“Hi Sandy. The lift has broken down. You couldn’t come and have a look at it before we call the engineer in?”
Having the word technician in your job title is a guaranteed assumption that you know absolutely everything about all electric or mechanical objects, even if you are a specialist in IT or biology.
Also overheard: “Technicians? They just push trolleys around all day.”
Well if you have not seen a “trolley pusher” recently that is because from 2013 to 2017 there was a 12 per cent cut in the number of technicians and when the Department for Education issues statistics for 2018 – that percentage will most likely increase.
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