It has been already almost a week I guess since the issue with the guy who has defaulted his loan, and then almost ends up declaring bankruptcy. You basically get the idea and how it relates to me? Lets just say I am part of the player in this event. A quite prominent player I would say, though not the star player ;)
The story goes like such... This supplier / sub-contractor (I name T) has been a popular player in the industry the last phase. During the beginning of this phase, it seems quite a lot of the contractors seek for his service (as sub-contractor, of course). Because of this, he invested in 2 extra set of equipment (I think is 2 set) to keep up with the demand. Along the way I have no idea what happened, but this story starts somewhere in July. Well, for my contract, things just start to come into picture somewhere in October / November. The contractor's submission came in to me in (Method Statement, Product Specifications and supporting documents OK) November '09. This awaits for the test result which will happens I 5 days after their submission - which failed. Then what else? Chased them for a re-test ASAP so that we can get over with it. I took another month to have the test - which again failed -.-! And then another month to actually get the result submission. Wow, at times they do work very slow, don't they. I cannot imagine what is T doing behind all the delays this contractor is causing. Only after this that a meeting together with the client, contractor and T is held to assess this situation and decide what to do with the material that actually failed twice the test.
The client was very kind of course (government body that must support all local SMEs) and was given chance to show the performance of the product during site batching (haha, maybe you're getting an idea on what kind of material I talking about). And they were only able to start work in March '10.
With this in mind, T claimed that the client and us caused them 8 months without work which translate to 8 months without income - and this claim went to a minister which brings this matter to the ministry of my client which then the department head have to answer to this. Guess what, T claimed that they have no intention to accuse / put the blame on this department here, rather to explain the situation. Of course the client's department head who is holding the letter did mentioned that the letter was written in a way that would make anyone see the "explaining the situation" an accusation. Furthermore, there was no mention of the failed tests. This made the whole letter say "the whole world has wronged me when I did nothing wrong and I'm the only victim here".
Well, about the role I play? I was the one scrutinizing their submission and highlighting the fail tests. Not letting them proceed with work without presenting sufficient performance indicators. Also, I made this known to my colleagues handling other contracts. So, I think the news travels and only the contractor in my contract still gives T work. Does that make me an accomplice? You decide. ;p
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