I posted off memory and whilst recall it as being the club owners, I can remember the manager saying can you do a repo on a football stadium, I said not by myself I would need a team to check the place and he said don’t worry, it’s an inside job. If I had put a team in instead of £100 I could have got around a grand. We often got tester jobs. Ie being asked to do something that was difficult just to see if you had it in you. Stuff like getting sent to clear 50 traveller caravans off land by yourself. Say “no” and you would be given **** work in shot areas. I generally always said yes. If you think bailiffs are bastards, bailiff managers are ****ing bastards. Just a note: I have three scars from sharps, been run over three or four times, poisoned twice, had everything you could imagine thrown at me (including two children). I have been punched, kicked, hit with sticks, iron bars, every type of bat, had five cars written off in one year after people drove into them and have been threatened with injury or death more times than I could count. My very worse time was being locked in a quiche Lorraine bakery after being on the Atkins diet for three months, was well as having a stainless steel tray stuck in my back.
I've been around the fresh produce business a bit, your bailiff managers sound like they're cut from the same stuff as gangmasters.
See my other post for an explanation of my thoughts. If I did the job, I was ****ed at home, if I didn’t I was ****ed at work.
try doing work study with the women on the Nivea line at Smith and Nephew - that's how you earn your stripes
Went to a factory on Suttonfields 15-30 years ago doing airplane livery for Virgin , full of women machinists , manager I met told me he had to escort me across the factory for my own safety ! I might have taken my chances !!!!
When I worked on fish dock and went into a factory for the first time, now that is definitly an experience. My face was burning for the rest of the day I blushed so hard and I was a married man at the time. Those women didn't take prisoners.
Never hidden that. Not much point in hiding as I mainly worked in the same area as I live. My wife is well known in the local school. Besides, I never have had an ego or thought at any time that I was better, bigger or harder than anyone. It just takes a lot to scare me. My mates always said I would make a good firefighter as I could stay calm in tough situations. In over 20 years I never removed anything from a house. Never had to. The only things that really scare me are when a druggie has a needle pointing at me. **** that. Knife, I can deal with, gun, not much point in being scared, if they haven’t shot you straight away, the chances are that they will either miss or not do it. Oh and rigger boots, forgot them, someone once put a pair on and told me he was going to break my legs, he got as far as my van and then I drove over his foot. But he scared me good and proper.
Similar story 1960, I was 15 yrs old working on Fish Dock, the boss told me to tell the Female Net Braiders ( on piece work ) that they were not putting enough detail on their worksheets, as you can imagine I got a load of slaver. The next time I collected the worksheets you cannot imagine what the dirty buggers had written down. I was always scared going in there , they made me blush to my hair roots. As you say they took no prisoners.
I did similar for a while many many years (decades) ago. Now embarrassed that that's how things were done in those days.
I used to regularly go into one of Hull's biggest fish processors and the girls doing the filleting always suggested I got my kit off etc.
