WHEN DID YOU WANT THAT DONE FOR?
May 13th, or Friday the 13th of May 2005, these luxury flats, behind my house at the time, were up in flames. Although the fire did some serious damage, 9 months have passed and the work is not yet finished.
This sort of manual work seems to take a ridiculous amount of time here and nothing gets done when planned.
Example:
When term started at the University of York in October, the University had to put up some forty students in shared reading rooms with cots and no place for their belongings. The company employed to build the dorms designed to house them had not met the deadline! These students, most of whom were international students and therefore explicitly promised state of the art accommodation, were forced to band together with strangers and sign on to independent housing contracts off campus.
Example:
The main girls changing rooms have been out of operation for months for refitting. Again this job should have been completed in October. Hence we have no lockers for storing valuables, etc.
Example:
It took my parents months to have their new kitchen counter, stove and sink fitted before they put the house up for sale. Booked in October for November the man for the job simply didn't turn up on the day. It was eventually completed in January of last year.
I'm sure the solution to this problem is to send people to university, landing thousands of people in debt for a future that they would otherwise still get, while not promoting apprenticeships for the plumbers, electricians, painters, plasterers and builders this country desperately needs. Thanks Tony!
Another 9 months?
Original story: http://ang-ela.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_ang-ela_archive.html
This sort of manual work seems to take a ridiculous amount of time here and nothing gets done when planned.
Example:
When term started at the University of York in October, the University had to put up some forty students in shared reading rooms with cots and no place for their belongings. The company employed to build the dorms designed to house them had not met the deadline! These students, most of whom were international students and therefore explicitly promised state of the art accommodation, were forced to band together with strangers and sign on to independent housing contracts off campus.
Example:
The main girls changing rooms have been out of operation for months for refitting. Again this job should have been completed in October. Hence we have no lockers for storing valuables, etc.
Example:It took my parents months to have their new kitchen counter, stove and sink fitted before they put the house up for sale. Booked in October for November the man for the job simply didn't turn up on the day. It was eventually completed in January of last year.
I'm sure the solution to this problem is to send people to university, landing thousands of people in debt for a future that they would otherwise still get, while not promoting apprenticeships for the plumbers, electricians, painters, plasterers and builders this country desperately needs. Thanks Tony!
Another 9 months?
Original story: http://ang-ela.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_ang-ela_archive.html
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