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THREE people have been sacked from an Oldham William Hill branch after feeding a vulnerable customer a dog-food pie while others barked at him.
This disturbing act, carried out at the Huddersfield Road branch in Oldham, came to light over the weekend.
The victim who is a regular customer in the shop is well-known for placing very small bets at around 5p and often asks staff for food because he cannot afford any.
On this occasion staff obliged and the now former manager of the branch came up with the plan to mix Pedigree Chum in a meat and potato pie, and serve it to him on a plate with dog biscuits on the side.
Other customers were all in on the joke and shockingly barked at the man while he ate it and the manager later joked on the phone to a friend that he would soon have a “shiny coat”.
It is believed the following day she humiliated him again but this time she stirred dog food into an Uncle Ben’s snack pot before giving it to him.
Witnesses contacted the company to report the incident and an investigation was launched before CCTV footage which showed them discussing their plan was found.
It is believed that the manager was sacked in a disciplinary hearing for feeding dog food to the customer, while the more junior members of staff were dismissed for not reporting her.
A spokesman for William Hill said: “We were wholly disappointed and appalled by the incident.
“Appropriate action was taken with those involved and the case was reported to the police.”
This disturbing act, carried out at the Huddersfield Road branch in Oldham, came to light over the weekend.
The victim who is a regular customer in the shop is well-known for placing very small bets at around 5p and often asks staff for food because he cannot afford any.
On this occasion staff obliged and the now former manager of the branch came up with the plan to mix Pedigree Chum in a meat and potato pie, and serve it to him on a plate with dog biscuits on the side.
Other customers were all in on the joke and shockingly barked at the man while he ate it and the manager later joked on the phone to a friend that he would soon have a “shiny coat”.
It is believed the following day she humiliated him again but this time she stirred dog food into an Uncle Ben’s snack pot before giving it to him.
Witnesses contacted the company to report the incident and an investigation was launched before CCTV footage which showed them discussing their plan was found.
It is believed that the manager was sacked in a disciplinary hearing for feeding dog food to the customer, while the more junior members of staff were dismissed for not reporting her.
A spokesman for William Hill said: “We were wholly disappointed and appalled by the incident.
“Appropriate action was taken with those involved and the case was reported to the police.”
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Exploiting the vulnerable is the new national pastime -- girls in care for grooming gangs; pished-up tourists in Magaluf nightclubs; and this.
Isn't most people you see in betting shops every day 'vulnerable'?
Poor chap.
He should have realised something was wrong, when he started chasing the hare every time a greyhound race went off.
He should have realised something was wrong, when he started chasing the hare every time a greyhound race went off.
I used to work with a manager who hated people chewing pens. So to put them off he started cleaning his ear wax out with the end of them, then leave them on the counter.
Funny thing was that it was the staff who did the chewing, so he left them on our side of the counter. There was one girl who chewed them so much she left the end squashed flat. His tactic worked though, she was soon cured of the habit, after chewing a couple of his special pens.
Funny thing was that it was the staff who did the chewing, so he left them on our side of the counter. There was one girl who chewed them so much she left the end squashed flat. His tactic worked though, she was soon cured of the habit, after chewing a couple of his special pens.
william hill taking action over the abuse of the vuerable 
you could not make it up
you could not make it up
a despicable act,though no worse than encouraging vulnerable members of society to gamble every penny they can lay their hands on in highly addictive FOBTs.i laugh anytime i hear any bookmaking firm attempting to take a moral stance because we all know they will do anything they can get away with.
Witnesses contacted the company to report the incident
Proper people. As for those who find it funny, what goes around...
Proper people. As for those who find it funny, what goes around...
Stewarty is very angry that he has missed all the gags (nap)
I doubt very much if the three staff who were sacked are laughing now. I hope their mortgages depended on their wages.
Some good tent deals in Argos sale..
Some good tent deals in Argos sale..
Disgusting and cowardly,they are worthless toilet bowl stains and I just hope they don't find jobs in residences for the elderly where all sorts of characters appear to get through the vetting procedure, if such procedures exist.
It will serve them right if he **** his leg up by their front window.
Better than a Tesco pie at least they knew what was in it
yes, there was dog food in it,
but do you know what goes in dog food
but do you know what goes in dog food
I heard the manager is planning to buy a new Rover with the pay off.
being funny requires a certain intelligence, I'm sure all those who are that way know this. It seems everyone else knows it too - but the not-funny people on here, clearly have no idea at all that they do not posess that intelligence. Which is quite funny.
as for 'the staff', they've merely imbued the morality of they're employer
Anyone who think Hills care about their customers are barking up the wrong tree.
