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Re: Goatboy is here to please you!
gegsy wrote:Whats that supposed to mean 😯
Wasn’t pointing the finger at you, but if the cap fits!!!
What I want to know is, are those teeth his? Incidentally, Goat Curry is quite a delicacy in certain parts of Birmingham. Yuk!
Alex
Re: Goatboy is here to please you!
gegsy wrote:We have loads of sheep here, but no goats that look like that 😆
GregCould be a cross breed, the Father maybe someone you know.
Perhaps we had better no go any further on that one.
Alex
Re: Goatboy is here to please you!
If it was “Sheep boy is here to please you”, might make sense to some.
Leisure centre springs to mind, not saying what nationality mind you, or should that be look you?
Alex
kwatt wrote:Did anyone pick up on the little gem contained within the article on CDSL/repaircare.net earlier… look for the work “Fagor”. 😕
K.Yes I picked up on that one as well.
I had an interesting phone call nearly 12 months ago from a certain person who was very high up in a service organisation, asking the right questions. Was looking to know who was doing them at the time, was the product any good, and would I like to include the work as part of an existing agency I held.
As it transpired, he asked the right person at the right time as it was around the time I was terminating with AIS. Nothing came of it, but at that point my suspicions were confirmed that Fagor were looking around.
Strangely enough, Fagor were mentioned again earlier this week in another conversation with another representative of a different national repair network. Wasn’t able to draw him into anything, but needless to say the vibes were there.
Sorry if this looks a bit veiled, but it shouldn’t take much to put 2 & 2 together. But may I suggest we keep further speculations to yourselves for the time being. We will know officially in the fullness of time I’m sure.
Alex
Re: New connect website
The add on spanner is hideous. Looks like a chocolate spanner you would get at Christmas. As well as that, he is very well dressed to be an appliance engineer.
With that pose, we need to name the “repairer” in the picture, Washing Machine Repair Man. Monty Python Fans will know what I mean.
Alex
Re: Whats the most annoying thing customers do?
Today’s classic:-
“We are 200 yards from the Church”, but she neglected to say that the Church was in the centre of the village, and on a crossroads. Also that the 200 yards was as the crow flies, and then a road junction where you turn left and then right down a little lane.
Another famous one, back in the mid 80’s She asked the receptionist where we were coming from? Proceeded to give very precise directions from the town we are based right to her village. Starting with which supermarkets we had to pass getting out of town. Telling us which motorway junctions to join and leave, the A roads and B roads, all the landmarks along the main roads, what towns and villages to go through, practically every pub & garage, and then said, “When you get into the village, you will need to ask someone as I’m no good at directions” ?????
Transpired whe was the cottage with the red B.T. telephone box in the front garden, it was before mobiles, and I was in that bloody phone box asking her where do I find her; she then knocked on her front room window & waved whilst I was on the phone. I can still remember her name & address 20 odd years later.
Silly Moo.
Re: beat the speed cameras
Yes, as good as any. Tends to go off when you pass a line of shops as they pick up the auto door sensors. You soon get used to that though.
One of my engineers was Gatsoed in the week, wide road leading to an industrial estate, not residential, 30 mph limit, he was dead on 40 and was caught by a mobile camera.
Becoming an occupational hazard.
Alex
Re: Whats the most annoying thing customers do?
Goatboy wrote:I Especially getting scoldng hot brews when your leaving, and having to move your tool box 5 times so they can make the brew.
And why do women insist on giving you a mobile number, they never turn on?
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You leave the brew to cool down so it is pallatable, and she suddenly grabs the cup, says “Oh I bet that is cold by now”, then zaps it for 2 mins in the microwave.
Or go go around all day and don’t get offered anything, then when you get to a filthy pig-hole they offer you a coffee.
They give a mobile number and ask you to phone 20 mins before, and it turned off; or ask you to phone the home number 20 mins before. If they are there to answer the phone, they’re there to answer the door.
Why do they decide they must blitz the back of the machine with every conceivable chemical just as you get it out, and you want to access the back.
