01-27-2022, 07:54 PM
TR 675 Wrote:Was sacked, re employed and demoted in the space of 24 hours when I had a part time job as shelf stacker at Asda in Tipton. The Friday before Christmas I called in sick so I could go to Villa away (87/88 season)Similarly, we hatched a plan late one Thursday night after many beers and ending up at the Queen Mary Ballroom disco, we decided we'd go to Charlton away on the Friday night. My mate swore he wasn't allowed to wag any more days off so we were to call at his works (The Grovewood, Dudley Rd.East), and say his mother wasn't well and he needed to be home, pronto. We pulled up round the corner, Ford Capri, 5 people already in, Albion scarves hanging out the windows and I was elected to relay the message. I burst into the workshop, "Is there a Rob works here? He needs to go home straight away, his mom has fallen down the stairs". "No she hasn't, he's already asked me if he can go to the football and He can't", was the reply from the foreman. But he did.
They rang home just to confirm their suspicions whilst I was on my way. My mum answered the phone and truthfully told them where I was. Half an hour later they rang back and told my mum that I'd been sacked.
The following morning I got another phone call telling me that I could have my job back as they were short staffed as long as I could do a late afternoon shift on the saturday as a trolley boy which is where I stayed until I left a year later.
It was a blessing in disguise as you were left to your own devices, management couldn't be arsed to check outside and the other "trolley boy" seemed to br permanently stoned smoking several spliffs during his shift behind the store whilst marvelling over the sights and lights of the lost city
We lost, obviously, Derek Hales scored the goal.