Cygnus said:I know you don't make the rules but you certainly shouldn't go out of your way to help enforce them if the rules being bent or broken aren't hurting the clients. You seemed more concerned with the fact that you are too guilty to do this on your own and less concerned about the clients well being.
How am i going out of my way to "enforce" the rules exaclty?? If a coworker wants to take the company vehicle they can do that, but if they get caught they are at risk of getting disciplined or fired. And what do you mean i am "less concerned about the clients well being"?? You don't even know what you are talking about to read so much into what i posted.
Where I work they say take at least 1 client with you & it's considered a legit outing. The clients like to get out of the house & they love being in the community. Unless your friend works with lower functioning clients I can't see why he would feel the need to leave on his own. It's not worth risking his job over if he get's spotted out somehere driving by himself.A great co-worker of mine uses the car for his own personal use, but in doing so he goes out to buy ingredients for a kick ass dinner so HE can eat, but in serving himself he also gets the clients a kick ass dinner and other staff. If the "higher-ups" were to find out about this, they'd have a problem with it, because techincally it is breaking the rules as he often buys items for his own house when doing this.
But it's not something anyone who isn't looking for a petty battle should worry about. We, the staff support him doing this. Choose your battles carefully or you could easily end up on the other end of the irritating co-worker spectrum, no offense man.
"petty battle" & "choose your battles", wtf are you even talking about?? So if i follow the rules i'm somehow in a battle with other coworkers who don't? I don't get what you are trying to say.
Also, the girl i was having trouble with is great now, i even apologized to her for getting a bit too upset with her. She is actually very nice & we just happened to get off on the wrong foot. But i think she is going to work out great, she is a hard worker & we seem to get along very well now.