How to be an unscrupulous businessman
I once worked for a tiny company called Concord Signs run by a big burly ex rubgy player called Mr Moore. He was always smartly dressed with a tie and jumper, drove a big 4x4 intimidating vehicle. He talked real nice and was a respectable man who lived in a POSH area with respectable middle class values. That was the hype anyway.
The TRUTH of the matter was totally different as I discovered and uncovered in my 6 months of working for this man. Mr Moore was a compulsive liar, everything he said was a lie and he did it on purpose, he enjoyed lying it was like a game to him. He had two houses one in england and one in scotland. Now scottish law is different to english, so guess what? He could leave a trail of business destruction in england and retreat to his scottish home with a clear conscience.
Let's take Concord Signs sales brochure which said in part:
1. Located in the centre of Leeds - the company was actually located in Yeadon on the outskirt of Leeds.
2. Our Fully Trained Staff - None of the staff had had a days training in their life at the company.
3. Our State of the Art Equipment - All the equipment was second hand gear from the computers to the cutting machines.
4. All brand new materials will be used - yeah right, mr moore always had the old sign taken down and used it to recycle the materials, but he always charged full prices.
Mr Moore once went to see a client who owned a post office and wanted a new sign with time and temperature clock built in to it. So Mr Moore showed him a catalogue of digital and analogue clock signs. The owner picked out a beauty at 3000 pounds and was looking forward to have a new sign and clock that all his customers would admire. Well, greedy Mr Moore bought an analogue clock for 1000 pounds instead but charged for 3000 pounds. After it was installed the poor post office owner was mortified when his customers kept taking the micky over his new clock that didn't tell the time right or show the temperature right because some of the LEDS didn't work properly. Mr Moore of course was never in to take any calls.
Mr Moore was at that time giveing me bounced cheques and trying to shaft me a hard working and loyal employee. But my nice and pleasant manner hides a will of steel as he soon found out. I told this post office owner all about Mr Moore and his tricks of the trade. I told him he owed me 300 pounds wages and if I didn't get it there would be trouble.
Anyway Mr Moore came on tough see, so I packed up his main computer into my car after he went out and drove to scotland for a weeks holiday. He couldn't make any signs without the computer. I rang him and told him he could have his computer back when I got my 300 pound wages.
Both me and my wife went to see him, we stormed into his office and said where is my money, I have your computer.
My wife watched him pull out a wad of twenties and began to count out 300 pounds, he tried to intimidate her but she was ready to cave his face in and so was I, rugby player or not!
So I'm telling all of you dont take on non sense from unscrupulous employers because they are growing in number exponentially!
Workers unite! Then I fired my boss Mr Moore and told him to stick his job.
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I bet that asshat works for Anchor Sign now! an equally vile company. i found out the hard way that the sign business attracts some of the shiftiest, greediest SOB's there are. i'm glad you got your money and no jail time for holding the CPU hostage. i called in sick for days before i told them i quit at Anchor... cost them literally 25 grand per day. bastiges, all of em!