We're in the wrong business!

Don't think anyone works in the outdoor industry to get rich – unless you count the directors of the warehouse style chains who have as much interest in you and your mountaineering aspirations as I do in the ingredients needed to make slug pellets! But how about making £132 for pressing 5 buttons on a keypad? Can we all have a job like that please?

Well, that's the amount charged by a well known security company to reset our system after a power cut at the shop! And it took TWO engineers to do it... Naturally, we are a little tetchy about this and have politely voiced our displeasure. Have you experienced a similar situation? It seems that while us common folk are tightening our belts to weather the latest financial crisis there are still plenty of greedy snouts in troughs...