Strangest lift home
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When me and my missus were celebrating getting hitched we were in london for a weekend sans kid, and like you do hit the town for a night out.
After a good few sherberts in The rooftop, and a walk round to mortons, we hopped in a cab and wound up at my old local 'the feathers' just off gloucester place.
Come 12 I'm shit faced and we walked out to gloucester place and hailed a cab, a minicab stops and we get in, a rather nice black merc. Complete with curtains on the windows, its a bloody funeral car. The daytime chauffer has decided to earn a bonus at night using the 'company car'.
After a good few sherberts in The rooftop, and a walk round to mortons, we hopped in a cab and wound up at my old local 'the feathers' just off gloucester place.
Come 12 I'm shit faced and we walked out to gloucester place and hailed a cab, a minicab stops and we get in, a rather nice black merc. Complete with curtains on the windows, its a bloody funeral car. The daytime chauffer has decided to earn a bonus at night using the 'company car'.
After I quit one of my taxi jobs, one night (well, about 1 AM) I decided to have a drive down the town to rap with the brothers, as you do. So I parked on the double-yellows just down from a takeaway while I got out and talked the talk, and bu99er me a p155ed couple staggered over and got in my car.
Parked behind a line of FSO and Lada private hires, I suppose it was almost forgiveable that they'd think a vermillion Skoda with white wheels was a taxi
Being the good sport I am, I drove them home and only 'charged' them a fiver
Parked behind a line of FSO and Lada private hires, I suppose it was almost forgiveable that they'd think a vermillion Skoda with white wheels was a taxi
Being the good sport I am, I drove them home and only 'charged' them a fiver
About ten years ago I learnt an expensive lesson. We employed a (supposedly) really good "commission only" salesman, who asked if we could lend him money so that he could buy a car. Because he wanted to be employed on a commission only basis I figured he must be really confident in his abilities. Because I wasn't paying a monthly salary I figured I wouldn't mind giving him a leg-up and lend him the money - to be repaid by debiting a percentage of future commissions. As such, I wrote a cheque for £8k - enough to buy a reasonable 2nd hand car ten years ago. He bought a car and that was the last I saw of him!!
A couple of years later I heard via a friend of a friend of a friend that he was doing 80,000 miles per year mini-cabbing in Manchester with said car.
The lesson I learned was "regardless of trust, always use a water-tight contract".
A couple of years later I heard via a friend of a friend of a friend that he was doing 80,000 miles per year mini-cabbing in Manchester with said car.
The lesson I learned was "regardless of trust, always use a water-tight contract".
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
The lesson I learned was "regardless of trust, always use a water-tight contract".
..how does that fit in with the "I don't believe in contracts of employment" theory you postulated about a year ago............and that trust is all?
I related it to marriage. It's not the marriage certificate that keeps you together, it's the relationship. Once the relationship has broken down, it comes back to the contract. The reality is, once it comes down to arguing about the contract, clearly the damage is done - as in the above case.
srebbe64 said:
The lesson I learned was "regardless of trust, always use a water-tight contract".
..how does that fit in with the "I don't believe in contracts of employment" theory you postulated about a year ago............and that trust is all?
I related it to marriage. It's not the marriage certificate that keeps you together, it's the relationship. Once the relationship has broken down, it comes back to the contract. The reality is, once it comes down to arguing about the contract, clearly the damage is done - as in the above case.
Nope. Not marriage, contracts of emplyment with employees. I remember it graphically.
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
The lesson I learned was "regardless of trust, always use a water-tight contract".
..how does that fit in with the "I don't believe in contracts of employment" theory you postulated about a year ago............and that trust is all?
I related it to marriage. It's not the marriage certificate that keeps you together, it's the relationship. Once the relationship has broken down, it comes back to the contract. The reality is, once it comes down to arguing about the contract, clearly the damage is done - as in the above case.
Nope. Not marriage, contracts of emplyment with employees. I remember it graphically.
Absolutely, I was making the comparison between a contract of employment and marriage. It'll be interesting to do a word search in the forums.
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