I wonder if the teenager was Bear from yesterday's airgun debate?

This report suggests that the lad is obviously not the brightest bulb in the pack and his dad sounds a bit dim too.

The Wise One wrote:
This report suggests that the lad is obviously not the brightest bulb in the pack and his dad sounds a bit dim too.

Get him a job with the council. Then all the socialist numpties can go on about how hard he works and how he should be paid more.

Who'd hire someone who lacks the initiative to find his way to an interview ?

Apparently he couldn't use the internet or phone book to look up their address ?

I hope this boy and his idiot father end up paying the costs for this farcical attempt to gain compensation for their own stupidity.

Folk like these, trying to screw money out where they can, is costing us all.

Perhaps if the father had spent as much time pursuing his boy's schooling as he does chasing compy, this would never have happened in the first place.

Either way, it's pathetic if he hadn't the wits to find the place or if he just used that as an excuse to launch a claim.

Glasgow lawyer Cameron Fyfe said: "Some people seem to think if anything goes wrong they can claim compensation."

Cameron Fyfe clearly has a sense of houmour!

This sixteen-year-old is after a job. Like lots of sixteen-year-olds he doesn't know everything about the world of work. I remember getting lost on the way to an interview in Paisley travelling from Glasgow when I was 16. Sure, it wouldn't have occurred to me to pursue the issue through a tribunal, but this was probably a daft idea on his dad's part.

At least he's actively looking for a job, and he deserves encouragement, not being slagged off.

Johnny Punchclock wrote:
This sixteen-year-old is after a job. Like lots of sixteen-year-olds he doesn't know everything about the world of work. I remember getting lost on the way to an interview in Paisley travelling from Glasgow when I was 16. Sure, it wouldn't have occurred to me to pursue the issue through a tribunal, but this was probably a daft idea on his dad's part. At least he's actively looking for a job, and he deserves encouragement, not being slagged off.

If he'd as put as much effort into basic preparation for job seeking as he did to mount a legal case, the forum members would not be so harsh.

By being so litigious for such a petty reason where the blame lays squarely at his feet, he may have rendered himself unemployable.

What employer is going to risk employing a teenager that doesn't have basic skills, refusing to take responsibility, but has demonstrated a clear risk that he'll take them to the cleaners at the first opportunity?

He could have just put it down to experienced and learned the lesson that if he wants to get a job, he has to demonstrate some maturity and common sense.

He may well have been actively looking for a job but when he's not dawdling, he's spending his energy finger pointing at innocent parties at huge public cost.

That kid is a liability.

I hope he doesn't become a bus driver.

Posted by: bluey, glasgow on 11:17am today
That kid is a liability.

That's not the description I would have used!!!!

I blame the Council

Hoof Hearted wrote:

The Wise One wrote:
This report suggests that the lad is obviously not the brightest bulb in the pack and his dad sounds a bit dim too.

Get him a job with the council. Then all the socialist numpties can go on about how hard he works and how he should be paid more.

Do you have any idea how moronic you sound ?? banging on about council workers.

You obviously applied for a job in the council and didn't get it, hence your all to obvious grudge against hard working people who happen to work for the council.

Grow up and get a life

hugo wrote:

Hoof Hearted wrote:

The Wise One wrote: This report suggests that the lad is obviously not the brightest bulb in the pack and his dad sounds a bit dim too.

Get him a job with the council. Then all the socialist numpties can go on about how hard he works and how he should be paid more.

Do you have any idea how moronic you sound ?? banging on about council workers. You obviously applied for a job in the council and didn't get it, hence your all to obvious grudge against hard working people who happen to work for the council. Grow up and get a life

I did apply for a council job and i DID get it. I worked there for 6 months. Saw what complete and utter wasters are there and how much of a rip-off councils are, so I left to get on with the rest of my life.

Will you be doing stand up anywhere? I really like your joke about the hard working people who happen to work for the council.

You crack me up hugo.

The Wise One wrote:
Posted by: bluey, glasgow on 11:17am today That kid is a liability. That's not the description I would have used!!!!

I know. I'm too polite for my own good.

He's obviously immature, lacks resourcefulness, is easily influenced by his father. His dad is a major liability, too, feeding his fantasy that he's hard done by and ruining his son's reputation by mounting that wasteful legal action.

A better approach would have been for him to have apologised to the company whose time he wasted by standing them up and demonstrated to them that he was worth a second chance.

Then he could have spent 5 mins popping to his local bus or train station to enquire about timetables to attend the second interview that the company offered, since he's clearly incapable of opening the yellow pages or using the internet to get this info. £40 for a cab?

But we've all been teenagers nervous about entering the job market for the first time and have made gaffes. This is why I am restraining myself with my description of him and his actions.

It's just his gaffes has been amplified by a misplaced sense of injustice and it's a shame that it's likely to be very counterproductive for him as he's now publicly humiliated himself.

he doesnt even have the brains for Mcds!


what a loser !

Glasgow lawyer Cameron Fyfe said: "Some people seem to think if anything goes wrong they can claim compensation

is that not how a lot of law firms make money
claims?

I wonder what he put on the application form assuming he can write!!

Unable to use a computer or internet (to look up company history and directions)

Unable to use a telephone (to call the company and ask how best to get there)

Unable to communicate in general by asking a member of the public for directions bus times etc.

I think there has to be more to this story or the dad has more front than Blackpool!

Why doesn’t the 16 year old go to college and learn computers or internet! And maybe telephone skills.

Are there any college courses for common sense!

Employers beware this guy could sue you unless u pick him and his dad up and take them back home!

