Has anyone on here told there employer to do the above seen lots of bravado posts but no real feedback well
keepthefaith:
Has anyone on here told there employer to do the above seen lots of bravado posts but no real feedback well
I’ve lost count of the amount of times I have told employers to ’ shove it '.
It’s almost as many times as they have told me to get off the premises and never come back 
I walked out of a few jobs in my younger days, mostly agency jobs though so nothing too spectacular.
Best one I heard about was my last company, not long after I left, took on a driver who had been out of work for a while due to health issues.
After a few weeks of working for my previous employer, they called the driver on his way back to the yard to see how long he was going to be driver told them he’d be about an hour.
An hour passes, no sign of him, so boss checks the tracker, sees vehicle parked up the road on the same industrial estate and thinks maybe he’s taking a break so leaves him too it.
Another hour passes, still no sign. So bossman decides to drive to where the wagon is. He finds it parked in the yard of a rival company, no sign of the driver.
Boss goes into the office and says ‘could you tell me why my wagon is parked in your yard and where my driver is please’. He wasn’t best pleased when he was told his driver was out with one of the assessors on an assessment drive!
Driver didn’t get to tell him to stuff it, but he was sacked on the spot when he got back to the yard!
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well there are different levels of shove it, some are decisions made there and then, (1) then there are decisions that are made and you work your notice as agreed at the start of any employment, (if you agreed on any terms at all, most agency drivers tend not to ask let alone agree on anything)(2) and giving notice and to help them out do a run to Sicily after you should have left, (1). some positions are left to try to better oneself, others are normally because of a member of the office staff sometimes another worker who cannot be worked with, in the end there is no need to say shove it, better to say I cannot work like this or with them, but then I’m quite easy going any way.
keepthefaith:
Has anyone on here told there employer to do the above seen lots of bravado posts but no real feedback well
Yeh me, first job I had after being an owner driver.
Won’t bore you with the details, but felt really good afterwards when I told them to shove their job up their arses.
That was until I suddenly realised I was out of a job 3 weeks before Christmas with 2 kids at home.
Wife was not impressed, and I got verbal gbh off her about my impulsive nature and bad temper . 
Ended up doing a bit of cash in hand, and nearly being away for Christmas. 
I’ve mellowed a bit these days with age, and just bite my tongue hard, otherwise I would have done the same with my present lot about 10 times over. 
Not a driving job but I worked in a transit warehouse, just me on my own. They had the place because the main factory was out in the countryside with road restrictions that prevented anything bigger than 7.5t delivering or collecting .
The MD was a total a hole , typical small man syndrome who liked to shout and bawl in the knowledge that most of his staff were reliant on a wage every week .
All was tolerated until he rang me before my shift started one morning and started swearing about a job that was urgent not giving me the chance to explain the the job had already been dealt with by me before my normal start time . In the end I just put the phone down on him .
He stormed into the warehouse about 30mins later shouting and swearing and made a grab for me . He did it just as one of the managers walked in .I just spun the MD around and he tripped over the pallet truck ending face down on the floor .
I just handed my keys to the manager and walked out .
I had daily phone calls for a week from everyone in management asking me to return , apart from the MD .
I did inform the works manager that if my outstanding wages were in anyway messed with that the MD would be reported for assault .
I did hear that a couple of months later that the MD did the same to one of the managers , but the manager put him in hospital . He then dropped the company in it by revealing to the authorities that the testing data for several of the companies products were completely bunkum.
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robroy:
keepthefaith:
Has anyone on here told there employer to do the above seen lots of bravado posts but no real feedback wellYeh me, first job I had after being an owner driver.
Won’t bore you with the details, but felt really good afterwards when I told them to shove their job up their arses.
That was until I suddenly realised I was out of a job 3 weeks before Christmas with 2 kids at home.
Wife was not impressed, and I got verbal gbh off her about my impulsive nature and bad temper .
Ended up doing a bit of cash in hand, and nearly being away for Christmas.
I’ve mellowed a bit these days with age, and just bite my tongue hard, otherwise I would have done the same with my present lot about 10 times over.
Only ever walked out of a job once. About 3 years ago.
Was a small manafacturing firm 2 drivers.
I got back one day was feeling a but rundown I’ll.
Went office said I don’t feel to good
Story short next min guy hands me phone said here got your doctor on phone so you can make an apoinemnet.
I wasn’t that ill. I had words n stormed out never went back. .
In most cases if you have financial responsibilities its best not to flounce off. Most employers ask why you left your last place, could be embarrassing.
alamcculloch:
In most cases if you have financial responsibilities its best not to flounce off. Most employers ask why you left your last place, could be embarrassing.
So your saying keep your mouth shut and keep doing something you hate and keep working for someone you hate and then quietly walk away with your tail between your legs
We all have to pay bills just thanks be to god there are people like that working like that other wise the market would be flooded with ■■■■ jobs
Keep up the good work
alamcculloch:
In most cases if you have financial responsibilities its best not to flounce off. Most employers ask why you left your last place, could be embarrassing.
This. It seems to be the norm in this game for notice period to be one week. So for what it’s worth you might as well just work the one week, or hand your notice in then pull a sickie for the week. They can’t prove otherwise, I’ve done that in a non driving job myself. You never know when a new employer will properly check references of recent work history. Never looks good if an old boss tells your new boss that you walked.
