How would you handle this?
I'm the operations manager for an installation company. I just received a phone call from an individual we'll call "Mike."
He claims that on Monday, one of my employees stole a hundred-dollar bill from his wallet at an installation site. Mike works for one of the other companies performing construction or installation work at the site (a future bank). He says he left his wallet on a counter-top, underneath his tool bag. He didn't notice until yesterday that the money was gone.
Firstly: I technically don't have any employees there; they're all subcontractors.
Secondly, it was nearly 4 days ago.
Lastly, why wasn't your wallet in your possession, Mike?
I feel bad for the guy, and I wouldn't put it past a dishonest person to take a Benjamin from an unattended wallet. However, as a professional manager, I feel there's some responsibility to reach out to the subcontractor owner and ask him to ask his peeps if anyone took anything, and could they return it...
Seems pretty darn futile, but there's a due diligence, even in a case like this, no?
How would you handle it?
He claims that on Monday, one of my employees stole a hundred-dollar bill from his wallet at an installation site. Mike works for one of the other companies performing construction or installation work at the site (a future bank). He says he left his wallet on a counter-top, underneath his tool bag. He didn't notice until yesterday that the money was gone.
Firstly: I technically don't have any employees there; they're all subcontractors.
Secondly, it was nearly 4 days ago.
Lastly, why wasn't your wallet in your possession, Mike?
I feel bad for the guy, and I wouldn't put it past a dishonest person to take a Benjamin from an unattended wallet. However, as a professional manager, I feel there's some responsibility to reach out to the subcontractor owner and ask him to ask his peeps if anyone took anything, and could they return it...
Seems pretty darn futile, but there's a due diligence, even in a case like this, no?
How would you handle it?
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Youve just walked out of a store, your walking toward your car and another car pulls into the space next to your car. The driver of the other car doesn't see you coming and he opens his car door into the side of your car. He then looks around, closes his door and hurries toward the store without so much as a look back. Now, you walk over and notice a nice fresh door ding on your vehicle. Your vehicle is not new by any stretch of the imagination but you still take pride in your belongings and try to take as good of care of them as possible. The ding, surrounded by a few others of similar size and character, would cost around a hundred dollars to repair. What would you do? Would you call the police? Your in a hurry to get home and it will take a long time for the police to arrive or would you kick a giant dent in their door and leave a nasty note telling them to be more careful? lol... 0 -
I work as a consultant for a few institutions in Detroit. My primary contract has me working full-time as a network and systems engineer supporting computing needs for over 12,000 users.
Recently, the management has changed and the new director of IT is a real a$$. This guy busts my marbles every day. For 3 years I have kept this particular institution running despite incredibly inadquate resources including personnel (zero resources, a bunch of unionized monorties who spend their days surfing the Internet and gossiping) and almost no budget (I've been waiting for 6 months for office supplies like scotch tape).
In any case, I have continued to arrive early and leave late every day. I perform duties well beyond the scope of my project and in fact handle all significant problems and sub-projects alone. I have saved this client hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of my tenure.
Still, every day while the rest of the shop is reading the newspaper or talking with Aunt Laquisha on the phone I am in the director's office getting interrogated or being given lessons on how I should be conducting business. Keep in mind, I've received nothing but rave reviews from everyone including the President who wrote a letter of recommendation when he thought I was leaving.
So, what do I do? I am so furious with the way I'm being treated (disrespectfully) and I'm so tired of being condescended to that I want to simply leave the project. However, I also don't want to have to look for something new right this minute as I'm moving next week and I have a lot of other critical items in-process that I don't want to disrupt.
Should I just take his continuous crap or should I give some back to him?
Boy, I wish I didn't have so much to lose cause I'd love to pop that arrogant sucker right in the mouth!!
Thanks for letting me rant,
G36
Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals0 -
Someone bought my Crescent-Davis single shot 16 ga using the buy it now . He had asked me a question about the age of the gun prior to the purchase, so he did have some contact with me. AFTER the purchase , he says he will send me the $ after Dec 11. I really think he should have asked first if it was OK to wait that long to pay for the item.
What opinions do my fellow GB posters have on the matter?
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I got an old guy (about 68) who drives up and down the street between houses all day long.
Normaly this would not be a problem. But this guy has no licence and is legaly blind!
