[Dave Whittaker]

You gotta laugh...."grown ups"

[Colin Day]

You gotta laugh...."grown ups"

If you don't, you'll cry

[Jason Hedges]

Looking forward to a good ccdo weekend.

Friday night - Few beers

Saturday morning - Cleaning carpets to get discounted venue deal

Saturday - CLEAN test

Saturday afternoon - FA Cup Semi Final (Villa v Chelsea)

Saturday night -A few beers

Sunday day - CCDO

Sunday afternoon - FA Cup Semi Final (Spurs v Portsmouth)

Sunday night - More beer

Monday morning - Drive home

Summary - Good weekend

All the best,
Jason.

[Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus)]

Looking forward to all of that Jas - especially the few beers part 

[Jason Hedges]

Same here mate can't wait!

All the best,
Jason.

[will_turton]

jason you were no where to be seen after 10pm last year and the year before, infact i was up chatting poope to dave leo till silly hours,

[Len Gribble]

Billy

Correct me if I’m wrong isn’t it your birthday on the 10th

[Carpet Dawg]

Is it not only "ACTUAL" carpet cleaners that are allowed on this forum??? I guess i'll be labled as sexest now

Tony

[will_turton]

not going this year len, not in the clean click

[derek west]

nail on the head

[Len Gribble]

Typical miss other peoples birthdays to save a few bob

[Jason Hedges]

jason you were no where to be seen after 10pm last year and the year before, infact i was up chatting poope to dave leo till silly hours,

Think you're mistaking me for lightweight Pete . I was up till late same as you and a few others, think it was about 4 time before last.

P.S. Its nothing to do with a click, would love to see you there and tickets are still on sale.

All the best,
Jason.

[Colin Day]

Hardly a clique, I don't know anyone and seeing CCDO as somewhere where I can learn from experienced C/C's and meet like minded people.... Clique tends to be a word used by people who can't seem to make friends

[robert meldrum]

Behave Colin ............Every organisation has cliques and indeed that's what the NCCA's been criticised  for by many on here who either imagined it to be the case or possibly found it to be so.

Human nature causes cliques to form and " outsiders " will always feel unwelcome or threatened in some way, so will either go off with " like minded " friends / colleagues and without realising it form their own cliques.

What constitutes a clique is theoretically groups of like minded individuals working together to protect their own interests and dominate the social or working environment to disadvantage others.

Problem is, it takes strong leadership to make EVERYONE feel INCLUDED and TRANSPARENT organisation  /  sharing of benefits / opportunity for everyone to achieve the highest level within the organisation for the least confident to feel WELCOME and INCLUDED.

Anyone who's been in education or training will understand what I'm saying it's not theory it's just understanding human behaviour and being able to communicate to the masses NOT just the followers.


Have a Happy Easter

[Colin Day]

Robert....  = Leg pulling

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Guys

Robert is of course right but this is to be expected at an early stage.

There has to be a group of people starting the organisation and they need to be reasonably like minded, otherwise it would be all talk and no action.

Imagine having 100 people all with their own agenda's, paralysis would ensue and absolutely nothing would happen.

This means there are some who feel they would be as well/better qualified who perceive themselves to be outsiders and this causes resentmemt.

My advice to anyone who wants to have an influence is to join and work constructively from within.

Cheers

Doug

[Darren O]

Mr Muscle how dont you do a course on Oven Cleaning at CCDO.

[Joe H]

Darren

Probably because it has nowt to do with carpet cleaning. 

The clues in the title - Carpet Cleaners Day Out

[Joe H]

I dont want to sound critical but what is amusing me is that more then a few on this forum have criticised the NCCA because of the 2 day course culminating in a  1 hour tick box type test.
Now we have CLEAN with a much shorter course and a even shorter test - and this seems highly acceptable to most of those that were critical before.

Some were saying I am not joining NCCA because I have to take a "simple" test - why should I when I am an experienced carpet cleaner. Now they quiet happy at the thought of taking a shorter "simple" test, even though they have gained more experience.

Unlike Simon Sharon Glyn and Karen, I am prepared to wait to see how things unfold in its entirety presumably when a statement is made after its official launch on Apr 11th.

I agree with Dougs point, if you have 100's all making comments you dont get anywhere. Have you ever been on a committee of more then 1 - problems start to arise.

[Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus)]

I appreciate your comments Joe - I can assure you though, that the exam will be far from "simple"

Have a good Easter.

Steve