Found this quote from the company that won the tribunal on another website which shows you how strange it is and offers another perspective.

"A spokeswoman for the company, which employs 800 people throughout the UK, said they were amazed that it ever got to a tribunal.

"This is the most bizarre tribunal case we have ever had. We didn't even meet him. He didn't turn up for two interview requests and it ended up at a tribunal."

Do people in Glasgow have a problem with taking responsibility in their lives? Blaming a company cause you can't find your way? No wonder the teenager never got the job. The blame culture seems to run thick there and I'm so sick of people feeling sorry for themselves.

I wonder if the kid can spell - IDIOT!

I wonder who Sydney Meriwether would blame in this case? The teenager? The Council? The company? New Labor? Come on Sydney we all know that you still dream of splitting Maggie Thatcher's cheeks ya Tory lover.

BeeSee wrote:
This is front page news, Why ?????? My cynical view of course is that this lad was sent for the interview by the job centre or his benefits would have ceased, so rather than attend the interview he concocted this poor excuse and then his Uncle /Dad (same person by the sounds of it, you know what they're like in Pollock) came up with this idea to pay for the buckie this weekend. If he cant even source a bus timetable how is he ever going to be of benefit to any employer.

Mostly they can however spell POLLOK .

I wonder who Sydney Meriwether would blame in this case?

Steven Purcell?

This teenager is a complete idiot. His father must be worse. Can he find his backside with both hands?

And think of the future idiots that the teenager is going to be responsible for fathering. God help us!

Come on Sydney Meriwether jump in here mate or where's that jakey boy fredo fae Paisley?

Who'd hire someone who lacks the initiative to find his way to an interview ?

Heidthebaw seems to have hit the nail on the head. For the few interviews ive attended the frst thing i did was print out the directions from the likes of google maps or photocopy a street atlas. I'd have a look at the bus/train times and make sure I knew where I was going and that i would be on time.

Dare I say it, but this seems to be another example of the rediculous claim culture that has sifted our way from the states.

Adverts on television for lawyers to help you claim are absurd! I was in a minor bump the other week in my car - a passerby said, and i quote, "want some advice, when the police come just sit in our car and say your neck hurts - gets you a fortune" He was politely told to p*** off.

Anyway, who is would employ 'darren' now? to any future employer he seems like the kind of person to stir up trouble...

I wonder who advised the father that his case would be accepted by a tribunal. Also who accepted it? They should be asked to recompense the public purse by wasting money.

aye what a bunch of numpties! Even the Tory lovin' cheek splitter Sydney Meriwether has to throw the towel in here as there one to blame but the silly wee teenager. Can't we take idiots like this out of society all together?

He's still unemployed - perhaps he should join the army as they'll teach him map reading and how to take responsibility for your own actions.

atrocityexhibition wrote:
And think of the future idiots that the teenager is going to be responsible for fathering. God help us! Come on Sydney Meriwether jump in here mate or where's that jakey boy fredo fae Paisley?

missing me already was on another thread with intelligent adults

aye fredo that's right mate and nice to see that your off the night shift from your dead end factory job. You still having probs battling the booze ya jake?

hugo wrote:

Hoof Hearted wrote:

The Wise One wrote: This report suggests that the lad is obviously not the brightest bulb in the pack and his dad sounds a bit dim too.

Get him a job with the council. Then all the socialist numpties can go on about how hard he works and how he should be paid more.

Do you have any idea how moronic you sound ?? banging on about council workers. You obviously applied for a job in the council and didn't get it, hence your all to obvious grudge against hard working people who happen to work for the council. Grow up and get a life

Would that be the hard working council people with the department which sends 4 men out to do a job,where one works for half an hour, while the other 3 watch ?( Or if it's wet, the other 3 sit in the van and read the papers). After half an hour, one of the other 3 takes his turn, and the first one then does nothing.He then doesn't have to work for another 2 hours...oh but then there is the 2 hour lunch break.....

He and his father should be named so that firms will know about him in advance. Then they won't have to be taken to a tribunal.

atrocityexhibition wrote:
Do people in Glasgow have a problem with taking responsibility in their lives? Blaming a company cause you can't find your way? No wonder the teenager never got the job. The blame culture seems to run thick there and I'm so sick of people feeling sorry for themselves.

You are right.

They walk amongst us !!!

if the wee slacker wants money tell him to go and sign on ir better still go buy a map and take it with you incase u get lost or better still use the bloody internet more to the point are his parents that lazy too that they dont have jobs either anything for a quid or two!!!

The 16-year-old who didn't know how to travel all the way from Pollok to Shettleston by bus, train or taxi has had his claim for age discrimination thrown out.

Darren failed to turn up for a job interview because he claimed he couldn't find his way across the city.

This is so retarded, you couldn't make it up, moreso as Glasgow has lots of cranks such as this character.

Maybve he was from caveman descent and could only speak basic language, wear basic clothes and stay within the confines of the local tribe.

Probably better of on incapacity - reason being is that they have no sense of direction - what chance has people like this got if they cannot travel to the other side of Glasgow, which is no way near as large as London.

It sounds like this person or caveman has never been outside Pollok - the type who sends postcards when the y go into Glasgow for the day.

Next it will be that somebody is suing kellogs cos they don't know how to make a bowl of cornflakes or somebody is suing Ayrshire Farmers cos they don't know how to cook potatoes.

Madness, many thanks ET for publicising how backward people are becoming, usually seen on a daily basis on buses etc, but now you have shown this sad aspect of reality in print.

jefstewa wrote:
if the wee slacker wants money tell him to go and sign on ir better still go buy a map and take it with you incase u get lost or better still use the bloody internet more to the point are his parents that lazy too that they dont have jobs either anything for a quid or two!!!

