On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:42:44PM +1030, Romana Challans arranged a set of bits into the following: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:40:16PM +1100, Julien Goodwin imparted: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:41:24AM +1030, David Lloyd arranged a set of bits into the following: > > > I wasn't going to step into this debate. However: > > I'll answer some of these that I know about. > > except you obviously dont. My comment on the insurance was just that, a comment, my understanding comes from discussions with Con while he was dealign wiht this. > > > > Computerbank Australia Inc > > > > WRT Insurance, I've been seeing Con (CAI Tresurer) putting several full > > days of work getting the runaround from Insurance companies trying to > > get this sorted out to SA's satisfation. > > SA's satisfaction? If by that you mean ensuring we are > 1) covered by insurance > 2) ADEQUATELY covered by insurance > 3) not paying twice what we needed to for insurance > > then I guess we are satisfied. you obviously have nfi of what actually > happened, so let me enlighten you a tad. Where did I say he'd sucseeded, only that he had been working towards it. > we were notified by our cwc that the public liability insurance was due > - and we had no renewal information. noone had noticed or done anything > about it at vic. the insurance renewal rollover notice hadnt been > recieved - but obviously there seems to have been a minor breakdown > in the tracking of due things. de nada. > > we notify con. ok, he tracks down renewal - after a few days of > uncertainty about coverage, and our cwc getting worried, just as we > are negotiating new scheme and rollover of current scheme - just what > we needed! renewal obscene price. in the meantime, we have sourced > insurance quote at half teh price, and decided that this is final > thing, we should probably just incorporate ourselves and manage our > own stuff - we are doing most of it anyway now, so it makes sense, > right? so notify con of this, fair enough, he is interested in half > price quote. we supply details, he negotiates much better deal at > half price for cai. much rejoicing. > EXCEPT > he didnt know cwcs/dewa now require (i think always have) 10 million > dollars as insurance minimum, so i had to recontact him and say 5 > million policy not enough. he renegotiates accordingly, and w00t, we > have insurance. > > NOW if you think thats just us getting con to jump through hoops for > our satisfaction you have nfi of how to run a branch. or anything. > > please note - there is nothing above that is criticism of con or kylie > or anyone else involved with this - vic people have provided much > miuch help and kudos to all. independence just makes sense. I'm not disputing that. > however, that doesnt mean its fair to snipe at us for wanting things > done properly, to ensure our continued viability (and vics > incidentally) as wftd provider, while we remain a branch. I wasn't sniping, just pointing out that there was at least a fair bit of work put into fixing the problem. > r. > > ps yes im sodding grumpy. > > -- > ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? > Romana Challans > Computerbank Australia Incorporated - SA Branch > http://sa.computerbank.org.au/ > ??????????????????????????????????????????????????
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