Work Scenerio - your view

[XR227]

G,day all.

This happened at work recently that ****ed me off, Or am i just a grumpy bastard.

I am at work having lunch out the front, when i notice a bloke mowing the lawn and whipper snippering out the front of the factory across the road. The factory is about 10 cars long, then i realize this bloke has no catcher and is mowing around this tree which is basically dirt and twigs + heaps of of dried up round pods (about 50c piece in diameter). He is peppering cars with dirt twigs + these pods, i reckon pretty rude.
Anyway continuing lunch i notice these pods are flying across the road just
missing my car and all the other cars from our factory, then all of sudden one goes whizzing past me work mates head. Geez i thought, could of taken his or my eye out.
So i went across the road, confronted this bloke and explained what he was
doing. He looked at me and said, i don't tell you how to do your job you don't
tell me how to do mine. So i told him if i get hit or my car gets hit I'd be back
over to have words.
Finished lunch then confronted the boss from across the road, he has a new
car parked close to the bloke mowing. Thought he would be interested to know his car and others were getting hit by these pods. I get
this blank stare and really he doesn't care, says he look into it. Rich bloke with no doubt a lease car. I think if his workers new they wouldn't be impressed.
So i noticed a new bloke doing the lawns a month later, and still no
bloody catcher.

[Danny]

I would have gone ape shat. Abusolutely insane, with any of the cars.

[SEZ213]

Is the guy mowing the lawns a contractor, or part of the business across the road?

[nstg8a]

that happened when i was at veridian, guy mowing the lawn sen a decent sized rock through a side window of the receptionists commodore.

veridian said 'not our problem, take it up with grass cutter man'

he paid for her windscreen then told veridian that in order to mow the lawns safely then he needed the car park roped off to prevent damage to property or employees.

so to make sure he didnt have to pay for any more he basically stopped everyone parking in the carpark on the days he had to mow the lawn.

[XR227]

My car has a 10c piece ding in the tailgate, just magically appeared. I reckon
it was the lawn mower bloke or that stupid street Street Sweeper, as we have
no guttering on our side of the road.

[Racecraft]

Common practise with lawn mower men/ yard maintenance crews is to stop work while there are cars or pedestrians walking past.... Most overseers will accept a patch of unkept grass if there is a valid reason to avoid any damage

This guy screams of amateur hour with no public liability insurance………….

[galaxy xr8]

Happen's often at my work aswell, I try and park at a distance but atleast I know the blokes doing the job and they are carefull and use a catcher.

[SEZ213]

Well, in that case...the contractor should have public liability...if it's a company, and you can see a name on a vehicle - call the proprietor of the business...if his/her staff aren't concerned about public liability and the potential costs, you can bet your rear that the proprietor will, at a cost of over $1000 a year just to have the insurance...he/she is going to want to cover their butt.

[rusty 351]

i would have gone off if it was my car there,

the fact his mowing rocks and sticks sums up hes probably a halfwit without a clue

[XR227]

Originally Posted by Sezzy

Well, in that case...the contractor should have public liability...if it's a company, and you can see a name on a vehicle - call the proprietor of the business...if his/her staff aren't concerned about public liability and the potential costs, you can bet your rear that the proprietor will, at a cost of over $1000 a year just to have the insurance...he/she is going to want to cover their butt.

Yep thats fair enough, but these days you virtually have to get a witness to
proved that it happened. And yes it was a contractor with the name on the
trailer.

[SEZ213]

Originally Posted by XR227

Yep thats fair enough, but these days you virtually have to get a witness to
proved that it happened. And yes it was a contractor with the name on the
trailer.

Does your mobile have a camera on it...? If so...get proof It's undisputable that way...no relying on a witness, it's all there.

[93EB_SXR6]

What a dropkick.

[2011G6E]

The council guy (the only council guy in town actually... ) out here was mowing the side of the road across the Capricorn Highway from the railway station here in town. A rail angle goes across the highway and past where he was mowing. The large ride on had one of those wide rotating blades on the front, and as he mowed, he hit a discarded rail spike...about an inch square and six inches long made of steel. It flew across the footpath, across the highway, past ten meters of carpark, and through a roller door on the front of the station...it probably travelled sixty meters or so...