No, his maw works as a cleaner at the Braehead shopping centre for that company and recommended him for it.

It seems the wee boy was stumped by the interview taking place at the head office and not just roon tha corner.

Some parents, eh? Recommending their own son goes forth into the world as a cleaner in a minimum wage unskilled job and encourage him to sue the company that he couldn't find.

The tribunal heard how Darren insisted that a taxi would have cost him up to £40 to attend the interview and he had no idea how to get to Shettleston by bus and trains.

Was the taxi going via Prestwick?

Just as well he wasn't going for a job as a postman.

Funny stuff man!

I take it our education system has stopped teaching how to read maps then? If I was desperate enough for a job, whether in Shettleston or Shepperton, I'd research my route, and plane my travelling time well ahead of the interview. Just for the record, if Peabrain from Pollok took the big shiny thing with wheels (I think they're called buses!!..) into the city centre, then get another big shiny bus thingy frm Argyle Street (used to be the 61/62/64 done the route - I haven't been in Glasgow for over 2 years). Now... If anybody there needs directions to Shepperton, I'll be only too pleased to help!! LOL!!

I bet this kid could work out the proceeds from a winning single bet, doubles and trebles!
What happened to the old phrase - DON'T WORRY, I HAVE A GUID SCOTS TONGUE IN MA HEID!!!!!

"Darren's father, who represented his son at the tribunal, questioned why, if the youngster was old enough to go to war, he wasn't old enough to use a floor buffer."

Dear God can you imagine this fool with a gun in his hand?

There must be some dog sh1t that needs picked up in the Pollok area.

Darren Mirren. That's the the scrounger's name.I must bear it mind and get him first offer in any position I hear about.

That's what happens when you take medical science to far. The genetically weak get the chance to multiply !!
I don't know what the boys father was thinking about. If my son was that stupid I'd be hiding in shame, not trying to take all and sundry to court for a quick buck !! Wasters the pair of them !

The Missing City wrote:
The tribunal heard how Darren insisted that a taxi would have cost him up to £40 to attend the interview and he had no idea how to get to Shettleston by bus and trains. Was the taxi going via Prestwick? Just as well he wasn't going for a job as a postman. Funny stuff man!

£20 each way but most job applicants would regard the expense of the journey to a job interview as a worthwhile investment.

His dad, who seems to be looking out for him (albeit the wrong way by encouraging conflict and not diplomacy) would have no doubt wanted to lend him the money.

However, his son would have been noble and said 'No way, dad, I want to make my own way in the world, carve out my own path' and refused it in a polite zen-like way.

still here's hoping that teenage bams like the one in question don't go on to reproduce future bams or dear knows where we will end up.

I appreciate that not everyone has access to or even knows how to work the internet but please don't tell me that this guy or even his father (what a jerk) couldn't have phoned or even walked into a train or bus station to ask how to get to the interview location. I just don't get this mentality. Some folk can't do anything for themselves. Next thing teenage bams like the one above will be expecting the government to wipe their ****!

stevo wrote:
"Darren's father, who represented his son at the tribunal, questioned why, if the youngster was old enough to go to war, he wasn't old enough to use a floor buffer." Dear God can you imagine this fool with a gun in his hand? There must be some dog sh1t that needs picked up in the Pollok area.

Yes, I can imagine him with a weapon in his hand, being subsequently court-martialled for negligently discharging it, then taking the Army to court for not telling him often enough how dangerous weapons are.

But they do teach map-reading.

yup idiots like Darren's father sure are dangerous. In some circles they're called 'flag wavers' but I say to these bams be careful as to what flag that you wave.

this kid is so dumb he would buy a satnav then go buy a windscreen to mount it on! "darren" would be recognisable to the public since he would be walking up the street with the windscreen tucked under his arm!

atrocityexhibition wrote:
yup idiots like Darren's father sure are dangerous. In some circles they're called 'flag wavers' but I say to these bams be careful as to what flag that you wave.

Don't you mean "WINDAE LICKERS"?

This idiot should have had costs awarded against him. Employment tribunals are there to deal with important issues not these time wasters. Too often people use ETs as a way to force companies to settle a case rather than pay for the costs of a defence. It's time that expenses were awarded more often.

poor lad no hope fur 'um. Gee 'um a job for the evening times?

This guy is a moron!!
He's clearly a chancer whose idiot Dad thought this would be a smashing idea. What a loser.

I once got lost on the way to an interview when i was 16, i got there late, and got the job. He should be made to pay the hearing costs. Its funny how he can find a compensation case against the company, but couln't find their number to ask for directions ?

DARREN!!... COCO POPS!!... LOL!! Do you have a duffel-coat, darren?? Bet you got a nice wee bobble-hat to match!!.. And mittens, tied together!!

Moany Mcgee wrote:
This guy is a moron!! He's clearly a chancer whose idiot Dad thought this would be a smashing idea. What a loser. I once got lost on the way to an interview when i was 16, i got there late, and got the job. He should be made to pay the hearing costs. Its funny how he can find a compensation case against the company, but couln't find their number to ask for directions ?

They did give him directions!

According to the Scotsman, "The tribunal heard that when he failed to turn up, he was contacted at home where he explained that he didn't know how to find his way from Pollok to the company's Shettleston office – a 20-minute car journey.

The company said they told him how to get there and he was offered the chance of another interview, which he failed to take up."

