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[SFD]

I got an email today from Becman Manufacturing (PC Boards) informing that
they will be closed from 4th to 18th February to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Over the past umpteen months I has received emails from them touting
themselves as an "Australian" company, their address is at Walter Crest,
Lawnton QLD. I don't use them, I unfortunately I deal directly with PCB
companies in China.

So does this mean that we can expect various local companies to choose which
countries holidays they will shut up shop?

I think I will acknowledge each of the World's countries holidays throughout
this year, and take leave for those periods - hopefully I will still have
one or two customers left in December!

 

[John G]

SFD explained on 31/01/2013 :

I got an email today from Becman Manufacturing (PC Boards) informing that
they will be closed from 4th to 18th February to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Over the past umpteen months I has received emails from them touting
themselves as an "Australian" company, their address is at Walter Crest,
Lawnton QLD. I don't use them, I unfortunately I deal directly with PCB
companies in China.

So does this mean that we can expect various local companies to choose which
countries holidays they will shut up shop?

I think I will acknowledge each of the World's countries holidays throughout
this year, and take leave for those periods - hopefully I will still have one
or two customers left in December!

On technical training courses overseas in years gone by we always tried
to take all the Australian holidays as well as those of whatever
country we happend to be in Ţ

--
John G

 

[geoff]

"SFD" <sfd@127000.00> wrote in message
news:CJhOs.3208$Ow3.1613@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com...

I got an email today from Becman Manufacturing (PC Boards) informing that
they will be closed from 4th to 18th February to celebrate Chinese New
Year.

Over the past umpteen months I has received emails from them touting
themselves as an "Australian" company, their address is at Walter Crest,
Lawnton QLD. I don't use them, I unfortunately I deal directly with PCB
companies in China.

So does this mean that we can expect various local companies to choose
which countries holidays they will shut up shop?

I think I will acknowledge each of the World's countries holidays
throughout this year, and take leave for those periods - hopefully I will
still have one or two customers left in December!

So you are suggesting they should not celebrate their own cultural
festivities else "go home" ? Or there should be a law against it ? Or just
that it's a curious factor of life this cnetury ?

geoff

 

[who where]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 08:43:41 +1300, "geoff" <geoff@nospampaf.co.nz>
wrote:

"SFD" <sfd@127000.00> wrote in message
news:CJhOs.3208$Ow3.1613@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com...
I got an email today from Becman Manufacturing (PC Boards) informing that
they will be closed from 4th to 18th February to celebrate Chinese New
Year.

Over the past umpteen months I has received emails from them touting
themselves as an "Australian" company, their address is at Walter Crest,
Lawnton QLD. I don't use them, I unfortunately I deal directly with PCB
companies in China.

So does this mean that we can expect various local companies to choose
which countries holidays they will shut up shop?

I think I will acknowledge each of the World's countries holidays
throughout this year, and take leave for those periods - hopefully I will
still have one or two customers left in December!

So you are suggesting they should not celebrate their own cultural
festivities else "go home" ? Or there should be a law against it ? Or just
that it's a curious factor of life this cnetury ?

BEC were always an "Australian" company, and I used their services on
a couple of occasions in the past when their boards were produced in
Brissie. The fact that they now CLOSE for Chinese New Year makes it
abundantly clear that a large proportion of their boards - if not all
- are now outsourced to fabs in China, yet they still charge
"Australian" prices.

Nowadays I get my boards direct from Chinese fabs. That way the
benefit of lower offshore prices comes to ME, not some Oz middle-man.

 

[yaputya]

"SFD" <sfd@127000.00> wrote in message news:CJhOs.3208$Ow3.1613@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com...

I got an email today from Becman Manufacturing (PC Boards) informing that they will be closed from 4th to 18th February to
celebrate Chinese New Year.

At least they told you that they wouldn't be able to get anything done then.

Over the past umpteen months I has received emails from them touting themselves as an "Australian" company, their address is at
Walter Crest, Lawnton QLD. I don't use them, I unfortunately I deal directly with PCB companies in China.

Give Dick Smith a ring, maybe he'll make a video about it.

So does this mean that we can expect various local companies to choose which countries holidays they will shut up shop?

If an OZ company depends on O/S fabrication then how can they provide a service
during the time their O/S supplier is shut?

I think I will acknowledge each of the World's countries holidays throughout this year, and take leave for those periods -
hopefully I will still have one or two customers left in December!

OZ still has a way to go with its holiday regulations, for example the way
holidays are shifted if the real holiday date falls on a weekend etc.