If any poor bastard had been in the way, it would have gone right through them, not to mention what it would have done to a car if one had been parked there.

Needless to say track workers in the area are made to pick up after themselves instead of just chucking old spikes into the grass...

[Seduce XR6]

Good on you for saying something even if the Bogan mowerman diid not get it.
I would have been furious also & hate this sort of thing, they should have more sense & respect for other people & there property.

[wrongwaynorris]

If my car was damaged and he had attitude with me I'd introduce him to the wrong end of a hiding .

[The Snout]

Small things, small minds.

[sudszy]

Perhaps its is best to deal with the personal injuries side of things here.

Id be calling the Police and giving them a description of someone who is flinging rocks around the street with a machine, let them sort it out.

[ray38l]

Dob him into workcover. With the powers they have they would stop this idiot real quick.

[XR227]

Thanks every one for your input, the bloke who was mowing was a big guy, had
a huge straw hat and from what i gathered was as dumb as a box of nails.
The fact he didn't care what i had to say, and then threw a big girly tantrum
when i said i would be back over if me or my car got hit by one of these pods.
I hate these stupid *****, most likely caused thousands of dollars damage to
peoples property and will continue to do so.
Perhaps i should have called cops or taken a photo with my mobile phone, but
i just saw red. These days ya don't know who carries a knife and will be prepared to use it. Cheers.

[xisled]

Originally Posted by XR227

Thanks every one for your input, the bloke who was mowing was a big guy, had
a huge straw hat and from what i gathered was as dumb as a box of nails.
The fact he didn't care what i had to say, and then threw a big girly tantrum
when i said i would be back over if me or my car got hit by one of these pods.
I hate these stupid *****, most likely caused thousands of dollars damage to
peoples property and will continue to do so.
Perhaps i should have called cops or taken a photo with my mobile phone, but
i just saw red. These days ya don't know who carries a knife and will be prepared to use it. Cheers.

What you did was right you confronted the guy ask him to stop, but he did not. No point calling the cops, he is not committing any crime so they would do nothing and a photo wouldn't that he caused damage to your car, just that he does not care.

I would right a letter to the company across the road pointing out what was happening to teh cars. Maybe they will take notice, maybe they wont.

[fakegt]

I had a clients mower guy cover the side of my ute in wet grass and other crap while I was parked outside the property. Yeah, it washed off but the chipped paint failed to grow back! He knew it was mine and if he told me I might want to move I would have jumped at it. Common coutersy I would think if you know who owns the vehicle. I noticed he paked his a few doors down to avoid trashing his ute. Nice guy.

[galaxy xr8]

Funny thing happened to me today...
Sitting in the car at lunch just about to head back in and what do I hear.. I damn whipper snipper start up, I look behind and the gardner is doing the edges on the footpath, I chuckled to myself as all I could think of was this thread.

I waited till he past my car so if anything happened I was still around, he was being very carefull though.

[Ford17]

The mower has a 'duty of care', and any breach of that duty forms a case for negligence.

Anyone who can show actual damage caused by his breach (of his duty of care) can sue him for negligence as a civil matter, even as minor debt claim through a Magistrates court, for the value of the damages.

The filing fee to lodge such a claim, depending on the value of the damages, would probably be ~ $100.

That's basically what you can do to bring these type of people to account.

[zagan]

Tell him he's directly responsible for any damage done to anyone's cars over in your factory and he'll get sue or handed the bill for fixing it.

he'll probably tell you to get ****** thats when you tell him your not joking and he better hope he hasn't damaged a car and the law will side with you.

As you just got shown the reason why it's gone like that with the pod flying past your head.

That's what I tell new people when I'm working with them doing structural work and they are doing crap work, falling roofs onto people might kill them and families usually don't care if you didn't mean it etc, and now the OHS people are wanting the people who did the work directly to be screwed over and don't fuss majorly about the company.