A big percentage of bookies staff think their customers are s **** imo
I care
If they did that to me i'd p1ss on the coffee machine and sh1t on the fobt
If they did that to me i'd p1ss on the coffee machine and sh1t on the fobt
How funny it must have been for the staff ,you pay peanuts you get monkeys ,an insight into the brains of your standard shop employee ...
Seriously though,he's prob some poor old bloke who goes in for a warm in wintertime or wants a bit of company.
And they have tried to make themselves look big by doing this filthy act to the poor bloke. Sad tw@ts
And they have tried to make themselves look big by doing this filthy act to the poor bloke. Sad tw@ts
That some of the customers were in on the "joke" is not encouraging.
One hopes the victim was compensated with more than a free go on a FOBT.
One hopes the victim was compensated with more than a free go on a FOBT.
Amazing what passes for humour these days. Good riddance to the lot of them.
Has it made the national press? William Hill deserve every bit of bad publicity that might come their way.
Have they sought out the customer and done anything in terms of compensation? Perhaps Ivan-Duke can cook him a meal for the next 365 days?
Has it made the national press? William Hill deserve every bit of bad publicity that might come their way.
Have they sought out the customer and done anything in terms of compensation? Perhaps Ivan-Duke can cook him a meal for the next 365 days?
I had much the same thoughts as Greg_Gory
Some poor sod like that is probably the only type they can bully, which says a lot about them. If he'd been a relative of mine I'd have gone and kicked their c&&ts in for being such a-holes.
Some poor sod like that is probably the only type they can bully, which says a lot about them. If he'd been a relative of mine I'd have gone and kicked their c&&ts in for being such a-holes.
just shows how thick they were for not thinking about cctv where they work
Seems like a typical case of someone not happy in their job, which is understandable for bookies' staff, so much in the same way as some bus drivers seem to close doors and pull away when they see passengers running for the bus as if it's the only sense of power and enjoyment they get form their job, these bookie staff seemed to think if they could belittle someone else then they could somehow feel a bit better about themselves.
Obviously I don't know how much of an active part any junior members will have played and maybe the CCTV might answer that, but if they were some spotty faced kid young enough to be the manager's son or straight from college young girl who had a choice of bookies counter or Tesco till, then they might not have thought reporting a more senior member of staff was the percentage call here.
Obviously I don't know how much of an active part any junior members will have played and maybe the CCTV might answer that, but if they were some spotty faced kid young enough to be the manager's son or straight from college young girl who had a choice of bookies counter or Tesco till, then they might not have thought reporting a more senior member of staff was the percentage call here.
if i was the victim of this i would be plotting my revenge.........if i saw them in a new job i would be telling their employers.......i would do plenty more.............getting the other staff in on the choke was cruel. why do such a thing?
should be plotting his revenge by contacting a good lawyer ...
Yup go for the compo.
All down to the manager and the junior staff bollokless to stand up to her probably. Sue the bastards.
All down to the manager and the junior staff bollokless to stand up to her probably. Sue the bastards.
Disgusting, and not the first time this has happened. Sure I read in the papers that it also occurred at a betting shop in Barking.
the staff should be ashamed. Hounding a poor man like that
there sure are!
Seriourly though i hope the staff get whats coming to them and the guy gets a huge payout.
Seriourly though i hope the staff get whats coming to them and the guy gets a huge payout.
Ive just read the thread title but sounds like a good humoured prank to me
Ar**holes deserve the sack nothing funny about that maybe someone will report them to the welfare when they go to pick up their benefits so that will be stopped as well so they can know what its like to be vulnerable.
6-month ineligibilty for benefits if you get sacked or leave job voluntarily. They'll be hungry enough for Dogmeat pies themselves after a month or two. Which would be richly ironic were it to happen.
jesus you lot need a humour bypass
Im still laughing at the thought of someone being given and eating a dogmeat pie
Im still laughing at the thought of someone being given and eating a dogmeat pie
Top be fair a large part of the population have been unknowingly eating horsemeat pies for years and years . And were the big supermarkets prosecuted for selling them ? Were they Fook.
Too right Sir Epicure
tescos have been playing these large scale pranks for years
in fact they were taken to court recently after a woman from Bristol actualy found meat in a steak pie
tescos have been playing these large scale pranks for years
in fact they were taken to court recently after a woman from Bristol actualy found meat in a steak pie
well 'hello', you are incredibly detached from the nature of human experience - if thats cos no ones been nasty to you in your whole life I say 'bless you' : thats how everyones life should be .
On the other - and far more likely - hand, you have experienced it and you now fail to empathize with others so treated, on the basis that 'no-one was there for me when it happened, so fck 'em'
Or he's a sociopath with no feeling or empathy for the vulnerable who are there in his mind for his amusement.