I don't think many companies would even bother to call back candidates that didn't bother to show up for the interview and didn't contact them to say they couldn't make it, let alone offer another interview and give personalised directions for them!

We shouldn't mock "Darren"... Maggie Thatcher's to blame - she introduced the Care In The Community scheme in the first place!! Hahaha!!

bunny wrote:
poor lad no hope fur 'um. Gee 'um a job for the evening times?

Aye ....on a stand ootside Central station "Eeffnin Times, get yir Eefffnin Times"

bunny wrote:
poor lad no hope fur 'um. Gee 'um a job for the evening times?
Aye ....on a stand ootside Central station "Eeffnin Times, get yir Eefffnin Times"

Would he be up to the job of selling papers for a living??.. It involves cash-handling!! I suppose he'd cope with people buying one paper at a time, but he'd be knackered if an office punter wanted 2+ copies!!

Quinan Reader wrote:

bunny wrote: poor lad no hope fur 'um. Gee 'um a job for the evening times?

Aye ....on a stand ootside Central station "Eeffnin Times, get yir Eefffnin Times"

How is he going to find this large centrally located station? He's not got passed the end of his road yet.

What an excuse for not wanting to work! I'm terrible at directions myself. BUT, If I can go from Cleveland Ohio, to Glasgow airport, on my own, no less, that boy could have found his way on a bus to a job interview.. lazy bum!

It's a good job they had more sense in the old days or most of the world would have remainded undiscovered.

It looks like their publicity is backfiring on them as they just look like muppets.

I always thought you had to be or have been IN employment to go to a tribunal.

Pity help anyone employing these dafties.

If the tribunal had the facility to make the claimant pick up the full costs for a spurious claim if they determine they are 100% to blame, then this would act as a deterrant to dumb claims like this.

My guess is that as the claimant is unemployed, they would have been entitled to free legal aid, so don't bear any consequences when it gets laughed out of court.

Clearly, this claimant didn't think anything through, from how to prepare for an interview, through to how they would reduce their employment prospects by scaring away future employers.

Scottish Rose - How many buses do YOU have to take from CLE to GLA? You take the big pointy thing with wing thingies stuck to the side of it! this poor wee mite needs to get a big shiny thingy with a wheel stuck at each corner!!.. You're confusing the poor wee soul now!!...

a lot of companies hire people like this person who are'a bit slow' and they never ever travelled on their own before, the parents encouraged them by making sure they got to the interveiw....the workers are still working.....making their own money and very proud of that fact, but now the parents of this work shy person has took the confidence away from their son.....ask the firm for another chance, they may feel sorry for him(you only get one chance, do not screw things up.).... get a f*ckn map.

trench wrote:
a lot of companies hire people like this person who are'a bit slow' and they never ever travelled on their own before, the parents encouraged them by making sure they got to the interveiw....the workers are still working.....making their own money and very proud of that fact, but now the parents of this work shy person has took the confidence away from their son.....ask the firm for another chance, they may feel sorry for him(you only get one chance, do not screw things up.).... get a f*ckn map.

Are you kidding?

I appreciate the evidence points to the contrary but nowhere does it suggest he’s mentally handicapped in any way.

Another chance??? They offered him an interview twice and got sued for their patience.

I always thought you had to be or have been IN employment to go to a tribunal.

Not so!!.. I succesfully sued ETAM PLC in 1985 (I think that was the year!). It made the statute books regarding sex discrimination. I was refused an interview by them on the grounds that I am male, and would be working in a female-oriented retail store. The point of my own claim was that ETAM clearly failed to obtain an exception to the post being for FEMALES ONLY, as defined by the sex discrimination act. Funnily enough, the Evening Times put that on their front page too!!

Not so!!.. I succesfully sued ETAM PLC in 1985.........I was refused an interview by them on the grounds that I am male, and would be working in a female-oriented retail store

if i was going to apply in a female-oriented store i think i would choose somewhere like la senza, rather than some under 14s school uniform shop!

well done though, standing up for the rights of us males

my mates goin for a job interview can any1 load him a sat nav or a street map so they dont get sued!!! lol

Johnny Punchclock states "At least he's actively looking for a job, and he deserves encouragement, not being slagged off."
I wouldn't call failing to keep a date for an interview as actively seeking employment. I wonder if he got the job whether he would drag his dad along to advise him on which tool to use? I would't be happy in employing him.

steven976 wrote:
Scottish Rose - How many buses do YOU have to take from CLE to GLA? You take the big pointy thing with wing thingies stuck to the side of it! this poor wee mite needs to get a big shiny thingy with a wheel stuck at each corner!!.. You're confusing the poor wee soul now!!...

ha ha... True enough...

if i was going to apply in a female-oriented store i think i would choose somewhere like la senza, rather than some under 14s school uniform shop!

well done though, standing up for the rights of us males
Deeko - That was the whole point of my case. The Sex Discrimination Act has to work for BOTH sexes!. Up till then, that aspect of the Act was never tested! That is why most (if not all) clothing stores have attendants at the entrance of their fitting rooms.

Has anybody sent in a song request to CLYDE " for Darren yet??.. I'd suggest"DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE".. LOL!!

steven i wasnt questioning the issue you raised, i was commending you for it. just stating i would have directed my attention elsewhere thats all!

How about "He aint heavy..."?

Be a great April fool. Now there is one lamp so dim we could all look at it!

steven976 wrote:
if i was going to apply in a female-oriented store i think i would choose somewhere like la senza, rather than some under 14s school uniform shop! well done though, standing up for the rights of us males Deeko - That was the whole point of my case. The Sex Discrimination Act has to work for BOTH sexes!. Up till then, that aspect of the Act was never tested! That is why most (if not all) clothing stores have attendants at the entrance of their fitting rooms.

