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Re: Service Power
Alex wrote:I used them as a workload filler, but not for much longer.
I got about half way through the story and was thinking, “where’s the “I’ve kicked them out” bit”! 😆
I didn’t have to read any more to surmise that you weren’t going to put up with that carry on for too long. 😉
K.
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Interesting to see the traffic regards S/Power.
The topic has now hit the Service Force web-site forum. Suspect Steve Clarke will take an active interest as it has been said he uses them in remote areas, and in times of need.
They now owe me from January, and due to the publicity, and no bloody money, they are under notice they will be on Stop as of April 1st.
The power of UKW.
Alex
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You know it’s not too often that Dave posts to these types of threads, but usually when he does it’s good and on this occasion it transpires that it’s a pearler.
Sorry I keep the poor sod busy. 😉
Sean’s next on my list to be keeping busy.
But all that aside, SP are a serious danger to the smaller agents that may well rely on them for income, that pisses me off. These guys can’t afford to lose the money quite frankly and whilst most in here accept that as a commercial risk of doing business (with Satan) many do not see it that way. On top of the Lofra thing many may well be stung twice.
Allegedly some people have been stung for more that two grand on Lofra, so this isn’t good news at all.
To me, it’s just sport now. Jibing Trubshaw etc. is just fun, but then I’ve always held with Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (although he never actually said it ;)) on this in that revenge is a dish best served cold and, as an addition made in modern folklore, a dish served very cold indeed.
But as I’ve had a wine or three (I was being cultured for a change before anyone starts with the wise-ass comments)…
The only reason that we, the independents, can’t or don’t compete with these idiots that take money off the back of our work is because we’re not feckin’ organised enough. We can do it, we can basically remove the WP’s and their charges if we so desire to do so, there’s absolutely no reason that we cannot do so.
So here’s the deal.
Do you want a revolution or not?
Do you really want to create absolute mayhem?
I’m up for it, Dave is I know and Sean is as well, they kinda (probably) have more of an insight into my psyche and where I’m going than most do.
We got rid of the baggage in December, now I have the freedom to say whatever the fook I like and upset whoever the fook I like.
But there’s a caveat or two, I can’t guarantee success entirely and I can’t guarantee fast results either, it may take a bit of time to accomplish the mission. There’s also the outside chance that we could fail. But then I tend not to be betting on losers too often, despite a short run of bad luck of late.
As good as I may be at seeing sh1t happen, I’m far from infallible. I’m only human, far from perfect. But I am game.
What I can guarantee is that if we choose to have a pop it’s probably the best shot that we’ll ever have at it. The chances of success is actually preyy good all things considered and, after all, WTF do we have to lose by trying?
So, do you all fancy taking the feckers on or not?
I’d love to, I’m fed up and constrained, have been for too long now. I want to control my own destiny and I want to gift that ability to us and those that follow us.
I want the independents back where they belong, on top, where they (we) belong. Not following, leading.
And all we have to do is get organised…
K.
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We’ve muttered about “NetworkUKW” before. If we can do it, let’s get on with it. It’s about time we took some charge of our own destiny.
Chris.
I agree Chris, it’s about time we got a grip and took hold of our own destiny.
I’ll give you three guesses as to what I’ve been doing the past few months, I like to be in front, not caught off guard. 😉
The parts are all there. It’s like Lego, all it needs is putting together in the way you want. With my warped view of the world it just so happens that the view is in our favour.
K.
I guessed b4 I got to penguins post your talking Network ( within your drunken rambling you dont actully mention it ). Keep us informed i’m very interested, one thing you need to do is tie the work providers down, none of this BER rate and user fault boll@cks.
I should think you will be welcomed by a lot of the workproviders if you can get 100 {e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} coverage, I know JTM are struggling in Leeds / Sheff. And interestingly enough NESN had a call passed back from JTM saying they had no gas cover in PE ???
(keep that to yourself everyone cause that could only have come from me )
By the way Red, White or Rose …. If its cheap red you have my respect….. anything else and you may be classed as pretentious …. whats happened to the scotch …………Re: Service Power (TWR)
No I’m not actually talking about a network and yet, I am. I know that sounds a bit of a riddle, likely is, but it’s not intended that way at all.
I’ve said this time and again.
We’ve had the NESN way, didn’t work.
We’ve had the JTM/AIS/ISDAL/Service Power/Uncle Tom way, didn’t work.
We’ve had the CDSL way, hasn’t worked. The only reasons that they are where they are is that they are organised, deliver good stats and can also handle spares distribution. Pretty much that’s it, manufacturers aren’t over the moon with them and some sure as hell don’t like all the eggs in that basket.
But what choice is there?
The only way that you’re going to succeed and, point of fact proved time and again, is by dealing direct with the manufacturer or insurer wanting the job done. End of story.
Why we even have these people is beyond me for any of the larger workloads. Well, it’s not really I know why, it’s because we’re all not feckin’ organised enough that’s why.
I don’t want to run a “network” in the classic sense at all. No, I think it’s time for a new approach, something a little different.
Oh and it was white, I’m not a fan of red due to the complimentary sore head with every bottle. 😉
K.
(I’m ignoring the Scotch comment)
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kwatt wrote:You know it’s not too often that Dave posts to these types of threads
If it involves upsetting Saddam Trubshaw I can always find the time 😆
Dave.
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We gotta keep the thread alive in the Rumour Mill though for Monday, when they all have a look 1st thing. You can be sure some people have set it up for e-mail notification, and we need to make sure we start the week as we ended the last one.
Difficult for me, as they owe me about £1400, which I don’t want to jeopardise, but if I’m going to be the loser of that, then I may as well get some sport from it. If I don’t see anything by Thursday, I shall pounce. They say payment day is a Friday, lot of good this week as it will be Good Friday, but if I open up on this, you can be sure I will point that fact out
Whilst they are owing money, we will by default be rattling the confidence of the repairers, and once they get the jitters, they will start refusing calls.
What we need are the likes of Steve Ellison @ Glen Dimplex, Steve Clarke @ Electrolux, Ken Hart Beko, a few notaries from Connect and once the jungle drums start, they will be Doomed Capt Mainwaring, Doomed! Of course those at S/Power to be kept up to speed and if their lower managers see the writing on the wall, they may desert the ship. Phil can confirm the S.Force forum is running a thread on them as well, and you can be sure there are others. Have a feeling it may turn up on the Repair Care forum as well by the end of the week.
I noticed it was busy on the list of visitors on Friday, including Joanne of NESN fame as well as Terry Jackson of S/Power.
Let the games commence.
Alex
I can pretty much guarantee you that Steve Clarke and Ken Hart have already read that thread. Just not the last bits from me or Dave late on Friday. 😉
K.
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I’ve just had a call e-mailed to me in the normal manner. I e-mailed it straight back, “no can do, you owe me money”. I also went on their site where I can accept or reject a call, and rejected due to money owed.
I hope others will start doing the same.
All good fun.
Alex
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Oh this is fun, now NESN are in on the act as well. lthough I can’t really say as I blame them as they got a kicking from SP.
K.
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