No munter , i just have a black sense of humour
i cant help but find it funny , as soon as i read the thread title i started laughing
wouldn't say i was detached in any way because i have a sense of humour
i cant help but find it funny , as soon as i read the thread title i started laughing
wouldn't say i was detached in any way because i have a sense of humour
On the plus side for the guy, he has since won at Crufts
it iis funny, you're right - but i skip right over that part to the human-failure part of the story; the fact of so-called adults being so unevolved, so immature, as to still find bullying people 'worth doing'. So much more interesting, as the explanation of the 'why' is not easy to see.
Jul 7, 2014 -- 11:39PM, darkie returns wrote:
On the plus side for the guy, he has since won at Crufts
ha ha - you can have no idea how simple that makes you seem
well maybe because you read the story you became involved with one of the characters
i just read the title
Were it a story about people mistreating some vulnerable member of society then anger would overtake any other emotion , but until i read the story i can only assume all concerned were adults of able body and mind
i just read the title
Were it a story about people mistreating some vulnerable member of society then anger would overtake any other emotion , but until i read the story i can only assume all concerned were adults of able body and mind
How exactly is it funny? Would it be more or less funny if it was dog shiit they tricked him into eating? How about if they said, "Hey Fred, we've just installed showers round the back. Help yourself". Would you have chortled merrily if he wandered wide eyed and innocently into the gas chamber? Where does funny end and sick begin? Funny brings down those at the top a peg or two or laughs at our own idiosyncracies. In what way is taking advantage of the weak and their trust funny?
Now having read the actual story i can see the sickness in the folk who done this and given the opportunity i would take a long heavy object and .......
And although im appreciative of the ten minutes of happiness and laughter the title gave after reading the thread im saddened vulnerable people are preyed upon by what i can only describe as the dregs of society , evil and immature people who life will one day catch up with in a big way
And although im appreciative of the ten minutes of happiness and laughter the title gave after reading the thread im saddened vulnerable people are preyed upon by what i can only describe as the dregs of society , evil and immature people who life will one day catch up with in a big way
THREE people have been sacked from an Oldham William Hill branch after feeding a vulnerable customer a dog-food pie while others barked at him.
This disturbing act, carried out at the Huddersfield Road branch in Oldham, came to light over the weekend.
The victim who is a regular customer in the shop is well-known for placing very small bets at around 5p and often asks staff for food because he cannot afford any.
The first three paragraphs give a pretty good indication we weren't dealing with a hedge fund manager.
This disturbing act, carried out at the Huddersfield Road branch in Oldham, came to light over the weekend.
The victim who is a regular customer in the shop is well-known for placing very small bets at around 5p and often asks staff for food because he cannot afford any.
The first three paragraphs give a pretty good indication we weren't dealing with a hedge fund manager.
you must be a journalist eternal optimist , given that you only see what you want to and write nonsense aswell
if you look at what i said , there is a point where i have only read the title , then i read the thread
Apologies hello. I hate the vulnerable being mistreated be they fellow human beings or animals. If we can't help out with a little individual kindness then the least we can do is not go out of our way to taunt or abuse peple we come into contact with. These "people" are the dregs.
It saddnes me more because I was brought up near there and most people were rough and ready but decent sorts.
exactly eternaloptimist
Something as small as saying hello can change the way a person feels , vulnerability isn't always a visible thing and im always amazed how little people understand or how little they can tolerate anything that doesn't fit into their perfect world
all you can do is your little bit to help educate , and just help those who need it with a little kindness
Something as small as saying hello can change the way a person feels , vulnerability isn't always a visible thing and im always amazed how little people understand or how little they can tolerate anything that doesn't fit into their perfect world
all you can do is your little bit to help educate , and just help those who need it with a little kindness
That's the point hello. Who knows? The guy may have prioritised his eating habits in order to socialise in this way with people he may have come to see as friends in some way. For all they knew he had nothing and/or nobody to go home to but an empty home and four walls. Would it really have been such an imposition on their day to spend a couple of minutes passing the time and if he was struggling bring him a little something in to show that the world doesn't have to be a mean and nasty place all the time.
Bookies staff are sacked after man fed dog-food pie
Well that's the title. And I fail to see any humour in it at all. As to finding it so hilarious it made someone laugh fon10 mins. - the mind boggles at such moronic lunacy
Well that's the title. And I fail to see any humour in it at all. As to finding it so hilarious it made someone laugh fon10 mins. - the mind boggles at such moronic lunacy
It just reinforces the view I came to a long time ago, that a lot of people in this world are just pieces of crap. And it’s something that transcends race and national boundaries.
I heard a better one from a mate who knew someone who worked as a cashier for his local bookie....