Why would you want to work in a woman's clothes shop???

The staff discount would be pointless. The staff nights out would be in some poncy pub drinking wine and talking about your feelings.

Deeko - sorry if my posting came across that way. I was merely trying to explain the logic for my case, no other reason!!.. Sorry pal!

Why would you want to work in a woman's clothes shop???

Why would anyone want to wok ANYWHERE?.. It's called self-esteem! I have ABSOLUTELY NO INTENTIONS of being labelled a WORK-SHY LAYABOUT!!

And all of this palaver for a boy who has just completed nearly twelve years of education!
As a ten-year-old boy I could traverse Glasgow in any direction from Cambuslang to Whiteinch and from Pollock to Parkhead.
Now, I wonder if I could have sued the tram companies if I got lost? After all, I paid a halfpenny for my fare on most journies.

Sometimes it just don't pay to get up in the mornings (to read about numpties like Darren).

Anyway - this isn't about me and my case... It's about DARREN THE DUMPLIN'. If it's true that when we die, we become a star in heaven, then the boffins better get cracking on a super-telescope right now. Darren has got to be potentially the dimmest star in our galaxy!!

steven976 wrote:

Why would you want to work in a woman's clothes shop???

Why would anyone want to wok ANYWHERE?.. It's called self-esteem! I have ABSOLUTELY NO INTENTIONS of being labelled a WORK-SHY LAYABOUT!!

I appreciate that you want to work..... but a woman's clothes shop???

I can undetstand the attraction on the surface, but apparently companies like McDonalds have a policy that staff can eat as much food as they want in the hope that they get so sick of the food that you won't be bothered or want it after that.

That would be tragic if the ladies clothes shop had the same policy.

Ronnie Cee wrote:
And all of this palaver for a boy who has just completed nearly twelve years of education! As a ten-year-old boy I could traverse Glasgow in any direction from Cambuslang to Whiteinch and from Pollock to Parkhead. Now, I wonder if I could have sued the tram companies if I got lost? After all, I paid a halfpenny for my fare on most journies. Sometimes it just don't pay to get up in the mornings (to read about numpties like Darren).

As a teenager who hadn't left the town's boundaries much, I had little knowledge how to get from A to B.

But,

1/My parents would have helped me to look up timetables
2/I would have felt ashamed if I let down an employer, not sued them

12 years of education and he wants to be an unskilled cleaner on minimum wage...

steven976 wrote:

Why would you want to work in a woman's clothes shop???

Why would anyone want to wok ANYWHERE?.. It's called self-esteem! I have ABSOLUTELY NO INTENTIONS of being labelled a WORK-SHY LAYABOUT!!

I appreciate that you want to work..... but a woman's clothes shop???

I can undetstand the attraction on the surface, but apparently companies like McDonalds have a policy that staff can eat as much food as they want in the hope that they get so sick of the food that you won't be bothered or want it after that.

That would be tragic if the ladies clothes shop had the same policy.

12 years of education and he wants to be an unskilled cleaner on minimum wage...

Exactly. That's the mentality of so many people and what happens....... they later moan about how they under paid and what a great job they do. And then muppets like StewieGriffin and Hugo come along and start banging on about how it's shameful that these people aren't paid the same as the ones who educated themselves.

Hoofy - at that point, I was 2.5 years unemployed... When you are unemployed for that length of time, ANY job becomes a good job!

steven976 wrote:
Hoofy - at that point, I was 2.5 years unemployed... When you are unemployed for that length of time, ANY job becomes a good job!

But you would have turned into one of those female shop assistant's after a while. Standing at the counter twirling your hair and chatting to your pal about your new lip gloss.

Hoof Hearted wrote:

steven976 wrote:

Why would you want to work in a woman's clothes shop???

Why would anyone want to wok ANYWHERE?.. It's called self-esteem! I have ABSOLUTELY NO INTENTIONS of being labelled a WORK-SHY LAYABOUT!!

I appreciate that you want to work..... but a woman's clothes shop??? I can undetstand the attraction on the surface, but apparently companies like McDonalds have a policy that staff can eat as much food as they want in the hope that they get so sick of the food that you won't be bothered or want it after that. That would be tragic if the ladies clothes shop had the same policy.

That McDonald's policy is a myth.

As a 16 year old, when I worked for them (which required me to walk some distance to catch a bus whose timetable I looked up before my interview), the cost of the food you could have on your breaks was strictly limited to the duration of the shift and strictly monitored and recorded.

When Darren actually gets a job, he'll soon find out that it is the employees role to please the employer and adhere to their rules, and that it is the employer that is doing the employee a favour, not the other way around.

Hoofy - You forgot to call me EMILY - I'm a LAYDEE!! LOL!! Or, maybe you were thinking "DAFFYD 0 the only gay in the village"... Harr,harr,harr!!

It"s crystal clear that the boy didnae want tae clean floors fur minimum wage ...
In order to stop his benefits from being stopped,he had to come up with some excuse ...

Don’t know what has shocked me more about this case..



The utter stupidity of the idiot 16 year old….(I Googled the company..…first thing that comes up is a map!!!!!!..their office is about a 40 second walk from Shettleston railway station…



Or the quote from resident legal rent-a-quote, Cameron Fyfe…perhaps he could explain why people think they can claim for anything…can’t be anything to do with some of the cases he’s pursued down the years with attendant media fawning…????

