mjr2000

I have recently had my eyes tested at Specsavers and had the usual tests, but I also had a OCT Scan, and a peripheral vision scan. Very good.

Give it a try!

I would suggest B & Q or Screwfix or Alltools.

Does he get additional pay for been a supervisor? i am guessing that he does. Can he just be a fitter and be happy in that role? A supervision role i would say now does include certain managerial duties, and job costing would be fair, after all if a fault occurs, then why not get it costed and the best price for the company??? I would like to ask the OP what role does her partner want and realistically be paid for?

I previously worked for a very large fire & security organisation (the worlds largest and it has 3 letters as their name), and pretty much every year, usually after year end, they made changes to terms and conditions. They gave a minimum of 30 days notice of changes, sometimes more. The reasons given were usually that the business needs to change to adapt to what the market/customers wanted. It was more likely to be what shareholders wanted, but they still gave adequate notice of change. I think it is inaccurate to say that Larger companies have bigger HR Departments and have written policies and procedures in place and also trade unions, so they cannot just change things and get away with it. I think you will find it is smaller companies that "get away with it".

Tell me you dont sell pre-owned condoms aswell?? :hihi::hihi:

It would depend on your location and what time of the day you would be looking at.

So so wrong and such an old fashioned view. I designed and installed my own kitchen splashback, and i am a very functioning MAN! I will expect the usual blah, blah about kitchen purchase to be women orientated, but that is far from the case now. Oliver wrote: He was giving an idea for market and did we think it had legs, and to be fair he has. That been the case and being SO specific to that product then it would be useful to ALSO use the general discussion forum. "Always looking for new things to produce" and to be dismissed in such a way, hardly sums up business advice or opinion. Incidently, would gladly be a moderator.

Oliver asked: This is very much related to business as Oliver asked for opinion into widening his own business. He mentioned Kitchen splashbacks as an idea, but this could be utilised in different ways, and could have a commercial element that he could capitalise on. This was NOT a general question and WAS related to BUSINESS, and as such should be left in this section, but hey i'm not a moderator, so not my decision. Oliver, really good luck in your business venture, great idea.

Only if it is relevent to the experience, not much good having 10 years experience as a hotel cook, but wanting a job as a mechanic.

If this is a commercial property then if you are the owner or "responsible person" then it is your responsibility to carry out a fire risk assessment, whether you do that yourself, or get someone such as myself is up to you, but the risk assessment should be "suitable and sufficient" as would be defined by a fire officer. If you give your local fire officer a call, they probably would give you advice as they very approachable in that respect, but it would lead to them requiring a fire risk assessment to be conducted anyway, as this is a legal requirement. You can block an escape route, but you would have to ensure that there is suitable means of escape. Additional protection may be required, such as smoke detection, emergency lighting, but that should again be picked up on your fire risk assessment. Let me know if you require further advice.

Steam Rollers do a good job aswell, but they flatten everything underneath. Opinion is good, so is experience, doesn't mean that it is relevant or valid though. LEP's, Business Link, Senta, Chamber etc, etc, etc are the same entity as they always have and will be. They are not particularly useful, certainly not cost effective, yet we still have these in place, because SME's need them, or thats what we are told. We dont! Total waste of money, people in there are far too overpaid, i would rather them divide all the money up and give me £1. At least i know that it would be spent more wisely and at least towards MY business.

The reason i put my age was to signify what i did then. It was an event in time. My point was that back then, i didnt have the greatest understanding of business, even though i had been on enterprise courses, so technically speaking i may have got a "licence" but it wouldnt have meant anything. The actual running of the business gave me the experience and understanding and not the pre-information. I do agree that having some guidance may help, but that information is freely available anyhow, just look on the internet. One of my factual points with regards to what i do, is that 53% of businesess still havent done a fire risk assessment. This includes new startups as well as established businesses. There is relevance to the "licence" of informing the new startups, but legislation changes constantly, so the "licence" may have been sufficient say two years ago, but how does the business know what is required now? If something happens, does this mean that the business can say, "well i did get my licence two years ago, so i must be ok" I still have businesses telling me its ok we have a fire certificate. The use of them was withdrawn in 2006. How to run a business, taxation, legislation changes are fluid and change, a "licence" only says you were ok then, how about now?

So perhaps i shouldn't have been in business at 19 then? I dont know anything about you, so if you have a licence to be in business, does that mean your necessarily any good at web design? Similarly, if you have a licence for web design, does that mean your business is any good? The argument is too flawed and couldn't work. Been members of trade bodies and iso9001 etc would be more beneficial.

The "Business License" would never or should work. Dragons Den probably would never exist if that was the case. If i had an idea, a great idea, but was clueless about how to do payroll, accounts etc and i needed a licence to allow it to happen, then the chances are it wouldn't happen. If the licence was given, on say, the product and service, who would be the "examiner"? Who would decide whether I "passed" and how would they be qualified in say something completely new? All we end up with, is a bunch of overpaid, yet again, government offshoots trying to dictate who is responsible to be in business. I had my first business when i was 19, and under the licence idea, i would have never been able to, i didnt know enough. But i had that business for 2 years, and it gave me enormous amount of experience and confidence, im 36 now, so when i set up my new business over the last 18 months, i was in a far better position to be in. So does that mean i would now be right for a licence? I do agree with regards to ability and trying to get around the "cowboy" element, but i think most people on here have had a bad experience once or twice in the past, but you learn from it and look more closely at someones work, the recommendations. Its called doing your homework.