Do you agree?

[Nope]

Roy is that you ?

I have no idea who Roy is.

 

[fillyboy]

I have no idea who Roy is.

Himmy.

 

[johnny2007]

I worked with a funny little irish bricklayer called Leppy, short for leprechaun.
I would introduce himself as Leppy and most of us didn't know his real name.
Then, with the arrival of women in building sites, we got this graduate uptight girl who insisted in calling him Joseph (his real name).
He corrected her many times and she eventually asked why Leppy.
He told her and she reported him to the site manager who tried to tell her to get lost.
She escalated this to the head office.
Result: the site manager was moved and Leppy, sorry, Joseph was suspended for a week without pay and given a warning.
He came back, messed up 2 storeys of brickwork and left.
The little girl was pushed out when someone pointed out that those 2 storeys had soft mortar and weren't straight.
The labourers spent 2 days demolishing that mess and what had been done above it.
We had to stop working but still be paid.
Lots of fun.
This was 15 years ago, I don't want to imagine how bad it is now.
You can't even call yourself whatever you want.

 

[fillyboy]

I worked with a funny little irish bricklayer called Leppy, short for leprechaun.
I would introduce himself as Leppy and most of us didn't know his real name.
Then, with the arrival of women in building sites, we got this graduate uptight girl who insisted in calling him Joseph (his real name).
He corrected her many times and she eventually asked why Leppy.
He told her and she reported him to the site manager who tried to tell her to get lost.
She escalated this to the head office.
Result: the site manager was moved and Leppy, sorry, Joseph was suspended for a week without pay and given a warning.
He came back, messed up 2 storeys of brickwork and left.
The little girl was pushed out when someone pointed out that those 2 storeys had soft mortar and weren't straight.
The labourers spent 2 days demolishing that mess and what had been done above it.
We had to stop working but still be paid.
Lots of fun.
This was 15 years ago, I don't want to imagine how bad it is now.
You can't even call yourself whatever you want.

Lad who worked for me many years ago would always call a female delivery driver who was a regular visitor 'spanner'.
One day she said to him why do you always call me spanner, he said 'because whenever I see you my nuts tighten'.

 

[securespark]

I worked with a funny little irish bricklayer called Leppy, short for leprechaun.
I would introduce himself as Leppy and most of us didn't know his real name.
Then, with the arrival of women in building sites, we got this graduate uptight girl who insisted in calling him Joseph (his real name).
He corrected her many times and she eventually asked why Leppy.
He told her and she reported him to the site manager who tried to tell her to get lost.
She escalated this to the head office.
Result: the site manager was moved and Leppy, sorry, Joseph was suspended for a week without pay and given a warning.
He came back, messed up 2 storeys of brickwork and left.
The little girl was pushed out when someone pointed out that those 2 storeys had soft mortar and weren't straight.
The labourers spent 2 days demolishing that mess and what had been done above it.
We had to stop working but still be paid.
Lots of fun.
This was 15 years ago, I don't want to imagine how bad it is now.
You can't even call yourself whatever you want.

There must be something more to this story. There's no way the company can make a case to suspend without pay and issue a warning, because the guy discussed his nomenclature.

 

[johnny2007]

There must be something more to this story. There's no way the company can make a case to suspend without pay and issue a warning, because the guy discussed his nomenclature.

I was there at the time, that's all that happened.
This young kid was what we would call a woke nowadays.
She got him in trouble and he messed them up to the tune of tens of thousands.
She was pushed out immediately after.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

There must be something more to this story. There's no way the company can make a case to suspend without pay and issue a warning, because the guy discussed his nomenclature.

He would have had a good claim for suspension without pay .

Doesn't ring true

 

[johnny2007]

He would have had a good claim for suspension without pay .

Doesn't ring true

Old school people didn't think along those lines.
He probably did some private work in that week and doubled his money.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Old school people didn't think along those lines.
He probably did some private work in that week and doubled his money.

Not many old dchool types that would accept suspension without reason with no fault.

More likely to have said " stick your job" if other work was so readily available.

 

[Roy Bloom]

Well if he does, let him be aware that I don't do this gender/non-gender, non-pronoun, known as a he/she/binary BS.
And anyone who doesn't like me for it can go and whistle Yankk-doodle-dandy all day long as far as I'm concerned.

At my age I'm not conforming to some namby-pamby nanny state, that places more rights on someone who has not been out of nappies long enough to have experienced anything of life. It's us old 'uns who have been through the mill and kept this country going through strikes, wars, civil unrest in our towns/cities, unemployment and generally being shafted with various taxes and penalties. We have never declared we are 'offended/hurt feelings et al, and never claimed compensation because someone called us names.

D'ya know where the title came from?
During the mid 19th century it was fashionable to take the mickey out of well dressed men.
The Americans adopted it as a mickey take of the well dressed English men.
You should look up the origin of the song, It dates from well before the mid 19th century, possibly some Irish roots.

 

[noseall]

Doesn't ring true

You don't seriously believe a word jonny says, do you?

 

[johnny2007]

Not many old dchool types that would accept suspension without reason with no fault.

More likely to have said " stick your job" if other work was so readily available.

Sorry but I haven't kept any evidence of what happened 15 years ago.
Silly me, I should've asked for witness statements, staff file and other evidence so I could produce them to strangers on the internet 15 years later.
One question: where does your distrust in human beings come from?
Did someone do something so bad to you that you don't trust anyone now, not even about something that cannot and will not affect your life?

 

[Deleted member 221031]

Did someone do something so bad to you that you don't trust anyone now, not even about something that cannot and will not affect your life?

Don’t feed the womble and you’ll feel better. Probably the most argumentative person I’ve ever encountered.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Sorry but I haven't kept any evidence of what happened 15 years ago.
Silly me, I should've asked for witness statements, staff file and other evidence so I could produce them to strangers on the internet 15 years later.
One question: where does your distrust in human beings come from?
Did someone do something so bad to you that you don't trust anyone now, not even about something that cannot and will not affect your life?

You seemed to know all the details originally

 

[johnny2007]

You seemed to know all the details originally

And I posted what I know.
Then you, the cps, judge and jury of diynot.com wanted evidence.
I apologised for not having obtained and kept any evidence and highlighted the fact that you feel a strong sense of distrust towards your fellow human beings.
It must be a psychological condition with a name.
Check it out.