BG Ripoff

[nickso]

there are fixed price quotes on the computer but often they are way out or dont reflect the job in hand.

i personally prefer to make them up from scratch using the individual prices of parts and labour. the quote guide tool is a wonderful thing .
it gives a far more accurate price for both the customer and BG's bean counters.

 

[gas4you]

Bean counters Says it all. Brings back memories of the Ford Pinto fiasco

 

[penpusher]

found that quote tool is ball ox, think of a number, add 20 percent then 3 hrs labour to nake a LD job, percentage AND performance, GET IN!!!!

 

[nickso]

Bean counters Says it all. Brings back memories of the Ford Pinto fiasco

que?

what fiasco be this?

 

[nickso]

found that quote tool is ball ox, think of a number, add 20 percent then 3 hrs labour to nake a LD job, percentage AND performance, GET IN!!!!

yes thats if you do it wrong and are in any way concerned about performance.

if however you want to give a reasonable price, or as near as you are ever going to get with bg's pricing policy, then the qgt can do it.

 

[gas4you]

Must be showing my age now

The fuel tank in these had two pointed 'spears' behind it, so when a rear ender accident happened it blew up

Ford new about the design fault, but their bean counters decided it was cheaper to pay out for a few accident/death claims, rather than do a recall to make all the cars safe.

 

[penpusher]

nickso, performance targets were the reason I left BG. You cannot hit performance targets AND do the job properly without making sales too. I don't know about anyone else but I thought this industry was about keeping people safe, after all, that;s why I joined.

 

[nickso]

ah its the yankee car rather than the engine then.

i had vaguely heard of this but it didnt register.

 

[nickso]

nickso, performance targets were the reason I left BG. You cannot hit performance targets AND do the job properly without making sales too. I don't know about anyone else but I thought this industry was about keeping people safe, after all, that;s why I joined.

oh i agree. thats why i pay no attention whatsoever to performance.

 

[gas4you]

Good on yer nickso, pity more are not like you, BG would have a brilliant reputation then

Do you get a lot of stick from your manager then because you want to do it right?

 

[nickso]

Good on yer nickso, pity more are not like you, BG would have a brilliant reputation then

Do you get a lot of stick from your manager then because you want to do it right?

he's not over the moon about my endless lack of performance. but when only 5% of the guys on my patch are making a "1" he has far more things to worry about than me.

he never hears from me, i dont break things and i generally get the job done mostly first time and without any fuss.

oh and i hang up or walk away if he gives me any stick

 

[gas4you]

A man with my own values

 

[penpusher]

my faith is restored nickso, if the rest were like you then BG wouldn't have the rep it so richly deserves these days. I work for a rival company these days and their "retention" team are reduced to name calling and downright lies to convince their customers to come back.

 

[nickso]

my faith is restored nickso, if the rest were like you then BG wouldn't have the rep it so richly deserves these days. I work for a rival company these days and their "retention" team are reduced to name calling and downright lies to convince their customers to come back.

BG's rep is none of my concern. i get paid to do a job and i do it as well as i can.

i have no particular loyalty to them, although some on here think i do when i point out some of their utterly ridiculous posts.

the retention teams of any company are all pathological liars and deserve a damn good flogging.

 

[gas4you]

Theres also a lot of self employed engineers who do bad jobs and give a bad name to the industry, not just some BG employees, but as always in this world you only get to hear of the bad ones