Hyndburn Hypocrites

mrskitty · 04-04-2008, 12:52

Sorry i meant Hyndburn homes.....
Last year i had a couple of leaflets through my door about safety from HH,one of the issues being about checking every unknown callers ID and making sure everything was ligitimate-even to the point of sending workmen/women away if they had not phoned in advance to say they were coming round.
Im happy enough with that-good on them making people aware of bogus callers and for caring.........do they b*ggery.
Who landed on my doorstep on Wednesday?A HH gas man who gave me his.....wait for it.......bank card as ID!

yea right mate....sure your stepping foot in my house,no chance.....ya might nick some of my pink things

He was sat in his van outside (that had NO HH markings) so i pretended to do litter picking in my garden n got his number plate.....called HH and apparently his a temp that started on Monday that has no ID.......ah well thats fine then,.....not.
I still refused him in so they sent a different guy out to me today.

*.......n i offered him a brew cos he showed me his ID twice haha*

rant over.

emzy · 04-04-2008, 12:59

Ive luckily never had any problems like that with them, they have always shown id (and if not its coz i already know them) but will be sure to check in future if they dont provide me with anything.

Thanks for the warning

derekgas · 04-04-2008, 13:05

Worth the girls knowing that hh have a girl gas engineer, she is really nice, I presume you could ask for a female if you preferred.

mrskitty · 04-04-2008, 13:09

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Originally Posted by derekgas

Worth the girls knowing that hh have a girl gas engineer, she is really nice, I presume you could ask for a female if you preferred.

She is lovely,thats the one that came last year.....better looking than me though so she aint coming in my house

emamum · 04-04-2008, 13:16

emzy, is that the one that came to yours that time..... you-know-who said she couldnt be a gas engineer cos she was a woman pmsl

MargaretR · 04-04-2008, 13:28

She is nice - came to my house during the fitting of new central heating last March.
The other chaps were all excited about their 'new apprentice' and made a fuss of her.

emzy · 04-04-2008, 13:38

Yep, thats the one

The coverstaion went :

S - "who was that"
Me - "that was the gas engineer, came to turn gas on"
S - "but it cant be, that was a woman"

Hmmm............

BERNADETTE · 04-04-2008, 13:49

Well done misskitty for sticking to your guns. The ID should have been ready for the new worker whether he was temp or not.

emamum · 04-04-2008, 13:51

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Originally Posted by emzy

Yep, thats the one

The coverstaion went :

S - "who was that"
Me - "that was the gas engineer, came to turn gas on"
S - "but it cant be, that was a woman"

Hmmm............

he went on about it for ages.......couldnt believe it!
I just said..... yeah, they are allowed you know!

cherokee · 04-04-2008, 13:57

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Well done misskitty for sticking to your guns. The ID should have been ready for the new worker whether he was temp or not.

ere ere
you just cant be too sure these days good on ya kitty

MargaretR · 04-04-2008, 14:02

There is some news on the Accy Obs website today about Hyndburn Homes doing improvements at Wellington Court and leaving pensioners without heating for days.
A few months ago there was word that they have electric heaters to provide for such cases. It looks like they haven't enough of them.
I think the problem stems from the use of subcontractors who are not actual HH employees.

emamum · 04-04-2008, 14:05

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Originally Posted by [email protected]

There is some news on the Accy Obs website today about Hyndburn Homes doing improvements at Wellington Court and leaving pensioners without heating for days.
A few months ago there was word that they have electric heaters to provide for such cases. It looks like they haven't enough of them.
I think the problem stems from the use of subcontractors who are not actual HH employees.

The heaters they lend you are rubbish anyway and use up alot of electric, the ones i was lent heated about a foot in front of them..... the rest of the house was freezing.

MargaretR · 04-04-2008, 14:06

I have just looked again at Accy Obs and that bit of news is not there anymore - they often remove pages like that.

harwood red · 05-04-2008, 09:32

I do many home visits especially to vulnerable people and it amazes me how many people still don't ask for ID

derekgas · 05-04-2008, 21:44

Last month I went to a customer and she asked for my corgi card, I proceeded to put my shoe covers on whilst she checked the card, she looked on the BACK of the card, where the list of elements is ie gas fires, water heaters etc, she said, of all the people who have worked here lately, you are the first to use shoe covers to protect the carpet! touche', i said, you are the first person EVER to check my card back and front!