Chancers revisited: revisited.
Said gentleman finished before Christmas, is currently deployed by a main dealer for a major UK manufacturer of 3CXās. Posted a selfie onto Faceache while driving up a main Road in a telehandler. Not too sure heās got a major future there. Now replaced here by an ex-motor Trade tech, top lad in his mid-20ās, whoās taken to the job like a duck to water. They are out there, you just have to look hard and get lucky.
Just posted this to highlight not to expect too high a level of after-sales support for a certain yellow brand from a dealer in the Norfolk/Suffolk area. The last job I set him doing was changing the fifth wheel on our shunter. Two days to undo and re-tighten 12 bolts. I gave up after that.
PS lasted a month with JCB, now delivering pizzas āto top up his (we suspect otherwise non-existent) wage.
Anyway, lightning has struck twice. Four weeks ago, we started a plater-welder. 25 years experience, done the lot, pipelines, structural, all processes, also a hydraulic specialist, electrician, tuning wizard, super bike racer, professional cage fighter - āmy hands are deadly weaponsā (my money would still be on the budgie), runs four miles every night, as well as having a second job as a crane driver (āI donāt have a ticket, my mate lets me drive). Travelled in from Northampton every day, just over a hour. We reckoned Northampton must have a hell of a college, nearly every day he reckoned heād got a different qualification.
Needless to say the ability didnāt remotely match the talk, and neither did the timekeeping so he was gone after three weeks. Thereās levels of bullshit, but this chap was truly delusional. Must have been if he could show me a slag filled weld that didnāt follow the joint and tell me with a straight face that heād never failed an x-ray.