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jrplastering said:
havent seen it meself yet mate, over the last couple of months ive slowly been intergrated into a gang of spreads from hertford, doin more and more for them and he spoke to me the other day and said hes got a job with about 4 months skimming in fore street hertford and 8 houses in cheshunt
i was working for him just before christmas and since then hes asked me to work for him pretty much all the time, not too sure what to do though cos of my own work but the regular pay would be nice for a change
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Must be skimming the whole of Fore street lol
 
flynnyman said:
If it upsets you me calling someone a thicko how the **** do you get on, on site? Its common sense lucious dont make out its an exam of knowledge its common sense. if your son never knew the answers then maybe he needs to read up but like you say "what has changed so much on site that they have to add more to the book"? Your lads not new onto site by the sounds of it, so failing the test coz they have added more questions shouldnt make any odds. Maybe the test has got harder ive not taken it for a while but from what i can gather from people who have took it you would have to be a thicko to fail it.
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Ime not upset Flinny i just like stringing you along.
 
flynnyman said:
Have you subscribed to this mag? And what did it say?
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you seen the cover story about the iphone app ? thats the short end of the wedge !!theres plans to micro chip all contract site workers so they just scan you on the way in and on the way out !!will be implanted in your wrist ?
 
They say its for health and safety purposes ?? and contractors who sign up early to trials will be looked on favourably for upcoming contracts as they need to launch the scheme in various parts of the country ! local councils will also implement this scheme ...
 
The article is from last july if its the microchips in the cards its old news, and wont change **** just harder to get away from. I was on a job nearly ten years ago that scanned your eyes and that was a load of bollox coz it got rid of the guy on the desk s you could walk in and out when you felt like it.
 
flynnyman said:
The article is from last july if its the microchips in the cards its old news, and wont change **** just harder to get away from. I was on a job nearly ten years ago that scanned your eyes and that was a load of bollox coz it got rid of the guy on the desk s you could walk in and out when you felt like it.
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sorry flynny the date its implemented is april 5th 2014 !!thats when the trial kicks off ,you will be getting a letter if you are cscs reg,d before the end of 2013 so it says and will have to register at your local tax office !!!but the scheme becomes compulsery before 2017 ...sorry keep forgeting you cant see the article !!!
 
also goes on to say if i remember right ,all those who sign upto the cscs scheme will have a badge with "i have signed up to chimp and pin" on it if i remember right :flapper::RpS_lol:
 
plasmaniac said:
also goes on to say if i remember right ,all those who sign upto the cscs scheme will have a badge with "i have signed up to chimp and pin" on it if i remember right :flapper::RpS_lol:
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Didnt you get one of them badges when you subsribed to the mag at £150 a year ? :)
 
Why are we still seeing poor plastering flynny? You tell me how the cscs card has improved quality on site now were all qualified
then tell me what the point of it was
 
spunky said:
Why are we still seeing poor plastering flynny? You tell me how the cscs card has improved quality on site now were all qualified
then tell me what the point of it was
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Some people will always be rough no matter what, we cant send everyone who is not qualified back to college to learn everything proper so they have to be assessed. Ive never said it will improve quality, ive always said there will be a more qualified workforce but in time and because of this card quality will improve, because more and more people coming into the game are gonna have to get qualified which means more people attending college and maybe standards and prices increasing. (wishful thinking).
Also like ive said in the past coz of the way the NVQ2 have been given out they will be worthless and not the standard required on some sites. Thats when level 3 is king and gets you the job, 10 years ago you could get on site with just a number, 5 years later a labourers card was enough, 5 years later atleast a level 2 so what do you thinks gonna happen in another 5 years? Also read today in 2014 NVQs are gonna be needed on domestics, how they will police it im unsure but insurance work is easy to police.
 
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That's a very good point about people having to attend college I apologise for what I've said before and from know on shall we start afresh
 
Right spunky have you got a card? Yes
Why did you get a card? coz i couldnt get on site without it

Thats the point im making, im not for or against it it just exists and im not stupid to think its gonna go away
 
I'm up for lads getting pressurised into going into college full time or paying an extortionate amount when there past it, never thought of it that way tbh
 
You wont !!Battery hens in the making and now one can stop it ,no more site work for me ? not that i do it anyway ............
 
hmmm ok in what way do the card improve productivity ? do they magically do the work when you're on a lunch break ? ffs
 
Didnt someone post somethhing about CSCS being a charity registered abroad for tax avoidance or something or did i dream that.
 
cscs cards are the governments way of keeping track of you full stop ! anyone who has taken the test will know how stupid the questions are ? they the (gov) dont like self employed ,have you not seen and heard the ads telling you to make sure you declare all your earnings they say "we will find out if you dont" they are using the new system acting as a way to herd you into the confines of a stealth way "you will conform " basically they are saying its our way or the high way !!!personally i,m a free spirit and they can stick it up there arse.............
 
You could use you're card 3 or 20 times in a year and still be flat out it all depends who you work for
 
owls said:
5 pages on the cscs card.... :RpS_sleep:
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there was or is one that is 20 odd pages long lol, this is nothin and its always the same ones burying there heads in the sand but instead of being negative about it maybe we should encourage anyone who hasent got one maybe get one. They are expensive but they have got dearer because the funding isnt there (might be if you look but i cant be arsed). They will get dearer in my opinion, everything is getting dearer.
 
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