Working for Network Rail
Discussion
phillvr6 said:
Just to clear it up, I do have a job at the moment, just keeping my options open.
Its a Project Management position looking after stations. Also just to make it clear, they have not made me an offer, I've just had an interview and am contemplating my options if I am sucessful.
Permie or contractor?Its a Project Management position looking after stations. Also just to make it clear, they have not made me an offer, I've just had an interview and am contemplating my options if I am sucessful.
We subcontract to them at the London stations. I am assuming you will be involved in projects etc rather than driving a train! Its the usual situation of a big organisation - once in you are "in". Their admin systems and methods tend to be a bit antiquated, therefore frustraing. However, there is all the support and training that you could ever need. If you need any specifics, PM me.
I know one of the project managers. From what I hear they pay well and offer good perks however they are strict on people taking the pizz. People fired on the spot for tweaking expenses forms, being late regularly, unauthorised absence. I don't agree with any of the afforementioned practices however they are quick to get rid and make examples of people rather than sort the problems out.
Just re-read that and it sounds like I have had first hand experience!
Just re-read that and it sounds like I have had first hand experience!
I work for them at the moment!
HR is complete waste in my experiance both before I started and since.
Management are addicted to spreadsheets and I each week get a report on Monday or Tuesday that was run on Thursday and told that x, y, z needs sorting when it is sorted.
There is a huge amount of "not my department" about and communication is a joke a lot of the time.
The company is rife with very sad people whose lives revolve around trains - you will meet some very sad people indeed!
There are some good points but apart from the bonus I can't think of any at the moment.
Having said that - a job is a job at the moment!
HR is complete waste in my experiance both before I started and since.
Management are addicted to spreadsheets and I each week get a report on Monday or Tuesday that was run on Thursday and told that x, y, z needs sorting when it is sorted.
There is a huge amount of "not my department" about and communication is a joke a lot of the time.
The company is rife with very sad people whose lives revolve around trains - you will meet some very sad people indeed!
There are some good points but apart from the bonus I can't think of any at the moment.
Having said that - a job is a job at the moment!
Chim Chim said:
I work for them at the moment!
HR is complete waste in my experiance both before I started and since.
Management are addicted to spreadsheets and I each week get a report on Monday or Tuesday that was run on Thursday and told that x, y, z needs sorting when it is sorted.
There is a huge amount of "not my department" about and communication is a joke a lot of the time.
The company is rife with very sad people whose lives revolve around trains - you will meet some very sad people indeed!
There are some good points but apart from the bonus I can't think of any at the moment.
Having said that - a job is a job at the moment!
Yep, my sentiments of the place exactly. I left after losing my rag with a guy from Head Office one day in my review. When he asked me what improvements I thought we could make in the team I replied with "well if we stopped creating meaningless spreadsheets, charts and KPIs and instead concentrated on actually doing the work then you wouldn't be in a job, would you?."HR is complete waste in my experiance both before I started and since.
Management are addicted to spreadsheets and I each week get a report on Monday or Tuesday that was run on Thursday and told that x, y, z needs sorting when it is sorted.
There is a huge amount of "not my department" about and communication is a joke a lot of the time.
The company is rife with very sad people whose lives revolve around trains - you will meet some very sad people indeed!
There are some good points but apart from the bonus I can't think of any at the moment.
Having said that - a job is a job at the moment!
On the plus side, if you can cope with the neverending cycle of 'efficiency' drives and initiatives you'll do just fine. It's as much a job for life as there is. I'm pretty sure you either have to want to leave, you die or you do something so vile as to be unemployable anywhere to actually get out. Thats the only way I could get my head around the sheer incompetence of some of the people I worked with.
Oh and you better just love meetings.
HTH
Edited by fathomfive on Sunday 8th February 14:26
V8mate said:
Several friends of mine got made redundant from NR last week.
Though they weren't at the engineering 'coalface'.
When I was a signaller the general attitude about most office based staff was "the railways run fine from Friday evening to Monday morning without these people, so it could run fine without them all the time"Though they weren't at the engineering 'coalface'.
NR are having some serious cost saving measures ATM.
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