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Offline Jaxcat

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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #15 on: May 09, 2011, 12:05:52 PM »
All gasfitters need to tell customers that gas appliances require annual servicing.  You won't see manufacturer's put this in big bold letters in their customer handbooks, not because they don't believe it, but because they don't want it influencing the purchase i.e. if a customer has to take into account an annual servicing cost they may not buy the appliance, HOWEVER most manufacturer's require regular servicing for the warranty to stay intact.  We write to our customers every year reminding them the product needs servicing and I would recommend this to other gasfitters - it gives you work over summer too when traditionally gas is a little slow.  You can also get little stickers printed that are like a car WOF and put them on the appliances with a recommended due date for future services.

Badger, everyone will be anxiously awaiting the PGDB decision (obviously not as much as you and Wal) - but let us know.  Good luck mate - sounds like you and Wal have done everything you could.  Bet your wife and kids will be glad when this is all over.
Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?  Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you?  (Walt Whitman 1819-1891)  American Poet

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« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2011, 05:07:16 PM »
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/4989216/Gas-employer-charged-with-faulty-work

So whats this about..........

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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2011, 06:27:40 PM »
Yes indeed - interesting the hearing was 5 April and a decision is still not handed down.  Are they waiting for the latest hearing outcome first do you think?
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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2011, 08:48:06 PM »
Who'd know, maybe Badger can fill us in on these charges?

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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #19 on: June 10, 2011, 07:02:10 PM »
Just wondering how Badger was getting on - any decision yet?

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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #20 on: June 11, 2011, 01:16:09 PM »
hi guys sorry haven't been on this for a while but as the people WHO OVER SEE US have ruined my business I have had to work away from my family ( and computer, I am now sat in an iternet cafe with some muppet rocking out to music off the internet )

 Hi Jax, thanks for asking. Apparently it is normal for the Board to take 2 months for a result............ :o

And to cap it all off after the hearing I asked the Board for a copy of my bosses pink copy for a pizza oven fitted after my original work ( NOT THE FRYERS, which weren't maintained for seven years, or serviced), up to this time I had been shown copies of the certifiers and gas suppliers ( both of with would have been in my old bosses possesion, as he was the gas supplier and certifier. Now all through the hearing I had questioned the fact that the test results didn't appear to be filled in on these bad photo copies. It was niggling me so I asked to see the original pink ( as it was part of the evidence at the hearing) to be told that.....

MY BOSS HAD NEVER REGISTERED IT ( MY BOSS WHO i HAD TRIED TO WARN ABOUT IN 2005 FOR DODGY CERTS WAS ISSUING THE CARBON COPIES TO CUSTOMERS BUT NOT REGISTERING THE ORIGINAL AT THE BOARD) AND THAT BELINDA GREER KNEW SOME 9 DAYS AFTER THE EXPLOSION, SO YOU GOT A GUY WHO HAD HIS TICKET GIFTED TO HIM AFTER ONE ORAL EXAM, BY THE VERY SAME "IMPARTIAL " INVESTIGATOR WHO WAS RUINING ME, AND i AM GUESSING THE REGISTRAR KNEW ALSO, WHO SENT OUT 6 LYING LETTERS ABOUT ME ( WHICH WERE LATER RECINDED ) AND I WAS PROVED TO BE RIGHT JUST 9 DAYS AFTER THE  EXPLOSION, I.E. MY BOSS WAS DOING DODGY STUFF WITH CERTS. MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND TO WHATS GOING ON, APPARENTLY ALL BROUGHT ON MY SELF BECAUSE i HAD RUBBED SOME PEOPLE UP THE WRONG WAY, WELL PEOPLE YOU AINT SEEN F**K ALL YET
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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #21 on: June 11, 2011, 10:49:35 PM »
I feel a court case coming on Badger... once the decision is handed down.  Just hope you don't have to wait too much longer.

2 months for a decision - I echo your  :o

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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #22 on: July 02, 2011, 01:42:10 PM »
Hi Jax, over two months, I have been told now I am to get a result on 11th July, that date rings a bell..............

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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #23 on: September 06, 2011, 07:30:46 AM »
Update Badger?  11 July has been and gone - how is it all going?

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« Reply #24 on: September 06, 2011, 08:55:30 PM »
Waiting to see what punishment they are going to deal out Jax, I can't do anything else until I get it.

First time I tried to tell them was 2003, and approximately one to two times a year, either direct or through MP's and MP, every year between, up until 2007 or 8.

Poor sod gets blown up early April 2009

Its now early Sept 2011, that's well over 8 years since I tried to warn them for the first time and nearly 2 and a half years since the poor sod nearly got killed and this could have been a manslaughter charge.

And even though I was found 95% innocent IN THEIR OWN BIASED COURT, I still have to wait.

You know what I am starting to loose my patience's and am becoming quite irked. ::)


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« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2011, 05:43:40 PM »
Still nothing, and I can't do anything until I get a final decision/punishment from them, on one f****ing charge (because the other charge can't exist with out this one charge) so I'm still in limbo, wife and kids living in a caravan, sold my home, worked away for three months and they can't give me a result............................... because then they lose control and it goes to a real court.


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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #26 on: October 26, 2011, 08:43:31 PM »
STILL NO PUNISHMENT AS OF 26/10/11, WITH OUT THE PUNISHMENT I CAN'T APPEAL >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D SO MORE LIMBO FOR ME.

APPARENTLY I SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR THE BENIFIT OF THE DOUBT I HAVE BEEN SHOWN, THE FACT IT WAS ALL TRUMPED UP AND BOLLOX IS A SIDE ISSUE.

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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #27 on: October 27, 2011, 06:07:24 AM »
Badger - this verges on the unbelievable.  Surely they have some policies or guidelines about how long this should take.  It's enough that you go through the discipline hearing and all that is entailed in that, I would have thought that the PGDB would then make a decision fairly promptly and then inform you of it bloody promptly.  They are being unnecessarily cruel in making you wait so long.  What recourse do you have?  Is there any at all? Do you think it is because they know you are going to appeal, but can't until the formal handing down of the decision?  Hang in there - how are the family coping?

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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #28 on: October 27, 2011, 07:04:45 PM »
Hey how about this for a stupid idea....
Why dont we federation members pay a small yearly fee into an account so federation members have a law fund that we can use to fight the pgdb and there stupid rulings...after hearing what happned to you badger i would have been glad if we had a fund for people to be able to stand up and challenge the pgdb...heck while were at it why dont we form our own board based on the federations principles of fairness and equality and leadership of logical thought and wisdom sprinkled with a touch of youth with there new ideas and fresh approach to old problems......Aaah dreams are free....

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Re: Gasfitter May Be Scapegoat
« Reply #29 on: October 27, 2011, 08:41:37 PM »
i'm with you thunder  ;D
Unless the moral improves the floggings will continue


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