| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Panic over | |
| Posted by: | Nicholas Beard | |
| Date/Time: | 16/08/18 07:27:00 |
| I wonder will the apprrenticeships here be up to German standards. There are big question marks concerning British apprenticeships. I was watching a programme where a man in the British Army in Germany who worked on motor transport was redundant in that he did not want to returm to the UK. He applied to MAN and was told he would have to go on a training course to bring him up to MAN standards. He agreed but drew attention to the fact he had served a British Army apprenticeship. He said they just shrugged it off in a polite manner although he worked on MAN lorries in the British Army. Anyway he got the job and started the training. He said the German training was so good it made ours look pityful. We now learn IT professionals are leaving the UK and some UK companies are relocating to Spain where staff are plentiful. Where are the UK IT professionals? As you say the Polish decorators are going, partly because of the pound I have heard. We must raise our standards. Eg you ask for a estimate to have a fence painted. The decorator should be obliged to give you an estimate containg the cost of the materials and their make and type. Time to be spent on preparation eg rub down any metal parts and with what etc. The time to be spent on painting and cost. I had a fence painted in Europe and the estimate was two and a half pages. The painters had been to technical college for two years and then trained for a year with the company. |