I don't want to start a war over this as my daughter plays with his granddaughter (good friends) and I am worried about a kid in our small neighborhood getting hit by him.
I have gone to the sherriffs dept. a few times asking for extra patrols on our road stateing speeders as the problem ( this too is a major problem as our road is 25mph speed limit) but have not had any extra patrols or nothing.
What else can I do?
(Nunn, your opinion would be helpfull)0 -
Shoot a hole in his engine block. Or just get him on film driving without a license and turn it over. 0 -
sneak over his house some nite rip off his distributor cap an wires [}:)] 0 -
Yeah - Just catch him on film a few times - send it in anonymously or drop it off.. 0 -
quote:I have gone to the sherriffs dept. a few times asking for extra patrols on our road stateing speeders as the problem ( this too is a major problem as our road is 25mph speed limit) but have not had any extra patrols or nothing.
keep on it, this time explian this guy to them, and try the state police0 -
call the police when hes driving. let them get blamed.
my dads friend was in a bad wreck b/c of some old lady who refused to quit driving, but same conditions. he killed her , hurt his family b/c her family did n't have the guts to stop her0 -
I really don't know what I would do...is there any talking to the guy about how nervous you are about him driving? If you start things off bad it will shurely lead to a hard time for both of you. Maybe there is a way he can get what he needs without actually being the one behind the wheel. You could say to him...."I notice you driving and since my children are nearby I would like to offer to pick up anything you may need if you don't mind (since you don't really need to be driving.)" That way he would at least KNOW someone does have a problem with him driving.
I know from some of the older people in my circle....some see driving as the very last connection they have to being self sufficient and its heart breaking to give it up.
Sorry to hear of your position you have been put in. If that doesn't work I would speak to his family before going to the authorities....maybe they need to jump in.0 -
Keep in mind that you may be old and blind some day.
(I'm already half old and half blind myself)0 -
Does the blind guy have family? Someone who can take Pop's keys and sell his car that he won't be too angry with?
We did that with my grandmother, only she stayed mad for a long time. She eventually got over it though.
Regarding the police: If you have called requesting help, and haven't gotten it, keep asking. The squeaking wheel gets the grease, and you may have to climb the ladder a few rungs to get the proper response.0 -
Keep calling. Have friend raising his sons (one a parapalegic) without a momma, courtesy of an 84 yr old wrong way driver.[B)] 0 -
Reminds me of the accident I was involved in State of Washington a few years back. This dude was "leagally Blind" in state of Washington and was he Half deaf. Towing a boat on a two lane country road. He had to read my information off the insurance card by holding it no less than two inches away from his "good" eye. How he was still licensed I'll never know. So from what I gather from that is either he has to kill someone or insurance company drop him. Then again I recall a totaly blind man has passed and recieved his CCL in some state.
As for your probelm git_r_done I'd complain to the sheriff's and hire a barrister to sue the county for negligence. At the very least talk to the old man and say "stop driving before you kill some one". As I see it if your little ones are important I'd go to war. Hell since the cops ain't patroling slash his tires (that may beef up patrols). And when he runs in to them (litterally) all ends well.0 -
quote:Originally posted by nunn
Does the blind guy have family? Someone who can take Pop's keys and sell his car that he won't be too angry with?
We did that with my grandmother, only she stayed mad for a long time. She eventually got over it though.
Regarding the police: If you have called requesting help, and haven't gotten it, keep asking. The squeaking wheel gets the grease, and you may have to climb the ladder a few rungs to get the proper response.
His family is no help as they allow this and see no problem with it as he does not leave this street.
I have gotten a few other nieghbors to call the sherriffs dept. asking for more patrols also.
I wonder if I write some state officials if this might help?
Like I said this is not the only traffic problem we have. Our street is used as a shortcut between other roads, our speed limit here is 25mph and about half the cars are doing 50mph+ (after 16 years of driving truck I am a pretty good judge of speed). We might get a sherriff driving down our street once a month unless they are called for other reasons.
As far as nieghbors, it looks like it is 70% that don't care (they don't have kids) to 30% that do (we have kids).
So far the only incodent since I moved here 2 years ago we have had was a teenager hitting my sons skateboard that was on the shoulder (in the gravely part) that another kid who had been rideing it left there. They were trying to get me to pay for the small dent in their car (even getting their state trooper friend over here to write an incodent report) I told them that I would not pay for it as the skate board was off the travel way and they are not suppost to be driving down the shoulder and that I could get witnesses to show they were doing well over 25mph.
