British Gas and personal Gas safe registration

[nickso]

Cant you do gaswork for your family without being gsr as long as you dont charge any money for it?allways wondered if i ever went to BG if i could get away with keeping mine as its got lpg on it and say i did caravan work,as thats not in competition with them,

i have worked on lpg in a caravan for BG before so that isnt going to work. also, BG are not stupid as to think that you will limit your work to that alone.

 

[nickso]

if there using postcodes, GSR shouldn't be passing information to anyone using NI numbers if they are sue them for data protection breach.

this is all fine and well assuming that either BG or GSR will admit thats how the information was passed on. its far more likely that they are checking possible reg numbers for engineers that they already suspect for privates and that was passed on from another source.

 

[BingoBongo]

set a company up in some1 else`s name(girlfriend)
and you as the engineer

also watch what you say regarding bg on this site as they are watching you

 

[gas_man_gaz]

How do the EON lads get away with it? Using the EON number or are they allowed their own reg?

they are allowed their own reg, its only recently bg have asked their engineers to give up their private reg's.. i presume eon have bigger fish to fry at the mo

 

[jumbo55]

my mate was corgi registered but asked not to be put on the website cos he only wanted to do work for family, and wasnt covered under his british gas umbrella. when gas safety register took over, they automatically put everyone on the website, and he wound up getting the sack along with 300 other british gas engineers, and british gas have lost some really good engineers through this who will all lose their final salary pensions, apart from what they contributed. that should help their pension fund. the actual sacking offence was working in competition with british gas, but when my friend said prove it, ( cos he has never done any private work), they said they dont have to prove it, he was on the gsr so he must have been working in competition, it was brutal, none of the 300 engineers have done anything illegal, its because they wanted to be legal that they then got the sack.

 

[scatmanjohn]

Any BG engineer who has a personal reg has it to do work on the side. Fact.

I don't believe that anyone would get registered and pay all the relevent fees so they could just do work for family, thats just bullshit.

If 300 engineers have been sacked how come none have successfully won an unfair dismissal case.

Anyone who works for BG all week/weekend/shifts/callout and then still wants to do private work in there own time needs to have a serious look in the mirror.

Take some time out, relax, get a hobby, or just get a smaller house,a smaller car etc etc

 

[gremlin16]

Well said scatmanjohn.

Its about time BG checked where most of their vehicle stock ends up.
Sure to hell makes it possible for these installers to carry out foreigners for much less cost than the self employed can.

If the one that lives by me carries on taking work off me then I will report him and his stuck up customers.
The greedy **** drives around in a new 4x4 also has an escort van, lives in a large bungalow, keeps horses and has 3-4 foreign hols every year.
Even had the cheek to ask if I would sign off his work. Offered £150.00 a job.
Cant write what I told him to do.

 

[heatingman]

walkages and the stupid VS card has cost the company millions. God knows what idiot thought of that card idea, bit like giving kids the key to the sweet shop.
There are still guys at my local PC knocking out magnacleans, controls and flue items at 1/2 price. I dont participate but plenty do, he makes about a grand a month.

 

[scatmanjohn]

the stupid VS card

Whats that?

 

[namsag]

Just spoke to 2 union guys either end of country and they have not heard of a single guy getting sacked let alone 300.
Which knowing how the process works makes sense, BG would not be able to carry out 300 sacking in around a 7 week period.

For those the dont like guys earning money on the side .
DO THEY declare every penny they make or is it a case of dont do as i do

 

[heatingman]

Scatman, not sure what the letters VS actually stood for but it was a form of credit/id card given to all install engineers. Walk into merchant get upto £250's worth of pipe, fittings etc. Number from card was placed on order. It was only as good as the checks & balances which very rarely happened. I occasionally would look at the VS card spends and it was obvious who was at it. The hierache were to frightened to change it for political reasons and rocking the boat.
I don't have any problem with a tradesmen earning a bit of pocket money, but selling your trade on the name/experiance of BG, quoting & charging the same price or marginally less than the likes of me and others. And nicking the pipe, fittings, lagging, controls, consumables, flue items and even rads is just down right greed. The only main item being purchased on boiler swap is the boiler, the rest of the money is pure profit, paid in cash and trousered by the dis-honest installer.

 

[scatmanjohn]

For those the dont like guys earning money on the side .

For me, i don't care. I'm happy with my lot and don't care if someone wants to work a full time job then do evenings and weekends to keep up with the jones'.

I just makes me laugh when they get caught and play the "who me" card.

 

[jumbo55]

well namsag, i dont post on here for the sake of it, i dont know what union your friends are in, but tell em to contact the area member on the essex patch gmb union, and maybe he will enlighten them, i cant say too much because there are appeals going on, and indeed some cases will wind up in the unfair dismissal domain, i do not work for british gas, but my friend was told this started in london, and was then run nationally. the number approx 300 was said by the union rep. the union itself is not helpful just going through the motions, but the engineer i am talking about was suspended whilst working on duty, interviewed one week later and sacked at final interview 2 weeks after that, i personally think that to dismiss someone from their job by mere association is illegal, maybe british gas will get a bloody nose on this, although i do think they have a point, they are not above the law,

 

[glasgowgas]

namsag

did somebody not post on here recently that BG was scrapping their servicing contracts,hence the reason to bag as many the now therefore reducing redundancies?

might be miles off but sure i/yourself participated in the thread.


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[Slugbabydotcom]

Just use an alias for the gas safe register.
You can change your name by deed poll for a few quid on the internet.
All you need to do is just action it as far as gas registration then say you changed your mind and forgot to tell gas safe if anything comes of it