- This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 21 years ago by
.
-
Posts
-
I nearly poosted this and managed to stop myself…
angry kwatt wrote:I think I’m going to go into the office on Monday and announce that everyone is getting a pay cut of between 5 and 12.5{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} due to economic circumstances.
Well, fuel is going up, fags and booze are a given really. I mean if you drive, drink and smoke you’re pretty much supporting the welfare state from a £13K salary, but that aside the recent cuts in rates by certain work providers may well demand an equal cut in pay to staff. I wonder how many will still be there after Easter?
It is, to me, scandalous that in light of increasing costs placed upon employers as a whole within this industry (I do mean everyone) that cuts in cost have to go this far. To push businesses to breaking point and, as we have seen oh so often, beyond it from a financial viewpoint and yet to expect world class service in a market economy within the UK that cannot support such service levels for the rewards on offer. Yet we all sit back, mump a bit and accept it.
So we have the ~£37 landed in the UK dishwasher (guess what one ;)) and we are expected to compete with the producing country’s labour rate for service. Why? Whilst it may well be cheap to get here fully assembled manufacturers have been shafting us and cutomers on spares for years, but more to the point they’ve been shafting the insurance companies for years too, indirectly the customers yet again. Where will this end?
Well, I’ll sum it up for them all wihtout a detailed analysis of the how, why, where and when’s quite quickly.
There will be no repairers left in not so many years. How long have you got, less time than you think you have, believe me. It’s oh so easy to prove, just run the numbers it’s not exactly hard if you’ve a brain in your head and a modicum of common sense, the repairers will not survive long term based on the current replacement cycles and repair levels. What are you gonna do when they disappear?
We already have seen the demise of the little market town repair/spares/sales shops, a true dying breed. We’re next if some have their way and cutting rates only hastens that doomsday scenario.
So ask youself this, do you want repairs or to go to swapouts, because that ‘s where you’re headed right about now.
K.
I am very, very fucking angry over all this shite and some poor fucker is gonna pay.
K.
Re: Pay Cut!
The easy answer is not to work for those who “cut your pay”, whilst this means cutting your own staff to downsize to those who do PAY, it will ensure you do survive, now.
I now only work for CDSL, D&G, CDA, MFI all extremely good and sound Networks. The only exception is Maple with very low volume and totally crap appliances but at £46.00 per call I can live with that..
Why get angry……get out instead, if you stay in this situation it can only get worse.
The only way industry rates will rise is if we take control of our own work. Whilst the ethos of grab everything going, no matter what the rewards, as it keeps your engineers busy, is wrong. All of you who do it add to the problem and the more entrenched you get the further away the solution lies.
KevinRe: Pay Cut!
Yep you are correct as per the other thread Kevin and much of what you say is echoed by Alex as well.
AIS is the only one I have left paying such low rates, in fact I think it’s the only one under £40 barring DAG now. And it’s right, why shoud we under value ourselves and our staff as well as the experience that we have? How much choice is there for the likes of AIS who absolutely must have CORGI registered agents?
I have already said that, should push come to shove and I do not retain the rate I had then I will either refuse that work from AIS or terminate, it’s their call as I’m not having that.
I have already passed work over, don’t want it and don’t need it. If Walter want to go lose money then that’s up to him frankly. I let him have the Indesit work, turns out that was a good call in the end, as the rate was too low and the support crap. I passed over BG work to Mike the New Zealander in Ayr, another good call as it almost sunk him.
I will continue to work for the others, same as you bar CDSL and I have my installation stuff to boot that pays a lot more again and do a better job with that work, hopefully grow it a bit here and there.
I do not need or want contracts that cost me money and I do not ever wish to be in a situation where the tail is wagging the dog.
K.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.