If he is complaining about other people's images being used (i.e. photos of them being posted by you), then yes, you have every right to keep them up as long as you have thier permission. However, the subject of the photo (under Australian law) still has right over the use of their image, including permission to both allow and revoke the right to publish it. So if this guy is kicking up a stink over a photo he is in, by law you have to take it down. If he was to kcomplain to any authority (most likely Facebook), they would side with him.
His "complaint" is that his ex-girlfriend is in them.
She is - as part of a group with my friends, and he doesn't want to see it. Boo hoo. He can untag himself - He hasn't.
Whatever happened to that no-call register from a couple years back?
That is for residential numbers only. And yes, you have to re-register after 3 years. They do send you a reminder email though.
Never hurts to get your company out there to people though.
We have yellow pages ads at the moment. Talked Dad into putting the company name on the vehicles too. They're quite...distinctive, so people do notice.
But Dad is 59 this year, he's said more than once he's had enough, and would lose nothing personally by shutting the doors and walking away.
After 3.6 million miles as an interstate truck driver, and then 30+ years driving buses, I can totally understand that. He's owned the company for 28 years.
It's only that the mechanic has been working here over half his life, his secretary jumped ship from the company that she and Dad worked for when he started this one, the panelbeater can't work on cars anymore because his knees are giving out and he can't get down so low.
He's also in his mid 40's, so people would be reluctant to take him on. He has to support 5 kids.
I could always go back to where I was, or get a job with almost any other private bus company in Sydney, because they all know who I am, and they all respect my father as a good operator.
Dad just feels like he'd be shafting all of us if he were to sell or close the business, he doesn't want to invest more into it, and he has admitted that he couldn't employ a manager, because he'd never be able to leave them alone, and not interfere if he thought that they were not doing things the way he would.
We often have to give jobs away, or get other bus companies to sub-contract, because we just can't do it all. Everyone in our area seems to want buses on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
A regular job or two on Mondays and Tuesdays would be good, though currently we use those days to do maintenance on the vehicles, and I do office work, as the secertary has Parkinson's (got much worse in the last few months, and she can't leave the house), and may have to retire.
We occasionally do some jobs for schools out of area, but when we have to add in travel time from the depot to the pick up, plus Tolls, travel time back, fuel, and the driver's wages for the extra time spent running empty, the cost just gets prohibitive for the people chartering the vehicle.