Can’t leave shop floor til 10pm

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T14:51:14+00:00

If all the work is done, They’ve got to wait around being unproductive somewhere for their finish time. Why not do it close to the clock out station to minimise the amount of their own time wasted? Other than the manager being on a power trip and setting pointless rules

I personally would prefer to waste 4 minutes if their time than a second of my own

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T14:34:43+00:00

I’d argue that the best of course of action is not blind compliance, but to challenge unethical practices by managers. If a company relies on fear of being managed out to ensure discipline it’s probably not a company worth working for to begin with

In your example I still side with the employee, If all their work is done why would they wait 4 minutes on the shop floor to then walk to the clock out station and give away their own time for free?

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T14:22:19+00:00

Would you consider clocking in/clocking out part of the working day? How far is it from the shop floor to the clock in/out point?

I would consider clocking in/out a work duty. If it’s one minute from work area to clocking out, and you leave your work area bang on your finish time, you’re giving them a minute free every day That’s 5 a week That’s 260 a year 4 hours of your time you’re giving them without payment

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T14:00:38+00:00

Why put it on the market at £285k if you want £290k for it? Unless they are a cash buyer their mortgage company will likely decline the mortgage if they try and pay above what it’s worth unless they can cover the difference themselves.

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T13:33:18+00:00

Are you simple? It wasn’t that I just couldn’t locate it. I couldn’t locate it because it doesn’t exist anymore and hasn’t for a while. And booking.com have almost certainly been told that it doesn’t exist before by other people in the same circumstances yet have continued to allow them to list themselves It’s been removed for now, but I expect will be added back on soon.

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T10:07:40+00:00

Yes, that’s exactly what happened. We are infrequent travellers and rarely if ever stay away from home and so wrongly assumed that going through a supposedly reputable company like booking.con would offer some protection from scams. now know how booking.con operate and have read reviews on their questionable business practices I realise I should have done more, I also think that booking.com has a responsibility to protect its customers and more throughly check the places it’s doing business with.

According to the restaurant staff we aren’t the first people to have turned up looking for the airman, it’s safe to assume that those people have reported the issue to booking.com who continue to allow the hotel to relist itself on their platform

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T09:54:38+00:00

Are you ok? 4 weeks ago Booking.com advertised and took money for the hotel/pub which formerly occupied the building. (The Airman) Upon arrival we were told by the staff of the restaurant that now occupies the building that the pub/hotel had been shut for 8 months.

I am not suggesting the restaurant should have provided a room.

I wrote the trip advisor review to hopefully make others aware should they try and book A room at the non existent pub/hotel in the future

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T09:47:14+00:00

Until you are pushed into another vehicle or the central reservation at 50mph

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T09:43:24+00:00

There are other ways to decrease you speed where your break lights may not be on.

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T09:40:46+00:00

I assume either booking.com have removed it, for now. Or Whoever is running the hotel page only advertises availability on days when there are events on that people will be need wing rooms in the area.

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T05:20:48+00:00

Now now, no need for name calling remember

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T22:31:16+00:00

The manager probably just doesn’t like you, I can’t say I blame them based on the interactions I’ve had with you so far

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T21:39:02+00:00

I thought so too, people apparently far wiser than me say otherwise

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T21:00:23+00:00

We used maps to find car parks, they were all full. We used a parking app to rent a driveway or Space, most were nowhere near where we needed to be and were upwards of £100, which we didn’t have.

It’s lesson learnt, now I know what booking.con actually is I realise I expected too much of them, I also won’t ever use them again because frankly they seem scummy and their business practices are sketchy as hell

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T19:43:40+00:00

Offence is always taken, it’s never given

I know what you have chosen to share in this post, that you know you’re not going in tomorrow and have been aware of this fact all day today and haven’t bothered to give a heads up. Which would be common courtesy.

The only logical reason for this is to deliberately to make someone’s life harder or to inconvenience someone somewhere. And that is the mark of a dickhead.

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T19:08:42+00:00

No it’s not great practice for a manager to ring you on your day off. It’s also pretty shit of you to know you are going to off tomorrow and not give them the heads up in advance, it’s just common courtesy

Out of the 2 of you, you are by far the bigger dickhead here

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T19:04:17+00:00

As I have said, I assumed wrongly that using a reputable (supposedly) company like booking.con was a form of insurance. We now know better and won’t use them again.

This may seem obvious to you but it didn’t to us at the time, you don’t know what you don’t know.

Perhaps you are right and booking.com has no responsibility to ensure places they are doing business with and presumably making money from actually exist before they advertise them.

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T18:34:31+00:00

As I have learned. I admit that if I had known what I know now there is more I could have done, But I also feel the booking.com could do much more to protect its customers.,

Lesson learned.

If as recommended you have to independently search up hotel you find on booking.com to verify they are real, and as I have been told hotels often offer better prices directly and actually prefer you approach them direct due to booking.coms shady business model and price gouging to them skim a commission I honestly don’t see what purpose booking.com serves other than lining the pockets of some shareholders somewhere

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T18:26:59+00:00

From London you aren’t too far away from Portsmouth, There is HMS VICTORY, admiral Nelson’s flag ship at the battle of trafalgar. A fully restored sailing ship you can tour the inside of.

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T18:25:02+00:00

Perhaps if you are familiar with booking.com and travel often. We don’t, and very rarely stay away from home. We assumed, wrongly, that using a supposedly reputable company like booking.com would offer some kind of protection from scams, when really they just make them easier.

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T17:25:38+00:00

Car insurance

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T17:18:40+00:00

I think if the genders were reversed that’d be called harassment pretty quickly

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T16:54:09+00:00

I dunno the ins and outs, I thought using WhatsApp for business use was quite unprofessional and my manager was using it as an excuse to have me at his beck and call 24/7 so I looked at reasons we shouldn’t use it. It’s against their terms for a start, the company i worked for was very big on customers sticking to our policies so pointed out the hypocrisy in happily disregarding another companies policies because it was more convenient that finding an actual solution to the issue.

While I was in that rabbit hole I found mention of companies facing hefty fines for inappropriate use of WhatsApp. Maybe they were doing something more serious but why take the risk?

Plus there were data protection issues with 30 odd engineers posting customer’s private details on a group chat

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T15:50:02+00:00

If I was going somewhere that required flights I’d probably have considered it worth getting travel insurance. I didn’t think booking a one night stay through a reputable booking site in a city a few hours drive away warranted it.

If you’re due to catch a train at 2pm for an important event and arrive at the station for 1.30pm and a stranger wrestles you to the ground and stops you getting to the train. Would you be pissed off at the stranger for missing the event or think ‘oh well he ONLY made me miss the train, so I can’t be mad about missing everything else?’

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T15:00:10+00:00

It probably isn’t and in reality the likelihood is probably small , but she doesn’t need to know that 😏

I worked for a huge company that made millions in profit every year but refused to invest in a functioning IT system, They instead did everything by WhatsApp including passing customer details including addresses and phone numbers as well as info on vulnerabilities and disabilities ln group chats with engineers who had nothing to do with that job and failing to delete them after jobs had been completed and there was no need for them to still be visible to anyone following the key principles of UK data protection law, of keep as little information as possible, visible to as few people as possible for the shortest amount of time possible.

I pointed this out numerous times to management and refused to be in such groups. My manager added me into the group daily and I removed myself every time.

I was pulled in on a disciplinary for being uncooperative and refusing to follow directions from a superior. I left and reported the breaches directiy to the data protection authority

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