Blooming Scandalous.

[bantamgas]

How about this job advertised on the job centre website...taking the mick or what?

Gas Fitter Temporary Job No: HUD/101194 SOC Code: 5314

£6.00-£9.00 per hour

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

14.9 miles

01/03/2012

Don't think the link works but its social housing service and repair.

 

[Barry98]

someone will apply for it

 

[mountainman]

I suppose the higher rate of pay is for a self-employed GSR with own tools, FGA, plain van, insurance and a tendency to 'Squeal Like a Pig' whilst being shafted.

 

[southcoastboile]

social housing as well, that just rubs salt in the wound

 

[Puddle]

someone will apply for it

Ye

yah,and some more folk will be put in dangerous situations and get hurt,due to cost cutting and work standards but they seem to be able to hide behind the ''social housing' cloak

imho

 

[mountainman]

Can't you just hear the HSE brief berating the £6-£9/h engineer for an error which puts an innocent customer 'at risk of death or worse'

Anyone seen the case in the GS mag where the 72 year old guy was similarly slated and fined a shed load of money for not being registered?
But a no point did the article suggest that his work was substandard...

 

[gasmarc]

That is total madness. It drives me crackers these firms just taking the mick. It comes down to the engineer cutting corners to make a weekly wage which is not on imho

 

[jase158]

on a simlar issue my dad lives in Devon and plumber quoted him £25 per hour, was well shocked, its over double here in bucks

 

[Barry98]

Ye

yah,and some more folk will be put in dangerous situations and get hurt,due to cost cutting and work standards but they seem to be able to hide behind the ''social housing' cloak


imho

Fully agree pal

 

[dancinplumba]

my local housing association advertising for two gsr's, same rate of pay, which is the same as their painters and decorators

 

[mountainman]

Yet a Housing Officer with a 'light degree' and no potential of causing a life threatening situation will be offered £33k plus benefits to start.

 

[Leo21]

Surely not that's tesco,s shelf stacking rates!

 

[gasmarc]

I would rather work at Tescos myself and sleep easy at night time than doing that rubbish job

 

[wazzer]

I saw this job I am not that desperate yet but I am looking its grim at the moment the phone just isnt ringing I have never been so quiet in 20 years of been self employed I am just hoping the A/C season is better

 

[lbp plg & htg]

make sure you use gas tape boss when you shove your spigot into my socket