Thursday, Jul 10, 2014 at 14:52
A series of postings maligning
Darwin businesses (and elsewhere) without some understanding of the real world. While I have had shoddy dealings with a few
places up here, over years of dealings with Southern ones we are most definitely not alone in poor or expensive service. Get over it people as your own
places aren't exactly something to praise, it's just that you have more choices and in many cases you aren't in a booming area with a shortage of qualified trades people. Inability to get suitable staff, or any staff, affects the
Darwin general businesses while qualified trades people are going to the mining/gas industries where they are paid more. Therefore other
places have to also pay higher wages to attract staff and cover their expensive accommodation. In the end it's us that have to bear the cost and time delays when we want work done and join the queue of people wanting similar. It's not the repair
places that are to blame for your urgent requirement for repair and servicing. The same all goes for other remote areas that are often also the subject of complaints like this across many
Forum's.
My most recent interstate case was something ordered from
Brisbane. Despite the Company missing the deadline that they agreed to for sending the items they then just lazily used their normal freight company and they trucked it to
Sydney, then
Adelaide then on a slow freight train to
Darwin. I could have driven to
Brisbane and personally picked it up and beaten the train back here.
In another case where a
Darwin vehicle Dealer wasn't to blame for the delay a replacement oxygen sensor was required. Nationally there wasn't another in the country. The replacement had to come from Japan but the national office only ordered one but it was found to be faulty when it finally arrive up here weeks later. More weeks delay then happened. I suppose a whingeing holiday maker would be blaming the local Dealer for them being inconvenienced.
In the particular case of the
Darwin Nissan Dealer I did have many dealings with them some years ago and they were having significant problems attracting staff, as were many other businesses. We have a very low unemployment rate up here and despite interstate advertising for vacancies many
places just couldn't get enough applicants across a wide range of trades. The only way out was for recruitment from overseas to fill the gaps. It seems that welfare is just
too easy as against moving to where the jobs are.
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