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Re: UKW Monthly Insurance
When you have done the necessary Ken.. can you let me know please… I would like a pack for the new machines I sell.
George
Re: The Future…….. is there one for this industry.
Martin wrote:The only help we need comes from within our own ranks by giving and sharing information much as we always have done here on UKW.
Cooperation through communication is the future you are seeking. By helping ourselves help ourselves the only effective solution to our success and ultimate survival.
Allsorts wrote:WTA and other bodies, including long standing engineers, would do well to piece together a Training tutorial that would give Engineers a standard of teaching for newcomers to surpass the current NVQ.
Hear the echo? ….. Well said Martin
Re: The Future…….. is there one for this industry.
Is there a future for this industry? Mmmm… as someone said at the meeting, it generally depends on new-blood wishing to enter the profession. Adequate training must be made available at not too much cost … Newcomers that are thinking of joining the trade will be massively influenced by the quality and cost of the training that is available at the time.
IMO and I know I mirror the opinions of many others, the NVQ’s that are available for this trade are wholey inadequate and only teach what a monkey could learn…
Again IMO, WTA and other bodies, including long standing engineers, would do well to piece together a Training tutorial that would give Engineers a standard of teaching for newcomers to surpass the current NVQ. I am lucky that when I entered into this trade to compliment my other trades, I did so having a Auto Mechanical background with some General Electrical knowledge and testing experience, because I could not find the training that I considered was necessary other than a few courses that funding-wise were way out of the reaches of my pockets.
Today, I am still not a rich man, far from it, but if I had access to something like what I have described (A training manual to use to teach others to an appropriate skill level) then I would gladly train-up someone for little or no cost and pay them whilst they are training.Maybe this would be a way forward… Maybe even this scenario could take place via the Employment Agency.
George
Re: Apprentice Domestic Electrical & Mechanical Engineer
Thanks Martin… Good info to keep in the nogin 🙂
George
Re: The Future…….. is there one for this industry.
Oh sh*t, I’m gonna get my head bitten off here…
Well, my view is that ‘you can hit back’. As you all know, I have a secondhand business but I also do repairs, so I combine the two. What is wrong with you doing you mainstream job whilst doing a few secondhand machines to boot. I get £85 – £200 for secondhand appliances and sometimes a little more. What if we all did it? Wouldn’t that hit the sheds a little.. OK you would still get the AH that wants cheap cheap but also wants it to be new, but if you retail some good stock secondhands along with your replacements then Im sure it would not only build revenue but it would do some damage to the sheds if we all did that practice. And, even high-quality secondhand goodies need repairing after a while.
George … Just putting my earphones on.. please wait a few minutes before replying.
P.S. Lee8 Please .. You know I don’t normally respond to your rantings, but I’m going to respond this time…. Your post above sounds like a finger pointing exercise at Simon, just because you are pissed off… If you need to complain about a ‘business practice’ or ‘lack of’ of someone… please PM them or email them instead of posting what could be embarrassing or potentially damaging to their business if posted on this forum. The fact that Simon was at the meeting is rather like ‘Sorry I am on holiday’ or like ‘trying to get me on a Sunday’ regardless of the fact that you don’t take holidays or the fact that you work on Sundays… it is a personal choice… I am not picking on you but you really do need to think before you post…
Re: WTA / UKW SEPTEMBER 2010 MEETING
washdoctor wrote:
I looked for you this morning before I left! You were there one minute, gone the next?! But thanks for that comment Peter, it’s appreciated 🙂
Was nice to see you all there, new faces everywhere!
Now looking forward to the WTA / UKW engineers meeting in Feburary, especially if George (Allsorts) comes along, he buys lots of rounds 😆
Ade 🙂
Oh golly gee Ade… That was all a wash with humour .. Give that man the clap 😛
BTW… I am looking forward to the next meeting..and that friendly bunch of ingrates that polute the air near the entrance … amongst others 😈 … No, really, I had a fantastic time and you lot are bloody lovely 😀
George
Re: WTA / UKW SEPTEMBER 2010 MEETING
Absolutely brilliant turnout resulting in an productive, informative meeting and a bit of nice fun chit chat & happy hour to boot. Looking forward to hearing results of some of the proposed exercises.
Well done guys .. and Gals. It was nice to meet you all.
George
P.S. Glad you had a goot time Jim
Re: You want to charge me HOW MUCH!
superfix wrote:Fitted a door boot to a Siemens integrated washer today. After I’d finished, during conversation she said that was cheaper that the other guy quoted me over the phone.
I asked her “how much” apparently he said £200, when she said it was integrated, he replied “in that case you’re looking at £250” 😯
So what did you quote her that made it so annoying?
Re: Indesit washing machine explodes
Yes, looking at that door rubber, the machine is at lease 3 or 4 years old… Proberbly had a spider with fractured legs and she has carried on using it.
