lazy teagasc adviser

oldsmokey

Hi, I recently got assigned a new adviser who can be best described as a hazy loor...doesn't give a damn...how do i go about getting back to my old, satisfactory advisor without making waves?

Manoffeeling

Your paying. Tell his boss you want someone else. Try to be more assertive!

reilig

oldsmokey wrote: »

Hi, I recently got assigned a new adviser who can be best described as a hazy loor...doesn't give a damn...how do i go about getting back to my old, satisfactory advisor without making waves?

Are you sure he's a Teagasc advisor and not just someone contraxcted in to handle REPS for them?

We got news recently that our Teagasc REPS advisor will no longer be dealing with our plan as he is going to be concentrating on an advisory service such as the discussion groups etc. An external planner will be given our plan, and we will be responsible for working with that person if we so wish. I inderstood that this was happening in a lot of Teagasc offices across the country in the near future.

I suppose, at the end of the day, if you don't like him/her, just change to another planner. Plenty of private planners out there hungry for work.

nashmach

reilig wrote: »

Are you sure he's a Teagasc advisor and not just someone contraxcted in to handle REPS for them?

We got news recently that our Teagasc REPS advisor will no longer be dealing with our plan as he is going to be concentrating on an advisory service such as the discussion groups etc. An external planner will be given our plan, and we will be responsible for working with that person if we so wish. I inderstood that this was happening in a lot of Teagasc offices across the country in the near future.

I suppose, at the end of the day, if you don't like him/her, just change to another planner. Plenty of private planners out there hungry for work.

That is correct from what we were told too.

Our guy - similar to the OP - was very put out when he was told we did our own AEOS plan :rolleyes:.

Lot of advisors IMV, just putting the time in.

oldsmokey

Sure, it should be a purely 'business' decision, but chances are you meet this fella regularly socially...would be better if the hatchet job was done tactfully !

1chippy

same issue here. get rid before they leave you in trouble. im still trying to sort out stuff the one the parents had the last few years. it has taken a lot of pleading letters and calls to dep of ag staff, and i am reckoning most of it will fall on deaf ears.
I still drink with a few lads i have fired, absolutaly useless workers but great craic, they will have more respect in the long run, your farm is your business.

munkus

The father had an awful clown of a Teagasc advisor a few years ago. He put in a request to be changed to someone else and this was refused outright. Might hurt the poor lad's feelings I suppose. Needless to say we are no longer clients of Teagasc.

bob charles

may I ask what you lads are mostly using your Teagasc advisor for. Is it form filling, Reps/AEOS or guidance on how to improve things farm level

snowman707

munkus wrote: »

The father had an awful clown of a Teagasc advisor a few years ago. He put in a request to be changed to someone else and this was refused outright. Might hurt the poor lad's feelings I suppose. Needless to say we are no longer clients of Teagasc.

sounds like the pr1ck I had years ago,

have a private consultant now who would get more done in 30 minutes than the other crowd in 12 months, and at about 70% of the cost

epfff

Do teagasc advisors come any other way bar lazzy?

whelan1

epfff wrote: »

Do teagasc advisors come any other way bar lazzy?

tbh the last 3 we have had have been far from lazy...

blue5000

You know that website 'rate my teacher' could we name and shame/rate our teagasc advisors? And praise the good ones as well of course.....
http://ie.ratemyteachers.com/

reilig

whelan1 wrote: »

tbh the last 3 we have had have been far from lazy...

We had a great Teagasc advisor who doesn't do our REPS anymore, but he is our discussion group advisor. The guy before him was very good too. In the past, I worked with a company who had some intertwined work with teagasc. Some of the teagasc advisors in the place were guys who had worked on the display farms of the 1980's where they were purely responsible for research and publishing figures. They knew nothing practical. when the research farmes closed, they had to be accommodated because they were permanent and were stuck into offices and given work to do. God help anyone who had one of them sent out.

On the other hand, my inlaws have a private planner who is down right shameful with his lazeness. he almost cost them getting into REPS 4 and there have been several problems with the plans that he drew up. He is only interested in money and once he is paid, he is impossible to get on the phone. I keep telling them that just because they have used him for years doesn't mean that they cannot change. They say that he always comes through in the end - but that is only after threats and a lot of phonecalls from our side!!

cjpm

reilig wrote: »

On the other hand, my inlaws have a private planner who is down right shameful with his lazeness. he almost cost them getting into REPS 4 and there have been several problems with the plans that he drew up. He is only interested in money and once he is paid, he is impossible to get on the phone. I keep telling them that just because they have used him for years doesn't mean that they cannot change. They say that he always comes through in the end - but that is only after threats and a lot of phonecalls from our side!!

Pity for them that they are the bigger fools!! One chance with me and then the door!

oldsmokey

For what its worth, rang the head honcho, and there really wasnt a problem in changing...chuffed..

Cabbage_Head

Teagasc seem to be all about cost cutting and efficiency. If something aint working right, do something about it.

So it would be a bit hypocritical of them to stop you from changing something that isnt working right

Although in fairness, I have always gotten on extremely well with Teagasc. A great source of information

rocky bilboa

epfff wrote: »

Do teagasc advisors come any other way bar lazzy?

+1