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Yeah. |
we've done this on a |
time rate and it's, it's extra. |
But the, the vibes are bad. |
But please pay us. |
The vibes are bad |
No because |
it would be |
because a all consultants are gonna do that. |
The vibes are bad. |
. |
Who sorted out the problems with all the possessions and supervision for Leeds North West? |
Yeah. |
Me and Roger. |
Not the bloody project manager. |
Terry the vibes are wrong |
all the way round. |
Yeah. |
Whatever we do it is |
a risky situation. |
Well I |
Yeah. |
Yeah. |
Let us |
I'm happy to pare the job down Hugh but I'm not happy |
to start taking money off. |
No. |
There's a big difference between us and consultants isn't there? |
Because if you |
Yeah. |
Yeah. |
were outside, and you were running jobs really tight, flexitime |
Yeah. |
would go out of the window, staff would be working what hours, whatever hours were necessary to |
get it inside |
the job. |
Yeah. |
Not only that staff |
be silly expense claims and all this |
staff salaries staff salaries wou let's be fair. |
Outside |
Go out the window. |
staff salaries have gone down over the last eighteen months |
Too . |
I was speaking to a lad who left my office |
to go to a consultant. |
And he's been there now about three years and they're just surviving, and he's says, I'm earning roughly what I was here but I'm working literally twice the hours. |
And he says, and if I don't, I don't have a job. |
That's the reality of the situation. |
Correct. |
And I, I, I think we've, we've |
. |
He has to get the job done for a price. |
We've got to be very careful we're not tying our hands behind our backs. |
No. |
We can't play that game. |
. |
Yes we can. |
B but Terry let us look at the |
Oh yes we can. |
other thing. |
If, if we don't |
We haven't decided that. |
if we don't work on the strategy that I've been suggesting |
putting it on the table If you don't do that, I can guarantee that Bill , Bill is gonna play silly buggers. |
That I am certain of and Bill is gonna put in silly prices. |
But it won't do any good though will it? |
But it won't do us any good either cos we won't have any work to do. |
It depends who gets in first doesn't it? |
Really? |
What do you mean? |
What? |
Mm? |
What do you mean by get in first? |
Well in first |
is getting the bloody job. |
Well no. |
If we have a if we have a |
There's no w what are you? |
Let's, let's |
done in that way to |
Yeah. |
start with and let him . |
But you've already said forty five percent of our business |
Is with |
is with Regional Railways if we're |
I know. |
gonna take forty five percent of our business at less than the cost to do the job, that don't make good business sense. |
No. |
No. |
No. |
What we're saying is that, that we're gonna have we we're gonna put a bid in |
put a bid in at a certain price. |
and then we're gonna, we're gonna work down |
We're gonna w |
to that price. |
Or |
Or recover it. |
Or recover it. |
Or recover it. |