Workers and equipment damage

[simmy_bull]

At my old job the lad I worked with backed into van with loadall and smashed all front bumper off, when we got back to yard we told boss, he gave us a little ticking off but wasn’t to bad. Next morning we decided that we’d go to ford and buy a new bumper, so we went and put it on the firms account and then refit it on site in their time. When boss saw it that night he was chuffed to bits and gave us £50 cash for spending our money and sorting it. Never told him

Bloody hell rob your a jammy sod!! You must be the only man in history to get a bonus as a result of a fudge up!!


Apart from the banking community of course

 

[davidroberts30]

you bend it you mend it!!

 

[Deerefarmer]

@Shovelhands ,agree with you 100% on your post, employees shouldn't subsidize the company, a bit embarrassed in a way, my post sounds a bit like , not my intention.
I do need to clarify, not all that gets broke is covered by employees ,not that we break a lot of stuff, I guess it's partly our respect for the boss , that we pay for the occasional mishap.
Boss wouldn't let me pay for the door on the 8650 mf that I didn't latch properly, ,what an explosion,....
As for dad breaking stuff ,should definitely come out of his pocket, at his age he is old enough to know better

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

Bloody hell rob your a jammy sod!! You must be the only man in history to get a bonus as a result of a fudge up!!


Apart from the banking community of course

And f**king weather men, don't forget those lieing nonsensical tossers an all

 

[Oat]

I once worked for a company which had a clocking in machine, were you had to clock in and out of work between breaks. The boss also calculated that it took a few minutes to walk from the furthest end of the site to the office, so therefore that time was deducted from your breaks. This meant that the break times were always an odd number or minutes. Instead of having 15 mins for a mid morning break, you had 12 minutes, and 42 minutes, instead of 45 mins for lunch. If you didn't clock back in within the correct time, you then had money deducted from your pay.

 

[the-mad-welder]

I once worked for a company which had a clocking in machine, were you had to clock in and out of work between breaks. The boss also calculated that it took a few minutes to walk from the furthest end of the site to the office, so therefore that time was deducted from your breaks. This meant that the break times were always an odd number or minutes. Instead of having 15 mins for a mid morning break, you had 12 minutes, and 42 minutes, instead of 45 mins for lunch. If you didn't clock back in within the correct time, you then had money deducted from your pay.

He sounds like an ar$e.

 

[Oat]

He sounds like an ar$e.

To be fair, he was running a company which employed a lot of young people, for what was basically manual work. Therefore, some people employed would probably have taken the pi$$ if they had been allowed to.

PS. I would add, that I have moved onto bigger and better things since this work. I only did it for a few months to earn some £££

 

[Cab-over Pete]

When I was 18 I was given a job driving a JD 1188 combine. Brand new and shiny, I was like a dog with two tails. All went well until I scratched a rear belt guard on a telegraph pole and got a light telling off. Tony Brandreth had a fearsome reputation and I was aware I had got off lightly.

A couple of weeks later I dinged the same guard, this time properly bending it. It was early evening and it worried me to death for a few hours. Luckily there was no sign of Tony so when finished I took the guard off, chucked it in my car and headed for the yard.

I was hammering away, just got it straight and was looking for some paint when in the half light I saw Tony walking down the yard. I felt like running away but as he came through the workshop door he was relieved to find me and not somebody ransacking the place. I hung my head and explained what I had done, then waited for the explosions......

He couldn’t have been nicer. He was chuffed I had made the effort so late at night and he joked with me about how many more times I was going to hit the guard etc etc. He helped me paint it and even said he would refit it next day, telling me to come in a bit later. He could see I was dog tired and that was most likely the reason I had made the mistake.

He was a great bloke to work for part time for three years or so. I saw him administer some huge bollockings in that time but despite my best efforts to annoy him I never received one.

 

[betweenthelines]

I once worked for a company which had a clocking in machine, were you had to clock in and out of work between breaks. The boss also calculated that it took a few minutes to walk from the furthest end of the site to the office, so therefore that time was deducted from your breaks. This meant that the break times were always an odd number or minutes. Instead of having 15 mins for a mid morning break, you had 12 minutes, and 42 minutes, instead of 45 mins for lunch. If you didn't clock back in within the correct time, you then had money deducted from your pay.

I know of a business that times everybody's break by the time they are away from their workstation. The trouble is, the place is so big it's a five minute walk to the canteen (and five minutes back) So a 30 minute dinner break onlg ives you 20 mins in the canteen, or you have 15 mins pay deducted.

 

[Beames]

I had 3 new vans delivered a few weeks ago. Boys came to drop off there old vans on a Monday morning and pick the new vans up. An hour after they had left to go to site they had managed to reverse two of them into each other knocking the wing mirror off one and denting the back of the other and cracking the light cluster. Less than 50 miles on the clocks of both vans. I was bouncing off the ceiling when they phoned me but didn't expect them to pay for the damage. That's what I pay the Nfu copious amounts of money every year for!!

