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Is this guy a troll or a plant??????
He claims he is taking home £2k a month which would work out at about £32k a year top line? It seems to me that this might be British gas’s new recruitment policy, get someone to sign up on UKW, paint a glowing picture ( with some very suspicious grammar and spelling ) and wait for the independents engineers who read these pages to call wanting their share of the £32k a year salary ( wonder if he will get £500 per UKW member who signs up ).
He is a walking advert for BG and seems to paint a very rosy picture which doesn’t add up. Well stocked vans with 2nd to none back up. This must not apply in the midlands as I am constantly getting BG on the phone asking if I will go to jobs that a) they have no technical info on, or b) there guys have been 5 times to and cannot fix.
OK bitching over I’m off for coffee to calm downJohn
PS. Just noticed P45’s post in the “British Gas Homecare” thread. This post should win the prize we are talking about in the subscribers forum, 😆
Re: funkyboogy
Yeah you’re dead right there John 🙁
Funkyboogy puts up a bloody good ad for BG I must agree and £2k a month an impossibility surely ❓ . The threads theme is falling on it’s backside thanks to him and the not so subtle BG recruitment drive. Clearly this guy is a plant by them to offset the negative stuff we have generated 👿
Thank heavens Chris’ reply was another brilliant Penguin masterstroke to hopefully counteract that statement, referring to “living in a bubble” no more than the real truth :tup:
Martin
Yep P’s reply is superb.
I’m thinking about it. 😈
I don’t think that he’s a plant but I do think he’s talking crap about 2K a month, or you’d need to be working your guts out to get that. I will confirm the 90 calls a month thing ASAP and I may even be able to aquire some of the bonus sheets.
K.
Thanks chaps. Had a PM from the fella regarding error codes – his spelling and grammar is just as bad, so he’s probably not a management plant.
Chris.
Re: funkyboogy
This guy is surely a plant. It doesn’t gel in my opinion.
Martin is concerned regards going off thread, at least the flaming blue one is under a different heading.
Anyway, I’ve put up a bit of a personal slag off post, so If he’s gen, he will defend himself.
Can we find out anything about him perhaps?
Alex
Dave must have cleared his access as I didn’t so I dunno the first thing about the guy other than what’s there.
I have spoken with the old man and basically fired up what he said about a couple of them up here that are fiddling the books to get the money. But his initial reaction was “no way he’s earning that!”
K.
Re: funkyboogy
Call me cynical if you like. Look at it another way.
You are a B.G. engineer and you are aware there is an incentive scheme to recruit new technicians, at £500 a shot. You don’t know of many prospective engineers, so you don’t pursue it. One day whilst browsing the net you stumble upon UKW. All of a sudden an idea hits you, “I’ll let out some info regards how bloody good B.G. are from an engineers point of view”. To ensure a bit of interest, I’ll stress the point “If you want to know more, I can tell you etc. i.e. “anybody that wants to know the nuts & bolts of B.Gas etc… just ask…
Do you see it? He comes upon us, tells it as it is supposed to be, then one or two engineers from other parts of the land read his postings and p.m. him. Bingo…. He passes the details forward and collects the payola. He doesn’t give a toss if they then take the appointment and find he was talking bollocks, he is not to be found and was not exactly a mate in the 1st place.
He only needs 4 engineers and his holiday in Benidorm and new wide screen telly is paid for.
Even if that wasn’t his agenda, it could so easily happen. I think we need to know more.
Iv’e just had a p.m. from a BG engineer, he tells me that if they are found browsing UKW they will be suject to a disciplinary hearing. Their training at Rotherham is known as “Brainwashing”. I will put up more on his post later, when I’ve got the time.
Alex
Funnily enough I was thinking the same thing Alex.
But WHAT THE FUCK!
Seriously are you telling me that they have been told that if they are caught on UKW that they will be subject to disiplinary action? That’s beyond Draconian that is and if we can prove it with a copy of the memo I will do something about it. In fact that’s just so shocking it’s unbelievable!
K.
Re: funkyboogy
If we’re all so worried about this guy, shop him to BG for illicit browsing and see how loud he screams 😆
Chris.
