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Posted by Wayne on June 07, 2004 at 16:43:19 from (149.174.164.79):
Hey ya'll I thought I'd seen a good amount of stupidity in my day but what I saw today tops it all. Dad and I run a heavy equipment repair business that consists of just the two of us. We work on alot of the old friction cranes and as a result pick up alot of work for bigger companies/quarries that still use them for dragline work. We got a package today from one of our bigger customers that is trying something new.....registering all of their venders, suppliers, etc. This registration is through a third party that we now will have to send all of our company information, including MSHA paper work, insurance informaton, etc etc etc. Basically they want copies of everything but your birth certificate...and I don't see that as being far behind after this. Supposidly alot of big corperations are going to this to save themselves from all the paperwork hassels associated with all the different vendors coming in individually at their different plants, etc to insure they all meet the "companies criteria" for a vendor. Heck I always thought if the criteria for qualification was that you knew your job, did it right, and the customer was happy. I never heard of anybody needing a third party to tell you that the man that's been keeping your equipment up for 5 years was actually able to do the job he was already doing. This is the kind of stuipe sh-- a colledge educated idiot, wearing a suit, sitting behind a desk does to the construction industry........ Now here's the kicker.........WE HAVE TO PAY TO FILE WITH THE THIRD PARTY. Basically it amounts to us having to pay for the privledge of working on this customers equipment. We're gonna have to pay right at $600 per year to stay in this oufits files yet they provide no actual service to us, beyond hanging onto our paperwork for the customer to access easily. If we're gonna continue to work for them we have no choice but to file. What is really funny though is how much does this corporation think it's gonna save each year by doing this. Now all they have to do is keep about 6 sheets of paper on file for us at one plant showing MSHA and insurance info. That's a once a year thing for the office guy to hand us the papers and for us to sign them and him to refile them...about 5 minutes or maybe $10 max out of their pocket. Now that 5 minutes is gonna cost them a minimum of $600, at least from us, and I imagine from many of their other suppliers also. Does somebody in that company actually think any of their vendors is gonna pay out money like that and not charge it back to them in some way????If they do their crazy..... In the end that means us/other vendors raising our rates, the customer raising their prices to pay for the vendors increaseses, and in the end higher prices for the consumer........In the future when you wonder why things in the US cost so much, look at all the BS the corporations highly educated management throw down and you'll realize that the old saying is true.......Sh-- always rolls downhill.....and the consumer is always at the bottom..........
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