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Sorry to hear you were made redundant, Max.  Good luck on having some comeback on your firm.
Cormack beat me to it with the suggestion of ACAS – they are an offical body for dealing with employment grievances and personally I would always go to them for advice and more.  I’m surprised that they said you have no comeback – I’d ring again and speak to someone else, as you mooted earlier.  Around 2000 I had employment grievances after I resigned from a position (after an accident that happened at work & left me hospitalised then off sick for a month) and my ex-employer refused to pay my notice, or the holiday monry he owed to me.  ACAS were prepared to take him to court for me but stupidly I declined in the end as the industry I was working in was a very small one and I didn’t want to burn any bridges – not to mention that it was a very emotional time for me then as I was suffering the after-effects of a serious head injury.  I had also found employment straightaway so I didn’t want to make life difficult again.  It is a decision I regret to this day though – I really wish I had the bottle at the time to get the book thrown at the creep!
Good luck with whatever you decide. :)
(Edited by Shadow Leader at 2:57 pm on July 27, 2006)
From what I hear, £3.65 lost a lot more than Blue Square are claiming. Yeah, right…..
From what I hear £3.65 were hit pretty badly – although I certainly don’t believe the figure I was told!!!
EC – believe you me, I am no "soft arse" bleeding-heart liberal type – far from it!! :biggrin:
We do happen to disagree on this one matter – the horse was behaving very badly and needed some sort of remonstration – however head-butting it was not the answer in the slightest.  But on the other hand I’m one of the last people who would be advocating the release of murderers – these situations are not the same in the slightest! I also still feel that there is too much being made out of this and people are getting a bit carried away with it all, after all, he hardly touched the horse so a lifetime ban from riding, RSPCA action et al is far too draconian do you not think? ÂÂÂ
Let’s have a bit of perspective – if the horse had behaved like that in a yard it would have received a fair few stripes on it’s backside at the very least.
(Edited by Shadow Leader at 1:24 pm on July 24, 2006)
I saw O’Neill headbutt his horse too and couldn’t quite believe it. He deserves a couple of days ban for that at least but I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest the draconian measures suggested previously as to be fair, he hardly touched the horse – it won’t have hurt him. I have seen far, far worse being done to horses in my time. However I agree it shouldn’t be tolerated though and a few days ban is about right IMO.
I’m on Cav Okay at 14 – I reckon that’s a great price. All conditions should suit and he’s drawn well.
He might not qualify as the best 2yo seen out so far but I do like Holy Roman Emperor. I was impressed with his debut; diappointed in the Coventry (IMO that run was too bad to be true and can be ignored) then thought he did it well in the Railway Stakes. Of course Ballydoyle probably have plenty more they have yet to unleash that could be anything – I did hear recently that they reckon they have half a dozen or so at home that they think are better than HRE – I look forward to seeing them all out!
