Customer Service Rep: Call center - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

1.0
24 Jan 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As bad as the conditions were being yelled at and ripped apart by angry customers all day, the overtime offered was great if you had the determination and they would supply food on extended hour days for storm duty great company and the sky is the limit, lots of room for growth

Cons

union rep was a joke they would never consider your individual efforts, as long as you followed the script and said key words..it would not matter if you helped the customer or not. you could go out of your way and help a customer and solve an issue but if you forget to do a proper closing for the call,you get no credit; but if you say all the "key words" and not help the customer, you can make bonus. call center rep is the job you have to suffer through before you have a chance for the job you want, to get IN with the company

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1.0
30 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

At NGED the few pros are lessened by the day as the cons are increasing. The idea of a career has gone and now most are resigned to just having a job.

Cons

Aside from the reality being very different from what the leadership team sell IE they don't care about people or net zero, it's all spin and marketing. Now at NGED we are in a situation where staff you have known for many years simply disappear from duty and no one seems to know why, a couple of weeks later they have left the business with an NDA. It's happening all over the business. There seems to be a drive to remove any leaders who have industry technical knowledge and replace them with people from outside the industry who knows little to nothing about electricity. Despite safe to say being an important value, speaking out against this usually results in an NDA. It's toxic positivity where playing along seems to be more important than the role you fulfil.

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