People are great, company is not - Customer Service Representative National Grid Employee Review

3.0
26 July 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Awesome entry level pay. You get benefits. There's opportunities for overtime and a lot of opportunities to move up the ladder.

Cons

The company does not put a lot of care, time, money, or effort into customer service. It's very black and white, so there's no room for caring about customer's needs. (Example: the company has the lowest customer satisfaction rate now than ever before, so the company has told the customer service supervisors to really crack down on keeping calls to 5 minutes or less, so now instead of us taking time to help the customers and obtain first call resolution, we are transferring them, cutting them off, and wrapping up the call without getting the problem solved the first time.)

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1.0
30 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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