Red eye has lost tools.

[red eye]

Looking though receipts I can find I have around £4000 worth of tools in my box, £600 worth missing.
To minimise my loss I have taken a lot of my tools home and not replacing any other tools that go missing, if I do replace then that will go into my box at home.

So now I’m thinking what if the garage gets broken into and my tools are stolen, would that be covered under employers insurance?

 

[Malevolence]

Doubt it. However, do you have local fence Cash Converters? Go check in there.

 

[adolf hamster]

I'm guessing mechanic?

Guess this answers why folk get so defensive about their tools. Maybe look into your own insurance for them?

Might be an old and simple trick, but where possible carving your initials in them might help track the pilferer if its one of the guys in the garage.

 

[red eye]

I know where the missing tools are, in customers cars just don’t know which careless tw@7 used the tool.

Needless to say everyone is struggling with Toyota d4d, Mercedes and bmw oil filters

 

[red eye]

I'm guessing mechanic?

Guess this answers why folk get so defensive about their tools. Maybe look into your own insurance for them?

Might be an old and simple trick, but where possible carving your initials in them might help track the pilferer if its one of the guys in the garage.

There not being stolen. Some careless •••••••••••••••• has left the tool in a customers car.

It’s just a •••• take, you pay £18 for an oil filter tool some •••••• uses the tool, gets his bonus and I have to replace the tool because that •••••• left it under the bonnet. •••••• ••••• couldn’t buy his own. So I haven’t replaced the tool, if you get your bmw or Mercedes back with a filter housing all chewed up and broken plastic bits around that area it’s becuause there’s are tool losing ••••••• in that garage.

 

[red eye]

My title is a bit misleading

 

[Thekwango]

Padlock on toolbox = problem solved

 

[Werewolf]

Unfortunately it sounds like you're experiencing what is a common issue*.

As has been said a padlock on your toolbox might help prevent people borrowing them, although that then makes it a pain to get your tools out if you're back and forward to it on a regular basis.


*Even my brother in law, who only needs allen keys in his job used to have to buy new sets every few weeks as people borrowed them and didn't put them back.

 

[JBuk]

Does your employer not provide you with the tools to do your job?

 

[Haze]

Why are you buying your own tools if no one else is , try speaking to you boss, instead of "quick to the Internet" ....

 

[VincentHanna]

Does your employer not provide you with the tools to do your job?

My understanding is that car mechanics build up their own expensive tool boxes over the years. I had two mates who were mechanics and they had £10,000 worth of tools between them.

 

[Rroff]

Unfortunately it sounds like you're experiencing what is a common issue*.

As has been said a padlock on your toolbox might help prevent people borrowing them, although that then makes it a pain to get your tools out if you're back and forward to it on a regular basis.


*Even my brother in law, who only needs allen keys in his job used to have to buy new sets every few weeks as people borrowed them and didn't put them back.

Yeah - my second use of the word today but its infuriating how few people put things back where they found them - so often people want to borrow my personal equipment at work as they just lazily misplace the ones they were issued by the company and/or the common use ones have finally all been lost, etc.

Nowadays I lock all my stuff away and refuse to lend it out.

 

[MikeTheNative]

Does your employer not provide you with the tools to do your job?

It seems quite the norm for mechanics for some reason, my Dad works on a commercial fleet and still has to buy his own. To me it's like having to bring your own computer to an office job.

 

[Rroff]

To me it's like having to bring your own computer to an office job.

I'd probably prefer that I tend to take a GPD Pocket around with me as so often work PCs are ridiculously underpowered or loaded up with stupid software that slows them down, etc. or just in a poor state generally.

 

[JBuk]

My understanding is that car mechanics build up their own expensive tool boxes over the years. I had two mates who were mechanics and they had £10,000 worth of tools between them.

It used to be the norm at our work too but I just order the tools as needed on the work account , I’ve always found it strange buying your own tools so your employer can make money off them

 

[Chris Wilson]

Never a lender nor a borrower be with tools, that's my motto.

 

[red eye]

Does your employer not provide you with the tools to do your job?

Nope, we’ll only jacks and spring compressors etc.

But would my tools be covered if the garage was broken into?

 

[Werewolf]

Nope, we’ll only jacks and spring compressors etc.

But would my tools be covered if the garage was broken into?

Check with the employer and ask to see the documents, chances are they wouldn't be under his policy unless he's specified it to be the case (he has no "interest" in them I think is the term).

 

[red eye]

Nope, we’ll only jacks and spring compressors etc

Check with the employer and ask to see the documents, chances are they wouldn't be under his policy unless he's specified it to be the case (he has no "interest" in them I think is the term).

So I’d be screwed.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Does your employer not provide you with the tools to do your job?

It's normal for the employee to have to buy and be responsible for their own tools. Ask any electrician, joiner, plumber, brickie, mechanic, etc..