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rockits

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Agreed a good local tradesmen recommended is a great starting point. All these large businesses with pressure and unscrupulous selling is an issue for me.

It must be hard though to grow and scale a business still keeping the core founding ethics, morals and reasons why they existed in the first place.

We have kept small but did grow a little a few years ago and the dilution of quality and keeping the core fundamentals was certainly a challenge we found difficult to find answers for.
 

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It is starting to happen a lot more in the IT world now. With remote support some companies never meet a person or see a person ever from start to finish.

I went to an emerging Private Equity firm in W1 on Regent Street yesterday for a meeting. We were recommended by one of our existing customers who are part of the InterIKEA group. I met with a new Office Manager and they need our help and advice as they grow as starting to get lots on unresolved issues.

They had enquired/spoken to several IT support companies as not happy with their current provider based in Staffordshire. Their current provider has never physically been to site at the start or at any point during their reign. Not of all the 6 companies they had contacted we were the only one that they had physically seen.

Granted it is not quick, cheap or easy doing business in London physically but we do most of it remotely but still go to sites often for obvious reasons. I was doing some work in a restaurant/bar in EC1 so popped in on the way back out. Couldn't find an electric parking space of course!

It amazes me the lack of care, effort and attention some companies pay even at pre-sales stage. They have had to wait days for simple daily tasks to be fixed and are paying good money for the privelge.

I can see there being an opportunity and resurgence in what we do if others just want to provide remote soulless support. How can you advise someone remotely without even seeing their site?

There is also a massive potential security issue here IMHO. You have no idea who you are dealing with as have never seen these people. They also have deep admin access into the company's IT/network infrastructure.....scary really.
 

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Not sure who teaches soldering in China, but they are sh1te. 3 lights bought, 2 to re-solder. Guess the QA dept was shut as well.
 

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Not sure who teaches soldering in China, but they are sh1te. 3 lights bought, 2 to re-solder. Guess the QA dept was shut as well.

You didn’t get a message to free the slave Labour workers in the instructions then?

But as this is a rant thread, is it only me who thinks it’s slightly immoral to understand that China has a history of oppression of not only it’s own people, but regions populated by minorities, and then we buy loads of stuff from then because it’s cheap? Just saying.
 

D Walker

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I agree absolutely. The wife may not have known they were from China when she bought them off Amazon. 2 blobs on the j joints and they are sorted.
 

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That’s as maybe........ but try living your life without supporting the regime by buying Chinese goods - almost impossible.

And of course that is the problem. Years of moving production to keep prices artificially low for our consumer society. And of course the governments support it because it keeps inflation low. And hence interest rates low too. We used to have a telly for 20 years, getting a repair guy in when things went wrong. Now we go and spend 200 quid on a new telly every 2 years. And folks moan at us when we keep our 10 year old V8s on the road. Go figure.
 

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Not sure who teaches soldering in China, but they are sh1te. 3 lights bought, 2 to re-solder. Guess the QA dept was shut as well.


Have you thought about how hard it is to solder with 3 fingers on each hand and only one thumb, give them a break.

it's the chinese health and safety team you should be moaning about
 

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Car Park hit and runners !
Wife gets back to her car after final Xmas shopping to find a nasty scrape and dent across the rear and door of her little car.
No note - no witness and her dashcam does not monitor parking - so pi$$ed off.
It’s only a 2016 Corsa, but what gives people the right to damage it and then fcuk off........
Not worth an insurance claim so it will have to stay until I face spending £400 or so on it.
Tossers !
 

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Car Park hit and runners !
Wife gets back to her car after final Xmas shopping to find a nasty scrape and dent across the rear and door of her little car.
No note - no witness and her dashcam does not monitor parking - so pi$$ed off.
It’s only a 2016 Corsa, but what gives people the right to damage it and then fcuk off........
Not worth an insurance claim so it will have to stay until I face spending £400 or so on it.
Tossers !

Wankpots! Sorry to read that, Sam.
 

D Walker

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And of course that is the problem. Years of moving production to keep prices artificially low for our consumer society. And of course the governments support it because it keeps inflation low. And hence interest rates low too. We used to have a telly for 20 years, getting a repair guy in when things went wrong. Now we go and spend 200 quid on a new telly every 2 years. And folks moan at us when we keep our 10 year old V8s on the road. Go figure.
Totally agree here, when I was in Army I used to do a bit of telly, white goods repairs as a side line, at one stage I thought I may do it full time when my time was up, but as you say, everyone just chucks them now......except me I guess.....although I allowed a new washer last year as the old (16 year) hoover one frame was rotten....
 

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Totally agree here, when I was in Army I used to do a bit of telly, white goods repairs as a side line, at one stage I thought I may do it full time when my time was up, but as you say, everyone just chucks them now......except me I guess.....although I allowed a new washer last year as the old (16 year) hoover one frame was rotten....
Likewise, we did tellies at Gutersloh. We'd see so many 13+month old Goldstar TVs broken. I convinced the pongoes in thinking that there was a special chip in the TVs that would countdown after first switch on and break the TV after the warranty has expired. The SSAFA TV shop couldn't shift them in the end, but sold more Sonys....
 

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Twice this week I have had to take the train to London and the use the underground to get to London Bridge.
That in itself is something to rant about, not enough seats on the train, tube rammed to beyond capacity, all that was missing was a sheep dog to heard us to the right place.
But what really got me going were people with back packs on in such a confined space, literally taking up twice as much space as they need to and banging into people in the crush and seemingly unaware of the people around them.
So glad I don’t have to do this everyday and mostly I go in early and leave early to miss the crowd - next time it will be a black cab for me.
 

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Don't get me started on London commuters, as you say people with backpacks banging into everyone, people with wheelie trollies stopping at the top of the escalator to pull the handle up, people frocing themselves in to spaces that just don't exist etc, etc, etc.

and relax as there is almost none of that it Ireland, the tram is full I will just wait for the next one
 

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Don't get me started on London commuters, as you say people with backpacks banging into everyone, people with wheelie trollies stopping at the top of the escalator to pull the handle up, people frocing themselves in to spaces that just don't exist etc, etc, etc.

and relax as there is almost none of that it Ireland, the tram is full I will just wait for the next one

I really don't want to be on the tube when people are frocing themselves!
 
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