 

[holywell farmer]

When I was 18 I was given a job driving a JD 1188 combine. Brand new and shiny, I was like a dog with two tails. All went well until I scratched a rear belt guard on a telegraph pole and got a light telling off. Tony Brandreth had a fearsome reputation and I was aware I had got off lightly.

A couple of weeks later I dinged the same guard, this time properly bending it. It was early evening and it worried me to death for a few hours. Luckily there was no sign of Tony so when finished I took the guard off, chucked it in my car and headed for the yard.

I was hammering away, just got it straight and was looking for some paint when in the half light I saw Tony walking down the yard. I felt like running away but as he came through the workshop door he was relieved to find me and not somebody ransacking the place. I hung my head and explained what I had done, then waited for the explosions......

He couldn’t have been nicer. He was chuffed I had made the effort so late at night and he joked with me about how many more times I was going to hit the guard etc etc. He helped me paint it and even said he would refit it next day, telling me to come in a bit later. He could see I was dog tired and that was most likely the reason I had made the mistake.

He was a great bloke to work for part time for three years or so. I saw him administer some huge bollockings in that time but despite my best efforts to annoy him I never received one.

Sounds great guy

 

[Matt]

I said this on another thread a few weeks ago, timeliness is one thing in the day (bar negating extreme circumstances) that every employee should get RIGHT. No excuse for being late, no excuse for having extending breaks, no excuse for leaving early. Time theft is the one thing I will not stand for, breakages and sh*t days are a part of life, I can be the best at times for breaking things [emoji23] but being on time, get it right! Go to bed and be ready for work, give 100% of your best ability and things can turn out very different in life.

It is also a mark of respect too.


He gets paid morning tea break.
If we start work early to load animals he gets given cooked breakfast and tea break in paid time.

 

[Matt]

Had a chat with the lad. Talked about future plans. Seems happy. Said he will be in a bit earlier. Looks like a small ironing out issue.

 

[kiwi pom]

Think you have to get paid (if an employee) for 15 minute 'tea breaks' here.
Some pay for 30 minute breaks too but not many.
Me and another lad got busted years ago for not putting a 30 min lunch break on time sheet. we explained we worked all morning, had 30 minute lunch then worked till knocking off time so not putting lunch on made up for the two 15 minute 'smoko breaks' we didn't have.
No cant do that if you don't have smoko that's your fault. No prizes for guessing what happened after that.

 

[Smiffy101]

I know of a business that times everybody's break by the time they are away from their workstation. The trouble is, the place is so big it's a five minute walk to the canteen (and five minutes back) So a 30 minute dinner break onlg ives you 20 mins in the canteen, or you have 15 mins pay deducted.

I went in a factory once and they had a big poster of employment laws on the wall
One which stuck in my head was that walking to your designated break area was work and should be paid as such

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

It is also a mark of respect too.


He gets paid morning tea break.
If we start work early to load animals he gets given cooked breakfast and tea break in paid time.

Cooked breakfast were the best way to get me and the lad who worked for a certain old fella locally in work at whatever time he wanted us there. He could make a breakfast that'd keep you going until gone 3, then a big ole mutton butty for dinner and tea break and if we were lambing/calving or silaging we'd get tea aswell. It worked so well for us all that by the end of my time there we were having breakfast every morning with him after doing a quick round of yard jobs and we were able to talk the day through, what needed doing and have a good laugh, best way to start the day I miss it in many ways.

Had a chat with the lad. Talked about future plans. Seems happy. Said he will be in a bit earlier. Looks like a small ironing out issue.

That's excellent news. Lets hope he sticks with it

 

[Cab-over Pete]

It that situation my Dad would have said to anyone working for him

“Eat up lads, the more you eat, the more you’ve been paid!”

 

[Gerbert]

I found that most accidents happened just after the boss said "watch out for...", and then exactly when he was looking.
Or the other way around. He had a refridgerated shed for boxes with carrots. He regularly told me to be carefull because hey, when a box weighing around the 1.5 tonne mark falls from 6 meters high you get a fair mess. One time I was in another shed and he was on the forklift and he called me up, help me clean up, turned out he managed to send two boxes towards the floor by gravity... A few minutes later he gets a call and I am left to clean up

A while ago there was a truckdriver here to collect muck, he tells me his boss told him to be carefull with the build in weighing system, you can easily break one when you get the weighing sequence wrong. Next time around the boss hauls a load and manages to break all four.

 

[shearerlad]

Local haulage company here has a system were each driver has £1500 in the bonus pot. Any repairs to their lorry from driver error (mirrors, light lenses etc) gets taken out of the pot.

Good incentive for care of the lorry