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Middle Management
13 May 2020 17:38 PM
Dear Richard, not sure what type of supermarkets you go to but on the occasions I have had to such establishments to obtain food stuff to enable me and my family to actually live I did not mingle with any single one of them, I am obviously not as sociable as you sir. If you have been working through this you are a baboon of the highest order and give the responsible agents a bad name. The only duty is stay safe and not take the risks that you are obviously prepared to take I just hope you do not have staff working for you.
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Middle Management
13 May 2020 16:02 PM
Utter drivel, everyone in the industry knows the only reason people at home are and have been trolling the internet, particularly when the sector is front and centre of the news is sheer boredom. I know of no colleagues whatsoever that want to or feel it is safe to do go back to work, the only people who think differently (with no published scientific evidence that says it is safe to give us any confidence at a time when confidence in this government is low by anyone’s standard) are people who have a large monetary reason ie the government, CEO’s in the new build sector who have been constantly harassing this weak government into making this quite obviously late about face, some agency CEO’s who are short sighted or under to much pressure due to circumstance quite probably of their own doing to progress matters too early. I have been in the industry over twenty years and not one single person who works on the front line has any confidence that visiting an unknown number of property’s with unknown people with unknown medical history with unknown history of adhering to the social distancing rules is anything but ridiculous. The people who have pushed for this won’t be taking any risks whatsoever. Disgraceful behaviour all round, they should make sure their liability insurance is up to date and that the premiums are protected.
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Middle Management
13 May 2020 14:26 PM
This decision will certainly be on the back of the CEO’s pushing the government into this decision, let me ask these people who will not be risking their own or indeed their family’s health by possibly being forced into going back to work right now. One of the other big issues is how many people will want to buy or sell a property given the circumstances bearing in mind they at home/already been made redundant/have no idea if they have a job at the end of this or have any idea what the lenders are going to do? Employers in our industry will now be wondering who they will have to either let go or hopefully keep on the furlough scheme if allowed on the basis that we are effectively being told to go to work again, very uncertain times for us plebs on the front line....
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Middle Management
12 May 2020 20:37 PM
Both this and countywide pleading yesterday that the industry gets going again as soon as possible and what assistance it may need is all fine and dandy, however neither has much to say about how it would physically work at the shop floor and in all type of appointments at clients homes etc, I mean all these companies have their staff and clients health as their number one priority and not profits don’t they?
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Middle Management
05 May 2020 08:28 AM
Me suspects this is negotiating position from LSL and quite right as well, staff at both are saying they have nothing to worry about, cough cough, pucker up butter cups there is only one company looking to sell here and the other would only take the EA sector of the selling business if they have to...
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Middle Management
10 March 2020 13:33 PM
Industry pay is nearly at minimum wage level for many as it is, can’t see the win for either company, without doubt it will lead to further closures between the brands ( is it not rather ridiculous for Countrywide to merge to then make a load more people unemployed by closing dual branded offices which is precisely what they have spent the last couple of years doing ) therefore more customer facing staff will be out of a job due to the continue failures of senior management, nothing changes I guess.
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Middle Management
23 February 2020 18:52 PM
How can they claim to cover these areas when they have precisely no property’s any where near Manchester or Liverpool and only one in Blackpool, it appears they have a portfolio of Park homes of which the majority are located rather randomly in Penrith but they don’t seem to be bragging about this! This is a local agent which in the main services Leland and Chorley and is obviously pretending to be something it is not, some journalistic fact checking please.
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Middle Management
18 September 2019 10:31 AM
They may well have been doing as they were told, but that does not make them any less culpable, therefore and although nobody wants to see people out of work they willingly assisted in ensuring others did...
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Middle Management
31 May 2018 20:36 PM
This is utterly abhorrent! After personally experiencing the delights of Countrywide’s HR I and no doubt an abundance of other good people who were also managed out by Countrywide’s “people services” find the nomination disgraceful. The HR department is in no way there to help staff it is used as a combined team with the directors to manage people out, as a by-product potentially destroying people lives as their faces did not fit with or meet AP absurd definition of retail in what is unquestionably a property sales industry. Most of the people involved in this behaviour are still there and are no doubt now shouting from the roof tops how they never believed in AP vision. It is a common known fact that most of the good people/Estate Agents were managed out by a combination of senior directors and the HR “people services”, they should hang their heads in shame at even accepting the nomination, unfortunately however we all know they won’t because this is now what is accepted as normal double standards in today’s society. Interestingly the survey was in the nineties earlier this morning, however it is now around eighty, I would wager my mortgage that this change will be down to the directors instructing their subordinates to get voting, typical Countrywide tactics, it’s all smoke and mirrors right the way through the company….
