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Well done
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Anyone here worked for Dyno Rod?
- Thread starter armyash
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To be honest i don't know, I think with having to do the BG test means i'll be under their gas safe, maybe they will have me doing 50/50 gas and plumbing.
Thanks, that's pretty much what I had in mind. I am dreading telling him tomorrow morning but i have to do what's best for me and my family. I know he will understand it's just come at a bad time (for him).
Yes the basic hours suit me. Have to be on call 1 weekend in 4 and 1 night a week. I will have to get used to that as I haven't done that sort of thing before. I'm sure it will be fine.
I have to step out of my comfort zone if I'm going to get the career I want.
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So they do gas work too?
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mountainman
I'm not sure that you'll be allowed to keep your gas safe registration or do private work, hopefully I'm mistaken.
Congratulations anyway mate, you've come a long way in a short time
Congratulations anyway mate, you've come a long way in a short time
Yes they do gas work, they did say it's early days for the gas side of things but they will start pushing gas work from September.
I'm more than happy to leave the private work alone, I will be better off doing overtime when offered. I want to establish myself there, gain more experience and become a better plumber.
I will go in with more confidence than i did at my current job, I won't have the Pee taken out of me but I will work very hard. It's going to be hard work i'm sure but I'm looking forward to working somewhere that is professional.
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Seems odd given they are part of BG? maybe their boiler change quotes will be £100 cheaper 😀
It's money and a good job.. Hope you make a good buck and enjoy. Thatcham the main focus 🙂
i worked for them a couple of years ago. Worst company i have ever worked for. They are franchised so run by people who have never picked a spanner up before and run ruthlessly. The "overtime" was not optional, at 4.45 you might get a call with 2 more jobs to attend at different ends of the city. I was paid £11 per job no matter where it was or how long it took.
Did one at hour and half drive, 3 hour repair and hour half home at 3 in the morning all for £11.
i cant even take any positives from my experience with them im afraid 🙁 told the boss lady to F off and walked out after 6 months and started on my own
Did one at hour and half drive, 3 hour repair and hour half home at 3 in the morning all for £11.
i cant even take any positives from my experience with them im afraid 🙁 told the boss lady to F off and walked out after 6 months and started on my own
Jheeez
Surely the rates in payment MUST change after current working hours mate. Surely that's overtime.
Well I'll put that To the back if I ever get the offer.
Mate that's disgraceful, you really wouldn't believe big massive companies like dyno would treat company staff like that!! 😱(
Well I'll put that To the back if I ever get the offer.
Mate that's disgraceful, you really wouldn't believe big massive companies like dyno would treat company staff like that!! 😱(
You'll probably find there's an hours unpaid lunch break in that time I still think that reactive work is a good way to pick up a lot of knowledge in this game
like i said it is franchised so the aim of the game was the owner had to make as much money as possible
I pointed this out on another thread.
A customer calls them with a leak on a cold pipe to an appliance.
They'll say something along the lines of 'itll cost £120 to stop the leak'. Customer goes ahead
Even if its just as easy to cut the pipe and stick a flexi on, instead they'll want to cap the pipe, leaving the customer without water. They'll give them the option of repairing it with the flexi which will cost another £100.
At this point the customer will often get it done to avoid messing about with another plumber.
All this after theyve already paid their insurance excess
A customer calls them with a leak on a cold pipe to an appliance.
They'll say something along the lines of 'itll cost £120 to stop the leak'. Customer goes ahead
Even if its just as easy to cut the pipe and stick a flexi on, instead they'll want to cap the pipe, leaving the customer without water. They'll give them the option of repairing it with the flexi which will cost another £100.
At this point the customer will often get it done to avoid messing about with another plumber.
All this after theyve already paid their insurance excess
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I will have a basic salary, there's loads of overtime apparently.
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That's logged in and on the road for 8 - will have to be earlier if going a fair way. Not sure what time they will be giving me the last job on a day and not sure how the overtime works, the first month i'm going to do as much overtime as possible and see what difference that will make to my basic pay 🙂
I expect to be rushed off my feet and i don't mind working over my hours - providing i get paid!. There is a lunch break from what i have seen but not sure how long.
0800-1800
That's logged in and on the road for 8 - will have to be earlier if going a fair way. Not sure what time they will be giving me the last job on a day and not sure how the overtime works, the first month i'm going to do as much overtime as possible and see what difference that will make to my basic pay 🙂
I expect to be rushed off my feet and i don't mind working over my hours - providing i get paid!. There is a lunch break from what i have seen but not sure how long.
Nice one. All sounds good & excellent experience.
tsg were like that paranoid about h and e if it was an easy fix but couldnt in ten months get the hands free working in a brand new van as there was never time to be of the roadash i think you need to take a new job even if its not exactly what you want ,your obviously not happy where you are and theres always another job, sometimes you need to just do it
first month will be a nightmare ash as well as working you will need to learn the software who to speak to all the numbers to call you realy wont get into it till the second month
That is what i am expecting and i am mentally prepared to be all over the place for the first 4-6 weeks. Once I am in to a routine and know my way with how things are i should be ok.
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