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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 5281496" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>One has to remember that if the householder was up against a wall with regards to one of the utilities, or someone like Network Rail, or the local council, would they cut him any slack? No, and there are people on here I expect who have been had over a barrel by the likes of the water or power companies. They never say 'Oh you want your transformer up rating? Thats fine, you're so helpful to our line crews when they need access we'll do it for free' do they? They send you a letter from some faceless nobody at HQ saying 'That'll be £45k + vat, this quote is valid for 28 days'. No face to face personal touch there.</p><p></p><p>It comes back to the 'Are farmers pushovers?' thread a while ago. Because we are usually owner occupiers running our businesses ourselves, and we deal with all queries from outside bodies and people on a personal basis, we never get to be all 'corporate' about anything, its always face to face. And thats hard for many people, to be hard nosed face to face, when the person asking knows its entirely within your power to say yea or nay. But a lot easier to when you're an employee of a large corporate body 'just doing my job'.</p><p></p><p>Its one of the things I've learned as I've got older, when faced with making these sort of decisions, don't worry how others may view you afterwards, just trust your own sense of what is fair, and put that on the table and leave it there. If they don't like it they don't have to deal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 5281496, member: 818"] One has to remember that if the householder was up against a wall with regards to one of the utilities, or someone like Network Rail, or the local council, would they cut him any slack? No, and there are people on here I expect who have been had over a barrel by the likes of the water or power companies. They never say 'Oh you want your transformer up rating? Thats fine, you're so helpful to our line crews when they need access we'll do it for free' do they? They send you a letter from some faceless nobody at HQ saying 'That'll be £45k + vat, this quote is valid for 28 days'. No face to face personal touch there. It comes back to the 'Are farmers pushovers?' thread a while ago. Because we are usually owner occupiers running our businesses ourselves, and we deal with all queries from outside bodies and people on a personal basis, we never get to be all 'corporate' about anything, its always face to face. And thats hard for many people, to be hard nosed face to face, when the person asking knows its entirely within your power to say yea or nay. But a lot easier to when you're an employee of a large corporate body 'just doing my job'. Its one of the things I've learned as I've got older, when faced with making these sort of decisions, don't worry how others may view you afterwards, just trust your own sense of what is fair, and put that on the table and leave it there. If they don't like it they don't have to deal. [/QUOTE]
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