In message , at 13:51:29 on Sun, 24 Jul
2011, tim.... remarked:
Asking your employer (rather than the vendor) to be flexible in
this instance is unreasonable IMHO

Yes, we already know you are the employer from hell.

No you don't, because I am not an employer :-)

But even if I was, I am the sort of person who would be reasonable as
possible about such issues, but I still wouldn't consider the insistence on
agreeing a flexible completion date as a valid reason for disrupting a,
months in advance, pre-planned shift system.

It's not a flexible date, but one that's firmly set at short notice.
With rentals it's even more common to have only a couple of week's
notice.

I would consider that it was the employee who had been unreasonable, not me.

Yes, we know you think that.

Yes, you do. There's more involved than just shifting a bit of
furniture.

You still don't actually need to be there.

You or a very trusted representative need to be. Some people don't have
ready access to such representatives.

But most will :

I doubt it.
--
Roland Perry