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This is not really a gripe, but a story about the morons with twenty letters after their name whose basic intelligence is on par with amoeba's IQ and they apparently know better than the man at the front!
Twenty years ago I was a road patrol with the RAC. We were summoned to a meeting about a new strategy on membership. Instead of only being able to apply for membership either through an area office or any road staff, it was going to be sold through outlets like garages, Halfords and other places that basically had anything to do with motoring!
It was a membership pack and the price reflected what type of membership you had. The only restriction was that car recovery was not available for the first 48 hours. The general idea was you bought it, opened it and then phoned the RAC to give the temporary membership number in exchange for a permanent one.
We, the front men, all said it won't work! Knowing that people buy things for the car and just chuck it in the glove box till it's needed and what will happen if it's a recovery membership? Technically they will not be allowed a recovery because of the 48 hour rule! "No! No! No!" said the amoeba, we know better than you and we have done a lot of research in to it and we know what we are talking about!
We just said it's going to cost you! Sure enough after it had been running for about six months we started running into problems. We would go to job, the engine had blown and car recovery was required! They give you the temporary membership number. Sorry temporary number now not available after three months and it's now not on the computer. Recovery is not available because of the 48 hour rule.
With great joy we said, "...but according to the receipt he has been a recovery member for the last nine months irrespective of whether he did or did not phone in and you already have had his money!" As soon as Trading Standards, "I will sue, I'm going to get my car home and you will get the bill from my solicitor" was mentioned they got their recovery straight away.
It cost them a fortune and talking to AA blokes it appeared that they had an amoeba clone and it cost them a fortune as well! So there you go folks, always remember, the man at the front does know what he's talking about!
By: Sewrobb
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The only way to prevent this kind of thing happening is if there was more democracy in an organisation, with the workers right to fire those in charge. Workers thorugh their pay packets are just as much "shareholders" as investors are. We have far too many dictatorships in the workplace, especially those from overseas where decisions are taken many thousands of miles away.
You work for the company on the front line, business decisions are not your responsibility.
You are employed to do the job you are paid for, so it hasnt worked out - the comapny takes the hit and you still have a job. Those that make the big decisons have to suffer the consequences if it goes wrong. Just do the job your paid to do, sure you might think you could run the company better than them just like every sports fan knows how to pick a better football team than the current England Manager.
Dont worry about - its just another chance to run down the company at tea break - if you dont like it you could always get another job...
At least your an honest MD. You started your own business with no qualifications,and employ non educated people. Not like these MD's who come in from the cold and THINK they know how to "split the atom"
I know of a person,who was a barristers clerk, and went into the managers job of a horticultural firm.He got the job because his WIFE was MD, now she Knows the job inside out, but him, he didn't know a lawn mower from a sheep.
Needless to say, sales fell off, and OTHERS got the blame.Until they realized who was pulling strings.
The said story of Temp. memebership used to give me headaches beyond belief.. theres also another thing called a WILL JOIN, and its an inflated price of the standerd membership, to people that have broken down and need assistance but werent members, but the 48hr comes into play in this too.
Break down companies are run by sales man, not service orientated people.
I lost my job because they shiped out the jobs to india.. another bright idea from the amoebas..
Welsh nomad