Re: funkyboogy
funkyboogy wrote:ive also got a big network of info sharers within b/g who have worked for varios intresting manu,s… the b/g thing could possibily run for a while,intresting stuff….i just feel u need a balanced view which b/g isnt gettn as the info on the site has either came from a disgruntled ex contractor / engineer..
Just though I would show you part of his recent email to me after he kindly gave me a Dyson PDF file, so he’s not all bad 🙂
He is certainly not a BG ‘plant’ that’s for sure :rotfl:
Martinkwatt wrote:Dave must have cleared his access as I didn’t so I dunno the first thing about the guy other than what’s there
I did, he scanned his BG ID card and emailed it to me, he’s just an employed engineer as far as I can remember, I don’t have the email any longer, as with all of these guys and the Merloni one’s, they are all pretty insistent that the email and it’s attachment is deleted (permanently) so I do once I’ve verified them.
Looks like a BG planted body to me though, interesting thread 🙂
Dave.
He doesn’t seem to know too much – posted on a Bosch fridge post – and got it wrong….. Got the Whirlpool d/w one right though – I just don’t know.
Chris.
Re: funkyboogy
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:59 am
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if they cant achieve bonus they must be in rural areas , or are not thinking/working smarter ………..what about all the big football clubs they attract all the young talent to, dont they
Note the time & day of his latest posting. If not on Holiday or thrown a sickie, how come a B/Gas engineer who is supposed to be on the road be on line at such a time of day?? He was logged in for nearly an hour.I have a load of info about the B.Gas call logging regime and how they pay the bonus etc. as well as their rationale. Will get it together & pop it in heare sometime before Thursday if I can. Can’t do it afterwards, have a meeting to go to.
Alex
Re: funkyboogy
Have you also noticed how his spelling and grammar has improved by leaps and bounds since yesterday . Are we hearing from someone else using the same log in details?
JohnRe: funkyboogy
Had this over the weekend. Of course I cannot divulge the source.
Right, this is how it works; for every person an engineer refers and is then employed by BG he will receive £250 immediately and £250 once they have completed six months. Basic at the moment is £19900, plus £100 for each week you’re on standby. If you’re called out on your standby week they pay from the moment you leave the house till you return, then you get “sleep time”.
“Big city” engineers are allocated 10 jobs a day in a tight area and most are doing in excess of this. 5 and half completed jobs puts you into bonus situation. Jobs in excess of 10 puts you onto another bonus rate. Rural engineers are allocated varying amounts of calls.
BG parts supply is a “cock up”. The van stock issue for whitegoods engineers is a total mess. Duplication of some parts, no GC number on some and approximately 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} missing when issued as a start up. The issued tool kit is a joke and some of the test gear must have cost them all of £1. We are not allowed to use our own tools or test gear so instead of using my semi decent tools, I’ll have to use the crap they gave me, quite why I need a cordless hammer drill is a bit beyond me.
Whitegoods also do first line Home Electrics Care. Basically, reset alarms, change cracked or broken sockets/switches, fit cartridge fuses etc. Anything beyond basic DIY skills are marked off as completed and passed to the electricians. In effect, I can look at an electrical fault, decide it’s beyond my capabilities and be paid as though I’ve completed.
The “tracking” that is referred to is basically through the mobile telephone/computer terminal. You have to sign off each job as you complete it, if you don’t sign it off the system doesn’t allow you to bring up the next job. They then know that you’ve finished Job 1 and are either en-route or at job 2. It’s in the contract that some days you will finish before you have worked 7.4 hours and some days you will work more than 7.4 hours, no overtime is payable in these situations. (Remote area engineers will have all their jobs passed in 1 transmission as mobile reception varies between good and none so there will be occasions when a job can’t be signed off immediately).
It doesn’t take many days of failing to meet targets before you’re called in for a disciplinary meeting and we all know what pigs some machines can be to find intermittent faults on them.
Info on the computers, I’ve got more info than them on my computer and in paperwork, although they do have a technical support at BG. They are actively looking at buying out a manufacturer or buying a “name” to enable them to supply BG branded goods but I got the impression that this was a long way off. They regard postings on the UKW forum regards the release of any information about BG as a disciplinary offence.
So there you have it. I have asked if the bounty fee on offer is in writing, he says he’s never seen it, and his line manager was a bit cagey when he asked about it.
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