him that if he turned up at the yard looking scruffy and untidy again he’s out of a job. He’s next load back from abroad was a load of groupage which also had some important and very urgent air freight on, in the yard we had a spare driver on extra pay ready to take the motor to Heathrow, we knew the driver had left Dover, and should be with us in about 2 hrs, 3hrs passed then 4hrs he turned up 5 hrs later the MD was jumping up and down in rage, promising all types of retribution short of murder. When he asked the driver where he had been all this time his answer was that he didn’t know the load was urgent and anyway he had told him “that if turns at yard again scruffy he was out of a job”, so on the way up from Dover he dropped round home and had a shower and changed into some fresh clothes, I thought the MD was going to explode but there was nothing he could say as I pointed out the driver was only following his explicit instructions, if you want to see a grown man cry that was the day, I legged it out of the office and couldn’t stop laughing for a couple of days.
PS the air freight still got there on time.
Ossie