overhead linesperson Review

building repairing or maintaining overhead power lines is what it is supposed to be but is now more of sitting in the depot for 6 out of your 7.4 hour day waiting for faults to come in or travelling half way to a job that then gets cancelled, [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions]

i have learned skills from the training school during my apprenticeship but when it comes to on site or in the depot you can no longer put these skills into practice because the company hires contractors to do all your work for you now, which costs them double but is ‘more efficient’ leaving you with no possible way of getting your evidence of progress in for your apprenticeship.

i enjoy being at the training school because it is very productive hands on and you can learn new things every day that you are there, your trainers can relate to you and are really helpful and will help you, it’s also quite fun! However as soon as your course is finished you get thrown into the depot to put your new skills into practice and you need to get pictures of you doing very specific things on jobs (evidence) which you won’t be able to do because the company doesn’t give you jobs, they give them all to contractors, meaning all the apprenticeship managers and people above you have a go at you constantly because something that is completely out of your control is wrong. [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions]

VERY poorly organised feels like next to none communication between the actual work side of the company and the apprenticeship side of it, resulting in you being the middleman and being blamed for most problems which is every day for me personally, [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions]

Little to none, you get sent mental health awareness things to do but that’s only really because they have to send them out, the company doesn’t care about you anymore, [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions], [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions] and to all the people reading this that are in the company i’m sure you can relate in one way or another...

little to none because the training provider does not communicate to your depot properly, [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions]

you can get the qualification fine, it comes down to the fact that you can’t put it into practice i was back to the depot for 5 weeks in-between courses recently, my job is to go up poles and fix things everyday and build and fix things, i went up ONCE in FIVE WEEKS and wasn’t able to use that as evidence for my training provider because that specific time i was doing something that i have not been trained to do and was only really observing the other worker up the pole, very very poor apprenticeship [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions]

No, there is nothing fun about being anywhere in this company apart from the training courses that you go on, which don’t last long, there is no activities there’s barely even work for you to do, it might sound good getting paid for doing nothing but you have to sit in your depot for the 37 hour week, you’d think that living 5 minutes from the depot would mean that you can wait at home until there is a job and maybe be productive [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions]

No

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