Mikesoft

[Elky]

Oh, we can be hired out - hence the polo shirts - we provide IT support to local businesses and organisations in our area. Though we can't hit the receptionists in those businesses though....

 

Can you hit on them though?

[tech_guy]

Little_Devil is based in Staffordshire. Strange, so are MikeSoft

 

Blimey, what a coincidence!

[tech_guy]

Oh, we can be hired out - hence the polo shirts - we provide IT support to local businesses and organisations in our area. Though we can't hit the receptionists in those businesses though....

 

Can you hit on them though?

 

Oh, all the time. Especially ours.

[localzuk]

Oh, we can be hired out - hence the polo shirts - we provide IT support to local businesses and organisations in our area. Though we can't hit the receptionists in those businesses though....

 

You get hired out?? How does your school manage that?

[FN-GM]

Little_Devil better watch his/her back tech_guy & the rest of the squad will be down with there baseball bats

[tech_guy]

Oh, we can be hired out - hence the polo shirts - we provide IT support to local businesses and organisations in our area. Though we can't hit the receptionists in those businesses though....

 

You get hired out?? How does your school manage that?

 

It's not so much as the school managing it, more us managing it! We have rotas and we do a lot of rd stuff.

[localzuk]

I mean, how does it work? As schools are not for profit aren't they?

[Little_Devil]

I just think that if some one is given a job to do it isn't fair that people accuse them of being rude etc etc.

It is as you say STRANGE I am from Staffordhshire and as are Mikesoft, However my school deals with them and have found them very professional.

As you may see from the previous posts Miksoft have mixed comments and the conclusion to the thread was that they were a decent company to work with.

we don't all have to deal with large companies or tier one suppliers to get good value for money and customer service.

[tech_guy]

That's right - we never make a profit. :-)

[Little_Devil]

Ay what do you mean we never make a profit?

[localzuk]

That's right - we never make a profit. :-)

 

Hmm... I shall investigate this further! It may be a nice way of getting some money back into the school...

[richard.thomas]

It's how my school does things. I'm on a placement year at a secondary school. They sell IT Support to 5 primary schools in the area. These schools basically pay the IT Staff's wages and even more so the 2 placement students.

 

We have over a hundred Mikesoft computers, they're ok- Although we had a bad experience this time round. Our monitors for the 65 computers we ordered over summer came over a month late- On the first day of term (which as you can imagine, was less than great)- Also they 'lost' our OEM licenses... It's ok tho.. They've found them now!!

[Uraken]

mikesoft from staffordshire ummm has any one seen the http://www.theitsupportcentre.co.uk website recently particuarly the logo and phone number?

[FN-GM]

well spotted

[Uraken]

i wonder whether is it a rogue sales person ? i used to deal with the IT support centre but they're sales rep forgot who was the customer recently after i made some constructive critism about they're after sales support so i go else where now but prior to that they were ok, i wonder whether they know of this?

[FN-GM]

It does raise questions why they are using two names or possibly more for all we know

[Little_Devil]

I am not a rogue sales person for Mikesoft, I thought that this was a site that people within IT could state their opions therefore I decdied to submit my thoughts to the topic...

[PeterW]

I am not a rogue sales person for Mikesoft, I thought that this was a site that people within IT could state their opions therefore I decdied to submit my thoughts to the topic...

 

Thats ok as long as we know its just that it does happen from time to time, welcome to Edugeek.

[Elky]

mikesoft from staffordshire ummm has any one seen the http://www.theitsupportcentre.co.uk website recently particuarly the logo and phone number?

 

Same company I believe. We've come across them before

[Elky]

All this has given me an idea. I might change my name to Ian Tell - would make it a lot easier for me to speak to IT managers if I was to start cold calling. 'Yeah hi. Is it possible to speak to the person responsible for IT procurement at your school please? Who is calling? Tell them it's Ian Tell'

 

No? I'll get me coat

[Little_Devil]

If this seems to be the hostility that people recive for stating a minority opinion then I doubt I shall discuss any more..

[tech_guy]

All this has given me an idea. I might change my name to Ian Tell - would make it a lot easier for me to speak to IT managers if I was to start cold calling. 'Yeah hi. Is it possible to speak to the person responsible for IT procurement at your school please? Who is calling? Tell them it's Ian Tell'

 

No? I'll get me coat

 

No, that's actually quite funny - wish I'd thought of it.