Cold Control suppliers are constantly increasing our rates . Unfortunately , we ’ re having to pass these costs onto our customers , as our engineers are about to receive their third pay rise in 12 months . Luckily , though , we haven ’ t had to be quite as drastic as others within our supply chain . “ Another issue that the last few years have left us with is the labor shortage . We used to have a much higher demographic of employees from overseas and receive a far larger number of CVs from people from elsewhere . Another dwindling sector , peoplewise , are trainees and youngsters looking for work . Now that teenagers have to stay in education until they ’ re 18 , the adverts for trainee positions are only successful if they ’ re based close to colleges . I advertised the same job in two contrasting locations . In the place without a college , it took me six months to find someone , in the location next to one , I had 65 applications in the first week .
“ I ’ m always willing to do whatever it takes to keep our teams happy in their positions , we ’ re flexible and like to maintain a sociable feel outside of the workplace ,” he continues . “ It ’ s always easier to work with someone , than simply bark orders at them . There ’ s no benefit to quoting contracts or being threatening , because they will simply find somewhere else to work . The vast proportion of our engineers who leave , end up coming back again . I get it , sometimes you have a bad day or week , and the grass starts looking greener elsewhere , but I ’ m always incredibly proud when somebody
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