Undaid worker wrecks Travelodge with digger

[Spymaster]

Three days? Where are you getting that from?

In the twitter comments further down.

 

[SpookyFrank]

It's a shame they didn't pay him, because he needs some anger management sessions which he now clearly can't afford

It's a shame they didn't pay him because people should fucking well be paid.

 

[chilango]

It's not Tesco though, is it?

That's just how many trades and businesses work.

...and this is the result of that.

 

[mojo pixy]

It's a shame they didn't pay him because people should fucking well be paid.

I agree, but my invoices say ''pay within 30 days'' and I've never been tempted to show up and trash someone's workplace for being a few days late. Maybe I'm just a wimpy coward and this guy is a big brave digger driver, but his 'solution' to this problem seems to me to suck a big one.

 

[Idris2002]

In the twitter comments further down.

Ah, OK.

 

[mwgdrwg]

I aggree, but my invoices say ''pay within 30 days'' and I've never been tempted to show up and trash someone's workplace for being a few days late. Maybe I'm just a wimpy coward and this guy is a big brave digger driver, but his 'solution' to this problem seems to me to suck a big one.

You have no idea of this guy's situation or stresses. Perhaps you wouldn't be a wimpy coward if your family was starving, for example.

 

[mojo pixy]

You have no idea of this guy's situation or stresses. Perhaps you wouldn't be a wimpy coward if your family was starving, for example.

Benefit of the doubt, eh? Is his family starving? We know this how?

Anyway. No benefit of doubt for acting like an utter prick this way. There are fucking loads of ways to get paid without this much toxic masculinity.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Another prick for the ignore list.

 

[Spymaster]

You have no idea of this guy's situation or stresses. Perhaps you wouldn't be a wimpy coward if your family was starving, for example.

If his family was starving how do think they're doing now?

 

[mojo pixy]

Another prick for the ignore list.

OK

 

[Pickman's model]

Perhaps you wouldn't be a wimpy coward if your family was starving, for example.

mojo pixy more of a michelin-starred person, or at least a mention on routiers uk, than a wimpy person. are there any wimpy restaurants still open?

 

[chilango]

Again, listen to the video. That is not the voice of someone calmly enacting a thoroughly reviewed plan.

It sounds to me like the voice of someone pushed breaking point.

 

[mojo pixy]

mojo pixy more of a michelin-starred person, or at least a mention on routiers uk, than a wimpy person. are there any wimpy restaurants still open?

Isn't there still one near Leicester Square? tbf I'm a picnic on the hard shoulder type.

As far as revenge for unpaid bills goes, he could have found the accounts payable manager and had a quiet word (or even a 'quiet word') .. threatened small claims court (it works) .. but none of that would have looked so impressive to bonehead mates down the pub now would it?

 

[Teaboy]

It's a shame they didn't pay him because people should fucking well be paid.

Quite right. Unfortunately though getting paid for the work you have done is one of the hardest things in business and construction has got be one of the worst for it. Sadly its just part of business, though moves are afoot to try and change it.

This guy was almost certainly working for a subcontractor, so they should have been the one paying him. Thing is though sub-contractors get squeezed the most in the chain because they have to pay for the materials or they won't be delivered, they (theoretically) have to pay their gangs otherwise they'll down tools If they are not getting paid their installments from the main contractor or other companies than cash flow can kill them stone dead.

Its a crappy industry for this. Thing is though, whomever was responsible for him not being paid it wasn't the guys working on site at that point. I very much doubt he intended to injure anyone but he did and that is pretty reckless behavior, building sites are dangerous enough already.

 

[TopCat]

Yeah, of course they will.

This thread's really bringing out the know nothing brigade.

You are here

 

[Spymaster]

It sounds to me like the voice of someone pushed breaking point.

By a 3 day overdue invoice.

If he had trashed his own work, that'd be one thing, but to fuck over a load of other people and endanger other workers is a total cunt's trick.

 

[Pickman's model]

By a 3 day overdue invoice.