Don’t get me wrong I understand why we do it, I’ve done it myself. But in hindsight it would just have been better to work the week and do it properly then it gives nobody any ammunition against you.
Put my resignation on the desk on the buses after letting the staff manager know he’d been unfair to side with a lying passenger over me and that the job sucked anyway. Once he saw I was prepared to walk, he backed down and changed his tune. Suddenly the passenger was a ■■■■■■ and the investigation was all just a formality, it was never going to go anywhere… funny as before that my job was at risk for damaging the company image? I let him change my mind and worked another year but it was a bad job, with terrible management. I should’ve just left there and then.
Loads
Me favourite was leaving a second man pinned to a wall in Keighley.I nearly left the prick in Aberdeen and got the train home, another hour with him and I’d of strangled him.Got me gear ended up on the ■■■■ in Leeds, bunked the train to Manchester and booked a hotel to the company, then bunked the train back to Liverpool.
I walked out at my last job; Boss would want it done one way which the next day suddenly became the wrong way, reminding you constantly it was a “good job”… Put up with this and being expected to hand sort rubbish in the transfer station until I came back off of holiday to be stuck in said transfer station for two days. I rang about a job at breaktime and was invited to an interview anytime that week. I gambled on getting the job and skmply threw my gloves into the waste pile and walked out.
To this day I see their wagons and skips about and I still hate the place unlike any other I’ve worked.
The only time I got fired , bosses son turns up at the door , hands me an envelope with p45 and flat weeks money . Dad reckoned I was booking too many hours ( they’d been staking out my routes home ) . I chucked the keys down the garden in the dark and shut the door in his face . What they didn’t know was I’d had a tip off and had parked the lorry 12 miles away and got a lift home , But 12 miles away where ? I never found out how long it took to find it .
Not trucking but years ago was taking a ship from Connahs quay to west Africa with my ‘uver arf’ at the tine and we ended up in Gibraltar for seven weeks so asked the owner when the wages would appear in our bank accounts, they never did so flew home at agents expense so the equivalent of six months wages were lost … Hully Gully c’ng f’g b’d …
I did it a couple of times as a young man, and should have been more responsible as I had a young family . In later years I was temporarily working for an agency and was sent to Asda Washington for a Saturday shift. I sat in the waiting room for about two hours, then I heard the controller saying over the phone, " I’ve got plenty drivers sitting here in the Cattle Market " !!! 
. My reaction was to stand up and tell the JODRELL I’m not sitting in a cattle market , I’m away. The controller was spitting feathers and shouted across the room, your barred!! My answer was, I think I’ve barred myself The doorman was ■■■■■■■ himself laughing as he let me out. It obviously wasn’t the first time the plank had let his mouth run off. The good thing was I got paid for the shift. 
regards Kev.
Only times I did it was after being sent by the Agency to Salversons in Rugby and was told to get a brush and shovel and litter pick in the yard.
They were told in no uncertain terms where to put the brush and shovel, strangely enough I was never asked to go there again,never understood why 
Went to UPS Nuneaton to do a run in a ■■■■■■ van,when one of there own drivers warned me the van had a bald tyre.
When I reported it the reply was we will get it done when you get back,they didnt like it when I said get it done now otherwise it aint going out MY Licence not yours,cough splutter errr err, stuff it then i`m off and want paying 8 hours.
Another one I was never asked to go back to.
keepthefaith:
Has anyone on here told there employer to do the above seen lots of bravado posts but no real feedback well
Yep. 1st week in October 2017 at the software engineering company I decided to go work for to try to get out of driving. Got sick of the bull manure, lack of resources (I ended up writing the first installation manuals that had been written in over half a decade) and 18hr days doing site installations of systems. I got ambushed on the Friday at going home time to get a talking to about something I’d apparently done which was impossible for me to have done as I wasn’t even in the unit they said it had happened as I’d been next door putting together a system for a trade show the following week. I had told them previously when they’d called me into a meeting because they could see I wasn’t happy that I had enough FU money to sit at home for a year and I could go back to what I did earning £3/hr more with a single phone call and I was only there because I wanted to be which I reminded them of in the meeting. Decided over the weekend I’d had enough of trying to put together systems to be delivered on time, not being able to get some of the parts because of cashflow issues and all the stress that was causing me with being blamed for something happening when I wasn’t even in the building being the last straw. Walked in on the Monday morning, picked up my stuff, told them to shove it and walked out. Had a couple of days off, picked up the phone, called my old agency and was at work the following day. I had made some good friends there who I’m still friends with now and told them I’d started working again and how much I was on. Apparently that made its way back to management who it seemed were surprised to find out that I’d actually not been talking bollox when I’d said what I did and they’d expected me to come back after a few days cooling off. I had a good chuckle when I found out they had to employ 2 people to only do half the stuff I did in my job and it took them 2 years to find someone who could do the whole job I did.
Did the same at Nigel Rice’s in Beverley several years previously too. Was doing the third of four night trunks and was on salary. Unfortunately because of how Palletways hub decided to treat the next but last run, holding it back until they’d made sure they could get everything on the last trailer instead of releasing me at my departure time it meant the third run got screwed as going on the times the other three runs did the wages weren’t that bad. Apparently before I started the drivers used to rotate the runs so every fourth week one would end up on the crap one. Got back one morning after yet another 12hr shift compared to the 9 everyone else was doing, threw the keys at them and quit on the spot. Again phoned agency I’d left to work there, back at work within the week.