Nighmare day

You know it's a nightmare doing stuff for Joe Public. I have decided to
stop dealing with end users and support Businesses instead. I am a
Computer nerd, and set up VOIP and Networky stuff for people, and you
never get this sort of rubbish from Companies.


+1 to that :-) I rarely do computer work for private individuals for
exactly the same reasons.

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:16:40 -0000, "Carpy"
wrote:
I recently had to tell a huge building contractor that I refuse to work for
him in future....

That was brave of you.

"Max Demian" wrote in message
...
Does anyone remember the 'colour tv screens' that were marketed when
colour was just coming in? They were made of flexible plastic with blue at
the top, green at the bottom merging together into a sort of orange in the
middle. You cut it to size and then stuck it to a b/w TV screen to give an
impression of colour. Which? actually tested them. I think they decided
they weren't much use.

I remember them well. What a stupid idea they were.

Bill

"Carpy" wrote in message
...
Virtually all the public I deal with are quite polite / normal /
hospitable etc and it's very rare to have problems when it comes to
getting paid............Some commercial work however can be harder to get
paid for. I recently had to tell a huge building contractor that I refuse
to work for him in future after I had to chase him for months over a £700
payment.

They take the **** like that. I always tell them I'll do the job 'but in
view of your payment record we will need a 100% payment in advance of our
works.' Chances are they go elsewhere and sting some other poor ****er.
Worst thing is when we are nominated and made to sub to some buggers we've
never heard of. Here's an extract from a recent email I sent:

To be perfectly frank our concerns here are not so much about when we get
paid as if we get paid. The situation is that xxxxxx are asking me to enter
into an unsecured credit arrangement with a company about whom I know
nothing. I have spoken to xxxxx and my gut reaction is that he is as
straight as a die and that his company is most unlikely to go under. But of
course I can’t really know that, and given the present economic climate,
when it is forecast that many small businesses will go under in the next
year (leaving unsecured debts), you can see my concern. For a very small
firm like ours an unpaid debt of that size would be a disaster. Of course I
could insure the debt or use a factor, but these both cost serious money,
and I haven’t allowed for this in the quotation. So can I ask you:


Bill

wrote in message
...
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:16:40 -0000, "Carpy"
wrote:
I recently had to tell a huge building contractor that I refuse to work
for
him in future....

That was brave of you.

You have to do it. There's no point in working for firms that delay payment,
and all time might go bust.

Bill

"tony sayer" wrote in message
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What!, one of them was wearing a veil;?....

Didn't I tell you I am colour blind when it suits me?

Bill

In article , Max Demian wrote:
Does anyone remember the 'colour tv screens' that were marketed when colour
was just coming in? They were made of flexible plastic with blue at the top,
green at the bottom merging together into a sort of orange in the middle.
You cut it to size and then stuck it to a b/w TV screen to give an
impression of colour. Which? actually tested them. I think they decided they
weren't much use.

I never saw one, but wondered how on earth they could live up to what the
adverts seemed to claim. However I remember reading a description that made it
all clear. It said that as long as the scene depicted had sky at the top, grass
at the bottom, and something in the middle that wouldn't defy reason by being
depicted in orange, then it could be said to be enhanced by the use of what
really amounted to no more than a graduated coloured filter, but in all other
instances it was pretty much pointless.

Rod.
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"Roderick Stewart" wrote in
message .myzen.co.uk...
In article , Max Demian wrote:
Does anyone remember the 'colour tv screens' that were marketed when
colour
was just coming in? They were made of flexible plastic with blue at the
top,
green at the bottom merging together into a sort of orange in the middle.
You cut it to size and then stuck it to a b/w TV screen to give an
impression of colour. Which? actually tested them. I think they decided
they
weren't much use.

I never saw one, but wondered how on earth they could live up to what the
adverts seemed to claim. However I remember reading a description that
made it
all clear. It said that as long as the scene depicted had sky at the top,
grass
at the bottom, and something in the middle that wouldn't defy reason by
being
depicted in orange, then it could be said to be enhanced by the use of
what
really amounted to no more than a graduated coloured filter, but in all
other
instances it was pretty much pointless.

We had a customer who was a racing fan. He said that on rare moments the
blue and green coincided quite well with the sky and grass, and the result
was 'wonderful'.

Bill

In article , Bill Wright
scribeth thus

wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:16:40 -0000, "Carpy"
wrote:
I recently had to tell a huge building contractor that I refuse to work
for
him in future....

That was brave of you.

You have to do it. There's no point in working for firms that delay payment,
and all time might go bust.

Bill



The risk is now going pop. Even in places like Cambridge here which
thought itself immune from falling prices there are sites where work has
just stopped...

Serious doo-dah;(...
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Tony Sayer

In article , Carpy
writes

Any suggestions, or what would you do in this situation? I don;t think she's
ever going to accept my arguments because she "knows" it was much better
before...................

Just a thought. She wasn't watching the analogue service before you did
the new install and switched her over to digital while setting up?

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