If he had trashed his own work, that'd be one thing, but to fuck over a load of other people is a total cunt's trick.

give the matter a moment's thought and you'll see a lot of people will in fact be quids in over this as there is now more work needing doing.

 

[mojo pixy]

When I see some man (usually a man) acting like this, I wonder what they're like when their kids are really fucking hard to handle? As above, so below - people do not smash shit up like this just once at work but nowhere else in life before or since.

 

[Teaboy]

From this article in the trade press: Digger driver destroys Travelodge in pay row | Construction Enquirer

It would appear that the guy was from a trade agency. So its possible that he should have been paid by the agency who had absolutely nothing to do with the site at all. Doesn't mean to say that payment problems didn't start from the top and have just snowballed but even so.

FWIW its not all bad news for the companies who's work he has just trashed, could be a decent remedial package in it for them.

 

[Spymaster]

give the matter a moment's thought and you'll see a lot of people will in fact be quids in over this as there is now more work needing doing.

No! That's not how building works. All of the trades will likely have been on pricework. They get paid for a completed job. If you were the tiler who had just finished and were expecting to invoice for your work today, you're fucked. There will probably be insurance somewhere but they'll probably all say that the contractors need to claim from the twat who did the damage. People will be severely out of pocket here.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

give the matter a moment's thought and you'll see a lot of people will in fact be quids in over this as there is now more work needing doing.

Exactly. One of my dad's mates ran a building firm and got the contract to refit the Nat West Tower after the IRA blew it up. Pretty much as soon as they'd finished the refurb, the IRA done it again. Which was a result for him, not for the poor sod who died though.

 

[Pickman's model]

Exactly. One of my dad's mates ran a building firm and got the contract to refit the Nat West Tower after the IRA blew it up. Pretty much as soon as they'd finished the refurb, the IRA done it again. Which was a result for him, not for the poor sod who died though.

ed henty, the news of the world photographer, who ignored warnings and ran towards the bomb you mean?

 

[chilango]

By a 3 day overdue invoice.

Yeah, might well have done. I suspect the £600 was the final straw rather than an initial grevience.

If he had trashed his own work, that'd be one thing, but to fuck over a load of other people is a total cunt's trick.

Of course I would prefer collective action, and well-planned and considered forms of that collective action.

But that idea, and the structures that could enable it have systematically and deliberately attacked and dismantled.

I'm no expert on the construction trade, but even I know that it's been an enthusiastic participant in this destruction of collective organising.

Chickens and roosts spring to mind.

 

[Spymaster]

FWIW its not all bad news for the companies who's work he has just trashed, could be a decent remedial package in it for them.

IF there are no insurance issues and IF they're of a decent size and can absorb a massive payment delay. If they're small contractors the best they can hope is that their own insurers will stump up but that could take months or not happen at all. More likely they've just lost their work.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

the news of the world photographer who ignored warnings and ran towards the bomb you mean?

is that who it was? I wasn't paying attention. I did get 5000 carpet tiles to sell though

 

[Teaboy]

Then again if no one is getting paid on the job why would you want to do any more?

 

[Sprocket.]

I have a job he could do at Parliament...

Gissa job, ah could do that!

 

[Pickman's model]

Gissa job, ah could do that!

you'd knock down the sycophantically-named elizabeth tower the first morning

 

[Teaboy]

IF there are no insurance issues and IF they're of a decent size and can absorb a massive payment delay. If they're small contractors the best they can hope is that their own insurers will stump up but that could take months or not happen at all. More likely they've just lost their work.

Depends on the nature of the contract, I would have thought the main contractor would take overall responsibility for this but again it depends on what has been written down. From the look of the building it looks like e refurbishment project rather than a new build so there may not even be a main contractor.

You're right though that there is a risk of insurance delay killing the subbie stone dead which would leave workers out of pocket.

 

[elbows]

are there any wimpy restaurants still open?

Yeah I was reading something about them recently. Ah here it is: Wimpy closure prompts emotional farewell