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You all need to stop moaning and get on with your jobs, at least you have a job to go to. If you left you would never get another job that pays this well and dont try and say it doesnt pay well. You lot moan when you have too much work and then moan when it goes quieter :mad:

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And that gives managers the right to bully and manipulate the engineers does it???

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And you decided to join just to post that knowing it would wind people up. Nice one :rolleyes:

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Any way back to the topic does anyone know if Virgin have took on a load of in house installers in Manchester .The contractors here have heared its a trial and virgin are looking at brining back inhouse installers :)

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you are a total prick

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Anybody know how to try and find out if there are any jobs going at Fujitsu in the Midlands. Their website isn't very easy to find anything from.

I'm trying to get into cable just to top up my satellite/IRS experience off before i shoot off to the other side of the world in the next 18 months or so.

The horror stories are not putting me off as its just purley the experience in that particular field i'm looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Munch

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Wouldnt know how to apply to fujitsu. But if by Midlands you mean the Birmingham area there not horror stories theree knightmares you will be garunteed late finishes and a route from hell most days if my experience is to go by was finished handy most days though as you just have to throw the jobs in and get done.

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i heard that vm are going to do a trial where all 1 man installs are going to be done inhouse leaving the crappy work for the contractor to do............

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[QUOTE=Tcomms;35302000]i heard that vm are going to do a trial where all 1 man installs are going to be done inhouse leaving the crappy work for the contractor to do............[COLOR="Silver"]

No rumour its happening as of the 1st week of october the only contractor work to be done in the greater manchester area will be the 2man work. Im not sure how long the trial will be for though

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I used to work for kelly on installs, then we all got taken over by fuji. It was ok at the start , there were lots of promises from the great and the good at in fuji land. Very soon all the crack started to show and it was fundamentally just the same as working for kelly on VM, over worked and under paid. Then I searched out a way of joining kellys on thier BT contract. I have been here now over 1 month and it has been fantastic so far. I am paid 24k per year, I get full pay on holidays, and I am expected to complete 4 jobs per day. Training, quality and safety is at a whole new level then VM, but at least we have the time to complete everything properly by the book. I now work 5 days per week and generally I am home at an acceptable time to have a life, which I never had on cable.

So,................., maybe this is not a crap industry, maybe you are all just sucking the sweat off the dead horses balls on the wrong contract!

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The fujitsu lads here are saying the same they gave a good speech at the handover .Then they have given a lot of work getting home late and problems with pay .Morale is low :(

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I've moved over to the BT contract with Kelly and it's the worst decesion I've ever made. I thought it was bad with VM but the BT contract is much much worse you'll be working 12 to 14 hours a day plus traveling doing as much as 10 jobs a day. If anyone reading this is thinking of moving over to BT DON'T DO IT!!!!!!

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sorry to hear that CableGUy. Its been a breath of fresh air for me, and everyone I have met is not working as hard as you say. what area are you working in?

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Their taking on installs for existing customers. Eg: TiVo upgrades 50mb upgrades etc. One man installs (donkey work) will still be done by contractors.

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I've been working in Wales and the South West! I was warned about how Kelly treat their employees but I thought that was to do with the VM contract!!