Monday, Jul 08, 2013 at 22:31
Not a poor statement at all.....just a sad statement of fact....the standard of work among automotive accessory fitters is for the most part disapointing, quite a lot of it down right butcherous.
Almost without exception they are largely unqualified labourers with no formal trade training of any sort...there is no system of regulation.
A very large portion of what people think are factory accessories and fitted by the dealer or factory are in fact generic locally produced items with no factory design input and or fitted by low wage itinerant contractors and not the dealer
There may be a few accessory fitters out here who do know what they are doing and have technical ability, a comitment to quality and attention to detail.
But they will be the exception rather than the rule.
As far as my primary trade, a communications technician.....the vast majority, do poor work, have little more than a cablers licence and can not be called tradesmen in any sence of the word.
I am a formally Trade trained communications technician, from a time when we had a communications system that was considered mission critcal and we trained people properly.
In my original training I spent more classroom hours, more formal hand skill training and more off job practiacal training than most most trades now do outside of the military or aerospace industries.
These days most trades do 21 to a maximum of 28 weeks of College in their entire apprenticship..when I did my trade we did 24 weeks before our first field break and being allowed near real live equipment.
we then did a further two stints of 12 weeks colledge, then followed by equipment specific training in our 4 year apprenticship.
These days they are taking green recruits and in 6 weeks they have a "cabler trainee" working in the field on their own.
After 12 months and little or no more formal training can be issued with a Certificate 3.
Most basic trades these days are certificate 3 qualifications.
These days even the cablers employed by the major networks cant even be botherd filling in cable records.
Discusting work practice, outright disregard of regulations and ignorance of even the basic technical principles is the norm now in my original trade.
Walk up to many communications installations and it is plain and obvious that the work on those sites has been done by a conga line of those who simply do not care.
We live in a day and age where quality is not generally valued especially by those providing the service..and that is right across all areas of business.
No matter what it is, I
check everything that anybody else does for me.....and I expect it of others.
A quality tradesman will be happy to be inspected at any time.....because it will be the rare case that the customer, will ever see what that tradesman puts into their work.
Sorry but quality work is a very rare thing these days.
cheers
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