Ian Fraser "Finger's"

Finger's?

What can you say about him? A true story that springs readily to mind which amply demonstrates the sort of bloke he is goes as follows:

Once on a weekend job, we had to take a load of gear from one end of the worksite to the other end. Everyone else apart from Finger's was loaded down with gear, everyone had at least four or five pieces of kit. All had a mixture of bars, panpullers, pansetters,hammers, duff jacks. The only piece of equipment that remained to be picked up and brought to the other end of the job along with everything else that the rest were carrying was a disc cutter.

John Nutter, our 2nd man instructed Finger's to bring the disc cutter as it was the only thing remaining to be brought. Finger's looked at the disc cutter and then John, saying "What carry it?". To this dumb arse question, John replied with the cutting remark "No! Its going to sprout legs and walk to the other end of the job all by itself! What do you think I meant?".

Fraser eventually took the disc cutter and carried it to the other end of the job, after much whinging and complaining about it. No one was overly concerned about it, as everyone was far more heavily loaded down with kit than Finger's was with just a disc cutter to carry. Thats Finger's all over, it there's some hard graft to do, he's at the back hoping by the time he gets to the front that there's nothing for him to do.

Of all the gang he has the worst time keeping record of the lot, the number of mornings he's late far exceeds the frequency of others, the number of ocassions he finishes early is equally no less excessive. And he think's he's got some entitlement, some right to do it. He would never have done it with Rylott, nor with Hackett before something would have been said to him sharpish. He's got a fool notion in his head that being based where we are out in the sticks so to speak, and he beleives no-one would ever be bothered to get off their asre's and come out and check on us, so he think that means he can get away with it readily and should be allowed to do so. He likes to take as much time as possible, a bit at the start, a bit at the end, and in the bit in between do as little as possible or at least do less than anyone else in the gang which is something he achieves in most cases, most of the time.

He knows my views upon the subject, be there on time when one is supposed to be there, not rolling into the carpark at that time in the car every morning. Pull your weight properly, if its six a piece, then its six a piece for every one, if one person does six overs then he and everyone else does six overs not two, not three but six. If one person stops till his time, then he stops also. To merit anything different, he's got to perform in a manner to merit such preferential treatment and he's never done that yet. He's quite happy to be carried all the way and reap whatever benefits he can gleam for himself, but he's never ever been prepared to do anything to warrant it, and has never ever done so. Dont take the piss, be on time which means both ends of the shift, work hard, dont let your mates carry you all the time, and expect nothing special or anything in return for that above your pay! When one goes above and beyond that, then one might merit some form of reward, Finger's never will.