Tell him we just set up a range of CCTV
This could save his bacon next time. Bullying isn't good either.
We actually just had cameras that look like your range installed recently at work, after the cash machine being stolen.
Revenge is..dangerous!
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We actually just had cameras that look like your range installed recently at work, after the cash machine being stolen.
Banter is all part & parcel of many jobs, its certainly part of my job!
As in any banter, its where to draw the line.
As an example, I'll walk into a drivers waiting area, sooner or later theres the inevitable "Here comes the Stobart ******" so I bite and give as good as I get.
Anybody call me a "******" to my face, out of context, oh dear, I may well get upset.
In a work environment, I just let it wash over me.
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Banter dose not equal bullying IMO but without being there and knowing the people it's hard to know what actually happened.
That is why I'm so surprised that people don't see the harm in cutting brake lines!
As I said before, to me, it speaks volumes about the person who cut the lines and those who support him.
That is why I'm so surprised that people don't see the harm in cutting brake lines!
As I said before, to me, it speaks volumes about the person who cut the lines and those who support him.
Quite.
It does say a lot about the person in question.
But it puzzles me how banter - sticks & stones & all that -ends up in a physical act of vengeance.
Cutting somebody's brake line for a few poorly chosen words? its insane.
I guess it illustrates how being rational in certain situations goes out the window once the red mist sets in...?
Ordinary people don't cut break lines, even over a moderate arguement, but your leaving a lot to assumption. We can't safely say the guy was deranged without knowing more details, he could have been an ordinary person bullied so badly he was pushed to it.
It sounds to me like someone thought it funny to wind up the guy with learning disabilities and he had far less coping mechanisms than is common. I don't agree with what he did or consider his potential disability an excuse but I find it easier to believe thats what happened and why it happened.
If it was up on a ramp, I'd have got fed up of wiping dripping coolant from my eyes, perhaps.
Banter has to be with the right person & in the right situation....
One of my favorite examples of banter....
The "Barber Scene" from Gran Torino......
(A few swearies, be warned)
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I was just going to post this.
You're assuming a lot too.
I'm not the one trying to justify cutting someone lines. I'm not condoning bullying but I'm also not condoning doing something equally as retarded as bullying (cutting lines) either.
Some of you appear to think it's fine, he can absolve responsibility for his actions where as others, like me, believe there is no excuse for it.
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i say good on him tbh!
my little bro was essentially forced to quit his apprentiship at arnold clark after a yr of bullying by the garage foreman. my lil bro is not a pusharound and we were all surprised when he wouldnt go back after walking out one day.
yes banter is part of the trade, but bullying shouldnt be.....my exact words to my little bro were to take the job and on the first day back, threaten the foreman with the biggest shifting spanner to the face if he started his crap again.
harsh stance i know given the dmg that could have been done, and im glad the fault was noticed before being driven, but what about the potential dmg to the bulllied person!
my little bro was essentially forced to quit his apprentiship at arnold clark after a yr of bullying by the garage foreman. my lil bro is not a pusharound and we were all surprised when he wouldnt go back after walking out one day.
yes banter is part of the trade, but bullying shouldnt be.....my exact words to my little bro were to take the job and on the first day back, threaten the foreman with the biggest shifting spanner to the face if he started his crap again.
harsh stance i know given the dmg that could have been done, and im glad the fault was noticed before being driven, but what about the potential dmg to the bulllied person!
It 'sounds to me' as though they're all ****s. Not that it means any of them deserve to injure innocent road users.
Right.
Obviously people don't learn. Apprentices are dangerous people, its only a matter of time before he snaps and all
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bad stuff happens to bullies eventually
Very true.
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I have a confession to make.
I cut somebody's Vespa scooter brake cables 31 years ago but don't worry because they wouldn't have got far because I also took their tyres out and everything else that could be cut.
Revenge is sweet and I still didn't feel he had what was coming to him.
I'm going to regret posting that.
I cut somebody's Vespa scooter brake cables 31 years ago but don't worry because they wouldn't have got far because I also took their tyres out and everything else that could be cut.
Revenge is sweet and I still didn't feel he had what was coming to him.
I'm going to regret posting that.
Banters fine, nothing wrong with it in the slightest, but it's only banter when it's taken as such.
Just like you'd get ****ed at someone if it was taken out of context, it might have been the same for the employee who considered himself to be bullied. (and judging by the fact he is quite different might well have been).
Well considering it was just before closing the car came in with the cut brake hose. We just stuck on a new hose, topped up the fluid and let the boy go as we were closing.
Also as I already said, the coolant hose was cut just enough to leak when the car was hot and there was pressure in the system (so not when it was switched off on the ramp)
It was in for a brake hose not a full check over, we assumed the sabotage started and finished at that 1 corner. The car had driven a few hundred yards with no brakes before it went on the ramp so it was still stone cold.
Obviously the owner of the astra drove it a fair distance with the thing overheating before he noticed. If you want to blame someone blame him.