Declining service from all sides

Could write a similar post myself, no one interested in customer service anymore, just your money but the they even want to work for that.

Had a qualified sparky in checking a motor on the meal bin that stopped working that is driven with invertor from 3 phase to 1 phase, he verified she had power but couldn't get it to turn, and that was all he could do for me...

Pulled up the tutorial video for the invertor model and how to troubleshoot issues and found the issue where it had reset back to 50hz instead of 60hz needed to get motor turning, it's unreal how useful youtube can be sometimes in fairness

Talking to a salesman at the ploughing for teatdip. We'll be in your yard next week. Never came after.

Out for a meal today, bit of a family get together. Two heineken and a heineken zero ordered at the table. All three came in the same glass and they gave one of the heineken to the guy driving. Also gave a vodka to a non-drinker. Just didn't care. That's a serious blunder for bar staff.

Dont get me started on the banks, nearly killed me dealing with aib last year. They just dont care. My parents dealt with the same chemist for years, my dad's prescription was short some tablets, he went back to them and they said he was doting they don't make mistakes. They moved chemist.

Govt around the world won't tackle companies and insurance company's anti consumer practices. If they were forced to honour warranties this wouldn't happen.

I find I treat emails or communications as if I'm not going to get a reply. Especially at work. I get held up so often, I now have a "if no reply I'll proceed as follows". Where I can .

Often I can't progress something because I simply have no communication from someone or a company. It's a key reason why outsourcing for us is failing.

At the voting the other day at a small country school there were two tables with two people at each table handing out the voting cards. So four people to hand out a piece of paper and draw a line through a name. Used only ever be two people.

This is the way the country has gone. Everything is now a big job that takes twice the length of time to do or twice the manpower.

sometimes you pay for what you get, but I take my small bits of business to where I get looked after and have confidence that I am valued as a customer. Places like that hopefully will pull through when things swing the other way again, which it will at some stage… agree with the premise of the OP though, there are a lot of places that want to take handy money

If you buy from whom I think down your side I’m finding deli every a lot slower and request for payment a lot quicker …very reluctant to change because products are very good and work well

We moved house recently and the old deck needed replacing, rang around and managed to get two quotes. One was saying he wouldn't be able to get around to us until ten or so months later, the other said something similar and then suddenly he rang saying he could start the next day as another job had cancelled. He was very pushy but we simply weren't able to fit into his schedule at such short notice.

I did some basic repairs instead and we said we'd hang on until this busy period eases off and some sanity enters the market.

On the plus side we managed to get an electrician to do a few jobs, but he really could only fit us in an odd day here, an odd day there. Anyway we got everything we needed done but when it came to paying him he was nearly impossible to pin down, I texted him several times but at this stage he's so busy I'm sure he's forgot.

Anyway if things slow down I'm sure he'll remember.

Glanbia are very slow at delivering stuff I find. That why id never order meal off them. Agreed on the banks. Mortgage was a fecking nightmare. Finance Ireland were more straightforward to deal with for agri finance in fairness.

Tradesmen are a law onto themselves

It’s 2 people for each box. The parish here is divided by a river. One box for North of the river and the other for South of the river.

I'm building and the biggest delay I've had was electricians. COuldn't for the life of me get one to commit. 2 different lads came, quoted, agreed on process and then when they were due to start said they couldn't do it. Back to square one. Delayed the build 6 months at least. Any tradesman I have got have been paid on the Friday before they leave. That's what i promised them and have been blessed then with a) the people that turned up weren't layabout chancers and b) all did good work (except the electricians who are a nightmare)

Tractor is banjaxed here and waiting since Wednesday for someone to call out to get it repaired. Sitting here all day waiting cos I was promised they'd be on this morning.

@RightTurnClyde Which one of Dairy directs are u using?

I think the problem with co-op's is delivery is contracted out, I know one logistics firm that collect twice a week, but bring it to their yard and won't go out until the lorry is near full, some farmers waiting a couple of weeks but being told it on its way.

While at the same time white vans are racing around the country with mostly small value items, whoever made the decision in àn post years ago to concentrate on letters should be sho#. Covid seems to have changed the mindset with a lot of people.

I'd rate AnPost the best by far government agency.

Building also and have been lucky enough in lads coming when they say etc. in fact I’ve had lads ringing me to come and I not having things ready for them (jobs I’m doing myself).

I always like to get lads paid quick too but some lads don’t seem to want to be paid. I’ve had to separate trades now that have taken months to pay as they keep saying “we will sort it again” when I try to get it sorted.

Put it in an escrow account. Maybe the one used for the APPLE money?

Had a young lad beside us 17, trained him in during the Xmas and he agreed he'd do a few hours each evening 4 nights a week from start of February was okay for the 1st 3 weeks, then was able to do 2 nights now, no reply at all this week when I enquired what's evenings he could do...

Was paying him 20 euro a hour, if a 17 year old can't be arsed to show up for that kind of money, you start to realise relying on outside labour in a farming situation is becoming nearly impossible in a economy with full employment

Jaysus that's some money at 17 and learning a skill. I was lifting boxes not that long ago (2015) for €7 cash in hand. Worked 6 days a week for 10 hours a day. Lunch not paid. €420 a week for 10 weeks on summer though was a nice ball of cash going back to college.

Same boat here lads are becoming totally unreliable. Have a young fella who wants the idea of I'm working but not the actual working bit .... had to tell him it wasn't working out there at the weekend.he Didn't care one bit. I'm blessed with one lad who's doing 4 milkings a week minimum and a few more if he can fit them in

It's the time wasted training in a new lad to a level you can leave him on his own that bothers me, then they'll usually flake off shortly after....

The wife was always at me to get in help etc in the evenings to finish up earlier etc, she's finally seeing after 3 years of trying to find a person thats reliably and stays for any length of time is becoming virtually impossible, it's a constant merry go round