Being Shafted

[Hitcher]

We've got an upstairs bathroom and toilet that need new vinyl...

[boomer]

thats not good to hear but maybe this is the catalyst.

Take him out for a beer and give him the beats in the car park afterwards !

[Mom]

thats not good to hear but maybe this is the catalyst.

Take him out for a beer and give him the beats in the car park afterwards !

I have asked Mark to stop me from ringing this person, I have a few things I want to share with him really. They can keeep till I can face him personally and look him in the navel (perhaps I will find a box to stand on so I can do it eye to eye). I actually enjoyed facing the shop down this morning, I seem to have the ability to be really cold, calm and fairly deadly when I am in the kind of mood I am in at the moment. No raised voices, but I was not interested in platitudes either, as I explained the time for bullshit has passed, all i canre about is the future of my business, not hearing about how stressful her life was. I had the owner in tears and shaking

He will keep mate, small town, small industry. We are not the type to roll over with out a friggen big fight

[nudemetalz]

That's a bugger. Putting all your trust in one person and then getting let down is a bugger.
I had that with a person recently who wanted to do a partnership with designer guitarstands. He wanted me to CAD them and I make the alloy parts necessary to go with his timber construction.
As he was a workmates friend I didn't go checking around too much.
All of a sudden he stopped contacting me after I gave him some ideas.
Funnily enough "my ideas" appeared on his new stands...
Peeved to say the least.

[Mom]

That's a bugger. Putting all your trust in one person and then getting let down is a bugger.

Well see we have been left in this place as the result of 2 shops that we worked for closing down in the last year, that has put the squeeze on the contractors anyway. Oh well, I am off to make a call that is going to start off with...boy do I have a deal for you

[Dooly]

Shithouse luck Maha/Mom.

Employees

Had a cunt here, for 25 yrs, grew up with the fucker, families were all mates etc, was a good worker, never any issues, stood by him when he had shit going down.
Quits a couple of years back, fair enough, no probs.
Fucker had been moonlighting for someone else at weekends, took a job with him.
Then when we shut over for hols over Xmas, right when he left, he phoned all our good clients saying he had left cos we were shutting down and they should come to his new garage.
Fortunately they all came and saw us and asked what was going on...........

[yungatart]

Bugger guys!
Onward and upward....good luck!

[p.dath]

If there is only one main person in town you can work before, then your pretty much an employee. Although it probably goes against your grain, have you considered just asking them to employee rather than contract you? Especially if things are a bit tight.

[boomer]

.. only one main person in town you can work before, then your pretty much an employee

Why do u keep quoting this crap.. SHUT THE FOOK UP... its bollox !

[allycatz]

Go wider afield...the mileage is tax deductable. At the end of the day reputation and job quality will count for plenty and good luck out there

[klingon]

Sometimes a 'push' can be a good thing. Fingers crossed for you...

Yep. I don't mean to sound all "Pollyanna" but I have found there are times in my life when something like this has been the thing that has pushed me just that little bit harder and I have ended up benefitting as a result.

If you can turn all that pent-up negative energy into something positive (and I think you are exactly the kind of people who do that anyway) then you will come out better off in the long run.

Meanwhile, chins up! And you know we will all be out there looking for opportunities to send your way!

[86GSXR]

Sorry to hear of this guys. I hope that call opens up a few more options. People can be absolute shits to each other eh!

[boman]

That really is shit house when something like this happens. I really do hope it all works out for both you guys in the end. I hate people like him, especially after all the help and assistance you have given him. Good luck to you both.

[Maha]

We have made contact with a another shop about an hour form here (put the jug on MDU) I have yet to hear to full story (Annes on the phone) but form what little I do know, its sounds pretty good. Doing Measures and Quotes, how ever many days I want. So it would be good to get into that and do what ever work there is to do from the Wellsford shop and tell the local shop to, well, bye bye really.

[cs363]

Well the flooring industry is a small one really.

For me the thing that really takes the biscuit is the fact that I paid to put this person through his trade, I paid for him to get his full licence, I paid him full wages while he attended block courses, I sometimes even paid his board while he was away. It was a happy working relationship. He has a personal crisis and the first thing he does is come back here and offer himself to the shop, he never approached us at all. Mark was the first person that rang him when his engagement went splat, he was a mess and Mark supported him. Dont think that sort of thing is liked by anyone.

The shop has been very quiet about all this, every time we have talked to them it has been all positive, this has been in the pipeline for a while now, the only reason they said anything was they have made a couple of their other staff redundant as part of the restructuring.

I went and had a head to head this morning as I knew we were being fed a line of bullshit, and was reassured that it sould all come right in 3 or 4 months, or Feb next year! I had to tell them our business did not have 3 or 4 months let alone 7 with no work, we would be pushing it to last 2 or 3 weeks at this stage.

I'm guessing you didn't have a restraint of trade clause in your employees contract then? Something to think about if you ever go down the track of employing someone again, especially if you are in a 'small world' industry.

At least with yours and Maha's subsequent posts it looks like things are looking up, hopefully this is a case of one door closing but another one opening. As others have said, often it's for the better
Again, good luck guys.