Buying work.

[High Scale]

I used to work for a company that bought work and now another local company I have been told is doing work for free just to get in with an organization.

Is this common through out the country and the industry?

[Hodge]

They must be stooooopid. let em get on with it.

[High Scale]

They must be stooooopid. let em get on with it.

 

Maybe, but they have been going for around thirty years, they can afford to do it, maybe the motive is to destroy opposition.

[roseyweb]

Bribes work better

[High Scale]

Bribes work better

 

You think? Have you experience?

[Mark Bolam]

My thoughts on this practice, and the words I would use to describe them, have no place on this fine website.

[dangerous brian]

No one should have the monopoly,but thats just my opinion.

[Frankie Lawrence]

all around us at the momment down here utility, rail, council, FC. some of it rummmour some of it from the horses mouth.

 

Usual big bussiness coruption has never and will never be stopped im afraid thats why the firm im with wont chase any council work unles its there on a plate

[Mesterh]

I know it happens a lot in other industries so I expect the same here.

 

Make a loss on the day to day tree contact but make up for it on the extras, the grass cutting, the litter picking the footpath reinstating etc etc.

 

Or just get some subbies in and do some bashing is the favorite way. I know that one from experience unfortunately!

[Rupe]

Thats not corruption, it may be stupidity.

 

Buying work is very common in many businesses, but it has to be very managed, i.e. you have to be able to qualify the returns you get from it (if any).

 

The only really bad thing about it seems to be when folk do it just to stay busy, that makes no sense and is not the same thing necessarily.

 

Supermarkets call it loss leaders, so they pay some of your pint of milk but they know you'll buy enough other stuff that the overall profit they make from you justifies the loss on the milk. Of course supermakets excell at this kind of thing and I doubt many tree companies truely have the ability to manage loss leaders in the same way.