How generous or tight is/was your boss?

[Darkwood]

Thought I would see how tight your bosses are=== 'Scrooge' ...or indeed how generous are they.

Ill start, My old boss was so tight that once on xmas eve we were allowed to finish an whole hour early and he offered a beer at the local pub.. very nice of him we thought so the 3 of us went and he get a round in, all was fine until he asked for another round and said it my turn to pay and I kid you not he meant it... never took him up on his offer again :frown2:

Another occasion he gave me 2 blank betamax tapes from the shop .. this was 2 yrs after VHS won the battle and Betamax sunk... ( to the young one a tape cassette is something we recorded tele or radio on)

 

[telectrix]

Re: How tight is/was your boss?

haha, back in the 80's i worked for an alarm company. they supplied us with Mk 1 ford fiestas. 950cc. to carry all the gear, ladders etc. the one i had was cranky from new, and i told him so. so after 4 months, the big ends gave up. the miserly toe rag said it was my fault for not checking the oil, and docked me £20 a week from wages till i'd paid the £400 repair bill. little does he know that £600 worth of stock came out of his stores for my foreigners over a period of a few months.

 

[dansk]

Re: How tight is/was your boss?

I can't add to this because most my gaffers where actually good! Maybe this thread should be how good has the boss been to you?

 

[Hellmooth]

Re: How tight is/was your boss?

I can't add to this because most my gaffers where actually good! Maybe this thread should be how good has the boss been to you?

Bit of both!

 

[Darkwood]

Bit of both!

For you Ill change the title

 

[Hellmooth]

For you Ill change the title

Lol thanks you're a generous sod :tt1:

 

[7029 dave]

One of my old gaffers was quite funny, when I was still an apprentice, if you cracked an 70p back patteress he would go mad, if dropped an 8ft pop pack he would laugh.?

 

[rapparee]

One christmas our boss raffled a £10 groceries voucher between a factory of 200. On another occasion he raffled a product which came off the factory line. That might sound good if you work in a car factory but not a small electrical goods company.

 

[jay sean]

My old companies gave me cable and accessories to do up my house.... not that they knew that they gave them!!!

 

[tigerpaul]

Back in 94 the engineer on site went mad because our foreman let us go home at 5.59 instead of 6 o'clock. They argued the ---- and then he made the foreman phone the speaking clock and it turned out it was 6.02 and he'd been holding us back for no reason at all. Miserable git