Meter readers..
Discussion
Was having a read through the bumpf to become a meter reader and have come to the conclusion you have to turn into superman or such like to hit their targets! Firstly you have to pay a one off fee of £800 for the 'training/set-up costs/admin fee' etc, this gets deducted from your monthly wage @£200 per month, you get paid so much per meter read, they don't state how much this is however they do state earnings dependant on area are between £320-400 per week for a 40hr week,they also state you should average 250 meter readings [bold]per day[/bold]!! My math skills tell me with those figures you have approx 30secs for each meter reading, this doesn't include the time taken to get from property to property, I know blocks of flats and most modern houses make life easier with meter boxes being on the outside of the property but is anyone on here a meter reader and able to post up some real life figures?
tribbles said:
I make it 1:55 minutes per reading (8 hours, 60 minutes per hour => 480, divide by 250 => 1.92). Plenty of time!
Ahh, I worked it out a different way, 40hrs divide by 1250 units= 0.032 I read the calculator wrong! is 1.92 enough time though? how long do you wait once a doorbell has been rung? if no one answers you then have to go back another time/day to attempt take the meter reading, taking in to account they expect you to achieve that figure 5 days a week where is the time taken for toilet/food/drink break? all these will reduce the time per property.
saleen836 said:
tribbles said:
I make it 1:55 minutes per reading (8 hours, 60 minutes per hour => 480, divide by 250 => 1.92). Plenty of time!
Ahh, I worked it out a different way, 40hrs divide by 1250 units= 0.032 I read the calculator wrong! is 1.92 enough time though? how long do you wait once a doorbell has been rung? if no one answers you then have to go back another time/day to attempt take the meter reading, taking in to account they expect you to achieve that figure 5 days a week where is the time taken for toilet/food/drink break? all these will reduce the time per property.
I know my house's meter can be read without me being present (it's outside the front door).
I wont let them in to the house at all! You dunno who they are scoping out all my stuff! I tell them it's in the garage and the door is broke!
We had some bogus meter readers round here a couple of years ago, one Asian guy pitched up at mine and showed Southern Gas ID and said he was here to read the meter. I told him we were nto with Southern Gas, so he went in his pocket and got a Britsh GAs ID out!!
He finally gave up when I told him (correctly) that I did not have gas at all!!
He went off and got into an old VW Sharran which had 4 other blokes in it!!
Reg clocked and reported to the rozzers, who I am pretty sure put their very best man on it immediately! !
So now I just read my own.;)
We had some bogus meter readers round here a couple of years ago, one Asian guy pitched up at mine and showed Southern Gas ID and said he was here to read the meter. I told him we were nto with Southern Gas, so he went in his pocket and got a Britsh GAs ID out!!
He finally gave up when I told him (correctly) that I did not have gas at all!!
He went off and got into an old VW Sharran which had 4 other blokes in it!!
Reg clocked and reported to the rozzers, who I am pretty sure put their very best man on it immediately! !
So now I just read my own.;)
i used to be a meter reader. it wasnt actually that bad becuase if they weren't in you posted a card through and if they were helpful they filled it in and left in the window or outside. I never had to pay anything though. I work for E.on and used to get about 1300 meters to read in a week but because we did both gas and electric sometimes you'd be able to read two in one house which made things easier. Blacks of flats and new estates where a dream come true if you got them but they were usually saved for the bosses mate. I dont know who you have applied with but we got a basic (i think it was around £1400) and then had to hit at least 80% to get paid out on targets. (1040 reads a week)
I think once you hit a certain percentage you got so much per read and then you got extras for things like small commercials (corner shops etc) and super reads which where meters that had not been read for over a year!
Think it worked out for the year i did it i got £19k. Not great but you get to choose your hours between 8am and 8pm and if you were short on the week you could go out on a saturday morning when you get to annoy people by waking them up on their weekend.
I think once you hit a certain percentage you got so much per read and then you got extras for things like small commercials (corner shops etc) and super reads which where meters that had not been read for over a year!
Think it worked out for the year i did it i got £19k. Not great but you get to choose your hours between 8am and 8pm and if you were short on the week you could go out on a saturday morning when you get to annoy people by waking them up on their weekend.
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