Hmmm, lets see.
Recession, people lose jobs, have no money, become desperate.....i think the alarm industry is about to boom.
Hmmm, lets see.
Recession, people lose jobs, have no money, become desperate.....i think the alarm industry is about to boom.
Things don't look too good at the moment for many firms in the security business at the moment - particularly in NSW.
In the last few weeks their has been quite a few job loses.
Siemens BT Products closed their doors, with almost all jobs gone.
Anixter made 7 or so jobs redundant.
Chubb have eliminated positions.
ADT have reduced positions.
Dedicated Micros have also reduced jobs, via attrition and elimination.
Including FastWRX's favourite salesperson..................
Although many of these have moved to other positions in the industry, eventually in the game of musical chairs the music stops - and somebody is left without a chair.
Since my last post in this thread things have picked up greatly. Lets hope it is not just the pre-christmas holiday rush.
Last edited by kiwitech; 22-11-08 at 09:53 AM. Reason: spelling
well she's no longer my favourite salesperson now, she's my favourite unemployed person
Actually she's working now...ON HER TAN!!!
We're seeing a lot more businesses holding out payment for longer and longer, I've just sent two debts to the sheriff this week, with two more going next week.
Last year we had One
C'mon FastWRX, surely you can offer the poor lass a job?
i have jobs booked for the next three months at the moment.
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Pushka garuntee judgement (unless defended) or you get 100% of your money back.
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Obviously the States are a year ahead of most of the rest of the world and even their security industry has been affected by the recession. UK installers are now starting to feel it and ADT are closing branches over there.
From the feedback I get from down under, either you are going to escape the worst of it or there is a delay in it reaching you.
Most of my enquiries now come from places like Indonesia, Africa and other "non-Western" countries that don't seem as badly affected.
Developer of VoIP2Go at ozvoip.net - Alarm compatible VoIP Network
ADT seem to be massive over in the Uk, when i was holidaying over chrissy i saw their decoy sounders everywhere :P big fugly yellow things hha
LOL - They are not decoys. They are often the most important part of the alarm system as most people rely on them to scare away intruders. There is a "bell box" on every alarm system in the UK and the only decoys you will see are usually placed at the rear of the protected premises.
If the site is monitored, the installer has to program a ten minute delay on the audible warning to give the cops a chance to catch any intruders. Makes their detection rates and crime figures look good
Developer of VoIP2Go at ozvoip.net - Alarm compatible VoIP Network
ooh realllyy?
so the alarms dont sound until a set period has elapsed?
That's awesome :P
Bet the Police over there don't charge for attendances to holdups either
rofl
Thats all right if the cops can attend in under 10 mins.
Over here it would take the cops longer than 10 mins to decide whether to attend or not, finding out if the alarm has be verified and meets new rules of attendance let alone trying to catch anyone. They make money from just answering the phone call.......why go out and do the job that they are paid for.
Mmmm.... makes you wonder why everyone is scrambling for the latest mega multi-path, secure, encypted, redundant, high speed, 60 second polling, fully supervised, certificated, standards approved super solutions when there is no system in place to gaurantee a simple police response
I for one cannot work it all out. The Brits may still be sending very basic fire, panic, burglar and open/close signals without zone info but at least every system is gauranteed a response as the police publish their response times and have to be seen to meet them.
Developer of VoIP2Go at ozvoip.net - Alarm compatible VoIP Network
I suppose when you squeeze (how many million?) poms in a place as small as Pomgolia you can expect police attendance within a specified time.
If McDonalds could speed up their drive-thru service, then we too could expect the same attendance.
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