As a Hiring Manager, we have on occasion provided directions to prospective employees - it is not a necessity. Anyone who has applied for the job, would have and should have assessed were their interview would be held and how they are going to get there.

If he was unable to determine how to get to his interview, he could have called the Head Office and asked for directions - our better still do what I did when I worked in Glasgow at a Recruitment Agency - gave the number of First Bus and got them to tell him the correct bus numbers and routes.

It just wasted time and money in going to a tribunal to claim compensation for age discrimination - it clearly showed the company allowed him to complete an application, set up and interview - the 16 year old decided not to follow through from start to finish. What a waste of tax payers money.

It"s crystal clear that the boy didnae want tae clean floors fur minimum wage ...
In order to stop his benefits from being stopped,he had to come up with some excuse ...

there"s some right clowns on the day get your handbags at the ready where"s the resident clown syd maybe he got lost trying to find the place that thick c6nt darren was meant to go to find,,,,,, did his da not phone 118 118

What an idiot, and what a waste of time.

did his da not phone 118 118

Poor guy couldn't remember the phone number!!

i have never heard in my life...that someone who did not know where to go for an interview is sueing them for his own inability and failure to look up a phone book to get the address where the interview was to be conducted.whatever happened to the street smart glasgow youth...obviously he is not one of them.....god help us....hopefully he is in the minority

Will Darren become a sketch on the CHEWIN' THE FAT Xmas Special this year??.. Ohhhh, the pure glasky banter, jamesie!! Ah'm pure moist, so ah am!!

What a farce.Seems a bit strange that the kid's dad does not know how to get to Shettleston but is able to go to a tribunal!I bet they know where Celtic Park is(less than 2 miles away)but the real truth is he probably could not be bothered going.Also, as he stays next to silverburn, i see adverts advertising a bus direct to town so surely he must have seen the same adverts.Strike off the law firm daft enough to represent him and claim legal aid at the taxpayers expense.

Also, i recently jumped in a hackney from silverburn shopping centre to that area as i was running late and i got change from £15 for a one way journey.

Also, i recently jumped in a hackney from silverburn shopping centre to that area as i was running late and i got change from £15 for a one way journey.

Joe - Stop trying to confuse poor Darren!!.. Don't you understand that he cannot comprehend pounds sterling!!... I mean, what's the exchange rate for sterling to giro, for God's sake??.. And saying that you got change from £15 means he'll be going from bank to bank, trying to fing those mysterious FIFTEEN POUND NOTES you are misleading him into thinking about!!

steven976 wrote:
Will Darren become a sketch on the CHEWIN' THE FAT Xmas Special this year??.. Ohhhh, the pure glasky banter, jamesie!! Ah'm pure moist, so ah am!!

Wrong ...
Jamesie wis Rab c nesbitts pal ...
Nae offence ...

Joe wrote:
Also, i recently jumped in a hackney from silverburn shopping centre to that area as i was running late and i got change from £15 for a one way journey.

Was it a black hackney or one of the money laundering ones ha ha ha ha

At the time of posting, 106 comments on this story.

What a waste of time and energy - and I don't mean the boy or his father.

Jamesie wis Rab c nesbitts pal ...

I think the character played by Greg Hemphill in that particular series of sketches is also called Jamesie.. If not, I stand, corrected!!.. By the way, none taken!!

Just noticed the journo's name that compiled this story - JOHNATHAN PAISLEY. Rumour has it Darren is hiring a hitman to wipe him out - As soon as he can work out how a phone works, and whereabouts in Paisley he lives!!.. He'd do the hit himself, only he doesn't know what bus to take, as he's never been to Paisley!!

Smeeagain wrote:
At the time of posting, 106 comments on this story. What a waste of time and energy - and I don't mean the boy or his father.

106 comments that largely form a consensus sounds fairly productive to me, if not miraculous for an internet forum thread.

Smeeagain wrote:
At the time of posting, 106 comments on this story. What a waste of time and energy - and I don't mean the boy or his father.

And posting this comment DOESN'T constitute a waste of time and energy??...

DOES THIS BOY NOT SPEAK TO HIS PARENTS?? IF I WAS NOT SURE OF HOW TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B I WOULD ASK SOMEONE FAMILIER WITH THE BUS SERVICE. ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS PICK UP A PHONE AND ASK DETAILS ON HOW TO GET THERE. HE BETTER GET HIMSELF A MAP OF GLASGOW AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS FOR THE FUTURE INTERVIEWS. GOOD LUCK TO HIM ON THE JOB HUNT.

LOL!.. Talk about IRONY??!!... I just had a banner ad on this thread, advertising.... GARMIN SAT-NAV'S!! PMPL!!

bluey wrote:

Johnny Punchclock wrote: This sixteen-year-old is after a job. Like lots of sixteen-year-olds he doesn't know everything about the world of work. I remember getting lost on the way to an interview in Paisley travelling from Glasgow when I was 16. Sure, it wouldn't have occurred to me to pursue the issue through a tribunal, but this was probably a daft idea on his dad's part. At least he's actively looking for a job, and he deserves encouragement, not being slagged off.

If he'd as put as much effort into basic preparation for job seeking as he did to mount a legal case, the forum members would not be so harsh. By being so litigious for such a petty reason where the blame lays squarely at his feet, he may have rendered himself unemployable. What employer is going to risk employing a teenager that doesn't have basic skills, refusing to take responsibility, but has demonstrated a clear risk that he'll take them to the cleaners at the first opportunity? He could have just put it down to experienced and learned the lesson that if he wants to get a job, he has to demonstrate some maturity and common sense. He may well have been actively looking for a job but when he's not dawdling, he's spending his energy finger pointing at innocent parties at huge public cost. That kid is a liability.