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Middle Management
31 May 2018 10:05 AM
How very dare you Mr. Long! Most of the staff have never heard about you before today or indeed even met you, the moment AP has gone you now decide that CW need to re-focus, for your information we at the “coal face” have been nothing but focused it is the likes of you and the rest of the senior management that should have been focused some three years ago but no you did diddlysquat! Nobody can recall you or any other senior manager saying anything remotely like this before today! Staff at branch level having being saying this since the day AP was appointed (particularly after meeting her) and as a consequence were a) managed out b) told by senior management “yes you are quite right but we are going to have to be quiet, keep our own counsel and wait until AP has gone (which will be any day or the next day or…) as we are not prepared to speak out otherwise we will also lose our jobs” c) “Don’t be silly she knows what she is doing so let’s all believe the fake news and ridiculous rhetoric as it must make sense?” How can AP with a straight face or with any level of integrity take this money? This is just another example of what this country has become and the injustices we all see on a daily basis. Even now she can’t accept any responsibility, she is still coming out with “fake news “that we have all had to put up with for years, I have not met one other person within CW at ANY level that had ONE good word to say about her or her “strategy” after actually meeting her that understand the business, in her defence that were some within the company that would not agree this, which speaks volumes for the predicament we are now in. AP and the rest of the senior team have very nearly destroyed a once great company that was market leader in several sectors of the property business whilst the entire senior management sat there and nodded their heads at her, these same people have the audacity to think we are going to accept them as our new leaders? You’re now saying we need to re-focus! No what WE need is for you all to sod off and be replaced by people that we know of and can actually trust to lead us out of this mess YOU assisted in creating, take your fat cheques and the let real workers to get us out of this…..
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Middle Management
24 January 2018 15:10 PM
Let’s be absolutely clear here the reason the online offering has not worked is solely down to the senior management, namely instead of going toe to toe with the online agents from day one they were too short sighted and instead were shouting from the rooftops and to their entire workforce and the world at large that the online agents won’t succeed and we had nothing to fear, move forward a couple of years whilst the new regime gets rid of every single estate agent at senior level and then all of a sudden great news everyone we were wrong and actually have an online offering and all of us senior managers who have never sold a property in our lives are going to teach you how to sell it, oh and by the way you dare actually sell an online offering because we don’t want anybody to actually take us up on the offering now do we……. And if you have to give a vendor an online offering whatever you do not actually sell it! We need to wait until such time that we can up sell them to the same/different “full package”. Come on AP and cohorts do you really think that any of your workforce believe, trust, or have any confidence in anything you say or do? The entire senior team should hang their heads in shame and leave immediately by the back door taking their healthy severance payments and give the employees a chance……
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Middle Management
14 November 2017 14:49 PM
After recently leaving Countrywide I can personally vouch for the fact that any figures reported by Alison Platt or another will at best be “manipulated” to suite requirements or perhaps somewhat more likely will be a blatant lie, the few offices that have had a improvement will have done so by the very virtue of the additionally marketing they enjoyed albeit for a limited period of time and absolutely nothing to do with the “product” on offer, indeed we were trained to talk people out of the “product” if at all possible whilst giving the client all “options”, the online offering is seen by Countrywide as nothing other than a headline rate to entice the client to the “full/same” offering with office assistance which in reality they usually received anyway due to the system being horrific for people to use. During the end of my period of employment I was personally instructed to remove appraisals from the system by my regional director, the reason for falsify the real number of valuations actually carried out was that the director was under pressure to make the conversion not appear as horrific as it actually was for the territory. The branch I was located at had been a successful office until this and numerous other equally as ridiculous decisions were made by persons deemed wholly unqualified by the majority of the workforce, there were numerous other offices in the same territory in a similar situation therefore it would stand to reason other people were directed to carry out the same falsifications to keep the territory’s conversation rate somewhere near an acceptable level to the powers that be. What remains of the senior management team at Countrywide do not have what it takes to speak to the truth as they would be seen as disruptive or anti corporate message and have in the main become nothing more then nodding donkeys whilst WhatsApping each other with what they dare not actually say for fear of loosing their jobs with other equally minded managers and ridiculing their now more successful colleagues i.e. those who can nod their heads the most. The result of all this is the state of the share price, the number of staff leaving and what is left of the senior management team being a bunch of gutless, nodding donkeys, happily smiling away and doing absolutely nothing whilst the company disintegrates around them because they are too scared or even worse they actually believe the way the company is heading is the best interests of all, those that would dare to speak the truth have long since been pushed or jumped accordingly.
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Middle Management
07 November 2017 16:08 PM
Leave Alison and her cohorts alone every employee at Countrywide knows for a fact how strong and stable the executive team are...
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Middle Management
12 June 2017 12:54 PM
Further to my previous comment please allow me to finish, the only question in relation to the "Hybrid" propersition is why on earth is it not fully operational throughout the company by now? And why are the people responable for this debacle still working for the company oh that's right because they reside in the same clueless world as the senior management team where no matter what is really happening everything is "brilliant" or "amazing". Everyone who has worked at countrywide for any period of time will tell you that staff moral has never ever been as low as the last year or so and then to the remove or reduce the end of year profit commission away days before the end of year no doubt to make the company appear more profitable is a disgrace! Something that has literally never happened before in the company but no doubt this was a "brilliant" and "amazing" thing to happen to the staff in question. For the fortunate uninitiated of you if you walked into the experience of "colleague training" you would think you had walked into an American style cult in full flow. The regional management team have yet again been put through their annual culling or "building our future" as Alison and her companions call it and the embattled survivors are on theirs knees and like the rest of the staff have no faith in any of the people at the top who quite clearly do not understand the business or how it needs to evolve, not that they or anyone else is allowed to voice an opinion any more as if the vocabulary you use does not match the company's religious sound bites you will be invited to a meeting where you will be leaving you car keys on your way out whilst being told how "amazing" and "brilliant" you were.
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Middle Management
13 January 2017 13:13 PM
It makes absaloutle sense to be seen as a "Hybrid" agent to compete with all the online agents, good or bad they are taking some market share in a time when each year sees less people moving.
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13 January 2017 12:21 PM
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