[BITList] Something to chew over

[Michael Feltham]

Hugh,

I think the companies concerned employ these people after their training, around the Wirral, if you want a plumber, you end up at a central exchange and they quote the price for the job, take it or leave it.  A few years ago we had a major job putting in new taps to a bath that had been installed before the last War.  This guy had done a short course and was now a plumber !  He was on £60 an hour, or at least his coy. charged that, he didn't tell me how much he actually got.

It's a bloody ripoff by unskilled men !

Mike
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On 25 Mar 2011, at 09:30, HUGH wrote:

In Thursday's Independent I found an advert placed by some place identifiable only by two phone numbers, Manchester and London. I'll give you a summary of it - like me, some of you will wonder why we wasted all those years in training.
 
It says (highlighting as in the original):
 
WANTED, TRAINEE PLUMBERS AND ELECTRICIANS
 
We need practical, keen applicants to take around 70 days of intensive City & Guilds training around your current commitments. We will give you the opportunity to join one of our affiliated building, plumbing and electrical companies.  On completing workplace assessments you could become a City & Guild qualified plumber and then train for ACS in gas for your Gas Safe registration or alternatively you could become a fully qualified electrician.
 
No previous plumbing or electrical experience necessary.
 
And so on.
 
Hugh.
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