employment with merloni

[admin]

Re: employment with merloni

are you an employed engineer mattman 100? If so, this thread is not about an employed engineer. You’ll have to read all of it to be up to speed.

Kevin

[lotusray]

Re: employment with merloni

hi i worked f0r gda (hotpoint)
and left 4 various reasons
went back 2 work for merloni i lasted 6 months they expect miracle whilst u r working on total crapp personal opinion of course
but i wouldnt go back to them for twice the money
my supervisor was a total pratt didnt know the job at all but expecteed miracles
dont go there unless u really need 2
can i mention names???????????????????

[APG]

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Ha Ha Ha

Can anyone tell me whilst under this topic heading, where the WEEE Directive comes into place, and because of the WEEE Directive does it mean certain manufacturers will have to put appliance prices up so money goes into the pot for the machines end of life fund to be recycled.

Sorry, had to laugh.

[kwatt]

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Ray,

Please don’t mention names, it gets personal then and that’s not cricket. 😉

However I know the feeling since I’ve seen many a “manager” come and go from various manufacturers straight out of business school or university trying to tell me how to run an appliance repair business. On the odd occasion they’d come out with something sensible but it was rare.

Best area managers I’ve seen started as, yep you guessed it, engineers because they understood the majority of the hassles.

As for WEEE, we’ll have to wait and see basically.

K.

[lordy]

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Hi
Merloni were fantastic employers. I worked for them for 9 years-I won holidays every year_I made a bonus every year that took my salary to £35,000 believe it or not. They never questioned use of the van or the mobile phone-it was the best job going. Then in came Hotpoint-though Merloni bought them, all the Hotpoint morons(sorry managers)were put in charge and all they know how to do is beat you with a big stick day in day out.They charge you private mileage-you can’t use your phone,their laptop is the slowest crappest bit of kit around. In most areas customers are waiting anything up to 6 weeks to get an engineer out-then the engineers are that p****d off they don’t bother repairing and just order parts-there is no incentive at all to complete calls first visit so everybody just keeps going back and ordering more parts. Managers follow you around-even camcording some engineers between jobs-I could go on and on but let me just say DO NOT GO TO WORK FOR MERLONI-YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!!!! I am out of there now and the stress levels are right down!!

[zem]

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i worked for hotpoint from1989 up to two years ago and left when merloni came onto the scene. i knew then it was on a slippery slope. started on 8 calls a day by the time i left i was on at least 10 calls a day. still know a lot of their fse,s and it aint a fun time.

[simonb]

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i worked as employed for merloni it was my first job after re-training in this field had done other types of work before now, sent my c.v off to all manufacturers for employment with no experience, had very little training just college course, had an interview with area manager, who asked me have i ever fixed a washing machine of course i said yes so he offered me the job, i thought i was going to get some form of training, then i discovered i was being sent out with an engineer for 2 weeks only!!!!!!!!!!, yes 2 weeks!!!!!!! after this time i was sent on the road with toolbox in hand with 2 jobs per day, oh you might say not to bad really, then 2 weeks later guess what? 10 jobs on laptop, i think if i remember i nearly had a panic attack, when i phoned area manager he said and i quote every one else has to do it

at the time before takeover from hotpoint the area manager had to deal with a vast area and had a lot of engineers to contend with, probably to much on there plate.

i was not that surprised to read about the engineer who hanged himself, they treat there employees and that goes for self-employed engineers as well like sh**t, my perception was that if an engineer could cut corners and do as many jobs as humanly possible ie 15 jobs per day or more they would turn a blind eye to anything they got up to, plus big rewards, only if the engineer had a good patch as i know of some that covered 30-50 mile radius and made no money only got grief in the ear.

[Martin]

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This Merloni thread is far better reading than any Agatha Christie novel :lol2:

Enslavery, corruption, extortion, deception, death and debauchery and we’re only on Chapter 2 :rotfl:

Martin

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