Havelock Europa Share Discussion Threads

[neverforget] 18/7/2016 09:35

Maybe the company has changed and tose people posting here now couldn't cope with thechange. maybe the operational directors should look at themselves closely and decide whether they have not contributed to the decline of the company. people like the operational director rob allan who I understand was in charge of the mis system. maybe the fact that there are Porsche boxsters parked out front gives a bad impression. maybe it is just the fact that this company never seems to have fully understood that it actually needs to look after its customers because there is no need for thwem to deal with you if you treat them like a problem!

[truthful tommy2] 13/7/2016 11:36

Worked for Havelock for over 30years.
Just a few points on previous topics.
I was at a employee meeting when a well respective senior project manager who has since took voluntary redundancy. Stood up and told the currant CEO that Havelock were incapable of buying a plastic builders bucket. That sites had to pay cash for materials, and that most materials had been bought from B&Q. The director of buying then becomes the estimating director.
I was at the meeting when the CEO informed the staff that they had lost the Lloyds account. At that meeting a work college of some 35 years service asked why the same departmental directors still had jobs. He named 2 directors, he was shouted down and belittled by Rod Alan.
Why is this allowed to happen, where is HR when this was going on.
What sort of business buys material from B&Q and pays cash.
You have to question the judgement of those policy makers in charge.

[honestjohn1] 12/7/2016 18:06

Darknightrises

Not sure on who left on the last reduction in staff.
But you seem to be fishing. Well if you are your in the wrong pond.
To make money you need information, on whats happening in any company. How the information is acquired is the secret.

[honestjohn1] 12/7/2016 14:50

Darknightrises.
You need to look at what has happened at HVE over previous years. As previously stated, you have departmental directors who collectively been responsible for the loss of major Blue chip clients. Lloyds, BOS, RBS, Halifax, TSB,Virgin Money,Tesco,
Co-op pharmacy, M&S contracting,Boots,House of Fraser,Several corporate offices part of Lloyds property. The biggest loss in margin at Aviva stadium Dublin.
Lets not forget the management system thats 1 year late.
The operations director was more than most responsible. Yet not one has been made accountable. All on Large salaries with bonuses. No wonder Truthful Tommy is upset. He must look out of his window and see all those expensive top of the rang cars. Porsche, BMW, Audi, Range Rover, and put his hands on his head in despair.

[darknightrises] 12/7/2016 14:00

fair enough honestjohn1 worth a try

[darknightrises] 12/7/2016 13:53

well truthful tommy2 your not a happy bunny

[honestjohn1] 12/7/2016 12:28

I would never compromise my position or source. But at the last staff reduction the majority of PM staff that left had more than nearly 75 years service behind them. The majority took voluntary redundancy. My sources tell me that the directors at delivery stage had been told of the impending crises, of Lloyds pulling the plug on the account. It is was there for all to see.

[darknightrises] 12/7/2016 11:50

honestjohn1 ?

[darknightrises] 12/7/2016 11:48

honestjohn1 = ??

[gleach23] 12/7/2016 11:00

dnr - been in and out of these over the years and had some luck

not currently tempted but keeping an eye

[mikepompeyfan] 12/7/2016 10:47

Shareholders have the say not the board. They need to put up or shut up.

[gleach23] 12/7/2016 09:46

Not currently invested but watching from sidelines here.

We seem to have a few new posters with newly created IDs - always a bit suspect.

[truthful tommy2] 12/7/2016 06:40

We have a estimating department whos motivation is a rock bottom, dis-functional and working well below capacity.
We have a Project department / delivery department were half the PMs / DM cant read drawings, cant work to a programme never mind produce one. Do not understand specifications or a bill of quantities. The other half spend all week away from the office, and all finish at noon on a Friday.
We have a site supervisors on zero hour contracts, who to be frank could not give a monkeys about Havelock, and are incapable of doing the job.
In the words of Tom Hanks in Apollo 13 Havelock we have a problem.