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[Closed] Does anyone else have a work colleague that......

esselgruntfuttock · 2018-11-17T09:54:03Z

No-one can bear? You know, the one who somehow gets on everyone's wick & when you mention the name it brings on a case of rolling eyes & head shaking? We have around 40 people who work for our dept & there's not one who can abide the person in question. This person is a minibus driver who... can't drive a manual (gearbox) bus cos they have a wrist problem (drives a manual car), declared after being appointed the job that they can't travel in the rear as a passenger assistant cos they get motion sickness (every driver is expected to be able do do PA work when required), regularly comes up with reasons why they can't do a particular run (so someone else has to be swapped), finds a defect on any bus theyr'e appointed to, (the fitters in the workshop actually hide when this person turns up), 'borrows' equipment (wheelchair clamps etc) from various buses without asking which can cause major problems, has reported (grassed up more like) two staff members for not wearing a hi-viz jacket in a school car park The list is endless. This person has now been appointed Unison H&S rep for the depot & recently went on a weeks course (peace & tranquility reigned), came back & is now H&S crazy. There's a 25ltr drum of pre-mixed screenwash (with 'screenwash' written on) in the building which now also has written on it in felt tip, 'dangerous substance (complete with skull & crossbones) do not drink! may cause death if ingested' I mean what would someone think it was? Blue Lucozade or something? This person actually checked on the DVLA website a while ago to check that the bus they were assigned to was MOT tested. It wasn't listed as such so they refused to drive it. Cue all kinds of swapping buses till it was sorted, to which it transpired it was tested after all & consequently the person in question was told to do their job whilst the transport manager did his. It's a local authority bus FFS! Anyway, sorry It's like war & peace....anyone got someone similar?

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funkmasterp

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I’m feeling really lucky. Don’t like my job much, but the people in my team are great and there are only five of them. My previous role in the company was an entirely different kettle of fish though.

Posted : 18/11/2018 9:11 am

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