If he'd put the effort into finding the location of Shettleston and how to get there he would probably have gotten the job. It is clear he is pretending to look for work, at 16yrs old I work on Youth Opportunity Schemes and always made certain I knew the location of the place days before I went and there was no Internet luxury back then. I also worked abroad on the summer camps all over the States and had to travel alone a lot of the time so what is his problem, he is jobless anyway so why not use his time to find work? Obviously not working is what he enjoys doing best. I know young students today who have been all over the world in their gap years, this man and his son are both embarrassing. If you're reading this just what did you expect to prove?

I hate working ...
Espescially as I"m unemployed ...

Actually, I give the litigious timetable-allergic teenager the benefit of the doubt around accusations that he was evading the interview in order to continue claiming benefits.

I am optimistic that he did want the job rather than continue claiming any paltry sums of income support he is eligible for, just that he had an enlarged sense of entitlement to the role.

The time and energy expended on preparing for that tribunal could have been more productively spent on applying for the dozens of retail, catering or cleaning vacancies at Silverburn, Braehead or the city centre.

Now, of course, employers will be nervous of him because he has demonstrated a total lack of knowledge of his employment rights.

PS - If the tribunal needed him to turn up in person, would he have been able to have found the venue?

what a complete little wasts of space, and his father is obviously worse! In my day (not that long ago) my father woukld have booted me (not literally for the benefit of the PC mob) out the door to find my way to a job, not spent time planning a tribunal.
I would suggest that he would have a job by now if he wasnt engaging in legal arguements and wasting everybodies time.

Useless waste of space, and as other say - who will now emply either of them.

Jist fer yer ifo n'at, Meriwether wullnae be oan the day. The joab centre sent him tae Shettleston fur a joab interview. Hope he husnae got loast.

Hope he husnae got loast.

depends whether he was travelling from Pollok or not!!

I am printing aw these replies off to laugh at at a later date feffin quality as a wee ned would slur through a buckie haze....

welcome to Glasgow!!

watch our for that name future Darren Midden , take note, may sue after he fails to show up for interview...canny do that at the brew ye face being docked

This story is truly shocking. These people are an embarrassment to the human race. Only complete morons would claim what they did. Anything for money eh? Who would want to live on the same street as such people?

If he really wanted a job he would have went for the interview. Do such people think that people are thick?

WHO would ever give him OR his father a job now?

Baldric - I have a cunning plan? Beyond belief really.

Baldric - I have a cunning plan?

Does it involve a large turnip?.. As opposed to TURN UP, which Darren failed to do!!

BREAKING NEWS - Hollywood producers are currently in negotiation with Darren and his dad to make this the next blockbuster. Darren will have a stunt double provided for the more dangerous scenes, such as requiring him to pick up a bus timetable, get a bus, phone people, etc...

will gerald butler be starring as the hard man dad with shell suit bob as the son pmsl

Unemployable.

Darren, if you read this, consider the kind of pathetic wee bullies who are creaming themselves about the chance to slag you off.

First of all, they are likely to be a lot older than sixteen. Much, much older than sixteen. And there's a fair chance that none of them have actually done a hand's turn of work in recent years.

Secondly, they seem to have a lot of time on their hands. They probably also have very poor personal hygiene, and are sitting in their underwear in a darkened room with a box of paper hankies nearby. you know what I mean. Some don't even live here but take an obsessive interest in local news.

Thirdly, why do you think people like that, who smell, and have nothing better to do during the day than slag off a teenager, are so bitter? Because they are basically disappointed old farts whose best days are behind them. Well past their sell-by dates.

Of course you should have checked out the route to the address you were going to using Google and using the Traveline website, and you will know better next time.

And it was a mistake to go to the Tribunal without talking to a lawyer (not Cameron Fyfe, though), and to have listened to legal advice.

But stuff it, and stuff them. You are sixteen, and they are a bunch of stinky old farts. **** them if they can't take a joke.

he starts his new job tommorow as an air traffic controler at prestwick airport.

ps keep your heads down.

A lot of people are saying that the boy went for this jobn because he was frightened his benefits would be cut. You don't get JSA at age sixteen.

I wonder if he knows the way to Amarillo !

See what I mean? Bitter. And stinky.

steven976 wrote:
Has anybody sent in a song request to CLYDE " for Darren yet??.. I'd suggest"DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE".. LOL!!

or how about 'th e proclamiers ' walk 500 miles ha ha gonee geez a job i could dae that ,joan marshall

This mob below could give him a job as a shoplifter as he certainly suits there business sense of direction !!!
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Here is some interesting posts I found on a website,it seems to center around the scottish cooperative, and posted by some guy called Big Kenny,does anybody know any of the people mentioned ?
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Coop planning Whisky Galore Giveaway, if you vote for nu labour at the next general election.
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Here is the latest ! a Cooperative spokesman,J.M.Steven
sonson has stated that voters who vote for Labour at the next "general election" will recieve 3 free bottles of malt whisky as a reward. Details of this incentive can be obtained form there web site,or by telephoning there head office and asking for the personnel dept !!
For more details copy the link below, and paste it into your browser claim your whisky now !
http://www.co-operat

