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Tallpaul

Tallpaul

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Big Sandy said:
Hmmm. I was talking to a friend last week, ex special branch. He was saying about a 30yr serving chief superintendent who was well known for coke use. One day they came into his office and said "random drug test time". He says no ..So that in itself is an admission of guilt...got on the blower to the chief constable and says "I think I'll retire today".

So was suspended, on full pay, until his retirement papers came through. Left on full pension.... His reason for not wanting the test on the day? He'd taken CBD oil and was afraid it would throw the rest.

Bollox ain't it?
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Part of the problem with being allowed to mark your own homework.
 
MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

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I worked for a multi-national semi-conductor manufacturer back in the nineties. During an audit from headquarters one of the managers was caught fiddling the figures to make it look like his product failure rates were lower than they actually were, costing the company a fortune in scrapped silicon wafers while another was scrapping platinum lined furnace tubes (Like big glass thermos liners) that weren't actually scrap and sending them for recycling in return for kick backs from a precious metals dealer. One 'Suffered a heart attack and was retired early due to ill health' and the other was escorted off the site with no more said about it.

Wee Jimmy on the other hand would get the book thrown at him for nicking a pencil.

Reason for this double standard?

No-one cares about wee Jimmy and the organisation has nothing to lose by taking him to task while it sets an example to any other lowly employees who might decided they could use a few things from the factory while, if you throw the book at the big fish and then those who deal with your organisation will know that you are shit at running your business and even your senior employees are laughing at you behind your back so you do a deal with them - Go quietly and we'll give you all the stuff you would have got anyway as long as you keep your mouth shut so that we protect our reputation and our stocks in the market aren't damaged.

I doubt there are many in the upper echelons of any organisation who aren't pigging out on whatever they can get their hands on safe in the knowledge that saving face is more important to the organisations than rooting out the scum.

Personally I'd root out those in the upper echelons first and make a very strong example by punishing them to the full extent of available options and make it known that no-one, no matter how high up the organisation gets away with fucking about with me.
 
Scrappy

Scrappy

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MartytheMartian said:
I worked for a multi-national semi-conductor manufacturer back in the nineties. During an audit from headquarters one of the managers was caught fiddling the figures to make it look like his product failure rates were lower than they actually were, costing the company a fortune in scrapped silicon wafers while another was scrapping platinum lined furnace tubes (Like big glass thermos liners) that weren't actually scrap and sending them for recycling in return for kick backs from a precious metals dealer. One 'Suffered a heart attack and was retired early due to ill health' and the other was escorted off the site with no more said about it.

Wee Jimmy on the other hand would get the book thrown at him for nicking a pencil.

Reason for this double standard?

No-one cares about wee Jimmy and the organisation has nothing to lose by taking him to task while it sets an example to any other lowly employees who might decided they could use a few things from the factory while, if you throw the book at the big fish and then those who deal with your organisation will know that you are shit at running your business and even your senior employees are laughing at you behind your back so you do a deal with them - Go quietly and we'll give you all the stuff you would have got anyway as long as you keep your mouth shut so that we protect our reputation and our stocks in the market aren't damaged.

I doubt there are many in the upper echelons of any organisation who aren't pigging out on whatever they can get their hands on safe in the knowledge that saving face is more important to the organisations than rooting out the scum.

Personally I'd root out those in the upper echelons first and make a very strong example by punishing them to the full extent of available options and make it known that no-one, no matter how high up the organisation gets away with fucking about with me.
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When I took voluntary redundancy from a big corporate organisation that had brought our company, in order for them to accept my redundancy and provide me the nice payoff, I had to get lawyer to witness me signing a "contract" that prevented me from bad mouthing my corporate employer. So even if you have done nothing wrong, these big companies still gag you in an attempt to prevent any damage to their reputation.

I've also witnessed the "shit rises to the top", as many useless people instead of being sacked were promoted to elevate them out of the way where it was thought they could do less damage, having a cushion of common sense between them and the people that actually did the work. However that also might be a reason why so many woke wankers end up in positions of power in these big companies.
 
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Big Sandy

Big Sandy

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"The shit rises to the top"

As a child, there was a CID guy living up the hill from us, and one next door. The one up the hill had a caravan, and I have fond memories of him pushing it out of the drive, and it rolling away down the hill. The main memory of this event was him running down the hill behind it shouting "Stop!" I so wanted him to shout "in the name of the law" as well, but hey, can't have it all. He was promoted off the beat because he was useless.

The one next door.. A D.S. We used to call him Basher Barry, cos He was thick and very heavy handed, slammed everything. He was given a mini cooper as a "work car". Pulled up to the pumps, slammed the filler nozzle into the tank, pushed it through the pipe into the back of the boot. Where the radio gear was stashed. He filled the boot, and it was pissing out onto the ground. He put ten gallons in it! One of the mechanics saw him doing it, and stopped him before he got in and touched the ignition, as the radio gear coming on would have have set it off like a bomb. They promoted him to DI the week after, but they did give him a desk to drive.
 
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Tallpaul

Tallpaul

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