Contractors

[JayJay]

Daz, I just seen the mcnichs prices, looks very much same as your on now.

Sounds like were getting rid of transits for one man crews and getting VW Caddys.... I look forward to the erm, lost space!

[Beardyisanob]

I do hope Kelly's are finished!!

Scumbag company run by idiots!

[dazj10]

Originally Posted by stacky

ey up daz, its what u make it mate, imean everytime a contractor comes in the rate of pay lowers. Wel thats in my experiance any way. Ive worked for endless contractors m8 and the pay never gets beter unless you do more. I wish the good old rates would come back for us al, but thats like asking your boss if you can finish early . Never happens

i do wish money would go back to how it used to be , but in stoke we do finish pretty early really , normally between 2 and 3 myself, and the bosses are very good with us and try to keep us all happy in regards to days off and if we need to be done early, (obviously not always possible, but sometimes they can be arsey)
just got us all thinking now on wether to stay and take the risk of lower pay or to go for the BT work,, a couple of our lads have already started it , so i can confirm that it is definately £24,000a year working monday to friday with 4 jobs a day, includes van, diesel card all tools are free including cordless drills , and backberry phone, work gets emailed to them 1 at a time( when 1 job is closed ,they email the next one to ya) but if they finish early they have to help other lads that are struggling, they work until 5 oclock

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Originally Posted by Beardyisanob

I do hope Kelly's are finished!!

Scumbag company run by idiots!

ye, they do nothing for us just take take take , which i know most companies do anyway , but they really take the p**s

[redone]

Originally Posted by dazj10

hi all,, i work in stoke with kelly communications but as you all know contracts are to be renewed in april ,, and the main runners for stoke apart from kellys are fujitsu and mc nicholas,, but was wondering what their pay structures are like ,, at tthe minute i am on a 2 man crew ,and my pay is


single pull - £25
dual pull - £32
triple pull - £42
repull - £18
and then the add outlets, exts, re cables and such things are £7
doin an average of 5-6 jobs a day

am i goin to be worse off, same or better

When mcnics took over from cobra in liverpool they never offered us a new contract as cobras was near identical in price. When MAP came in the 1st thing they tried was to get us on there stupid contract making out it was a good thing there are lads on cobra and map contracts in liverpool and the cobra lads earn at least 800 a month extra. Mcnics were a brilliant company to work for imo if you work hard you got paid very well wages were always right and relised that it was the installers that make them the cash.

[JayJay]

Good to hear something positive about McNics, alot of engineers worried about what will happen. Thanks for signing up redone!

[weesteev]

Originally Posted by JayJay

Good to hear something positive about McNics, alot of engineers worried about what will happen. Thanks for signing up redone!

Well said JayJay. I hear plenty of positives about McNic's myself, good to hear from the horses mouth though.

[sweaty]

I'm working nights for Openreach doing LLU work. Contract went from £11.50 and hour to £9.20 when contract was restarted last Feb. Does anyone know the contact details for the BT contract mentioned in the earleir posts? and who or if has the contract for stb collections in the North home counties (beds,herts bucks). Quite happy what i'm doing but like to keep my contacts upto date!!

[redone]

Originally Posted by JayJay

Good to hear something positive about McNics, alot of engineers worried about what will happen. Thanks for signing up redone!

I would love them back here but it looks like map are here to stay in the north west if rumours are to be belived. Mcnics are very h&s concious we had proper health and saftey reps not just sign this or you dont get your work like map. Also the top managment are/were really approuchable and down to earth and would often agree with the techs ahead of tms and site managers especially on h&s things. There top h&s fella was great and had the managers worried every time he was around but i found him friendly enough

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Originally Posted by sweaty

I'm working nights for Openreach doing LLU work. Contract went from £11.50 and hour to £9.20 when contract was restarted last Feb. Does anyone know the contact details for the BT contract mentioned in the earleir posts? and who or if has the contract for stb collections in the North home counties (beds,herts bucks). Quite happy what i'm doing but like to keep my contacts upto date!!

Just go to the kellys website and apply loads from north west have left to go and all say is alot better as its quality not quantity they want. as for box pick ups is that not the contractors who collect them as an sro

[sweaty]

Originally Posted by redone

I would love them back here but it looks like map are here to stay in the north west if rumours are to be belived. Mcnics are very h&s concious we had proper health and saftey reps not just sign this or you dont get your work like map. Also the top managment are/were really approuchable and down to earth and would often agree with the techs ahead of tms and site managers especially on h&s things. There top h&s fella was great and had the managers worried every time he was around but i found him friendly enough

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Just go to the kellys website and apply loads from north west have left to go and all say is alot better as its quality not quantity they want. as for box pick ups is that not the contractors who collect them as an sro

It was kellys who had the contract a few years ago but i heard they lost it to someone else. Any ideas?

[Tom2270]

Originally Posted by dazj10

i do wish money would go back to how it used to be , but in stoke we do finish pretty early really , normally between 2 and 3 myself, and the bosses are very good with us and try to keep us all happy in regards to days off and if we need to be done early, (obviously not always possible, but sometimes they can be arsey)
just got us all thinking now on wether to stay and take the risk of lower pay or to go for the BT work,, a couple of our lads have already started it , so i can confirm that it is definately £24,000a year working monday to friday with 4 jobs a day, includes van, diesel card all tools are free including cordless drills , and backberry phone, work gets emailed to them 1 at a time( when 1 job is closed ,they email the next one to ya) but if they finish early they have to help other lads that are struggling, they work until 5 oclock

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Is this defintley confirmed. at the moment we recieve £15,000 for 4 jobs a day and work tuesday to saturday. any idea on what single man crews are going to be getting??

[chriswhelan]

hi all my names chris/ex bt/install/jointer,any lads from north east/newcastle have any
contact num,used to work for ntl and vm 2yrs ago and trying to get back in trade,all my
contacts gone,thanx fellas

[dazj10]

[QUOTE=dazj10;35194605]i do wish money would go back to how it used to be , but in stoke we do finish pretty early really , normally between 2 and 3 myself, and the bosses are very good with us and try to keep us all happy in regards to days off and if we need to be done early, (obviously not always possible, but sometimes they can be arsey)
just got us all thinking now on wether to stay and take the risk of lower pay or to go for the BT work,, a couple of our lads have already started it , so i can confirm that it is definately £24,000a year working monday to friday with 4 jobs a day, includes van, diesel card all tools are free including cordless drills , and backberry phone, work gets emailed to them 1 at a time( when 1 job is closed ,they email the next one to ya) but if they finish early they have to help other lads that are struggling, they work until 5 oclock[COLOR="Silver"]

[stacky]

any 1 heard owt new bout contracts yet for yorkshire for networks

[dazj10]

Originally Posted by dazj10

i do wish money would go back to how it used to be , but in stoke we do finish pretty early really , normally between 2 and 3 myself, and the bosses are very good with us and try to keep us all happy in regards to days off and if we need to be done early, (obviously not always possible, just got us all thinking now on wether to stay and take the risk of lower pay or to go for the BT work,, a couple of our lads have already started it , so i can confirm that it is definately £24,000a year working monday to friday with 4 jobs a day, includes van, diesel card all tools are free including cordless drills , and backberry phone, work gets emailed to them 1 at a time( when 1 job is closed ,they email the next one to ya) but if they finish early they have to help other lads that are struggling, they work until 5 oclock

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ye, they do nothing for us just take take take , which i know most companies do anyway , but they really take the p**s

[ary13]

New contracts for the Yorkshire region will not be anounced now until June