Welcome to the dark ages of SLAVERY even if your a skilled GAS SAFE man?
Pros
Going Home or even better finding another job so the punishment comes to an end. You may think I am joking but you have to experience the pain for yourself. If someone told me what to expect before taking the job I would not believe it either. The thing is I am a intelligent man, and my co workers were very intelligent aswell we would ask each other why we came to work and have very long conversations about how stupid we were for coming back to work. But we were all qualified Gas Engineers, so we all had more than half a brain. The managers were always happy they would enjoy sacking grown men and making the whole process, very long winded just so they could get an emotional reaction. It was like they got pleasure from breaking grown men. My advice is when you get to that stage keep smiling because they hate people looking happy going out the door after a sacking, it puts them on the back foot it gives you the upper hand when you walk to car park, because they could not break you. I enjoyed the whole sacking process I kept smiling and was relieved that I never had to come back back. I am now stronger and there is no employer out there that can put me through what I endured at expert logistic better known as AO.com. I am alot happier and healthier now, at no point have I missed my job at potters bar and I have alot of sympathy for the soldiers left behind.
Cons
I was employed as a Gas Engineer and there was 20 of us employed in febuary 2014 there was about half a dozen when I left, it was a new venture for AO.com and we were promised 33 days holidays which got reduced to 23 days shortly after starting also time and a half for overtime again this was not honoured it was a "ADMIN ERROR" the first hour of overtime was never paid for, another new rule imposed on us after they got us in our uiforms, the hours were very long you would have to work between 12 and 16 hours a day unless you was one of the few management favourites. to be a management favourite you have to install gas and electric appliances without looking at manufacturers instructions or just ignoring them which is a legal requirement. I attended a few gas leaks left by my co workers or unsatisfactory installations single ovens making contact with gas hob pipework and lifting the hob, which needed readjusting. sometimes these mistakes would be a result of the constant phone calls from the team leader asking why a previous installation was not installed and you would have explain the Gas Regs or the MI`s, or why you was still at a job and not at the next job, this was a big distraction as it always led to arguement on the phine and the concentration was broken on the job. sometimes I would go to a previous installation and there would be copper gas and water pipework in the hotzone running from the cieling to the back of the cooker or wallpaper and kitchin units too low, or a 15mm gap from the back wall to the gas hob it should be 50mm I would ask the engineer why he had installed the hob or the cooker and the answear was always the same the team leader said it has to go in, cooper wont melt or the back wall wont catch fire. I also had the same conversation with management and team leaders and I always refused to carry out the installation. This why I am sitting at my computer blowing the whistle. there are many more conterventions of the gas regs and manufacturing instructions but I would be for a couple of days. I`m sure Gas Safe will get round to auditing this company in due time, I suggest they take the man from RIDDOR along with them and tell him to bring a couple of books with him.
