I have just paid my annual enrolment fee of £475.00 plus VAT to NICEIC. No receipt yet but instead an email offering cut-price tee-shirts, shorts and mountains of similar tat. I am sure that they will soon have their inspecting engineers carry merchandise in their car boots to flog to contractors during the annual half-day assessment!
So, I almost feel like a mug who has been cornered by a nifty salesman, not only have they managed to get their hand in my wallet again (that's 35 times now), but they have signed up another sheep to bombard with special offers on all kinds of trash.
I have no idea why I feel I need to keep renewing my membership. Perhaps I am clinging to the hope that they will return to the serious business of focusing on contractor competence instead of their current, very annoying, Del Boy style tactics.
