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Re: When is Service not a Service ?
To quote, simply place at the beginning of the paragraph.
Then at the end place the above but with a / between[ and the q.
I wish I was born in the 50’s, sounds like a piece of cake compared to today, it must be hard comparing the industry so long ago, I often yearn being fed Tea and biscuits whilst spending all morning replacing the drive on a Hotpoint T/Loader with a client very pleased to have you doing it.
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lee8 wrote:
I wish I was born in the 50’s, sounds like a piece of cake compared to today, it must be hard comparing the industry so long ago, I often yearn being fed Tea and biscuits whilst spending all morning replacing the drive on a Hotpoint T/Loader with a client very pleased to have you doing it.
Oh it certainly was, £960 per annum, ten calls every day, in fact if you factor in twin tubs and wringer machines we often did between 5 and 10 gearbox changes a week with no extra time allowed to do them, plus changing complete fridge units. Later on the Hotpoint 1600 was such a radically new machine that caused as many technical headaches as any modern machine.
And not a penny of bonus if they were service contract ( Owners Club ) or call code 2’s ( warranty ) calls.
Jim.
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Actually I was referring for my part to life in the world of service 1991, so this is not that far back in the scheme of things, our company was the first to have engineers issued with Micro Computers, by way of which not only all work was passed electronically to 300 engineers, but all stock was controlled, accounted for as well as Invoicing being printed at the clients site. So none of that is out the ark, lol
ps thanks for the pointers on the quote instructions Lee8
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squadman wrote:a lucky set of subsequent circumstances saw me employed by a manufacture, the training with that company was simply excellent,(
Who did you work for?
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Apologies my dateline was wrong, I meant to say the year was in fact 1986 not 1991 !
Martin I worked for C.I.A
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Really 10 calls in the fifties, I wasn’t around then but have met/spoke to plenty that where, they certainly didn’t do 10 calls a day.
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I wasn’t working for Hotpoint in the Fifties, I’m not that bloody old. 😀
Just dug out my contract. 🙂
Started work for them in May 1969, finished in August 1980.
In fact my starting salary was £810 for a 40 hour week. 😯
9 or 10 calls a day was the norm, also we had no mobile phones, no instant access to tech info via ‘tinternet etc.
We did have what in IMHO were the best technical manuals in the business, I have seen most others from that time and the Hotpoint ones were far superior to any others.
It still meant you were really ‘on your own’ most of the time so believe me it was not easy in those days, it was different but it was still damned hard work.
Young Jim. 8)
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philips had the micro computers back in 1987 i bet squadman worked for philips/whirlpool back then
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lee8 wrote:Really 10 calls in the fifties, I wasn’t around then but have met/spoke to plenty that where, they certainly didn’t do 10 calls a day.
Perhaps you were talking to Ex London area engineers. 😛
Unlike the North of the country jobs were much easier to come by in the smoke so a lot of them didn’t give a stuff.
I spent many weeks working out of the Wembley Office doing calls in the London area.
Hotpoint engineers from all over the North and Midlands used to be sent or volunteered to go and work for weeks at a time to help to clear the huge backlog of work that was endemic in the London area at the time.
it was quite good fun driving around Hyde Park corner in my big Tranny, also a time when power cuts due to industrial action was the norm, you can have fun at non working traffic lights when its not your own vehicle,……… happy days. 8)Re: When is Service not a Service ?
Ah Manuals, Personally I loved Manuals and carried boxes of the things on the van. Even in todays electronic world there’s something about opening a manual near the appliance and following a circuit or Cam Chart, Mind you I have worked with engineers who were unable to read or make any sense of these valuable items and I have often wondered why they had trouble or could not be bothered to apply their minds. Changing the original topic what I like about this forum is that we digress into subjects like previous vans, wages, call volumes, whilst we were originally discussing errant engineers.
🙂 I heard today that martin used to work for MI5 ?
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