That was over a year ago and have not heard from them again, except that they are still speeding down the street.
Something does need to be done about the traffic on this street and this guy driving!0 -
quote:Originally posted by yoshmyster
Reminds me of the accident I was involved in State of Washington a few years back. This dude was "leagally Blind" in state of Washington and was he Half deaf. Towing a boat on a two lane country road. He had to read my information off the insurance card by holding it no less than two inches away from his "good" eye. How he was still licensed I'll never know. So from what I gather from that is either he has to kill someone or insurance company drop him. Then again I recall a totaly blind man has passed and recieved his CCL in some state.
As for your probelm git_r_done I'd complain to the sheriff's and hire a barrister to sue the county for negligence. At the very least talk to the old man and say "stop driving before you kill some one". As I see it if your little ones are important I'd go to war. Hell since the cops ain't patroling slash his tires (that may beef up patrols). And when he runs in to them (litterally) all ends well.
My kids know when they see and hear (the old chevy is very loud) this guys truck to get out of the way.
It would not bother me as bad if this old guy kept to his golf cart that he has. Some times he will use it to go between houses but normally it is his truck.0 -
quote:Originally posted by yoshmyster
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Then again I recall a totaly blind man has passed and recieved his CCL in some state.
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That was North Dakota and he was legally blind, not totally blind. ND requires a proficiency test and if I remember correctly this legally blind individual put six of six into the center of mass zone on a target that was 21 feet away. And if I've misrepresented (mis-remembered) those details I can still say with confidence that he passed the proficiency test, which is conducted at 21 feet. Apparently he could see well enough to do that. He was also confined to a wheelchair and just didn't want to be an easy target.
Not to hi-jack your thread, git_r_done: I agree with those who say you should keep calling the cops. And if that fails, confront the guy yourself. Your daughter might lose a playmate but some child on your block might not lose a life.
The only question is, how long do you harass the cops before you confront this guy yourself? It's a tough call.0 -
well...imo...if he drives so so, effeciently & is no road rage case , let him be..it maybe his only form of transport to visit friends & loved ones etc..
until he goes thru the fence....keep outa his way & possibly assist him, when transport is hard...on the old pins..[^]0 -
quote:Originally posted by mond
well...imo...if he drives so so, effeciently & is no road rage case , let him be..it maybe his only form of transport to visit friends & loved ones etc..
until he goes thru the fence....keep outa his way & possibly assist him, when transport is hard...on the old pins..[^]
I might agree with you if it was only a matter of his licence. But he is legally blind! And it would only take one time for him to not see a kid and run one over possibly killing them!
He does drive very slow and is only going about 6 lots down (they own one home and are building another home that far down).
Alot of people on our street are hesitant to speek out as this family is one of the oldest families on this street (living here the longest). But in my opinion this does not excuse the safety factor.
And like I said, if he stuck to his golf cart I probly would have no concerns about him. But his old chevy would very easily kill a child if he happened to hit one.0 -
Tough call. On one hand, you have a senior citizen just persuing happiness and not actually bothering anyone. Then we have the potential of what he might do. Does he have any history of bad driving? Usually a good indicator of future problems.
In the spirit of neighborhood tranquility, I might lay a couple of crossties on my perimeter IF I was really concerned his slow moving vehicle posed a genuine threat. Since it sounds like there is more problem with the speeders in the neighborhood, the crossties sound like a better option than ruining one of the few pleasures of an old man.0 -
quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
Tough call. On one hand, you have a senior citizen just persuing happiness and not actually bothering anyone. Then we have the potential of what he might do. Does he have any history of bad driving? Usually a good indicator of future problems.
In the spirit of neighborhood tranquility, I might lay a couple of crossties on my perimeter IF I was really concerned his slow moving vehicle posed a genuine threat. Since it sounds like there is more problem with the speeders in the neighborhood, the crossties sound like a better option than ruining one of the few pleasures of an old man.
Your thinking just like me on this.
I hate bothering the old guy on this as he probly would never have a problem driving just a few doors down like he is. But the potential is there and I don't want to see my child or any other child scrapped off the road.
