Nitpicks

On 25th August 2008 14:37, Sue H wrote:

I'm sure there are some who abuse their authority, but on the whole I think they are doing their job, and they are doing it well.

How many of us are willing to put our lives in danger each day? I'm not sure how bad it is in England, but our police services face danger each day in this volatile world.

I applaud them.

There are a lot of people in all kinds of jobs that risk their lives everyday for the betterment of this world. Not just cops. Why don't they get the recognition they deserve?

It can and does, Alan, though outside the scope of my firm's vocabulary. But, it was different from my passengers who often did say thank you for several reasons and that had made it worth while. Some 3/4 million passengers driven 1 million miles in that time, and some of them had kindly left cards at the office thanking me for what I'd done for them in that time. But, the management did respond by action---I'd already had my winter's leave so 2 weeks wages were immediately deducted as I'd left before the end of the financial year, and they wanted their holiday money back.

After nearly 20 years service with a major bus company over here, I'd handed my notice in. My manager couldn't care less; never said a single word, let alone ask why or ask me to reconsider staying. Two weeks later I finally left at 9 PM ending 19+ years exemplary service; doing them 1000's of favours in those years, and for recognition of all this, the management couldn't even say good bye, for they couldn't even manage that. That's recognition for you, Catherine.

On 26th August 2008 06:56, Paul Hilton wrote:

It can and does, Alan, though outside the scope of my firm's vocabulary. But, it was different from my passengers who often did say thank you for several reasons and that had made it worth while. Some 3/4 million passengers driven 1 million miles in that time, and some of them had kindly left cards at the office thanking me for what I'd done for them in that time. But, the management did respond by action---I'd already had my winter's leave so 2 weeks wages were immediately deducted as I'd left before the end of the financial year, and they wanted their holiday money back.

 It can't be any worse then what happened to my hubby about 3 or 4 four years ago, he worked for his company some 30 plus years, in every job there, through enlarging the business twice it's size, and one Wednesday his boss...the owner, there was no one above my husband by then, told him that he'd have to "retire" him that Friday, knowing full well that my husband isn't the age for retirement benefits for several years. The busniess was sold we understand last year. Such are the times and they have been hard ones for us recently. He gave him his vacation pay and about three months severance pay. We weren't expecting this, it took most our retirement pension paying off our debts, as we lost $25,000 an year in income, that we couldn't immediately shuffle out the door like the job....then came my also unexpected heart operation...we hope we can make it...and things will look better down the line someday. We don't have much money to lose any more. Didn't to begin with either. In this case, I don't think it was the boss that was "un-grateful" as it is today's economy in general. I don't think the booss ever really recovered from his second divorce either, it was the beginning of slowly sliding downhill financially.