well, not as it would first appear it seems, but i'm sure there is a ceredit crunch tale buried in here somewhere

i do all the fleet stuff for my depot, from accidents to windscreen wipers to servicing to bodywork and everything inbetween, that's my domain and, until recently, there was a garage aroudn the corner who used to do all the normal work, ford who used to do the warranty work, and kwik fit who did the tyres

ford, of course, i didn't get anything out of for free, nor would i have looked for it, so no loss there

the garage around the corner couldn't agree terms on the lease so that was mechanical and bodywork place up the wall (but no great loss there either as when they got taken over last year everything i used to get done stopped getting done and it was all "at mates rates" rather than "you've put so much business our way i'll do it at a quiet time")

but now, the manager at kwik fit has gone, so my oil changes, my filters, my tyre deals, etc have all gone with him, replaced with "surname sir? vehicle reg sir, initial sir? that'll be £27.50 sir"

that'll teach me for not going to the end of my road and getting it done for a tenner

oh well, it was good while it lasted eh

on the plus side, i didn't have to pay to park near woolworths, but i should have saved my time and shoe leather as it had more people that product inside

 

Summary : New kwik-fit manager, dojj gets called Sir a lot and pays more now.

 

Thanks

 

and dosnt have to pay to park near woolworths !!

 

I think it should be compulsory that the first replier to any of dodgy's posts has to summarise. No point in everyone wasting their time reading it eh?

 

Ah yes, I missed that crucial important and utterley fascinating part of his story

 

pmsl

 

you are all a bunch of cunts
not one note of sympathy there at all is there












Summary : New kwik-fit manager, dojj gets called Sir a lot and now has to pay.

 

there you go! you can do it!

 

but it's like saying:

"some little people melted a ring" and not have 13 hours of films

 

 

afpmsl

"the ship sank, Jack let go." end of

 

a good few of the kwik fits are having manager changes

 

How I wish that one were true, save me having to watch it with the bird a thousands times

 

Welcome to BMW ownership, all you need to do now is get one. YOu get treated like royalty, feel really special, have free coffee and then have a heart attack when given the bill

 

PMSL BMW wanted £160 for a oil service

 

Mate had that with his 5-Series Diesel. £160 to change a pollen filter and check the oil level

 

You been "credit-crunched" Dojj? Why, didn't get another bonus to double your salary then?

 

so because you had to pay £27.50 for an oil change instead of a tenner the recessions biting hard?

 

my next bonus is in january, don't worry, ill let you know how much it is and then you can decide if everyone else needs to know or not

it was not for an oil change

 

Dojj, do you use many Ford/Citroen or Peugeot parts, if so where do you get them?

 

we've got around 80 vans in the fleet, about 70 are connects and the rest are full sized transits and, if we need bits, we are supposed to go and get them from an approved by the lease company garage

head office gets thigns like wipers, bulbs, etc bulk from halfords, which is why i've got a trade card

unfortuantly though my hands are tied because of the ammount of contorl head office have over the vehicle side of things, the other day they said it was easier paperworkwise to get a wing mirror glass from ford for £45 than for me to get one for £15 and put it thorugh expenses, how that makes sense is beyond me

 

Your post has bored me. I am sorry i read it.

 

What? How do you think I know? Cos YOU post up about how your bonus doubles your salary! In fact, IIRC, you posted up telling everyone you got a bonus that doubled your salary and then MOANED about paying the higher tax band

 

that was LAST year mate and it didn't double, it was only about £8k, and then i got taxed on that too

this year i won't get as much, probabl around £4.5k, so even more cedit crunching

i earn too mcuh to get child tax credits as well

btw, outgoings of £2200 a month means i've got to earn it first before anyone starts moaning

 

Your balls will get crunched if you fuck this tree up.

 

I just remember a thread from you stating you got a bonus to equal your yearly salary.....

I say count yourself lucky - I don't any bonus at all... I'd be happy with a cheque from my company for a simple WEEK's earnings as bonus - fuck it, if they even paid me an extra DAYs rate it'd still be a bonus!

 

well, i had some serious problems with that, but more on that later, when i can find the camera lead

to be honest mate, it was a surprise that it was as much as it was, but it put me close to the £50k pa mark which sort of fucked me up for everything else, i know people will say that i'm just being silly, but when you have to spend the thick end of £600 a month on childcare and the tax man means that you only see £5430 of the £8k you were given, it sort of takes the excitement out of it all

aren't you given a bonus after you pass a certain amount of work? it would be good to icentivise the staff to work harder to earn a bit more money, rather than justgive them the same regardless? 30% of our bonus is individual effrot and the rest is how the compnay does, so everyones bonus is different, 2 years ago we got jack but no one was expecting it

look out for the tree post benni