PW
Well-known member
I do accept that in the current climate any avenue of employment will be gainfully pursued but I just wanted to gauge the Forums views.
When we were all working full kilter it used to drive me mad when Companies like Laing O Rourke would employ scaffolders directly, As a Manager of a business it used to be bad enough losing your trained and experienced lads(At considerable expense and time to ourselves may I add) to other scaffolding companies, but to then lose them to a company like LOR I thought was morally wrong.
Please dont think I'm against competition at the end of the day "Money Talks" but business's like LOR dont (As far as Im aware) invest in their lads with scaffold courses etc and will only accept trained and carded lads.
In my view they are not only taking work away from the sub contracting scaffolding companies that had worked for them for years but they took trained lads with them as well!! As an old friend of mine would say: "The basta*ds would not only pluck your eyeballs out but half an hour later the c*nts would be back for your eyebrows!!"
I would be intrested to hear of their work conditions also...I lost a few lads to them with the promise of a lot more than we could offer but not all was as it seemed.
Anyones views please??
Cheers
Paul
When we were all working full kilter it used to drive me mad when Companies like Laing O Rourke would employ scaffolders directly, As a Manager of a business it used to be bad enough losing your trained and experienced lads(At considerable expense and time to ourselves may I add) to other scaffolding companies, but to then lose them to a company like LOR I thought was morally wrong.
Please dont think I'm against competition at the end of the day "Money Talks" but business's like LOR dont (As far as Im aware) invest in their lads with scaffold courses etc and will only accept trained and carded lads.
In my view they are not only taking work away from the sub contracting scaffolding companies that had worked for them for years but they took trained lads with them as well!! As an old friend of mine would say: "The basta*ds would not only pluck your eyeballs out but half an hour later the c*nts would be back for your eyebrows!!"
I would be intrested to hear of their work conditions also...I lost a few lads to them with the promise of a lot more than we could offer but not all was as it seemed.
Anyones views please??
Cheers
Paul
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