» Expensive Mistakes

Just thought of another one...
Years ago I got done for not having any tax on my car.
Dumb, yes.....annoying...well very.

At the time I had two cars, one was a 200SX turbo thing, and the other was a Ford Orion.
Quite a contrast in cars me thinks now.
Anyway, the battery was dead in the Nissan, and I mean proper dead, so dead that 5 days on charge wouldn't even let the engine turn over.

Ok, so off to Halfords I trundle.....but on the way I realise that my Orion has run out of tax, ok well no bother, i'll stick to the back roads and make it quick.
Made it to Halfords with no problem, £75 later I've got my battery sitting on the seat next to me as I'm winding my way through Watford and what do I spy....those pesky golden arches...ooh lunch!
As i'm finishing up my lunch and throwing my rubbish away I spy the car next to me has no tax either, so i can't work our who's being cheekier, me or him.
As i exit the car park I make a right turn across a part of the road that does not allow that apparently (the roads had been extensively dicked around with by the council not long ago).
Bad timing for me was the cop car that actually let me out, and then pulled me over half a mile down the road.
They'd seen what I'd done, so officer N#1 chastises me for that, while officer N#2 checks my details and finds that I'm not taxed...but i am insured and everything else.
Cue bollocking from both of them....and me trying to explain myself (I honestly had not taken that car out before while it wasn't taxed) that I'd been to Halfords to get a battery for the other car which was my project drift car.
I ended up having to sell both cars to get myself out of the financial trouble too.

The end of the story is that after all the fines and back taxes and charges the Plod did me to the tune of £1500.
I can't look at at cop car now wthout thinking that i've paid for some part of it.

The other side of it is that it happened to me again about two years ago, but the cop was much more lenient as while i was pulled over I showed her my redundancy letter that I'd actually been given that day.

I'd spent all my money on trying to survive the month while being stabbed in the back by my employers that there was no money left over to pay the tax on the car, only enough to buy food and petrol.
She was a nice officer.
I'd have bought her dinner too (not only was she a redhead/ In uniform/ had handcuffs etc) but I was a little on the poor side.

Length.....About half a mile, with flashing lights too.
(Mon 29th Oct 2007, 12:43, More)

» The Dirty Secrets of Your Trade

In my previous job.....
....I stole enough stuff to re-build my garden to the tune of about 3 grand.
My garden looks blinding right now....Titchmarsh eat your heart out motherfungler!

Customers, please beware that if you want to bring a laptop in for me to look at since you've forgotten where you placed your files on it.....make sure that Windows Media Player isn't packed to the rafters with porn, and the laptop not actually on 'standby' mode...so when turned back on, casual clicking reveals some Milf being fcuked by Lex Steel (from about 3 feet away by the look of it).

And when searching around your laptop (because we do don't we!?) we'll make copies of the films you've got stored on the HDD.


I also used to work in a tropical fish centre, very much behind the scenes.....I was actually fired for no reason at all by some stupid twat right before x-mas and given 30 mins to leave, as I was not wanted on the property while the boss left for a game of golf....I hid myself and my bike until he left.

My x-mas present to them was to delete all my data from their systems....easy as there was no one in the office on the weekends, and only one pc, also to mix the fish up a little bit...some of the most deadly and angry fish were put together.
These fish cost a lot of money, and i wiped half of them out in the space of 20 minutes, and a lot of them were imports for customer orders....Lion fish, puffers, parrot fish etc etc.
All dead.
I got on my bmx and never looked back.
(Tue 2nd Oct 2007, 23:38, More)

» Abusing freebies

Our petty cash system is open to abuse
for invisible stationary.
If i found a receipt for a stationary order outside Rymans (they're next door but one to us) i'd pick it up, take it back to work and put it through my till system and pocket the money.
Best bit is that I don't have any pens or paper at all, but a bit of money. Nice.
Can make up to an extra 50 quid a week.

There's more....I know it...
(Fri 9th Nov 2007, 23:10, More)

» Conned

Pyramid scam
Ever been the victim of a pyramid scam thing?
I have, and so have most of my family.

We were conned to the tune of around £300K.

We're not a wealthy family, so before you get ideas about me.
My family did alright and had a couple of companies that they sold, had some spare capital, and a well trusted and long standing family friend comes along and says to my parents "how about I invest your money for you", now i was a lot younger and stupider than i am today, so none of that seemed out of the ordinary.
Not long before this happened a relative i'd grown to know better in the last six months of his life died and left his house to me and my brother, we had no use for it, had debts to pay, college etc, so we took it under good advice to sell the property.
Four weeks before he died, he changed his will into mine and my brothers favour due to a long running family dispute, and cut both my parents out of the will.
We sold his house a few months later, and after paying off the funeral, mortgage etc we were left ith around £75k each, which was nice.
Quids in i thought!
Oh no.

Our family insisted that we invest it with them since the money should have been theirs in the will anyway.
I didn't agree with this and was punished by being thrown out of my parents house (but with £75k in the bank), my brother had a girlfriend to go live with so he was ok.
Of course i came back with tail between legs and handed over £65k, after having bought lots of shiny things, as you do.
I also trusted this investor/ family friend person to invest the other £8k that was left by my grandmother 3 years previously.
Again done on the advice of the family.
We were given all sorts of projections by this man as to what sort of returns on our money we could expect.
Being naive is great, rose tinted glasses and all that.

Back then i could have bought a house with a small mortgage and be laughing due to the market prices now, and have a foot on the property ladder.

Anyway, so in total we'd cleverly (or so we thought) invested close to or over 300 grand, and all of a sudden we're told that the money has been frozen by the american banks due to 9/11 etc etc etc bullshit essentially.
And that's where it all really started to wrong.
We'd lost the lot, and the pressure I was put under at the time to invest the money by my parents makes me resent them even to this day, as my wife and i now could be so much better off and living better than we are now.

For me this has left a bitter taste in my mouth ever since 2001, and I won't give a single penny over to charity or waste my money on the tv (phone scam) competitions, however....I play the lottery because I love the irony.

Sorry for the long read, and all advice welcome.

Length? As long as seven years.
(Wed 24th Oct 2007, 23:22, More)

» Conned

I'm being conned at work
(then again who isn't) and they want me to sign a shiny new contract for a fractional raise in wages, and a whole lot more work.

So they want me to work harder and longer for a 1.7% raise, and then meet and exceed all manner of retarded targets, along with proof by way of fancy powerpoint presentations.

They're also telling me to work harder, do more stuff and telling me they're going to pay me even more when i can prove to them i'm doing all that new stuff.
More like dangling the carrot in front of the donkey.

Well bollocks to you, i'm off after x-mas probably...along with it seems half of the other managers who feel the same.
That's not including two or three who have left already or are in the process of leaving.

Penny pinching c*nts.
(Mon 22nd Oct 2007, 13:35, More)