Originally Posted by emilyb79 (Post 35265880)

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Kellys are still cowboys and are forcing their staff to work over 45 hours a week (which is against the law).
They are also in breach of contract, demanding their staff come to the yard at 7.00 and work till 7.00 (instead of the contracted 8 till 5).
The equipment that they use is not fit for use and thinks that their U/G training of a couple of hours means that you will do the job well!!!!!!!
Also, setting unacheivable bonuses to make their staff work harder is a joke!!
I would advise BT to drop this company and/or a union to be set up to protect its staff from its blood thirsty money grabbing managers who dont know their digital from their analog!!!
P.S If you expect to achieve their £24k after the 3 months, forget it!!!

Originally Posted by sweaty (Post 35544936)

Warning, Kellys are looking for Telecom engineers across the south East via Hays. Some positions show 24k per year other show it as piecework. Hays show the position as 'A leading telecommunications / utilities provider'. Out of curiosity, I rang up Hays but said no thanks after they told me it was Kellys!!!

Originally Posted by SJB3310 (Post 35546729)

i am so glad i have read all these pages, i have just passed a telephone interview with hays for a kelly job, and i will be calling them back tomorrow to say NO THANKYOU. i have 24 years in military communications, (fiber & copper)and i do a job to a high standard, like most people in here, and no doubt to a great deal of people who do work for kellys as well, but i cant get abused by Kellys, so looks like i have to keep looking else where for a comms job, i live near hull in humberside "i didnt realise it was a KC region so thats a chore in itself" does anyone have any leads to a reputable comms company i can start looking for??? in my area

thank you to everyone for their advice :)

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35265935)

I worked for Kelly's for just under a year and hated every second of it. They had no idea of how to treat there workers other than crapping on them from a great height.

Originally Posted by Matt1985 (Post 35872829)

Hey can anyone help I have just passed my phone interview with Kelly for virgin media residential installer but with most comments I'm seeing online am really debating travelling to the assessment day.

Have they improved at all?? Does anyone on here work for them and can give me some info would normally not even bother after seeing some comments but finding work is proving to be a nightmare at the moment so need something asap.

Thanks in advance

Originally Posted by Matt1985 (Post 35872829)

Hey can anyone help I have just passed my phone interview with Kelly for virgin media residential installer but with most comments I'm seeing online am really debating travelling to the assessment day.

Have they improved at all?? Does anyone on here work for them and can give me some info would normally not even bother after seeing some comments but finding work is proving to be a nightmare at the moment so need something asap.

Thanks in advance