Thief contractor, must be paid?

[kulture]

In post 6 you suggested a course of action. In subsequent posts you criticised other posters who like you suggested a course of action, without looking at both sides of the story.

Further in recent posts you have been harping on the danger of paying the customer as you could be accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice. From what you say, I would suspect that your initial recommendation of not telling the police, paying off the customer, and removing the evidence could likewise be construed as perverting the course of justice.

It seems to me, that this thread has somewhat lost its way. I would suggest that the correct advice to the OP would be

1 Compensate the customer, thus preserving the business relationship.

2 Get proper contracts sorted out to ensure that cleaners are properly self employed

3 Pay the cleaner. Because it is not 100% certain that she is self employed, and the employment status should be sorted out before any further action is taken.

4 Consider telling the police, but realise that they may do nothing.

 

[Steve Sellers]

Oops I disagreed with you. That's all, and didn't warrant your return posts.

Is disagreeing with you a personal insult now?

If this were the deep south of the USA I could imagine him going round slapping people with a pair of gloves and challenging them to a dual for 'offending his honour'.

So you don't think that we should bother about getting all the facts before jumping to conclusions then ?

Yet you say:

In the average police station there are probably as many crooks in the canteen as there are in the cells.

Presumably like some of the other contributors, you don't believe in addressing the causative factors which drive some people to crime either - merely lock them up and throw away the key the first time they make a mistake?

Yet you say:

In the average police station there are probably as many crooks in the canteen as there are in the cells.

One thing that does seem clear is that there are a lot of contributors whose attitude shows me that they should never be called up for jury duty as their comments display a terrible degree of bias and willingness to prejudge.

Yet you say:

In the average police station there are probably as many crooks in the canteen as there are in the cells.

Have you any experience of what being arrested, dragged to a claustrophobic custody suite, questioned by a couple of neandertal PC's, and threatened with a criminal record which might mean you never work again and end up losing your home, is like?

Have you?

It is not a "liberal tirade", merely a defence of the right of evveryone to be presumed innocent until PROVEN gullty.

Yet you say:

In the average police station there are probably as many crooks in the canteen as there are in the cells.

 

[kulture]

There is not much point as RA is now banned.

 

[kulture]

I found him rude, annoying and in many posts dangerously wrong. However I note that he had been thanked a lot of times for many posts where he was actually right. It is a pity that the Jekyll and Hyde nature of his posts could not be controlled. I do agree with him being banned. The mods were right.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Lets not have a witchhunt gents

Everyone gets the same chance to pull the neck in, sadly sometimes the red mist comes down and that is the end of restraint.