Rogue Traders - roofers

[Don Fonte]

2 minutes ago, Bad_Mobby said:

 

Sacked fae the Vic after not turning up for my shift…then turning up to prop up the bar having been up all night on the ping pong.

 

Similar. Was a waiter at a hotel when a student. Was on the piss that weekend.

Called in sick and ended up back in the hotel the same night with people having a party in a room (trying to shag some birds).

Got spotted leaving via a fire escape still steaming in the morning.

Did not turn up to the disciplinary.

Never tried a mortar attack on work though, still time.

[Redforever86]

Once woke up in the premier inn on NW street half an hour after I was meant to start a shift. Just called in sick got away with it. 

[RAZOR]

I phoned in sick when I worked at the gym in the Patio Hotel whilst chatting out my nut. The message got played in my disciplinary hearing. I started rambling about workers rights and persecutions in today's (2006) society.

Written warning. 

[Guest Matt Armstrong's Dog]

4 minutes ago, RAZOR said:

I phoned in sick when I worked at the gym in the Patio Hotel whilst chatting out my nut. The message got played in my disciplinary hearing. I started rambling about workers rights and persecutions in today's (2006) society.

Written warning. 

I thought you were working for James Aiken at that time min, unless the gym role was a second job?🤔

[ericblack4boss]

22 hours ago, Red Clive 1995 said:

Fencing is a tremendous job, our local fencing contractor stays in a mansion. Self made man. 
Made his money when the government was giving out livestock fencing grants along with hedging. 
All them grants have disappeared. That’s why you see so many roaming livestock in the summer. 

Is that LG, 

Rumour has it he built a swimming pool he's never been in cos he'sv too busy 

[Don Fonte]

6 minutes ago, ericblack4boss said:

Is that LG, 

Rumour has it he built a swimming pool he's never been in cos he'sv too busy 

[Red Clive 1995]

10 minutes ago, ericblack4boss said:

Is that LG, 

Rumour has it he built a swimming pool he's never been in cos he'sv too busy 

Nae LG, but very close. 

[RAZOR]

23 minutes ago, Matt Armstrong's Dog said:

I thought you were working for James Aiken at that time min, unless the gym role was a second job?🤔

Was summer 2006 (WC was on) 

[Guest Matt Armstrong's Dog]

30 minutes ago, RAZOR said:

Was summer 2006 (WC was on) 

Ok min. Got my dates/years mixed up.

[elephantstone78]

47 minutes ago, Red Clive 1995 said:

Nae LG, but very close. 

LH?

[elephantstone78]

1 hour ago, Bad_Mobby said:

First time:

As soon as I saw the print out of a woman with missing limbs being shagged, I knew the reason why I got pulled into the office. The early email days before social Media when you mass forwarded on filth, thinking it was funny (the boss at the time had a chuckle) 

Seems some women colleagues thought differently - written warning 

Second time:

The  “boss” had it in for me (we’d had fisticuffs) so he was looking for a way to sack me, so he fashioned a written/final (I forget) warning out of nothing (over working offshore or some pish lol) so I jumped before I was pushed - pissed him off even more as he didn’t get to finish the job 

Sacked fae the Vic after not turning up for my shift…then turning up to prop up the bar having been up all night on the ping pong 

Currently awaiting the outcome of an investigation after (unintentionally) shelling the workplace with a makeshift cannon 

 

The last one is a corker 😂

 

I was let go from my first paper round job after dropping a stink bomb (not a euphemism for a fart) in the shop for a laugh. Or, thinking back maybe I threw the stink bomb after being sacked. Anyway, it didn’t end well as I had to go back up and apologise after he phoned my house to complain. 
£1 a morning and £2.50 on a Sunday for carting about all those bloody supplements. Slave labour. He deserved it imo. 

[Don Fonte]

15 minutes ago, elephantstone78 said:

The last one is a corker 😂

 

I was let go from my first paper round job after dropping a stink bomb (not a euphemism for a fart) in the shop for a laugh. Or, thinking back maybe I threw the stink bomb after being sacked. Anyway, it didn’t end well as I had to go back up and apologise after he phoned my house to complain. 
£1 a morning and £2.50 on a Sunday for carting about all those bloody supplements. Slave labour. He deserved it imo. 

Think I got paid similar. The Sunday papers were a cunt min.

[perthshirered]

10 minutes ago, Don Fonte said:

Think I got paid similar. The Sunday papers were a cunt min.

How auld are yous cunts? Must be fuckin ancient if you were only on a pound a day. 

[perthshirered]

1 minute ago, Don Fonte said:

Fuck off.

Ok. 

[Don Fonte]

12 minutes ago, perthshirered said:

How auld are yous cunts? Must be fuckin ancient if you were only on a pound a day. 

Got a free roll with jam which was 16p I think.

