Ben,there has been a lot of topics on uregistered engineers,slating them and calling them cowboys and how they are ripping people off,and their standard of work but because YOU see him as capable thats ok??
There is a big difference between not bothering to get registered, or just letting the acs go to safe money, and a third party not being able to find his name on a database, especially when we all know that the people running that database are a bunch of cheapskate clowns.
assuming he has failed his acs and is not registered does that still make him competent?
That is assuming a lot. Somebody CLAIMS Tony is unregistered, based on a thread from 6 years ago
and not being able to find him online; that is not exactly the same as producing a letterheaded docement that says: "Dear Tony, you have been kicked of the register."
I had a valid ACS, and proof of payment for several months before they managed to drop a card on my doormat. Then it took another 1 or 2 months before you could find me online. Would that have made me illegal or incompetent?
GSR failed to setup a reliable system, and employ too few staff, of too poor quality, and hired them too late. Not unlike the hospitalwork they do, the schools and other projects they bodged.
there are topics that tell people to shop illegals to make the industry safer,but you wouldnt advocate this because YOU think he is competent from the other side of a computer screen?
Nothing has been proven about Tony not being registered; the rumours vary from a few weeks, to more than a year, and one poster claims GSR told him the registration was fine.
As for his competence, I can personally vouch for that.
IF it turns out (by somebody producing verifiable proof) that Tony has been doing gaswork whilst his registration lapsed last year, and he never bothered to renew it, then I will fully agree that he is a false prophet. Until then, I prefer to follow the principles of the Magna Charta, rather than to engage in a stoning ordered by the ayatolla who has heard a rumour.
Proof gentlemen, show us some proof.
