I have just had a phone call from one of my old customers, she has been to London to help her daughter move all last week. She has to come back home with daughter and kids because of the filthy, so called tradesmen doing the work.
The contractor she got sent Polish guys in to do the work, didn't employ English, since then they couldn't bath, or cook and spent two days cleaning floors and running to the tip and so on. The bath wouldn't fit so they were going to cut some off the end. (I never tried that one). I couldn't stop laughing at the antics she said they got up too.
After 55 years as a self employed general builder and a lot of happy customers some who have employed me for over 40 years.
I cannot believe what a state this country is coming too, can you?
From a worn out builder!!!!!!!
2007-03-04 01:21:18 · 7 answers · asked by Derek D 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
I have been a tradesman and because I enjoyed my work and liked the money I continued working after retirement. Recently I have been undercut on my prices by Polish or other East Europeans. They are quoting 50% less on work that over the years I have always achieved a 90% conversion rate of quote to acceptance. My work started to dry up as a result. Some people that I have quoted and failed to get the work have since come back to me to put right the poor work. I quote my original price to do the remedial work so the customer is paying effectively 150% for the work in the end. With luck people will learn but then I have stopped working now and enjoy my golf and tennis etc.
2007-03-04 01:50:58 · answer #1 · answered by ANF 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I very much doubt that you would be required to deliver a 20 minute speech. You may well be given a subject and asked to speak about it for a few minutes. This is designed to give a view of your confidence and your personality. But it will not be a difficult thing to do. Usually these things are a bit of a laugh and help to break the tension that a lot of potential recruits feel. They may not do it at all. The selection process covers a lot of things all of which are designed to see just what sort of career you are best suited for and to guide you into choosing the right career within the forces. It is not all blood and bullets, although whatever branch you go for you are likely to get some of that. You may have an aptitude for languages and not even realise it, you may be great at maths or more practical skills, your mind set may make you more suited to the infantry or engineers etc etc. If you have an idea what you want and if you are passed as ok for it, then that will be that. Enjoy the selection process, go for what you want and if they do not offer it, find out what the next best alternative is. Good luck whatever you do
2016-03-16 04:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
haha..sounds about right, yes the poles etc; are flooding the country as so called tradesmen, and the general public are being ripped off. Meanwhile the British tradesman is finding it more difficult to compete with the low rates the foreigners charge. The only answer is to charge through the ceiling if we are called back to put right shoddy foreign workmanship..if you can call it that.
2007-03-04 05:10:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
CHEAP LABOUR supplied by immigrants willing to work for slave wages whilst signing on the dole and getting free housing
2007-03-04 01:32:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let's get a government in that will change this stupid system!
2007-03-04 01:26:51 · answer #5 · answered by R.E.M.E. 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tell me about it
2007-03-04 02:03:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
POLISH --THEY R VERY SHINY
2007-03-04 07:13:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