Anyone here worked for Dyno Rod?

[Ermintrude]

Well done

 

[armyash]

Does this mean you'll be under BG umbrella as to being gas safe already.. or is BG (GAS SAfE) as you were saying that you have to go through another test??

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.

 

[armyash]

Excellent news fella, I assume the money/hrs suited
As for your current boss, shake his hand, give him a bottle of whisky/brandy and tell him how grateful you are for him giving you a chance, but unfortunately you need more security as your circumstances are changing (new house, maybe bigger family etc)
This time next year Rodney......

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).

 

[armyash]

Excellent news fella, I assume the money/hrs suited
As for your current boss, shake his hand, give him a bottle of whisky/brandy and tell him how grateful you are for him giving you a chance, but unfortunately you need more security as your circumstances are changing (new house, maybe bigger family etc)
This time next year Rodney......

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.

 

[Gray0689]

Only went and got the job!!

Thanks for all the advice i probably wouldn't have got it without the info on this forum!

Good on you ash
You will be a credit to the company

 

[kris]

Well done ash, onwards and upwards, you'll have to keep us updated on first day etc,

 

[northstar]

Well done Ash

 

[IDCHAPPY]

So they do gas work too?

 

[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

 

[armyash]

So they do gas work too?

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.

 

[armyash]

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

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.

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Seems odd given they are part of BG? maybe their boiler change quotes will be £100 cheaper

 

[spanner]

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.

It's money and a good job.. Hope you make a good buck and enjoy. Thatcham the main focus

 

[parkesy_plumb]

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

 

[spanner]

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

Jheeez

 

[spanner]

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!! (

 

[stevetheplumber]

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

 

[parkesy_plumb]

like i said it is franchised so the aim of the game was the owner had to make as much money as possible

 

[tomplumb83]

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

 

[armyash]

I will have a basic salary, there's loads of overtime apparently.

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.

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Nice one. All sounds good & excellent experience.

 

[northstar]

How did it go with your boss ?

 

[stevetheplumber]

Yeah I know him, he was my com at bg(regional manager).

He was alright to begin with but time changes things. As an individual he's fine as a manager... Well he ticks all managerial boxes he may have relaxed a bit over the years so you never know he may not be there anymore but to my knowledge he is.
Health and safety is ott being part of the centrica group but I have to say Id never been so well looked after. Silly things like when I got issued a new van they asked that I reported the freshly polished rubber floor mat as a near miss and they sent a mobile valiter out to scrub it. They also stopped using transit connects as the mechanism that held the doors open wasn't stiff enough and peoples doors came back at them if they opened them to quickly...

Good luck with it though ash make the most of it

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

 

[stevetheplumber]

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

 

[armyash]

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.