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Re: MFI
I’m up to date with AIG as well, but am cautious regards MFI.
Problem is we have lost most of our contacts and allies within the group.
Alex
Re: No nice way to put it…
kwatt wrote:Not really Alex, it’s just that as usual, the law seems to side with the accused and not the victim of crime. 🙁
K.
I know the feeling. I sacked someone from the spares dept last December. Basically he was taking credit card & on-account transactions and not passing through the info or invoices etc. Meant a load of customers had parts f.o.c.
He waited until 1 week short of the 3 month appeal period & pounced with a call to tribunal. All the time he has been sat on his backside watching Jeremy Kyle with an eye on the calendar.
His defence is he did pass on the paperwork, and it was up to accounts to input it onto Sage, what happened to the invoices after he created & printed was nothing to do with him. In a nutshell, I cannot get out of it. I’ve already been the victim of the bad practice as I had to do a self declaration, now I’m a victim because I dealt with it.
All part of the reason I’m not going out much, I haven’t said too much as may be construed as subjudecy.
Can’t wait to retire.
Alex
Re: REDUNDANCY ROGUES
Phew, hell hath no fury like an engineer scorned.
Brian does sum it up pretty well from the employers side. Normally legislation is heavily on the side of staff, and when it comes to trying to run a family business, you are constrained by loads of legalities etc. You only need one engineer who is a serial moaner, or one who abstracts the michael, and he will pull the whole business down, and the poor proprieter gets the blame.
I’ve been there, many years ago, and I done a Norman Tebbit and got my bloody bike out. As an engineer I was dumped in a similar manner by my employers at the time, and with 2 little kids a mortgage & ford cortina to maintain, simply picked up the phone, spoke to Zanussi, told them who I was, and the rest is history.
We all know engineers are gold dust, as well as “pri-madonnas” Best thing any ex-engineer could have done was “hawk” his wares, and move on. Comet, B/Gas all would have considered any of these “victims” who could pick up the pieces and live their lives.
Alex
Re: Same Name Pops Up…
No matter what you do in UKW, he will still trade, and no doubt creep back in under a different guise.
Alex
Re: Changes at CDSL/Repaircare
kwatt wrote:
My best wishes to Roy, while we perhaps didn’t always agree he was always professional and a gentleman.
K.Agreed, and his up & coming replacement is cast from the same die.
Alex
Re: No nice way to put it…
From the rumour mill, posted by KW in the thread re “Redundancy Rogues”
I also have a situation where an ex-director has (allegedly) embezzled funds from the business and it’s a fair sum of money, running to tens of thousands and yet, at every turn, the justice system appears to side with the accused or, as some would see it, the guilty party.
Is there a hidden message in that that a certain bald matelot is wriggling out of it? I just have feeling that he seemed the type to set up a contigency plan.
Hope not.
AlexRe: CDA
What is the latest on these, they asked us to do one call on an ad-hoc basis, and we turned them down.
They tried to assure us all the past was historical, and we have no need to be concerned.
Alex
Re: Oh my god! thats carcinogenic!!!!! 🙁
Had a customer once who spiked the evaporator of an integrated F/Freezer I/G & released loads of R12. Naturally I charged him, and refused to leave the house until he paid.
First off denied using a knife till I pointed out the cuts & scratch marks that looked like a scene from Psycho. Then he wrote to Zanussi demanding compensation for “Distress” as the gas in their product contributed to the hole in the ozone layer.
Hope you are enjoying this warm weather.
Alex
Re: Ashes to Ashes!
http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFACup/ … /46982.htm
Should place a bet on Coventry, my Great Grandfather was the founder of the club.
Alex
Re: Ashes to Ashes!
I tried to watch Life on Mars. 1st episode, I thought all well & good, but if it was me that had gone back in time I would want to get a message to John Lennon to stay in bed on the morning of Dec 8 1980.
Then I thought of Pricess Di getting killed, Shergar going missing, Herald of Free enertprise, Indira Ghandi and god knows what else. Just think of lottery numbers, who won the championsip etc, even Sunderland winning the F.A. cup in 1973, Stuff the coppering I would have been in the bookies.
Left it alone after all that went through my head
Alex
Re: Interesting.
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/modules.p … 243#171243
Could’t help but notice that he is very successful now, yet is ready to move?
Hmmmmm
Re: Service Engineer Somerset/E Devon
This is looking confused now as my advert encompassed the South-West. I particularly needed an engineer as employed status.
I have since filled the post of service engineer having taken on an engineer from British Gas. (What comes around goes around).
Alex
Re: School 1977 and school 2008!!!
Is it co-incedence that one is doing the rounds the week the B.B.C. announces the end of Grange Hill.
Alex
Re: Whats the most annoying thing customers do?
Customer phones in and we offer either next day, or the day after. Then they expect an after 4 call, or cannot possibly do the days we offer. We trawl through the scheduler and find a mutually agreed date. They moan that we cannot do sooner but accept the day given, and then go off to the retailer/insurer complaining they have to wait nearly a week.
When the retailer/insurer calls us, we hear the silence at the other end when they learn the real facts behind the case.
Alex
Re: Interesting.
Phew, hell hath no fury like an engineer scorned.
I’ve been there, many years ago, and I done a Norman Tebbit and got my bloody bike out. I was dumped by the Zanussi agent, and with 2 little kids a mortgage & ford cortina to maintain, simply picked up the phone, told John Dugdale at Zanussi who I was, and the rest is history.
We all know engineers are gold dust, best thing he could have done was “hawk” his wares, and move on. Comet, B/Gas or the S/F agent in Sunbury all would have taken him on and he could pick up the pieces and live his life.
Last I knew was the S.Partner for Bristol was taking on BH, DT & SP codes, including some engineers, but he was tripped up by some of shenanigans regards Link. Seem like Brian has placed obstacles to make the transition difficult regards W/Pool. I will keep you posted.
Alex
