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shoot2thrill · 07-10-2013, 22:44

Ive been at kellys for just short of a year now and to be honest I dont know what all the bad reports are about,
I think alot of people on here who are whinging and moaning about the job need to give their head a rattle. Your job title is OVERHEAD LINESMAN therefore expect to have to climb telegraph poles and install overhead lines??
Not every job will be easy and it wont be sunny every day, expect to work hard and in return be rewarded with what I personally think is a good wage for todays climate,
i average between £600 to £800 a week every week and in order to earn this I have to get up at 6:30am mon to fri, drive to my first job in my fully equipped 12 plate transit with diesel provided and graft until im finished.
Yeh I sometimes might finish at 7pm but then again I could finish at 2, it just depends on the luck of the draw really. At the end of the day im paid to put phonelines into customers houses, so to complain about having to do it just doesn't make sense to me?

Ive worked at far worse places like AVC where u really do get treated like dirt and taken for every penny they can get out of you.
At kellys it seems to be if you use your initiative and get on with the job then you get left alone and can earn decent money, which at the end of the day is the reason we go to work.

I spent a few hours with my TM recently whilst getting my van serviced and his phone literally rang every 2 minutes. One lad phoned to say he had lost his drill bit in a garden and another to say he was running low on fuel and didnt know where the nearest garage was!!
Come on seriously, what the f*ck do you want your TM to do about it!?
Its probably the guys like that who will struggle and the reason why the TM dont have any time for them.
Honestly for the people who say they would be better off stacking shelves or working at McDs then go for it. If thats your mind set then you have no chance of working on your own on the BT network.

For anyone with a bit of common sense and initiative then you can do alot worse than kellys.

07-10-2013, 22:44	#41
shoot2thrill Inactive Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 14	Re: Kelly's BT Openreach Engineers Ive been at kellys for just short of a year now and to be honest I dont know what all the bad reports are about, I think alot of people on here who are whinging and moaning about the job need to give their head a rattle. Your job title is OVERHEAD LINESMAN therefore expect to have to climb telegraph poles and install overhead lines?? Not every job will be easy and it wont be sunny every day, expect to work hard and in return be rewarded with what I personally think is a good wage for todays climate, i average between £600 to £800 a week every week and in order to earn this I have to get up at 6:30am mon to fri, drive to my first job in my fully equipped 12 plate transit with diesel provided and graft until im finished. Yeh I sometimes might finish at 7pm but then again I could finish at 2, it just depends on the luck of the draw really. At the end of the day im paid to put phonelines into customers houses, so to complain about having to do it just doesn't make sense to me? Ive worked at far worse places like AVC where u really do get treated like dirt and taken for every penny they can get out of you. At kellys it seems to be if you use your initiative and get on with the job then you get left alone and can earn decent money, which at the end of the day is the reason we go to work. I spent a few hours with my TM recently whilst getting my van serviced and his phone literally rang every 2 minutes. One lad phoned to say he had lost his drill bit in a garden and another to say he was running low on fuel and didnt know where the nearest garage was!! Come on seriously, what the f*ck do you want your TM to do about it!? Its probably the guys like that who will struggle and the reason why the TM dont have any time for them. Honestly for the people who say they would be better off stacking shelves or working at McDs then go for it. If thats your mind set then you have no chance of working on your own on the BT network. For anyone with a bit of common sense and initiative then you can do alot worse than kellys.