Bentley Apprenticeship

[Paco]

Well done that man!!

 

[GransportFan1]

thanks Paco

 

[Andyk]

I have been offered the Business Apprenticeship i went for on Tuesday over the moon, start on the 6th of Feb and cant wait. God it has been a tough 7 months.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant...Well done Adam...So pleased for you......

 

[Emtee]

Very well done Adam. Much deserved, but if I can offer some advice?... Don't rest on your laurels. Learn what you can, keep your nose clean, but keep looking, as you know your heart lies in the motor industry. You've accomplished the most difficult step, finding a job when you're in a job gets easier.

 

[GransportFan1]

Yes Miles, i will keep looking. Thanks all

 

[Pibbow]

Fantastic news Adam

 

[Andyk]

So ASDA has lost its star colleague then Adam...

 

[GransportFan1]

It has Andy, it has. They have not rung me back yet after i finished on Jan 1st, mind you the new Tesco is not tiny and they are taking over the world.



As i am earning good money, i will be saving for a Panda, the car i really want.

 

[Andyk]

What..Tesco are on the back foot Adam...They had a shocking CHristmas....Customer left all over the place......Asda's price gap to Tesco was at 6% in Jan..Thats unheard of...you can expect about 2% so as you can imagine we are very happy at the moment........Tesco did not have a good festive season and good its stratagy all wrong.................But now the hard work begins as they will certainly not just roll over.....

 

[GransportFan1]

Well they had a right faff building the new store in Crewe, it was supposed to open before Christmas but the rear stuts that holds the shop up and in place were not installed correctly so they had to delay the store opening by 6 weeks. I could not help but laugh. Dom Littlewood needs to go and see the Cowboys which built the store. I cant stand Tesco to be honest, they have put the high street out of business. Never shop in Tesco.

 

[Parisien]

Only one person to blame for the demise of the high street and thats the shopper.....................

Same as British car industry...people voted with their feet and bought foreign.......of course the small point of the UK makers offering a continually **** product didn't help


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[GransportFan1]

Bad thing is Frank, with our car industry, some it was decent but most of it was shite and was not built at all. As the pic below supports my comment.

 

[Parisien]

......fraid not Adam........nearly all of them got stuck in about 1962 and never moved on after that...........................virtually all foreign now really


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[BennyD]

Complacent management and militant unions, what a combination. It's no wonder our car industry imploded.

 

[Parisien]

....both had a hefty part to play in its downfall......................but the buyer then voted with his dosh......plus the government of the time didn't offer any protection to the UK manufacturers

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[BennyD]

Cr4p build quality and unreliability from a couldn't-care-less workforce and a lack of forward thinking from old school management types. Exactly the same thing happened to our motorcycle industry. In the 80s they were still turning out unreliable, leaky, 50s design parallel twin 750s while the Japanese were building oil-tight 4cylinder 750s and 6 cylinder 1000s. Madness.

 

[hodroyd]

Unfortunately we still have a manufacturing situation in this country, even though a tiny one in compaarison, where the Unions have a death wish still and the Management of today appear to be in the totally wrong job. Ever since we lost the Personnel Manager and landed up with these Human Resource tricks and flicks, the country has gone down hill. What a tragic mistake and it still goes on and on and on.

 

[BennyD]

BTW, HR stands for human remains and the sooner we all realise it, the better.

 

[GransportFan1]

My dad said BL deserved to go bankrupt as they did not care about the cars they made or the quality or the customer. BMW sold Rover for £10 and gave them a factory, jobs for the staff and the money to make cars and they still went t!ts up.

 

[Emtee]

Unfortunately we still have a manufacturing situation in this country, even though a tiny one in compaarison, where the Unions have a death wish still and the Management of today appear to be in the totally wrong job. Ever since we lost the Personnel Manager and landed up with these Human Resource tricks and flicks, the country has gone down hill. What a tragic mistake and it still goes on and on and on.

I think I must be one of the lucky few then. I work in a manufacturing unit that has print union membership (in times gone by, one of the most militant), though less than half of the workforce are now members, but either way, the commitment to the business is unequivocal and we're collectively much the better for it. We run proper old-fashioned apprenticeships and are hiring staff in various areas of the business. When you get everyone running in the same direction, we still have it within us to be the best in the world at making stuff. I'm a true defender of what British manufacturing has it within it's capability to be. I'm incredibly proud to work in manufacturing, and have an unending admiration for my colleagues and their commitment to the same. I just hope those we elect to represent us don't forget our manufacturers in the blind pursuit of short-term profit / tax. That way, as we have seen, lies ruin.