[Politics] Matt Hancock loses job

[KZNSeagull]

It seems to be pretty standard practice around here to accept jobs at Supermarkets and then never turn up. Happens regularly.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Hancock is an awful c***. The real question was why he was offered the job in the first place.

 

[Sheebo]

Is he still with his wife anyone know? Or with the other lady?

 

[A1X]

In danger of replacing "a dustman" as the punchline for the old joke "who gets the sack every time he goes to work?"

 

[Deleted member 2719]

I honestly don't know any harder jobs than hod carrying on the building. Scaffolding, might come close, and floor screeding didn't look like much fun. Back then a lot of it was ladder work, rather than forklift.

I saw many a punch up during my time on the building. Back then, it was all 'self employed' for subbies and loads of blokes came and went.

I saw loads of chancers come and go as hod carriers. Like I say, some didn't make it beyond the first break.

It was so nice for them to break me in on concrete ones up ladders all day too!
The brickies told me they were ****s at the end of the day, I already knew one was.

Hand digging on piece rate is tougher than hod carying IMO, we had many that didn't make the morning, especially when they had done body-shaking spadework through tarmac and type 2.
back then men were men, we were a specialised hand digging gang. Loved digging through 6ft of chalk in the middle of Brighton between a zillion services! Some of the worse digging we did was Brighton and Saltdean.

Did he wipe it off after? Yes, that would make me jolly cross with him too, if it had been my girlfriend. I would also quit the job, wouldn't want the whole site knowing he had given my girlfriend's face the Painters Radio look, and then smashed my face in on too.

Almost funny, he came off the worse before the bouncers stepped in.

Think Marvellous Marvin.
https://youtu.be/2lR0q0nO88A

 

[Bry Nylon]

In danger of replacing "a dustman" as the punchline for the old joke "who gets the sack every time he goes to work?"

Err, I don’t want to heckle, but think the punchline is “a postman”… not “a dustman.”

(Unless it’s a CityClean dustman in Brighton, obvs).

 

[The Clamp]

Walked off a few film sets. I was doing stunts on a war film. During rehearsal another stunt guy put a bayonet through a colleague. He thought it was a dummy and the coordinator didn't yell cut on the rehearsal so he carried on bayoneting until he ran out of dummies and hit a real person who was in position for a take. I handed in my kit and walked off. I'd been on set about 3 hours

Another war film I almost got sucked under a T55 tank's tracks. Piss poor coordination and safety meant the tank got way too close to where us stunt guys were running. I stayed for lunch on that because it was Chinese food and then I went home.

And I walked out of many jobs in my late teens. Was easy to find work on Industrial estates. We all used to go from factory to factory. Couldn't do that now.

 

[maffew]

We offered someone a job, then withdrew the offer as his references were poor. He got a similar job elsewhere, and didn't turn up on the first day (or afterwards).

Do you not check references before making a job offer?

 

[The Clamp]

Do you not check references before making a job offer?

A lot of places make a conditional offer dependant on references I think.

 

[clapham_gull]

Is he still with his wife anyone know? Or with the other lady?

Both left their family homes, his bit on the side living a few streets away from me.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Got a Saturday job in an off-licence asked if I could nip off early on my first day so I could make the charter train to Northampton, they said yes but don't come back. I said ok

 

[Bodian]

Do you not check references before making a job offer?

A lot of places make a conditional offer dependant on references I think.

Indeed. You have the interviews, offer it to the person you want 'subject to references' that day. Quite often ( and understandably) applicants don't want their current employers to know that they are applying for other jobs until they've actually been offered one. And it's not really fair to make everyone interviewed to hang on for a week or so for folk to reply to reference requests.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I got a job in my local juice factory but I got the sack after 2 days because I couldn't concentrate.