grrclark Posted January 21, 2019 Report Share Posted January 21, 2019 Apparently when your pay is £600 short and you have a mini digger, this is how you take revenge... https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/not-*****-lad-crazy-video-15711953 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted January 21, 2019 Report Share Posted January 21, 2019 One of the lads showed me this earlier. Apparenty the lad driving hasn’t been paid for a long time, they kept pieing him off, apparently at home his gas, electric etc all been cut off. Guess this was the straw that broke the camels back. Silly though as imagine hell be banged up for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted January 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 All i’ve seen is speculation about his reasons. Silly lad however, if his pay has been mucked around that is bad, but not worth going to jail for and I suspect his card will be marked in the building industry now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie&bezza Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 8 minutes ago, grrclark said: All i’ve seen is speculation about his reasons. Silly lad however, if his pay has been mucked around that is bad, but not worth going to jail for and I suspect his card will be marked in the building industry now. He will be inundated with job offers from demolition firms though 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie&bezza Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 To be honest, if it got to the point where his services were cut off at home then I don’t blame him. I would be furious to. You don’t do that unless it’s got to a bad point. Really does wind me up how the big firms think they can walk over the workers. Just bullying. Hopefully it makes them sit up and think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 The clip is all over the BBC News now. I cannot condone his actions, but I do understand why he felt he had to do such a destructive "fightback." Sadly I doubt this will have helped his case and wonder how he will be dealt with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 If he’s got to the point of being cut off I doubt £600 would help. Hes a fool to him self . We were took and it cost us £80k in the end and as much as I’d of liked to do something like this i know it’s not worth it. I sat and cried instead. I’m owed £1500 now for 3 months by a customer but I’ve got to sit tight . I need to pay for my wedding this month too 😞 . It causes major depression not getting your wages but on that site he’s caused a job to fall behind for others now so they’ll be in the same boat . in the video you can see brick work damaged, doors, ceilings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick miller Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 The answer is simple, pay employees on time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted January 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 TT I think you have the gist of it, there is no justification for what the fella did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 The thing is this - less than £10k and it’s a small claim and you can’t recover legal costs, so get knocked for less than £10k and you’re on a loser from the get go. Most of my construction clients say they know when the ‘knock’ is coming - the type of client / the attitude in the last days of the job. One window fitter says he can take a window out in less than 4 minutes - he doesn’t get paid and they all come out again and are left neatly on the floor 😀 I understand it entirely - we have a general rule at work of ‘money up front’. Sometimes you have to take a view or extend some credit but invariably you end up 1 - 0 down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 Well he is getting plenty of coverage at the moment; https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/fundraising-target-digger-driver-who-15712577 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scouser Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 Small man will get screwed, and banged up, but big firms like CARILLON where the boss’s get massive bonus, and then go bust walk away Scott free, It leaves the small man screwed again, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 Fair play to the digger driver I say , his boss with think twice before he rips someone else off. The real shame is that the digger driver will probably end up in prison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgy dave Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 prison na just a slap on the wrist or is that just for rapists and muggers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 3 hours ago, mick miller said: The answer is simple, pay employees on time. In construction it’s not always so simple unfortunately. Contracts need finishing and things go wrong. im waiting on cnc glass work and it’s 10-15 working days currently. I need to get my bill in too 😞 but they are just so busy. It’s normally 5-10 . I’ll add being the boss I’m always last before my lads 2 hours ago, mel b3 said: Fair play to the digger driver I say , his boss with think twice before he rips someone else off. The real shame is that the digger driver will probably end up in prison. Wonder what the full story is tho first. Delayed payment or refused payment. Ive met some bosses trying their hardest to keep lads in work and money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 i just read that he had been payed, but never looked at his bank details.right or wrong i dont know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 Just now, mossy835 said: i just read that he had been payed, but never looked at his bank details.right or wrong i dont know. WHOOPS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabel25 Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 Was that before during or after 1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: WHOOPS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hambone Posted January 22, 2019 Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 Maybe charged with criminal damage? is that the same as vandalism? Took nothing off site so what more serious charges could be brought? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
del.gue Posted January 23, 2019 Report Share Posted January 23, 2019 It was an apparant glitch in his bank account that it didnt process the wages for a few days. It takes many months for your utilities to be cut off so maybe he was just bad with money, i dont know the full circs of that so maybe im being harsh. But i fail to see how causing many thousands of pounds worth of damage is helping him pay bills, plus he could have injured someone. Im also sad to see some doorknob from a union condoning his actions on tv last night. I was owed off 2 jobs. One i got no chance of recovering the other is ongoing...there is a right way to do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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