bg summer shift

[gas_man_gaz]

Welcome to Bg, come join the mass exodus with us

makes ya think dunt it.. think theres about 7 or 8 engineers who use to work on my patch at eon!

 

[heatingman]

Transfer to installs, no weekends, no shifts, only work 3.5/4 days mon-fri, same wages, tons of pipe & fittings and other ancilary bits. No tracker on the van.

 

[kirkgas]

according to the news lately i think everyone should transfer to installs and get all the grannys heating systems renewed (that have been condemed by the 3* service guys)

 

[nickso]

Transfer to installs, no weekends, no shifts, only work 3.5/4 days mon-fri, same wages, tons of pipe & fittings and other ancilary bits. No tracker on the van.

nonsense. move to installs for a harder life if you dare.

 

[nickso]

One week in four on my current summer roster reads as follows:

Monday: Off
Tuesday: Off
Wednesday: 8:00-7.30
Thursday:8:00-7:00
Friday: 8:00-6:30
Saturday: 08:00-5.30

To me this just seems like they are getting standby work out of me for no retainer or OT payments. Apparently they arent set in stone yet

thats the problem though. the maximum sundays they can make you work is one in 5 or 6, i forget which. they can make you do as many sats as they like with a midweek restday.

 

[corgiman]

out of interest why cant they make you work saturdays and sundays with two days off in the week nick?

 

[heatingman]

nonsense. move to installs for a harder life if you dare.

Physically harder, humping boilers & rad, but a lot less stress from targets/office/Fim/customers/Bip's etc.

but you don't work lates/early/weekend or 5 days a week

 

[nickso]

out of interest why cant they make you work saturdays and sundays with two days off in the week nick?

they can. we are doing that very shift this summer.

the difficulty comes if they need more than one in 5/6 sundays covered. rare for that though, the patch would have to be gubbed for that kind of requirement.

 

[nickso]

nonsense. move to installs for a harder life if you dare.

Physically harder, humping boilers & rad, but a lot less stress from targets/office/Fim/customers/Bip's etc.

but you don't work lates/early/weekend or 5 days a week

depends how you look at stress i suppose. its strange how all the install guys couldnt contemplate the service side and vice versa.

as i understand it the installers work as many hours as they want. they book say 60 hours a week and get given work for that approximate time, if they get finished early they go home on the same pay, hence some of them not working a 5 day week.

most of the ones i speak to work regular overtime in evenings due to being stuck on a job. that very rarely happens on the servicing side as you just hand back what you cant manage.

 

[gasright]

Transfer to installs, no weekends, no shifts, only work 3.5/4 days mon-fri, same wages, tons of pipe & fittings and other ancilary bits. No tracker on the van.

no vans have trackers, your tracked via your Field terminal when you en-route, arrive or complete a job

 

[nickso]

Transfer to installs, no weekends, no shifts, only work 3.5/4 days mon-fri, same wages, tons of pipe & fittings and other ancilary bits. No tracker on the van.

no vans have trackers, your tracked via your Field terminal when you en-route, arrive or complete a job

good point, i missed that.

 

[ScottishGasMan]

I thought the installation guys got paid less than the CHC Engineers.

Id love to do that, but ive not done any installation so its probably the only job in the world where id actually be outh the house longer than I am now.

still looking through the manufacturers sites etc for something better lol.

 

[namsag]

YET
Was in reply to Nickso.. One thing you can refuse to do is work 7 continous days ie we used to have a 6 day break
week 1 mon to thurs .
.start week 2 thurs to sunday
then week 3 mon tues wed ON off thurs, friday on.

So to be awkward i used to say soy 7 days in a row not doing it he thought he would **** me off by 3 long days and a sat morning but i muched prefered that

 

[nickso]

they do get paid less basic but make it up on the hours they do.

 

[nickso]

YET

there will be a way round it if it does happen.