**Notice To Newcomers ~ Re: Trolls ~ part 9!**

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Fred slipping :eek:

bottleofred

Evening folks,

A little bump from Red

Nargleblast

Another little bump-ette for Fred.

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Fred bottom of page 1 :eek::eek::eek:

3Dogs

A very snowy BUMP from North Tyneside where it is currently snowing (surprise surprise!) and we just had thunder and lightning too :eek: :eek:

Keep warm everyone

handyman123_2

Good [STRIKE]Evening[/STRIKE] Morning all. Busy Sunday for Handy, Re-Wire Loft. Fix sockets in porch, Defrost the freezers, easy just left the contents in the shed. Still frozen solid after 8 hours, just like the water pipes. Clean Oven. Time now for a snifter before bed.:j

Oh how I hope one day things will get normal [STRIKE]boring[/STRIKE].

Take care in the Morning, and though it's not a money saving thing, Sod the Leccy bill. It's important to stay warm, if we all have to make payment arrangements they can't cut us all off. It would be like putting a noose round their own necks.

Handy could tell tales about the old C.E.G.B (Central Electricity Generating Board) days and all the Management fiddles and back handers. Alegedly :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I have no reason to think that things are much different today.:eek:

Signing off now, regards all.
Handy.:D

niccatw

Do tell us more Handy! Intriguing!

I'm just back from the library, where I've supposedly been studying for my postgrad! (Really I was trying not to fall asleep as I read ever more complicated acedamic papers on stuff! I hate stats! I don't care about the method. I don't really understand if it's "empirically sound". I just want to know what your talking about in plain English.) Any-one seen the Friends episode where Pheobe memorises the title of one of Ross's papers to "throw" into conversation? That's what I've really been doing!

ANyway, time to wind down a bit before bed. Getting up for work tomorrow is going to be fun! :cool:

handyman123_2

Hi Nicca, in a former Life (allegedly) I was responsible for meeting (under orders of my MD) Managers or MD's of several large ([STRIKE]National or Multi National[/STRIKE] Firms, and giving them a Xmas Box. In those days I was a Nieve Business Virgin, and was told it was best to meet them in a layby on the A1, so that other staff wouldn't get jealous. I found out later that the Diary, Box of Wine or Case of Whisky would normally contain a bung running into thousands. This ensured we would get the next contract.

Usually this cash would go into an alleged :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: slush fund to pay for the mangers of power stations to go on all expenses paid holidays, School fees for their kids, extensions on houses Etc.

All the big companies were at it. They would agree which contacts to go for. Competitors would price themselves out at the tendering stage.

For example if the contract was worth 6M. My customer would quote 6.5. The other firms would quote 7M + In return my customer would price themselves out of the next job. My main client would turn over nearly 70M PA. Work out the sums involved.

The extra 500K went in bungs to ensure the next contract and to pay directors bonuses. My own boss used to do a similar thing with our customers to get our contracts.

The guys now running our power generation industry were all just starting when Handy got out of the whole sorry mess. Let's hope things have altered.

As a PS, My MD put the company into overnight bankruptcy when his mate who was MD of our biggest client got 3 years for fraud. He is still living in Spain (allegedly):D

I can't understand why the Government of the time didn't make a big thing out of this, instead they privatised the industry and let us buy shares, which to this day have had poor returns. Even though this week
The pundits recon they are making £90 profit per UK household.

Nuff ranting, Sorry Nicca but you did ask.
Cheers, Handy.:D

boultdj

And a frost Morning All bump. Handy you'v lived an intresting life by the sound of it.

Erme

Morning bump from Erme whilst the smoking room is shut for the am due to who knows what :mad: and I think a filling just came out :eek:...

Hope everyone is well.......Handy stay away from the kiddies at Bonfire night..you might do yourself an injury....

Anyhow nothing dramatic happened here o/n bar me smashing a cup accidentally and them being VERY short staffed yesterday....

Blessings

E