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TV Drama!
I'm sooo going to love watching the drama unfold on this one. I'm taking a sick pleasure from it all. 
In my work center we have ... actually 4 tvs or so. The boss has two (why he needs two, who knows...but that's what he demanded). We have the other two, but they were both paid for by US and not the company - which is an important factor.
The boss wanted to take one of them for his own use in his office....but, yeah, legally he couldn't touch them. If I remember, one of the supervisors was like, "Sorry sir but the guys bought this themselves."
I'm not sure about the TV in the side office, but the one in the main workshop was purchased by 3-4 people with a "Last man standing" rule. Basically whomever stayed there the longest would own the TV. Again perfectly legal, since it was their money.
Today the last man standing ... sold the TV to one of the guys in the shop for $20. The new owner didn't want to ruin the front of the TV with any sharpie marks so he put a piece of paper in the lower corner and wrote down "Property of S____".
The bad supervisor came in and saw that... first words out of his mouth: "He can't sell that to you! It's the shop's TV!" (and keep in mind, this supervisor is the guy who will see you watching the tv and come over and change the channel anyway cos he feels it's his right to do it - a basic Supervisor-entitlement-whore). He didn't care that it wasn't purchased by shop/company money... he just felt that it belonged to the shop now, he was used to watching it every day, therefore it can't be sold.
Yeah...if I remember, sucky-supervisor was also one of the guys who used the "personal property" excuse to keep the boss's greedy paws off of it. So the fact that he's now trying to call it "shop property" when he realizes it was sold... is pretty freakin hypocritical of him. but not surprising.
S____ was going to wait a little before taking it home. But after that little exchange, he's decided that tomorrow - after the bad supervisor leaves for the day - he's taking it out and bringing it home right away.
The other guys are a little disappointed, but they're taking it well. If anything, they all recognized the rules of ownership on it from the start and they all agree that if it's personal property you can sell it off to whomever you choose.
And I'm looking forward to seeing the bad supervisor have a cow the following morning when he realizes the TV is gone. And that he legally can't do d*** about it.
(yeah i'm a bitch sometimes)
In my work center we have ... actually 4 tvs or so. The boss has two (why he needs two, who knows...but that's what he demanded). We have the other two, but they were both paid for by US and not the company - which is an important factor.
The boss wanted to take one of them for his own use in his office....but, yeah, legally he couldn't touch them. If I remember, one of the supervisors was like, "Sorry sir but the guys bought this themselves."
I'm not sure about the TV in the side office, but the one in the main workshop was purchased by 3-4 people with a "Last man standing" rule. Basically whomever stayed there the longest would own the TV. Again perfectly legal, since it was their money.
Today the last man standing ... sold the TV to one of the guys in the shop for $20. The new owner didn't want to ruin the front of the TV with any sharpie marks so he put a piece of paper in the lower corner and wrote down "Property of S____".
The bad supervisor came in and saw that... first words out of his mouth: "He can't sell that to you! It's the shop's TV!" (and keep in mind, this supervisor is the guy who will see you watching the tv and come over and change the channel anyway cos he feels it's his right to do it - a basic Supervisor-entitlement-whore). He didn't care that it wasn't purchased by shop/company money... he just felt that it belonged to the shop now, he was used to watching it every day, therefore it can't be sold.
Yeah...if I remember, sucky-supervisor was also one of the guys who used the "personal property" excuse to keep the boss's greedy paws off of it. So the fact that he's now trying to call it "shop property" when he realizes it was sold... is pretty freakin hypocritical of him. but not surprising.
S____ was going to wait a little before taking it home. But after that little exchange, he's decided that tomorrow - after the bad supervisor leaves for the day - he's taking it out and bringing it home right away.
The other guys are a little disappointed, but they're taking it well. If anything, they all recognized the rules of ownership on it from the start and they all agree that if it's personal property you can sell it off to whomever you choose.
And I'm looking forward to seeing the bad supervisor have a cow the following morning when he realizes the TV is gone. And that he legally can't do d*** about it.
(yeah i'm a bitch sometimes)
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