And your right about the speeders being a bigger problem as about 70% of the viechles going down this street are doing about twice the posted limit.
I have brought up to the sheriff's office about the possibility of the speed bump type things but they don't seem to listen about that.
I just sent off another e-mail to the sheriff's office and if I don't hear back within a day or so I think I will contact some state representives about this.
One thing is for sure, something needs to be done BEFORE a child gets hit!0 -
Instead of calling the police and making a general complaint, be specific, naming names and giving a description of the vehicle. You may have speeders but more than likely they are not blind.
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if ya ain't gonna rip off his wires as i said before, etc. etc. etc., talk isn't getting you anywhere.. this has been viewed now from almost every angle an all good advise has been given, since you don't seem to want to engage in any, its then maybe time to keep your kids off the street an smarten them up as to what can happen to them an to be especially careful of Mr So & So....
no flames intented but the longer U wait leaves an opening for unexpected/expected, get the whole nieghborhood together as a group an pay him a visit...0 -
Walk across the street when you see him coming and let him hit you. You're already disabled, what could a little more hurt?[;)][;)][;)]
Seriously though, I'd go talk to the guy and let him know that he's endangering the safety of everyone who lives in your neighborhood, and ask him to stop driving. Offer your services to give him a ride somewhere if he needs to leave home for some reason. If he doesn't like that, tell him you're trying to avoid having to call the police and you want to find a peaceful solution that's mutually beneficial to everyone.
If he keeps doing it even after you talk to him, then it's time to call the police and turn him in.0 -
... could be worse ... could be a half blind non-English speaking/reading illegal alien
with no license, no insurance, no traceable address who is drunk much of the time
and who has never driven anything more technical that a burro , back in the jungles
of Michoacan?or Sinaloa!??.
... you'll probably be meeting up with a few of those ... sooner than you think!
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Well, my dad is legally blind without his thick pop bottle sized glasses; but with them he has close to 20/20 vision. Is the old man truly blind, in that it can't be corrected with lenses, or just legally blind? And how do you know he is legally blind?
In my small experience, old people make the worst drivers. Even worse than teenagers. Teenagers are usually quite GOOD drivers IF they are driving with their parents or alone- but when you get them in with their freinds, then trouble happens. Old people should have to have their reaction time tested yearly, and have a road test every other year. Once you reach retirement age, 65, perhaps. And while I can see how it would be heartbreaking to loose freedom, any person worth calling a person should acknowledge what they can and cannot do; driving when everyone tells you you can't and shouldn't because YOU think you can is akin to driving while drunk because you are sure you are ok.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Mr Gee
if ya ain't gonna rip off his wires as i said before, etc. etc. etc., talk isn't getting you anywhere.. this has been viewed now from almost every angle an all good advise has been given, since you don't seem to want to engage in any, its then maybe time to keep your kids off the street an smarten them up as to what can happen to them an to be especially careful of Mr So & So....
no flames intented but the longer U wait leaves an opening for unexpected/expected, get the whole nieghborhood together as a group an pay him a visit...
I'm not going to go rip off his wires as I could be charged for something by doing that.
I have been contacting the sheriff's office and not getting results. Heck I can't even seem to get extra patrols by contacting them.
That is why I posted the question here as to get more idea's as to handleing this.
I have gotten some good insight and am going to keep on this and go up the ladder as needed.
This is a battle I will keep fighting but will do everything I can to not make it to where I may have to worry about some sort of retaliation on my property or my kids.
Being that we are nieghbors there needs to be a little order in handleing this as we do have to live near each other.0 -
Another note on this.
I just also contacted (by email) the South Carolina Highway Patrol on this matter.
I fully explained about the speeding and about this guy's driveing.
I also explained that I have contacted the sheriff's office many times about these problems and have not even gotten extra patrols.
Our street really would not be a Highway Patrol matter, but just maybe they will do a little something.0 -
if you an your neighbors are all to chicken or worried about retaliation [from whom?]... why don't you draw up a partition an have it sign in alphabetical order by all on the block, maybe even futher up & down the road , talk must have gotten around the 'hood about this fella..?, an mail it to him an family 'CC:' ,.. with a proposal.. "the fears at hand, an what ya'all would like to have done about it..? maybe the guy an or the family will ask for a meet after recieving said letter, to find out more an maybe actually want to help the problem at hand... 0
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