Pc Callout Ltd ???

gargantuan_2

Yes, my advice would be stay well away.

giant-oak

I'd agree completely with this. I have my solicitor on the case now and am speaking to the office of fair trading on Monday.

gargantuan_2

Giant-oak, do they owe you a lot of money then?

Luckily when I worked from them I was part time and still had a day job.

motorguy

Conor wrote: »

Thx for the heads up. I've been looking into the viability of opening a shop instead.

Dont!

Advertise in your local papers, shop notice boards, flyers, offer 'free pickup and return', use a pay as you go mobile number in your ads.

No overheads.

giant-oak

All of Decembers work is owed to me, though its the principle of the matter more. (principle being in short supply where this company is concerned IMHO)

gargantuan_2

Giant-oak, did you have any luck getting your money after?

giant-oak

Yes I finally did mid January (took another email informing them their time was up!).

Though weirdly it was a cheque sent from Spain sporting two names (ie normal joint bank account) from a bank in the channel islands. Dodgy don't cut it IMHO.

I'd advise others to steer well clear.

gargantuan_2

Almost certainly some sort of Tax dodging scheme then.

I've noticed they are still advertising vacancies in almost every town!

well-made

Thanks or the info guys. I've just applied for a job with them after being out of work for 5 weeks.

Glad I decided to do a search on them but it's summed up my day perfectly.

A contract that I had been chasing for 5 weeks, the client has decided it's to go permanent but have to start from scratch and a short term contract for next week has just been pulled.

So 3 out of 3 for me today.

The only thing going in my favour today has been seeing the thoughts from everyone on here about this mob.

Combiseries

This is an old post, but seeing as it caught my attention, I would like to contribute.

I have only in the last couple of days sent off my CV to PC Callout Ltd, after seeing their advert in the yellow pages. I am a bus driver as a full time job. However, I am also a qualified computer technician with six years experience doing the `odd job` from my own advertising.

The thing is, I live in a small seaside town in South Wales, and there are around 12 people in my town and around 50 in the city 12 miles away that are doing computer repair. 5 new ones have appeared in my town in the last month or so. My work has completely dried up. Now I don`t mind travelling 50 miles to a job, if it is worth the money, but I am not going to travel that far only to find out it cannot be fixed without ordering parts, going back, or taking the computer to my workshop (shed at home), if it is not going to be worth the while. The reason I drive busses is because there are virtually no jobs in the computer repair industry here, and the ones that are doing it, are either in debt with loans to start up so they can look good, (something I won`t do.) or a really dodgy but end up being successfull. Believe me I know, I`ve done a lot of research.

I am going to give this company a go, I am not expecting a lot of work from them, simply because there is too much competition in my area anyways. (Everyone seems to be doing it.) I will then look at their work ethics and if I find they are dodgy I will file it with the office of fair trading, and I will also be willing to liase with anyone else here who has had a bad experience with them so we can all file a case against them and get them closed down.

They are probably not the only ones out there that are ripping people off and doing honest people out of work! Lets get them closed down. However, if I find they are good to work for, more fool me.