The cashier in question had put a small wager on the next race of the day and was in the middle of watching it when an old boy called Brian came up and asked for an apple juice (fridge was behind counter). The cashier said "no problem Brian, I'll be with you in a minute, I'm just watching this race." 30 secs later Brain shouts over "can I have that apple juice now?" to which the cashier again replies "I'll be with you in a minute."
Anyway the horse he'd back get's chinned on the line and 3 secs later Brian asks for the apple juice again. So cashier tells him that they're out of apple juice, but he'll get one from the back. He goes out back and is gone for a good 3-4 mins. The manager wonders what's taking so long so goes out to backroom to find cashier rubbing the apple juice carton around his **** and around his sweaty balls... Cashier goes back into shop and says "there you go Brian, one nice apple juice for you." Brian sits down, puts the straw in and gleefully sips away... Every 30 secs cashier shouts out "how's that apple juice Brian?" to which Brian says "lovely" while manager watches on, trying not to fetch up his lunch!
The cashier in question had put a small wager on the next race of the day and was in the middle of watching it when an old boy called Brian came up and asked for an apple juice (fridge was behind counter). The cashier said "no problem Brian, I'll be with you in a minute, I'm just watching this race." 30 secs later Brain shouts over "can I have that apple juice now?" to which the cashier again replies "I'll be with you in a minute."
Anyway the horse he'd back get's chinned on the line and 3 secs later Brian asks for the apple juice again. So cashier tells him that they're out of apple juice, but he'll get one from the back. He goes out back and is gone for a good 3-4 mins. The manager wonders what's taking so long so goes out to backroom to find cashier rubbing the apple juice carton around his **** and around his sweaty balls... Cashier goes back into shop and says "there you go Brian, one nice apple juice for you." Brian sits down, puts the straw in and gleefully sips away... Every 30 secs cashier shouts out "how's that apple juice Brian?" to which Brian says "lovely" while manager watches on, trying not to fetch up his lunch!
I'm taking notes
never ask for food,apple juice at a bookie
never ask for food,apple juice at a bookie
Jimmy Five Bellies put cat poo in a pie and Gazza ate it, so it could of been worse.
It is a good policy not to buy fast food food from anyone on minimum wage.
It is a good policy not to buy fast food food from anyone on minimum wage.
never complain about food,an ask for a new burger or meal
im suprised united(dog)biscuits hasnt been on here labelling the guy an arber and thus justifying the actions of his fellow hills staff.
Surprise, surprise a much bigger headline story in today's Post of a William Hill punter winning £95,000 from a 2p EW Goliath.
Hills spokesman Jon Ivan-Duke said 'He came so close to landing a million, but it's brilliant that a punter staking such a small amount can win a life-changing sum in just three hours of racing.'
Presumably, he was unavailable for comment on the other story.
Hills spokesman Jon Ivan-Duke said 'He came so close to landing a million, but it's brilliant that a punter staking such a small amount can win a life-changing sum in just three hours of racing.'
Presumably, he was unavailable for comment on the other story.
Facts
08 Jul 14 02:10
Bookies staff are sacked after man fed dog-food pie
Well that's the title. And I fail to see any humour in it at all. As to finding it so hilarious it made someone laugh fon10 mins. - the mind boggles at such moronic lunacy
Yes facts i understand your mind boggles at most things at your age , and its pretty obvious you and humour are no great friends
Please just try understand not everyone is like you mate , and try live and let live , be lucky
08 Jul 14 02:10
Bookies staff are sacked after man fed dog-food pie
Well that's the title. And I fail to see any humour in it at all. As to finding it so hilarious it made someone laugh fon10 mins. - the mind boggles at such moronic lunacy
Yes facts i understand your mind boggles at most things at your age , and its pretty obvious you and humour are no great friends
Please just try understand not everyone is like you mate , and try live and let live , be lucky
F UK......that's some sense of humour....feeding a hungry desperate person dog food just to take the pss out of them....
if they'd done it to one of their peers then I'd laugh as well , but the poor sod was far from that.
lock the feckers up and make them eat dog food every day for a month !
indeed
Wish i had a pic of him to keep the wee one away from the fire
Wish i had a pic of him to keep the wee one away from the fire
hello :-)
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indeed
Wish i had a pic of him to keep the wee one away from the fire bet he even laughs at that or maybe not oh dear 
hello :-) 08 Jul 14 23:16 Joined: 09 Sep 09 | Topic/replies: 10,892 | Blogger: hello :-)'s blog
indeed
Wish i had a pic of him to keep the wee one away from the fire
bet he even laughs at that or maybe not oh dear
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im suprised united(dog)biscuits hasnt been on here labelling the guy an arber and thus justifying the actions of his fellow hills staff.
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im suprised united(dog)biscuits hasnt been on here labelling the guy an arber and thus justifying the actions of his fellow hills staff.
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