TheNewNumber2
Junior Member
(I live in Florida)
Okay, poorly worded suject line (if any of you got a better one, please let me know).
I worked for a cleaning company (a lady and her nephew) contracted out by a company for a store here which is a national chain.
One of the things I had to do was use a propane buffer to buff the floors.
The store management -- who demanded the propane buffer be used (since the slow moving electric one wasn't cutting it) -- said the propane tank couldn't be left in the store, and OSHA would fine them $10,000 if caught.
My boss wanted ME to tank the propane tank home. I refused; my reasoning: it's not my responsibility, I have no where to store it, and it's a dangerous chemical.
Ended up having to put it out in the woods behind the store.
Two other employees -- she held their jobs over their heads if they wouldn't transport the propane buffer and tank to their store (another national chain) to use it. Even though the buffer did not belong to her, but the company that contracted her out.
Propane is a dagerous substance, and it has a foul odor. Is it my imagination, or is it ILLEGAL for her to be asking employees to take that stuff home? Is it illegal for her to ask me to carry it in my CAR to go get it refilled?
Is it illegal to hold someone's job over their head over using an it and a tool that doesn't even belong to her?
About a dozen people (strangers behind the building, police, garbage men) saw me put the propane tank out back, and I warned her it's a Christmas tree affect; they know, they tell somebody, those people tell somebody -- it was only a matter of time before it got stolem, which it did. She tried to blame ME, even though I and the store warned her, and she said he had had three or four stolen before. If I reach her again over not being paid, and she tries to hold that over my head and claim it out of my paycheck, what do I do?
(in the end, the store and the company that contracted her, got fed up and canned her, and there went my job)
Okay, poorly worded suject line (if any of you got a better one, please let me know).
I worked for a cleaning company (a lady and her nephew) contracted out by a company for a store here which is a national chain.
One of the things I had to do was use a propane buffer to buff the floors.
The store management -- who demanded the propane buffer be used (since the slow moving electric one wasn't cutting it) -- said the propane tank couldn't be left in the store, and OSHA would fine them $10,000 if caught.
My boss wanted ME to tank the propane tank home. I refused; my reasoning: it's not my responsibility, I have no where to store it, and it's a dangerous chemical.
Ended up having to put it out in the woods behind the store.
Two other employees -- she held their jobs over their heads if they wouldn't transport the propane buffer and tank to their store (another national chain) to use it. Even though the buffer did not belong to her, but the company that contracted her out.
Propane is a dagerous substance, and it has a foul odor. Is it my imagination, or is it ILLEGAL for her to be asking employees to take that stuff home? Is it illegal for her to ask me to carry it in my CAR to go get it refilled?
Is it illegal to hold someone's job over their head over using an it and a tool that doesn't even belong to her?
About a dozen people (strangers behind the building, police, garbage men) saw me put the propane tank out back, and I warned her it's a Christmas tree affect; they know, they tell somebody, those people tell somebody -- it was only a matter of time before it got stolem, which it did. She tried to blame ME, even though I and the store warned her, and she said he had had three or four stolen before. If I reach her again over not being paid, and she tries to hold that over my head and claim it out of my paycheck, what do I do?
(in the end, the store and the company that contracted her, got fed up and canned her, and there went my job)