Gutmann pug

Was in Currys Hereford the other day looking at tellys with my 8 year old neice.
Stood looking etc when out of the corner of me eye i see bob the bell end trundling along on his cherry picker thing. The shop is jam packed, he is 10 foot from the ground driving along to collect items from shelves above the tv's etc on display. I watch the said dipstick turn his fork things into the shelves, pick up three boxes and plonk them on the open sided platform, 10 feet from the ground where they proceed to wobble about. I casually say to him ''Should you be doing that when the place has customers in it?'' and he takes it personnally and starts getting upset .''we've just had a big delivery what do you expect me to do?'' ........ yeah but hello your driving a motorised vehicle in an extremly busy store, picking heavy TV's from shelves high in the air, putting them into an uncaged platform where they wobble about and people could be stood underneath you ....... WTF is that all about?
The missis was with me and had the foresight to calm me down before the foo foo valve went.

I cant for the life of me understand how they can get away with it? I work in an engineering / warehouse environment and you have to wear a hardhat / coloured bid, have 1000 safety devices if your carry a cup of tea let alone a couple of 150 pound TV's

Somebody sue their ***** and soon please

MJW

Ring the HSE and get them to check it out.
I know what you mean about safety regs though, working in a similar industry

pslewis

£150 TV's???? I'm off down there NOW!!!!!

Pete

Gutmann pug

Ive just put a similarly silly reply on one of your threads

pslewis

Touche!!

Pete

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

LOL @ Pete and Gutmann Pug

Seriously: I'm pretty sure they are supposed to fence off the are the forklift is working in, and announce it's presence regularly: Wickes certainly do so!

Alcazar

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

...Although people upon seeing a scissor lift with wobbly articles on should have the common sense to keep clear of it.

Maybe an idea not to cone it off to cull off the increasing number of numpties that seem to be about these days

vindaloo

One bloke on a mission to buy stuff, I'd agree with the above, family outing to "the shops", no chance. Too many shiny toys to look at rather than where you are all going.

J.

Gutmann pug

If he was carrying stuff round the car park on the lift weaving in and out of the cars i wonder what the reactions on here would have been ..hmmmmmmmmm

Chip

Should also display:
"Fork Lift Truck in Operation" signs as well.

chip

Mungo

In IKEA they won't retrieve stuff off the high shelves in the warehouse when the store is open due to the safety regs. A little annoying when it puts something you want "out of stock" despite the fact you can actually see a ruddy great pile of them 20 feet up. At least they take their customers' safety seriously.

ScoobyDoo555

Yeh - I live in the Hereford area. Most of them/us are known as "Head Scratchers" - "Oi don't roightly know serrrrr"

Where's T5NYW when you need him!!!

You should have shopped him for being rude to customers - that's inexcusable. As is the use of a loader in the consumer area of a shop plain daft.

Dan