Driving experience days...need info

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Ok long story short..

I have a member of staff at work who was given a Track day driving experience thing for his birthday from his girlfriend last year. Now, he used to always have Saturdays off when he worked on a different department before coming on to mine and so always for some reason has 'things' planned for Saturdays and has paid money for whatever and doesn't want to lose deposits for whatever etc.

Now he has booked Saturdays off to go to this driving things and comes back the following week saying he didn't do it as someone crashed the car he was meant to be driving in. This has now occurred 3 times now in the last 8 months or so. We are all including the GM getting a bit ****ed off with it all. We have no proof that he's pulling our legs over this matter. He has booked 3 weekends off in the last 8 weeks to attend this thing, the last one was 3 weeks ago and again, the car was crashed. He has this weekend off for it and another in two weeks..

Now, this event is supposedly taking place at Prestwold Hall driving track.. can anyone with any info get back to me here regarding any issues with people crashing these cars. I am not sure what car he was supposed to be driving but considering its be totalled 3 times in 8 months..........I surely wouldn't go and drive it.

Nothing will happen to said staff member unless the GM and SPM regard any evidence to be true and will hold up in a disciplinary. I'm not wanting to go this route but would like to 'Out' him to my staff as what he's being doing recently apart from this '**** take'.

Now this thread is about finding out if you guys know of such incidents at said race track not about him or me or what will happen.

you have the facts now enlighten me.:cool:

edit: I wont get involved in any talk about work or why we need to know etc.. just has there been anything happen there like this in the last 8 months.. I know you motors crew are a hard audience..:-)
 
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If he's just using his holiday entitlement up then it doesn't really matter whether he does it or doesn't surely? If he uses all his holiday days up, then from then on tough luck.

I would be wholly unsurprised to learn that plenty of cars do get crashed on these days though, or at the very least get busted clutches etc.

edit - it's an 'Everyman Racing' experience day, plenty of awful reviews on Tripadvisor, including whinging about being told the cars are broken on the morning they turn up.
 
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I've been to Prestwold hall on several occasions.

I'd find it hard to believe that cars are crashed that frequently. Its essentially an open tarmac grid, with nothing to crash into except other cars, cones, and grass. It really is a horrible venue... not to say its the cars fault, just a very very uninspiring track.

The cars are also unlikely to be killed by guests as the instructors really do give you a verbal *******ing if you go anywhere NEAR the red line in any of them (I was regularly told to "change up, change up, CHANGE UP" when approaching 5k rpm in cars where the start of the redline was at 8k).

Regardless of that, if a particular car was not available on the day for whatever reason, they offer you the option to drive many of the other cars available. Of which there are generally many, moreso at a weekend.

I cant imagine if after 3 times being told his car of choice is broke on the day, he would have either been demanding a refund, or asking to visit another venue where the same car is available. Donnington Park or Mallary Park for example (both of which are better tracks to drive).

Surely as others have said, if he's booking the holidays off, you cant really tell him off for it, especially if someone else is signing them off.
 
I dont see the problem if hes booked it off? If for some reason the GM has a reason to be annoyed with it why not just decline the request for leave?
 
So your calling in the OcUK Internet Detectives because a guy at work is taking Saturdays as holiday...

Err... wow. Glad I don't work with you!
 
I am going to take a wild guess that the op operates in a 7 day business with staff operating on a rota basis, therefore the more Saturdays the guy takes as his two days per week off the less Saturdays everyone else gets off. In this situation I would be pretty annoyed if I was having to cover more weekend shifts.

My question though is why are you not just calling Prestwold Hall about their track day and getting details such as what happens if the car I wanted to drive is crashed before I get there? You stand very little odds of getting anything that can stand up in a disciplinary through here
 
A disciplinary because whoever does the rota gives him more Saturdays off?

Lol, what a joke. The guys done nothing wrong. The issue is poor management.
 
Somebody must be authorising his leave unless he's just not turning up? So I don't see what the problem is.

As for not discussing why? You're the one who posted this on an internet forum so why can't we ask?
 
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I dont see the problem if hes booked it off? If for some reason the GM has a reason to be annoyed with it why not just decline the request for leave?
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This, don't want him to have the holidays just refuse the request for leave or cancel it no need to go to all this arse ache.
 
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I am going to take a wild guess that the op operates in a 7 day business with staff operating on a rota basis, therefore the more Saturdays the guy takes as his two days per week off the less Saturdays everyone else gets off. In this situation I would be pretty annoyed if I was having to cover more weekend shifts.
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So whoever writes the rota is at fault. He is entitled to request a Saturday off for any reason he choses - even if he wants to sit on his sofa and stare at the wall all day. It is then up to whoever writes the rota to decide whether to grant the request, surely?
 
Instead of trying to get brownie points by being up your boss' ****, why don't you do the dirty work and figure this out for yourself?

That's pretty low. If you wasn't going to use the information against him then why bother in the first place?
 
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I honestly can't get my head around trying to catch him out, if he's requested holiday and it's been granted then if he wants to spend it spreading his own baby batter around his face or driving a car then that's no business of yours.
 
Can only echo the above!

If he requesting leave and this is being granted then surely its the management at fault for granting it?

Can't see how you can keep granting him leave then pulling him up on it as an issue!? Surely you would just say "no not possible" at the time and thats the end of it.
 
rather than investigating that, why don't you look for a more reliable racetrack/day for him to attend and recommend to him so he won't need so many saturdays off if it's bothering management....everyone wins :D

bottom line, he's requesting and getting approved these holidays. no reason to complain :p


and LOL at this comment
if he wants to spend it spreading his own baby batter around his face
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