I wouldn't call anyone a 'Whistleblower'...
I am able to tell the 'truth' which is 'factual' without any problems, and if people do have a problem with this, then i don't really care! I would quite happily hide under my forum name without anyone finding out who i am
Dude who has been offered a job with kellys....
Don't bother mate....
1- they tell you you get payed every 2 weeks, in actual fact you get your first pay after 1 month, which means you have to find all your costs on travel for this period! ( and i went into the office on the second week to make sure i was getting payed, which i was 'again' told i would.... guess what? never got anything for a month )
2- After you initial training period, you DO get payed every 2 weeks through a 'composite'payroll company, they take loads of your earnings as their cut... i.e training rate is 50 per day..... for 2 weeks you should get £500? but i ( and all the people i started with ) got around £360!!! not good!
3-Tools you are given after passing your test are around £350, they take 25 quid out of your wages every 2 weeks, took around a Month after being onj-site before the first charge was taken off..
4- The hours are too long, we were all averaging about 10-12 hrs a day for 50!! waste of time!! simple ass
5- They say its a really good industry to work in, they are wrong! its the worst industry i've ever experienced.
6- Pay for the days you work is always wrong, i have around 17 days pay missing for my period with them, you have little chance of getting it sorted with the muppets that run it! Photocopy everything if you do start!!!! not as if it will help much...but if you take them to court ( which i will be doing soon ) it will!
7- The people who seem to do well in the installation area, tend to do a job as quick as they can, which is why most customers i have dealt with, are unhappy with the service! On loads of occasions i went to a SRO job ( which is priced at £6 ) that took over an hour, if not 2hrs..... cos the previous engineers...knew this and fooked it off! as i was on a training rate and only a few jobs a day to start with... i could stay and complete the job properly!
8- 7 jobs per day in the area i was working, was too much... unless you like doing 12 hrs for a crappy pay? upto you i guess!
I'm getting tired of this now to be honest, it's making me feel streesed.....
so i'm finishing here, but have another 100 or so problems with it all!
I worked in the South london area, and i'm sure some of the area's are ok... but then only the top engineers will be in those areas....unlikely you will be at first! until you start impressing the used car salesman type management structure.....by cutting corners to complete the jobs before 8-9pm!!
proper weird industry mate......
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Re: A few thruths about Virgin media engineers ( Kelly Communication ones! )
Re: A few thruths about Virgin media engineers ( Kelly Communication ones! )
i'm hoping it is working with virgin media and not farmed out to someone else 
