Watchdog AA, in case you missed it

[Charnwood]

P H Jones are the biggest bunch of f wits known to mankind. Apart from TalkTalk.

We recently moved into a council property.
I turned the heating on when we were moving in to check it worked. Three of us said we could smell gas, and I promptly turned of the heating.
Vented the place for a couple of hours then turned on the heating again. Smell of gas.

We reported the problem.

Along comes the Terry from P H Jones.
"No gas" says he.
I'm at work. OH rings me and explains the situation to me.
"Put the idiot on the phone" says I.
In no uncertain terms I put this individual in the picture. If I'd been there I'd have put him in the canal!

He promptly does his job PROPERLY and finds a loose connection, which he tightens.

This is one of many horror stories about P H Jones myself, friends and acquaintances have experienced.

Do I have any confidence in P H Jones?

Do I ******* hell as like!!

 

[Nige F]

This is typical of an organisation - and there are lots of them, that have lost the plot!!

I am a Heating Service Engineer I DO NOT fix cars or do recoverys, so why do companies like the AA have to try and get in on an act they know nothing about? no doubt they are like all the others that get a job in and then ring round names on the GSR list promising to pay within 7 days and expecting you to agree to go out a midnight for £25!! when will the madness end!! (I have taken my Vehicle fleet cover away form the AA and gone to Green Flag instead) why should I support a Company that is trying to steal my livelihood from under my nose I for one am glad they are Fxxxxing it all up the sooner these people withdraw from our industry the better we will all be !!

Welcome to the Free Market Economy - Post Privatisation in the Monetarism Utopia

 

[adlplumbing]

i be better off if they did not post code lottery for the job
still cross

 

[adlplumbing]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2011/04/aa_recovery.html

They should stick to cars instead of stealing our work.

very informative

 

[HERTS P&D]

they just happen to got on my nerves today so thought drag it back up

What did they 'do' to you?

Andy

 

[adlplumbing]

they refused me an interveiw due to fact i live in bolton not manchester
told local paper as well hehehe

 

[HERTS P&D]

Every man should be entitled to an interview, if we can't win them over in the interview then that's down to us.

BUT AT LEAST GIVE A MAN A CHANCE!!!!

Andy

 

[adlplumbing]

infact they going to provide emegncy repsonce to my area but they going have to come manchester to do it as they won`t employ anyone without manchester postcode so screw um

 

[adlplumbing]

no reason just want keep the post high

 

[onlyfitidealboilers]

they will have anyone as long as you breath have an nvq and acs as long as you live where they need ya

 

[Jake1886]

adl, have you tried Baxi?

 

[adlplumbing]

baxi have guy in my local area

 

[novicebuteager]

The aa is run by bean counters,pen pushers and accountants.
all they want is your monthly direct debits and they are happy,they use the kpi system.(key performance indicators)
so the aa assume a gas engineer who does 12 calls a day and leaves none complete is more valueable than a gas engineer who completes 8 first visit fixes per day.
rant over.

Maybe you gas and plumbing guys here could start your own maintaince company and compete with aa.
or just set up a rival company,do decent work and wait till aa buys you out,take the cash and start again.

 

[nickso]

they use the kpi system.(key performance indicators)
so the aa assume a gas engineer who does 12 calls a day and leaves none complete is more valueable than a gas engineer who completes 8 first visit fixes per day.

i would suggest that is complete and utter bolllocks.

 

[adlplumbing]

i suggest if they want to run an emergency service they should have spread of employies out in stead all located in one area as i can get to manchester very easy and to bury and other side bolton and upto preston if need be all easy to drive from my house