[lcwalker]

This is unrealated to w/c and i have found all members to be very helpfull.As some of you might have read on some of my posts i do gardening aswell, i use to do the village grass where i use to live my dad still lives there, i use to get alot of complements on how good i did it then new a new estate manager came and dropped me without giving me a reason i gathered it was a case of a new broom sweeps clean.This was 5 years ago the job wasn't very well payed only £6per hour (they surplied the mower and fuel) but the person they replaced me with was £20ph then and now £30 ph, well another new manager has just started do you think it's worth me offering my garden services undercutting this other bloke (who even once said to me when i was still doing the job he wouldn't step on anyone elses toe's)he's a rich farmers son.I do have the tools to do the job and could undercut him by about £8 PH.Please dont post (well whats this got to do with window cleaning) it's just some general advice needed and if possible the best way to go about it thanks in advance lc.

[AuRavelling79]

Go for it. But can you do the rich farmer's funny handshake?

[A+CleaningService]

You where £6.00 an hour and they replaced you with someone who is £20 an hour??
It does not make any logical sense.  Am I missing something here?

[daz1977]

if he was employed on 6 ph and the other guy was contracted in on 20 ph it works better for tax, that is why a lot of places will only employ agency staff, its something to do with tax  its better for them when they claim it back


go for it,

[colley614]

You where £6.00 an hour and they replaced you with someone who is £20 an hour??
It does not make any logical sense.  Am I missing something here?

Probably the back hander matey. It happens a lot in my area with cleaning contracts 

[Niall McAllister]

do you need the job?
or do you just want a bit of payback, after all it was 5 year ago.
if you need the job go for it.

[Jeff Brimble]

Ask if they want a price, if they do give them one but I reckon theres something funny going on.

[lcwalker]

You where £6.00 an hour and they replaced you with someone who is £20 an hour??
It does not make any logical sense.  Am I missing something here?

exactly it's still bugging me to this day but you never met that manager he was x army and ive been told the reason he has gone now is wasting to much money.

[lcwalker]

Ask if they want a price, if they do give them one but I reckon theres something funny going on.

Well i also quoted once for the next village the farmers boy lives in and i was to high but the funny thing is he always gets the job in his own village even though it goes out to tender.But guess what his mum and dad are on the parish council.But the village i use to do get paid for by the private estate totally unconnected to the village where these farmers live.

[daz1977]

what part of the country r u in lcwalker

[lcwalker]

I also reckon there was back handers going on but with painters to.But as theres a new manager i was hoping he might be straight.

[lcwalker]

what part of the country r u in lcwalker

Why?

[daz1977]

because i live in cornwall, and there is a lot of looking after there own down here,  and i didnt know if you was local to the area you work in, ie born and bred

[lcwalker]

because i live in cornwall, and there is a lot of looking after there own down here,  and i didnt know if you was local to the area you work in, ie born and bred

Yes i lived in that village 29 years but even so you do find the wealthy look after the wealth not really the way it should be but thats the way it is.I have simular problem though where i live now they look after the own here to and bl***Y pensioners who cant give up work after they retire and they can charge less than me because there getting their pension anybody else have problems with pensioners taking work.

[daz1977]

u wanna live in cornwall,  the bloke in our chippy, is working  even after 40 years at imerys (a huge compnay with good pensions) and hes in his 70s at least,  that is the reason a lot of the young move to the citys to get work,  in villages it is who you know not what you know, when it comes to jobs,  try getting on all the committees they usually look after there own,

is it just one job that you want back or are a lot of jobs going to him

[lcwalker]

u wanna live in cornwall,  the bloke in our chippy, is working  even after 40 years at imerys (a huge compnay with good pensions) and hes in his 70s at least,  that is the reason a lot of the young move to the citys to get work,  in villages it is who you know not what you know, when it comes to jobs,  try getting on all the committees they usually look after there own,

is it just one job that you want back or are a lot of jobs going to him

Well the one job has add on's as they have alot of houses that need looking after when empty.

[daz1977]

go for it  u have nothing to lose