Well done, I boosted your rep too!
Well done, I boosted your rep too!
Went thru the same thing more than once. Moving on is always an option.
Same thing here in Australia. Wages Stagnant, boss getting tighter, graveyard parts and hardluck stories from the top. I think it is partly related to Government buyers who screw down contract prices, and that trickles down through industry - Though they they screw down on the pricing as well. I'm over 60 changing is a difficult option now, so I'm just planning on retirement. Service Pension means I can live in independant poverty.
Ya I feel the squeeze. I have been trying to decide if its hard times or my employer going as far as we let them. In the last 3 years we have lost 30% of our staff, 401k, health insurance, and zero raises. I want to think its all due to the economy but I don't think the books would totally agree.
Union time. Much as I hate them, I'm tired of getting screwed. Ricoh is following the IKON death march even though we bought them - how f***ing stupid do you have to be that you can't see they ran themselves into the ground? I don't want to be forced to find another job - my customers don't deserve the substandard service we seem to be moving to.
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A union? every small-med biz in the country will close shop. Besides, a monkey can change parts in a copier and a 3rd grader can install a print driver. Not much bargaining power.
I'm sorry you've been cursed with the company of such lousy technicians.
I will grant you that 80% of the time you are correct, but that leaves a bunch of calls where you actually have to troubleshoot something, and you don't want a 3rd grade monkey doing that if you plan on retaining customers.
Besides, its not the small copier companies that are the problem - they know they have to take care of their customers - its the big ones that think they can run roughshod over everyone.
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What's the point of anonymous online message boards if you can't tweak a few noses.
I know techs are good, but unions are going the way of the dinosaur....I guess in the end, the title of this thread ain't too far off.
Maybe...
Maybe they're just becoming what the should have been to begin with. Temporary.
And I've tweaked more than a few noses.
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