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Offline robbo

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Re: cpd points
« Reply #30 on: November 18, 2012, 05:02:40 PM »
hi guys/Rodza  (Its funny how I can re-build the brakes in my 39 year old holden) Don`t speak to soon!! cheers

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Re: cpd points
« Reply #31 on: November 19, 2012, 06:46:23 PM »
Well as long as you are good at what you do no one can stop you from backyard diy automotive if you catch what im getting at.

But with plumbing its much different...Told my WOF inspector what I had done, he inspected,everything was up to scratch, pass etc.

 Its not like I had to have a signed repair sheet from my mechanic saying its all done by a professional mechanic before he would even look at it. If the powers that be wanted in the auto world they could ban people from their own oil changes even,let alone brakes...as is a risk to public safety if oil leaks onto the road causing a crash....but its not. What the board have created is a joke...people die every day from things 100 times worse than plumbing that are virtually unregulated. its just an excuse to bleed more money from us.
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Re: cpd points
« Reply #32 on: November 20, 2012, 08:17:25 AM »
hi guys/Rodza, (people die every day from things 100 times worse than plumbing that are virtually unregulated) yeah car accidents is just one example,cheers

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Re: cpd points
« Reply #33 on: November 20, 2012, 05:08:28 PM »
and cancer!... think its the number one killer isnt it ? :(
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Re: cpd points
« Reply #34 on: November 20, 2012, 05:58:35 PM »
I've been thru the list of courses for drainlaying and there are very few that are technical. Almost all are Health & Safety. How is one supposed to g et the technical points

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« Reply #35 on: November 20, 2012, 11:30:28 PM »
where do they keep the list of courses wombles?

not sure how you would get the technical - maybe look at some civil papers?

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« Reply #36 on: November 21, 2012, 07:08:50 AM »
How much can you learn, relearn and learn again over a career of say 30 years......yet another well thought out bag of crap imposed by the "experts".

It used to be, and had been for 100's if not 1000's of years that someone who was involved in a trade did an apprenticship, spent time as an improver....then through the experience gained became a master at his/her craft and then passed that knowledge on to his apprentices and improvers.....until someone saw a profit to be made.

I wonder how much CPD the imposers of CPD do, because from my experience the most incompetent people in our industry, who are in need of re-training, are those who think every one else needs it.

S**t still does, and always will roll down hill......sadly figuratively and literally.

I heard the Board were going to have their xmas doo in the tui brewery.....but couldn't get it organised.
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« Reply #37 on: November 21, 2012, 10:11:46 AM »
http://www.pgdb.co.nz/trade/cpd.html

Here is the list of approved courses. Not much available for those who live out of main centres.

My main point which wasn;t made too well, is how many H&S courses do we need. Surely industry information would be far mmore appropriate.

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Re: cpd points
« Reply #38 on: November 21, 2012, 07:31:49 PM »
Just keep renewing your health and safety policy , so the the providers keep enjoying the standard of living they have now become accustomed to, the local provider around here has a flasher fleet of vehicles than the government , all payed for by you and me , but then again we are much safer now aye ( yeah right ) I dont know about the rest of you but I have had enough of the bullshit , being self employed I tell them to get stuffed and find a real job , when they put the put health and safety personnel outside the fast food shops they can come and  talk to me , until then F/., off

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« Reply #39 on: November 22, 2012, 07:21:52 AM »
And now ....No shoulder charges in league....rules being introduced by the PC brigade, physios and "experts", but not wanted by the fans or the guys actually on the pitch.

I love "experts", who have never picked up a ball and /or spanner, but appear to know everything about what we do......... where would we be without them ;)

You can see them at the training camps for the army, ban those bayonets.....you'll have someones eyeout with that, cone off that bunker, do you have a confined space permit......where are we headed?

Led by these people who impose shit on us for our own good......... cheers life saver..........My Gramp would have thought what a bunch of leeches.

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« Reply #40 on: February 01, 2013, 10:38:46 PM »
I see on  my pgdb login that my exams from years past have been worth 16 points cpd - how the hell do all of these other up-skill courses claim to be on par or above that of sitting a gasfitting certifying exam?!?


f n crock


and sounds like the precedent has been set - complain about it loud enough and hard enough an you are exempt from the cpd requirement to re-license...  (not that its a legal requirement anyhow)

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Re: cpd points
« Reply #41 on: February 04, 2013, 08:41:10 PM »
Guess what. Ihear on the grapevine that someone has been told that they dont need points. must have complained long and loud.

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Re: cpd points
« Reply #42 on: February 06, 2013, 09:58:44 PM »
hmmm very interesting!

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Re: cpd points
« Reply #43 on: February 06, 2013, 10:29:08 PM »
hi guys/Rodza  (Its funny how I can re-build the brakes in my 39 year old holden) Don`t speak to soon!! cheers

If I was rewarded properly for my work,skills and quals Robbo which I am not,I would happily pay someone to work on my cars but being a certifying plumber/gasfitter, licensed drainlayer in NZ i cant F*CKING afford it.....I do believe the time has come for the minister to suck my balls....and everyone on the PGDB, and the people who are using CPD to gain wealth @ the Master Plumbers...form a line and suck it. Suck my balls and suck them gooooood. Bunch of A-holes.

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Re: cpd points
« Reply #44 on: February 07, 2013, 08:06:20 AM »
Hi guys/Rodza, I think the minister is too busy hiding somewhere to be bothered with your request where he can avoid our trades problems, he seems to have run out of ideas of how to deal with this dysfunctional board but is not going to admit it.  The last letter I sent to him he replied saying that he had passed it on to another department. As for the others, they will be getting worried that their master plan of huge wealth is falling apart, cheers 


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