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Undaid worker wrecks Travelodge with digger

Yeah, pretty dumb thing to do. I'm guessing he was having a pretty bad day. That £600 he is owed is probably going to be dwarfed by a lot bigger problems now.

Its one thing for a contractor to take down work they have done if they've not been paid (and they've taken all reasonable steps to obtain payment), its another thing entirely to just trash a load of work you've not done because you've got a personal beef with one element of a project.
 
Spymaster said:
Apart from the fact that he’s injured one bloke and endangered others, what happens to the other people’s work and materials that this selfish cunt has damaged if they were on a price and yet to be paid?

Proper hero. :thumbs:
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This sort of thing should happen every time there's a delay in anyone's wages (banks fault or otherwise...), bosses request unpaid overtime, don't agree to a holiday request etc. Or even if the kettles just broken. Would soon see an improvement in conditions and an emphasis on management getting things right first time.
 
Jon-of-arc said:
This sort of thing should happen every time there's a delay in anyone's wages (banks fault or otherwise...), bosses request unpaid overtime, don't agree to a holiday request etc. Or even if the kettles just broken. Would soon see an improvement in conditions and an emphasis on management getting things right first time.
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Given that management get paid more than others, they should be better at their jobs. Otherwise they're all just thieves and blaggers.
 
Calamity1971 said:
'don't go near im, he's not arsed lad'
:D.
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I think he's saying "He's not our's". As in he wasn't working with the guys who were filming, presumably the dry liners or some sort of other internal fit out company. There would be no need for these companies to have a digger, so he must be from a different trade from a previous aspect of the job. Drove in and trashed all the work done by a separate company, and endangered the workers still working on the project. Fantastic.

I feel sorry for somebody who gets into that state but anyone who has such a reckless attitude towards site safety has no place being anywhere near a building site.
 
Jon-of-arc said:
This sort of thing should happen every time there's a delay in anyone's wages (banks fault or otherwise...), bosses request unpaid overtime, don't agree to a holiday request etc. Or even if the kettles just broken. Would soon see an improvement in conditions and an emphasis on management getting things right first time.
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Don't be fucking daft. He's wrecked tiling, paving, glazing, painting, stud work, fixtures, ceilings, probably sparks works, and maybe done structural damage. At least half a dozen tradesmen, probably on pricework, are now wondering when or if they'll be getting paid for work they've done and materials supplied. Management are probably on day rates so they won't be affected.
 
Teaboy said:
I think he's saying "He's not our's". As in he wasn't working with the guys who were filming, presumably the dry liners or some sort of other internal fit out company. There would be no need for these companies to have a digger, so he must be from a different trade from a previous aspect of the job. Drove in and trashed all the work done by a separate company, and endangered the workers still working on the project. Fantastic.
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Indeed. He's clearly a fuckwit so it's probably not safe to assume that the contractors were in the wrong with the pay dispute either.
 
Listening to the video it doesn't sound like some cool headed calculated act, he sounds like someone pushed beyond breaking point. The unpaid £600 perhaps being the breaking point.

Modern capitalism will do that to you.

The systematic squeezing of every last drop of profit out of people's Labour.

The systematic destruction of vehicles (such as Unions) to collectively air and redress greviences.

The systematic destruction of means and networks of support (stable groups of workmates, communities, local pubs and community spaces).

This is a direct result of all of that.

People are being broken mentally and physically and tossed aside daily, deliberately.

One mini digger is just the tip of the iceberg.
 
Teaboy said:
I think he's saying "He's not our's". As in he wasn't working with the guys who were filming, presumably the dry liners or some sort of other internal fit out company. There would be no need for these companies to have a digger, so he must be from a different trade from a previous aspect of the job. Drove in and trashed all the work done by a separate company, and endangered the workers still working on the project. Fantastic.

I feel sorry for somebody who gets into that state but anyone who has such a reckless attitude towards site safety has no place being anywhere near a building site.
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If I'm working there that day I'm thinking, am I getting paid enough to risk my neck trying to stop this bloke? No? Well then, I'm gonna stand back and watch.
 
Idris2002 said:
On the other hand. . .


This is all from the "net of a million lies" of course.
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From that, it was a £600 invoice, 3 days late.

To go ballistic over that is fucking ridiculous, especially given that a load of other tradesmen will also now have problems.

If my invoices get paid within a month late, I'm happy. Almost nobody pays on time anymore.
 
Spymaster said:
From that, it was a £600 invoice, 3 days late.

If my invoices get paid within a month late, I'm happy. Almost nobody pays on time anymore.
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Three days? Where are you getting that from?

And if nobody pays on time anymore - something I thought was a failing peculiar to Irish people - well that's not a good thing. Like I said, this claim about late payment comes from the internet, our modern day Oracle of Delphi (not). But it's all too plausible. What do you think about chilango's point about the erosion of social institutions that could have chanelled this guys anger into a more productive direction?
 
chilango said:
If he'd walked into Tesco, took some food without paying and walked out he would have arrested straight away. No "but I'm paying for it three days" would be accepted as an excuse.
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It's not Tesco though, is it?

That's just how many trades and businesses work.
 
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