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Re: I resent Landlords trying to push me
One of the biggest mistakes self employed people make is trying to please everybody.
My advice is let them buy part from Whirlpool, and when they contact you in 14 days as they still dont have the part from them you can sort it feeling smug.
Stick to your guns, your business is run how you want it to be run, not how a client does. You have to follow that rule, your the boss, Mr Branson will not take bu88it from clients or suppliers, other than appointed advisors, the bu88iit is left to PR companies to make it look good. Virgin not matter how its jazzed up serves one purpose and that is to make money from people with money willing to pay money for a service virgin provides at a standard virgin wants, not some gobby rental person with more gob than brains, power or cash.;-)
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Re: I resent Landlords trying to push me
lee8 wrote:One of the biggest mistakes self employed people make is trying to please everybody.
I don’t see it as one of the biggest mistakes, just one of the annoying aspect of the job. I know I can’t please everybody, I only do what I can do with comfortably and sometimes I may try out a job which is out of my comfort zone in order to stretch my knowledge and experience but this is rare.
The biggest challenge for us self employed is knowing when to walk away. Most jobs I can do without issues, but there have been some jobs that when you come to price up the job and you get aggro for it over the prices. It’s a classic case of take it or leave it but when customer calls me for repair, they entered into a contract knowing full well that my call out is chargeable regardless of the outcome. Most often they back down and agreed to pay, I have always been upfront with the charges, I don’t have problems with that but when you have landlord who likes to use you for their numerous properties, I had a good relationship for the last 4 years, the bills was always paid on time, the prices and lead times were never challenged until few days ago.
I am guessing that the Landlord is tired of me and dislike my charges. What he doesn’t realise that 4 years ago, their appliances were of reasonable age and I could get the parts easily then but as time went on, those parts were becoming scarce hence ‘special orders’.
Re: I resent Landlords trying to push me
The landlord does not run his business to provide you work.
He has the stance you should adopt.
There are plenty of people who can replace you. You should act the same way, you dont provide a service for his business to profit and there are plenty of landlords needing good engineers.
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Re: I resent Landlords trying to push me
lee8 wrote:The landlord does not run his business to provide you work.
He has the stance you should adopt.
There are plenty of people who can replace you. You should act the same way, you dont provide a service for his business to profit and there are plenty of landlords needing good engineers.
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I agree but sometimes it’s hard to just have you’re business head on when you’re just trying to help someone out
Some of these you just have to put down as bad experiences and move on
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Comes with experience, like anything. The quicker you learn the better you’ll feel and the less resentment you have will improve your business.
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Re: I resent Landlords trying to push me
lee8 wrote:The landlord does not run his business to provide you work.
He has the stance you should adopt.
There are plenty of people who can replace you. You should act the same way, you dont provide a service for his business to profit and there are plenty of landlords needing good engineers.
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What are you on about? Plenty of landlords needing good engineers on the cheap and want it fixed yesterday. I am not looking for a lecture on how to run my business. I am not dependant on his business to provide me work. End of.
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I see lee8 has used his wooden spoon to maximum effect again tonight.
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Your the one moaning.;-)
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Re: I resent Landlords trying to push me
im sitting on the fence, lee is speaking sense, but it could be misinterpretted as a little condescending 😉
Twix if it makes you feel any better got a customer with a belling 932 range cooker (made by creda) whos part is on back order atm. We he has found a zanussi zce 7730 thermostat on espares that he can get this week he knows will work, I asked how do you know that will work “because it says its for a main oven thermostat”… I hope hes confident enough the phial is long enough and that his knob will point the right way 😉Re: I resent Landlords trying to push me
gandh1 wrote: I hope hes confident enough the phial is long enough and that his knob will point the right way 😉
Oooh! Matron
Re: I resent Landlords trying to push me
EFS wrote:
gandh1 wrote:
I hope hes confident enough the phial is long enough and that his knob will point the right way 😉Oooh! Matron
I tell you what, when im NOT trying to be obviously saucey, I seem to still be able to be blatent about it anyway. I just reread my last post and am now cowerinbg in the corner in ashamed embarrassment…
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