Picking up on something Binky said in another thread, I too could never cope with a strict timekeeping regime after being self employed, (I could'nt cope when I was employed TBH)
I remember six or seven of us working in Cardiff installing the Freightliner Depot floodlights , to get finished on time and handed over we had to work late on the last day, no proper breaks , worked till about 11pm mostly pointing the floods in the dark, to where the BR engineers wanted .
There was also another urgent job back in Brum the next day. So after a hard day we sign out of the digs about 1130pm and get home about 2am .
Next day we all stagger onto the job in Brum at various times , to find the gaffer there docking our times for being late .!!!
He lost all respect and loyalty that morning and what was a small friendly, family run contractor changed that day and was never the same again, people stopped putting themselves out , stopped pulling their weight and they went bust about a year later.
I remember six or seven of us working in Cardiff installing the Freightliner Depot floodlights , to get finished on time and handed over we had to work late on the last day, no proper breaks , worked till about 11pm mostly pointing the floods in the dark, to where the BR engineers wanted .
There was also another urgent job back in Brum the next day. So after a hard day we sign out of the digs about 1130pm and get home about 2am .
Next day we all stagger onto the job in Brum at various times , to find the gaffer there docking our times for being late .!!!
He lost all respect and loyalty that morning and what was a small friendly, family run contractor changed that day and was never the same again, people stopped putting themselves out , stopped pulling their weight and they went bust about a year later.