ive.coop/
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To Alex from Kent the cooperative labour supporter........
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Alex did you not mean a "conivence" retailer ! they are very good at Scheming, as well !
and I say this on good authority for I know all about them. As for there Ethics" just like nu labour they are very short on morals,
I could write a book on there gross mismanagement
with details to confirm them. ie the store were half a million pounds went missing is only one of them
A personnel manager attempting to pervert the course of justice by coercing an employee and a security guard to change there story regarding 3 stolen bottles of whisky !
(even though the shoplifter who had stolen the whisky pled guilty to the offence and had been sentenced )
so that they could get something on the store manager to construct his
dismissal,a very devious lot is the coop. I pity the future for somerfield staff with this lot. It's time to pay the ferryman mrJ.M. Stevenson !!
no concern about the loss of company goods ie
the 3 bottles of malt whisky,constructive dismissal was more important at the time,after all it
was only 60 quid that was lost a small price to pay to try and reach your intended target !!
Quote ! the Coop need nu labour,there morals and ethics, are the same !
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Here is another fact about them you will remember mr alex barr from Kent.The story of colin beating me up ! do you recall ?
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I remember that christmas night out in the coop for store managers and regional managers, at the horseshoe bar in glasgow, one regional manager called Colin Martin,(nicknamed the boxer )battered a store manager to pulp and was not sacked even although fighting meant instant dismissal as per company policy.This was the second assault this particular regional manager had made on a company employee and got away with it,he was one of what was known as the "select club" unsackable ! in other words !
Therefore Somerfield managers if you are invited to a coop xmas night out, wear body armour or take some CS spray with you, you may need it ! the "Boxer" could be there !!!
Yes Colin it's me ! big Kenny the guy you hated !!

this illustrates the need for jakies to be strangled at birth, what a moron.

DavidJames wrote:
this illustrates the need for jakies to be strangled at birth, what a moron.

leave johnny punchclock alone he is entitled to his rant.

news just in...he gets a bus in glasgow on this you tube clip

http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=1H3QjZxIX
4I&NR=1

darren niver mind aw these sad comments here aboot you, ah''ll give you job? an' also I'll provide directions. ok go up to the north pole, take a left,straight ahead for about 6.000 miles, turn left again,go doon about 800 miles and it's the second island on the right.if ye can't make it geez a call.

It says he failed to turn up for a job interview. Did he even leave the house? Did he make any attempt to get to the interview? Maybe he should have asked his Dad for directions...wait...
I'd bet his father has never heard of Shettleston...travel
s no further than the benefits office, Pub and the Bookies. I'm not surprised by the claim though, in light of some of these tribunals past awards it was worth a try.

I would like to nominate Darren as the next leader of the Labour party,as they dont know where the F*CK they are going either !
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the 2 30 at Aintree !( just making a racist comment)

The big day arrives-DA,whit is it son? av'e goat wan a'they intermithingys this morning,oh aye whereabouts? eh a don't know do!.what should have happened next!Da and son ask the dog what they do next..dog tells them to go and **** themselves as it's never seen a pair of half-wits like them, and wait to you see the maw, prehistoric spring to mind!!

jrb wrote:
The big day arrives-DA,whit is it son? av'e goat wan a'they intermithingys this morning,oh aye whereabouts? eh a don't know do!.what should have happened next!Da and son ask the dog what they do next..dog tells them to go and **** themselves as it's never seen a pair of half-wits like them, and wait to you see the maw, prehistoric spring to mind!!

My guess is maw is ashamed ...
Dad - well ...

steven976 wrote:

Smeeagain wrote: At the time of posting, 106 comments on this story. What a waste of time and energy - and I don't mean the boy or his father.

And posting this comment DOESN'T constitute a waste of time and energy??...

DOH!!!!!!

has anybody heard of fair isle? its near shetland and lerwick i was 11 years old and went on my own to visit relatives....you take the train, then go on a ship and you sleep overnight then in the morning you board a mail boat over to the island, get off and hope to hell there will be someone there to meet you, now ask me about travelling on your own at a young age, and i was not too bright either,darren, if i could do it so could you......grow up, and dad you cut the apron strings bring the young un up to be a MAN.

His dad needs a good slap back into reality.

I hope the company sue the pair of scum bags for all the time, worry and cost they have caused them, However I reckon the chancers have sod all so thus nothing too loose.

Jaikie drop kicks!

Why are there no photos of this character who was too stupid to call the bus company to find out which bus travells closest to his new job I want to laugh at him as much as the next guy. Would a brain be asking too much of the youth of today or is that neds. What about his father though, actually agreeing it might be a good blag to sue seems he has too much time on his hands and not enough sense.

**** me £6.05 for a few measerly miles public transport who is kidding who here that is far too much a whole page about the rip off britain culture seems inevitable.

Comment one hundred and forty!!!

HIS OLD MAN SAID HE COULD JOIN THE ARMY.IF HE CANNY CATCH A BUS FROM POLLOCK TO SHETTLESTON WHAT CHANCE HAS HE OF FINDING HIS WAY AROUN IRAQ,I THINK HE HAD A CLAIM ON THE BASIS THEY NEVER PROVIDED HIM WITH MAP AND A COMPASS AR EVEN SENT FOR HIM IN A LIMMO, ITS INJUSTICE

wee terry wrote:
HIS OLD MAN SAID HE COULD JOIN THE ARMY.IF HE CANNY CATCH A BUS FROM POLLOCK TO SHETTLESTON WHAT CHANCE HAS HE OF FINDING HIS WAY AROUN IRAQ,I THINK HE HAD A CLAIM ON THE BASIS THEY NEVER PROVIDED HIM WITH MAP AND A COMPASS AR EVEN SENT FOR HIM IN A LIMMO, ITS INJUSTICE

AND HE SHOULD HAVE ISSUED WITH A GUN HE,D NEED ONE IN SHETTLESTON