The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Certain large Car SupermarketsI have a website detailing all the problems I had with a Car i bought from a certain large Used Car Supermarket. I wont name and shame but their name amusingly rhymes with Shaft. Oh sod it. Carcraft.
Anyway i had an email from an ex employee there. Speaks for itself really:
hi been looking through your site..... god how i laughed you dont even know the half of it mate.. i worked there for 5 years at one of the sites were shall i start... one man bought a citreon xantia, driving home front whell comes off hits the central reservation smashes it up on the bypass .. we collect the car on a truck give him a two year old astra and rip up his finance package to keep him quiet... once a car had a electrical fire behind the dash in valet, was going out on an instant told to leave windows sown and spray lot of air freshner in it once out of the gates its up to the warenty company...
oh and lots of car with jig marks underneath them sold for top cash... the list goes on... like i say i worked behind the scenes i seen alot of shit go on and would rather go to a scrappers to get a car...
Sadly this wasnt the only message. Another one read something like this:
The people who work at Carcraft are making do with a bad lot - everything is run on commission terms so they are having to sell their own grandmothers to make a reasonable salary. This includes the admin staff as well.
Basically they pay lip service to customer service - there is no real commitment. Customers are potential sources of revenue to be exploited to the max.
Don't know of anyone else who might help you - most people I know who are ex-carcraft are so glad to be out of the place that they don't want any reminders of their time there!
I can tell you that they have such a bad reputation locally in Rochdale that they don't put the company name on job adverts any more as they found that they weren't getting any responses, although this may have changed recently.
They have a huge staff-turnover problem.
(, Tue 2 Oct 2007, 8:39, Reply)
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