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Kevin Petters
Senior Mgt
There has, and I believe there will always be, friction between the Carms
and Swansea teams, unless the rotas are completely altered.
There was always bickering about which area, had the most work.
Especially from the supervisors
JB told every caretaker (2006) how he had a meeting with DD about getting
the sites measured.BUT DD refused as it was not cost effective.
I brought this up with DD in my (assassination) disciplinary.
In front of the Personnel officer he denied any meeting with JB?
That is the big weakness of line management.
You do not know if you are being fed truth or lies!
If there had been a meeting? DD would have been correct in stating that it would
not have been cost effective to employ outside consultants to measure the work of each site.
You only have to look at a map of the area and sites covered
and it is obvious that it is shambolic and very inefficient
A Map of Existing Maintenance Areas
Green Area Carms sites,
covered by 3 vans traveling to each site.
Purple Area Swansea sites
covered by 3 vans
Red Blobs Sites serviced,
bigger the blob, bigger the sites
Suggested new rota Areas
Green Area "Carms East"
covered by one van two men
Purple Area "Central"
covered by five vans and the
rest of the FHA Team
Yellow areas. Definitely one van areas, eg (Llangenith, Gower is two hrs traveling for 30mts work)
Red Blobs original Carms sites
Blue Blobs original Swansea
As a starter, It has been obvious to everyone that,
the two caretakers resident in Ammanford and Garnant
(Garnant now non resident, but the new caretaker lives nearby) can cover
the Carms' second week's rota on their own easily, and cover the Pontardawe and Ystalyfera sites as well, if spread over two weeks.
The obvious Cost Effective Way (no cost or very little cost) and
fair way, to measure and distribute the work is to get the:
Team Leader and the two supervisors working together and service each and every site,and time how long it takes them to service each site, also record the traveling time between sites.
May, would be a good time to start,as the grass is now beginning to grow.
On no account should there be more than the three of them working
together, otherwise it would distort or make it more difficult
to gauge the results.
Also the communal cleaning should be separate from grounds maintenance, (as I stated in 2004 when I organised the Swansea Rota)
The only exceptions possibly will be sites covered by the Carms East van.
because of distance involved.
There should be no repeat of The Carms experience of 2006, "cleaning is left for the wet days! "
From my past experience, of the senior management, they are going to say that I am talking out of my a....and carry on regardless of what I suggest.
I worked for FHA for 5 years, and I am the only caretaker to have worked all the family housing sites, Swansea And Carms.
In 2003, I timed all the Swansea sites.
Besides being the most knowledgeable in FHA of the practical work needed on very site.
I also have had a lifetime of running differnt businesses
I also have the management theory needed.
When I started my employ with FHA in 2001,
I was studying part time at "Swansea Institute of Higher Education"
I was half way through a Part time, "Bsc Computing and Information" course, and by coincidence on my fifth day of employment (a team meeting), when, RS (Carms supervisor then), complained about distances between sites in Carm,s. I was sitting next to DD, and passed him a sketch of the salesman problem ( which I was studying at that time, in the "maths for computing module",but DD just passed it back to me?
I had also passed the module on "System Analysis" (Work Study)
I was also in the final year of "HNC in Business" which I obtained. So was able to be a member of "The Institute of Managers" if I chose.
In 1999 I was also reading for LLb London (Law) degree but packed it in 'cos had no money to sit the exam.Earlier My fellow students thought I was crazy, trying to cope with three courses when one is a big challenge.
The above is not an attempt to try and show I am clever, the above is to try and show that I have had the experience and education, to know what I am talking about. Which you normally list for a "Business Plan" or "Business Audit"
When in work I avoided being a know all,I was just happy to just cut grass etc, but it was very difficlt to keep quiet, when the taxpayer or tenant is getting ripped off.
FHA maintenance have been very inefficient and have not given "best value"
I hope FHA do not let their hatred for me, ignore what I have suggested above.
The Traveling Salesman Problem
belongs to the most basic, most
important, and most investigated problems in optimization and
theoretical computer science:
A salesman has to visit each city from a
given set exactly once. In doing this, he starts from his home city,
and in the very end he has to return again to this home city. He wants
to visit the cities in such an order that the total of the distances
traveled in his tour becomes as small as possible, since this will save
him time and gas. The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) consists in
identifying this shortest tour through the cities.
The TSP has many important applications in vehicle routing, VLSI design, production scheduling, cutting wallpaper, job sequencing, data clustering, curve reconstruction, etc etc etc. Research on the TSP has followed many different paths: There are studies of its computational complexity, of its approximability, of the complexity and approximability behavior of various of its special cases, there are many implementations e.g. via cutting planes, there are studies and comparisons of implementations, there are approaches via graph theory that study certain Hamiltonian structures etc. etc. etc.. Dagstuhl-Seminar