I think we all can agree we all (contractors that is, I cant vouch for in house) work in some real crappy conditions. As you say Cabletvman, It is impossible to complete 8 jobs per day properly - if they want the red button doing, bbi activations, pit guards, gas testings, cab cleaning, spending that valuable time with the customer and more done correctly, you are realistically looking at 5/6 jobs per day. We all cut corners else we will be home at god knows what time.
You are right though, there is a common denominator that we are forgetting to mention, but it costs money to enforce these conditions onto contracting partners, money they clearly dont want to spend yet happy to ram in as many installs as possible. BT on the other hand have it perfect, as mentioned in this thread, NBI's - I hate them, I've precalled you - you dont answer, I knock on your door - you dont answer. Manager tries - No answer. But he will keep on trying! That REALLY annoys me. All for his stats.
I dont know if there is any techs that attend the Crawley yard at all but a couple of weeks ago you may remember alot of traveling techs downed tools in protest of traveling nearly 1 hour to EACH, yes, EACH job everytime and working until 10pm most nights. Nothing got done about it, but it certainly got higher managements attention.
As I keep getting told, this is the way things have always been and they will never change. Shame really as its a great industry to be in, I really do enjoy it, but even I am starting to get fed up of it and thinking about hanging up my cable strippers and compressor to go look for something away from this. Such a shame