Why is it when you open the cupboard door under the sink to access the drain hose, being too short; there are 47 bottles of different makes of chemical that all do the same job. Time to sell her some “Bar-Keepers friend” I think.
I could go on all day.
Just don’t mention the Royal Family, Caravans, Pensioners who must go to Sainsburys or the Barbers on a Saturday a.m. Rover drivers, School Run, and Adverts in the middle of the Grand Prix coverage.
Alex
Re: Look at what your missing
Problem with Bristol is there are loads of “one-man-bands” who have too much work anyway. The size of repairers that should be available for such a city are undersubscribed.
Service Force found this when the previous repairers for the BS codes had to be terminated, they simply could not find any suitable replacement. Despite the size and logistics, there were no contenders. Those that did quailfy by having the capabilities & skills were too busy to think about it, due being overworked as there is a lack of repair companies in the area.
Ask any work provider from the Avon Gorge area, I’m sure they will concur, there happens to be a dearth of quaility repairers that want more work.
Shame really, and such a situation may evolve into other parts of the land.
Alex
Re: beat the speed cameras
This is for those who travel the M4 between Junctions 18 & 14, Bath to Hungerford. As mentioned in the media today.
I can see it coming between Stoke on Trent & Preston on the M6 soon as well. The blue posts are there for “specs” cameras.
Take a look at the link below.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050412/140/fg5gy.html
Alex
Re: New connect website
Well there’s a coincidence!! I thought I’d just pop on here and mention it, and someone else had the same idea.
I’m being told in the spares office that parts-wise, it is better. But the colours!! I thought I was booking an Easy-Jet flight. They could tone it down a bit.
Alex
Re: Avatars
If you pop into your account via profiles and make the simplest of change, the avatar will vanish into oblivion. You only need to change your signature or e-mail address and the avatar will disappear.
Anytime you need to make an alteration;
1 Find one of your own posts.
2 Go into profiles off the header bar of your posting.
3 Go into profiles from within the new window.
4 Make your changes, and submit as at bottom of page. All done..
Alex
Re: Quiet PC’s
eastlmark wrote:I dunno, we have all this technology available at our fingertips …….. Bring back telex machines and mechanicle typwriters. 😆
With a spell check.
Re: Whats the most annoying thing customers do?
alexa wrote:You guys seem to get a lot of work from work providers and insurers.
If the first job you go to is a standalone refridgerator that easily pulls out to do a repair and then you go to a second seperate job with a built in refridgerator that requires removal of a door and from a plinth (ie cupboard with base and kick plate), to do the same repair, do you get extra money from the manufacturer, work provider or insurer for the second job for the extra time to remove and reinstall the built in refigerator, .Do we heck.
Manufacturers charge on wholesale price nearly 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} more on a built in machine. It is to the same specifiaction as a stand alone, yet has an unfinished effect as it will be hidden. i.e. Refrigeration with no lid or metal sides, D/Washer with a primed door, W/Machines the same and a tin lid. Yet despite this, we get the same money as freestanding.
MFI perhaps offer more than most, as all of theirs are built in. In the early days of the run of the mill manufacturers, it wasn’t too bad as most were stand alone, nowadays there are more & more built in.
Regards chargeable, we charge an extra £10 if we have to get it out.
Get this, one manufacturer charges £35 delivery to our premises of any new product we may wish to sell. The same manufacturer pays out on average less than £30 to the repair agent to send a fully qualified, experienced technician to actually carry out a repair. Therefore, a Luton van driver, that will be £35 please to drop off a box at a business premises on the day that suits them. When it goes wrong, we will get a lot less to send a CORGI registered tech 6 months later when the ffd has failed. An engineer who drove miles for a one off, had to fit in with customers demands, do all the safety tests, diagnose & repair fill out loads of paperwork, be a counsellor, and hope it doesn’t go wrong in 60 days, as he will be back on a recall.
There’s no justice in this world.
Alex
