In 2015 I started working for a company who manufactured double glazing units, and delivered them to their customers – the window installers.
I was on the first week of working for this company who headhunted me from a high paying job previously and I had a solid agreement with the owner (who was in the final stages of selling the company for over £70 million to a large international company) that in 2 years I would be running their UK distribution network.
On the Friday of the first week on the job I get a call from a customer stating that one of our vehicles had been involved in an accident and the truck is crashed on a roundabout. As we have the trackers on the trucks I pulled up the info on the screen and started to manage the issue. Surely enough the tracker showed the truck on the round about.
I called the driver and a member of the public answered saying the driver has had a heart attack at the wheel, crashed into the roundabout at about 45mph and is on his way to hospital.
After all the immediate concerns were dealt with I called the director of the company to inform him incase the police were in touch.
His response to my call was as follows…
'' HOW MUCH DAMAGE TO THE TRUCK, AND IS THE GLASS OKAY. I DON'T WANT TO LOSE ANY MONEY, I'LL HAVE TO PAY OVERTIME IF WE NEED TO REMAKE THE UNITS''
He had no concern for the driver, anyone else that may have been injured or anything, just how much this is going to cost him!?!?
This person literally that week had the cheque for £70 million clear in his bank.
Safe to say that day I learnt that everyone is replaceable, and the company had deep issues that I did not want to be part of, in the Monday I handed in my notice.
TLDR – employee crashed a truck due to heart attack, multimillionare owners only concern was how much damage had happened to the truck. I left.