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Was asked by a serviced office company if we repaired dishwashers, after a few back and forward emails (why don’t they just ring?), they asked me to do the repairs.. oh and before I do can I supply the following information:
Employers Liability
Public Liability
H & S Policy
References
Certificate of competency (WTF?)
Method Statement (again, WTF?)
Risk assessment
Plus all my bank details.
All for a probable one of sub £100 repair.
What the hell is wrong with these people?Re: Red tape gone mad!
kwatt wrote:I know what I’d tell them to do with the job. 😉
K.
I did, but very politely… never burn bridges unless I have to 😉Re: Red tape gone mad!
I did, but very politely… never burn bridges unless I have to 😉
I just pour a couple of gallons of aviation fuel over it.
Bryan
Re: Red tape gone mad!
On a similar vein, one customer today, after inviting me in, his first question was, “Oh, can I just check, do you have public liability insurance?” I am not sure whether I should be worried by that. Maybe it was just his way of trying to make sure I took care not to damage anything, perhaps as he has had a bad experience in the past.
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“There you go all fixed”
“Oh good……. what you want paying? …. what now?”
Cue three months later seven or eight emails phone calls invoice re submissions
you start to ask how desperate you are for work to play such sill games.wilf
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Yes , I have been asked for those details too for some company who’s name I don’t recall.
Declined job anyway.
I now only work for Joe public, no business’s , no corporations .
Am very choosy with landlords as well, get a deposit up front .
Estate agents are the worse, so told them where to go too -(politely)
Red tape, I can’t be doin’ with it anymore.
CliveRe: Red tape gone mad!
We have had this several times, only last week a local company brought a Numatic Henry for repair to our premises. We accepted in, traced the fault and then phoned the company with an estimate, they wanted a email address to they said to said over order. What followed was a four page questionaire including a full Risk Assesment, which bearing in mind this work was being done on our premises, if we had had any insurance claims in the last three years, in Fact it would have taken a considerable period of time to complete this all for a low cost repair.
The upshot was that we told them to come and collect it as we were not prepared to complete their forms. its Red Tape, Imagine if having served these forms on us that we then served the same on them. Nothing would ever get done !
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Things would get done but at an increased price for everyone in the equation. Who pays for that, Joe public.
Mad world.Re: Red tape gone mad!
As in this case nothing got done and they still have been unable to get the product repaired aa no small business would be able to meet their criteria.
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