[perthshirered]

I was born 77. I'm auld, got loads more than that for a shitey wee round. Friday was the cunt, Perthshire Advertisers and the weekly news. 

[1903Fitba]

Broke the clocking in/out machine at a Super Market I worked at so they wouldn’t notice me leaving early. 
 

Clocked me on CCTV breaking it though. 
 

Ah no. 

[elephantstone78]

1 hour ago, perthshirered said:

How auld are yous cunts? Must be fuckin ancient if you were only on a pound a day. 

Haha £1 a day does sound bad, I suppose it took about an hour from start to finish before school. 
Still shit money and I remember getting a weekend job as a kitchen porter not too long afterwards for about £3.50 an hour and thinking I had hit the big time. 
 

 

[Guest Matt Armstrong's Dog]

56 minutes ago, perthshirered said:

I was born 77. I'm auld, got loads more than that for a shitey wee round. Friday was the cunt, Perthshire Advertisers and the weekly news. 

You must have been born well past your due date min.

[Don Fonte]

14 minutes ago, Matt Armstrong's Dog said:

You must have been born well past your due date min.

His mum has massive tits so let's give him some slack.

[perthshirered]

22 minutes ago, elephantstone78 said:

Haha £1 a day does sound bad, I suppose it took about an hour from start to finish before school. 
Still shit money and I remember getting a weekend job as a kitchen porter not too long afterwards for about £3.50 an hour and thinking I had hit the big time. 
 

 

The weekend was the bonus because you could turn up a wee bit later. If you went after opening time, the shopkeeper moved the papers off the shop floor through to the storeroom. All you had to do was wait till he was serving, go through and grab your papers, making sure to lift a box containing 200 Regal king size whilst there. Easy. 

[elephantstone78]

14 minutes ago, perthshirered said:

The weekend was the bonus because you could turn up a wee bit later. If you went after opening time, the shopkeeper moved the papers off the shop floor through to the storeroom. All you had to do was wait till he was serving, go through and grab your papers, making sure to lift a box containing 200 Regal king size whilst there. Easy. 

Rascal. 

I bumped up the pay a wee bit by taking some extra papers to sell en route at a nearby care home. And, a box of blue or green extra chewing gum which were sold at school for a knockdown rate of 10p a pack. Plus some of those pencils which had the wee bit at the end to click to get the new lead/carbon to appear. They were very popular despite the carbon bit breaking if you so much as breathed on it. 20p for those. 
An almost victimless crime. 

[Don Fonte]

21 minutes ago, perthshirered said:

The weekend was the bonus because you could turn up a wee bit later. If you went after opening time, the shopkeeper moved the papers off the shop floor through to the storeroom. All you had to do was wait till he was serving, go through and grab your papers, making sure to lift a box containing 200 Regal king size whilst there. Easy. 

So you were a thieving little cunt? What a little prick.

[perthshirered]

2 minutes ago, Don Fonte said:

So you were a thieving little cunt? What a little prick.

Was either that or be forced onto Lambert and Butler. That was embarrassing at 14 years old. 

[maryhilldon]

I remember clearing about  £5 a week delivering the Evening Express in the mid 80s.  Only had to deliver about 20 papers, but there was a trek in-between each house. Had to collect the money from all the customers  on a Friday and take it to the agents house. He was a mean looking English dwarf, gave me the fear 😄

[Simply Red]

Good mark up on cigs bitd at school. Buy 20 for £2.50 fae the shops, sell individually for 20p. There was kids who didnt even smoke doing all fhe selling. Probably big in business now.

[RAZOR]

9 minutes ago, Simply Red said:

Good mark up on cigs bitd at school. Buy 20 for £2.50 fae the shops, sell individually for 20p. There was kids who didnt even smoke doing all fhe selling. Probably big in business now.

3 for £1 was the common market trading price at BODA and Charlie the Icer

[perthshirered]

1 hour ago, Sooper-hanz said:

You stole 200 cigarettes every weekend and he didn’t notice ? 

Nah, every other one generally. I doubt stock taking would've been any more than once a year back in those days. 

[maryhilldon]

17 minutes ago, perthshirered said:

 I doubt stock taking would've been any more than once a year back in those days. 

Expensive packs of cigarettes going missing would be noticed in no time.

[Poodler]

Got binned from the Thistle at the airport on the spot for working a wedding of someone I knew and giving out loads of free drinks. 16-24 I had been sacked from every job and had.
 

Got a few disciplinaries in my last job before leaving the country. One was for phoning in sick - excuse - at a party on drugs. Supervisor said ‘please just say anything else’ but I left it at that. Winced a bit when hearing it read back from HR. 
 

Another one (same employer) arrived after an abortion with a colleague - we fell out and she told the bosses some allegations (all true). Had to paint her as a dangerous psychopath and the bosses believed me over her. That was touch and go though.