Having a laugh

[dazza1981]

I just got back from a job interview as a maintenance sparks at an R.A.F air base, 3 people interviewed me so it was quite intimadating at first,
About 45 mins into the interview i was told that i may be asked to do small plumbing jobs like unblock toilets, also painting, change tap washers etc and tiling.
The job details were electrical maintenance engineer needed to carry out installation work,fault finding,testing,ppm and reactive electrical maintenenace.
Im currently unemployed and just doing a few of my own bits so could really do with the work but for 22k a year for a qualified sparky and doing all these other bits and pieces i think takes the p155.
Is this the way things have gone now multi tasking slave labour???

 

[MDJ]

On the books? Not around here they don't!

Okay I won't win the argument even though they do earn that around here, either way 22k a year is okay, but I would want overtime as well otherwise it is Carp

 

[Guest55]

pointless bitching....

eh ? whos the one bitching about a job with prospects they've not even been offered yet when theyre on the dole ?

stupid little puke go get a clue.

 

[dazza1981]

oh dear ..... lol

 

[Guest55]

i wouldnt worry too much as youre unlikely to get the job anyway with your whiney fail attitude.
ta ra.

 

[dazza1981]

ta ra.... and go get some manpax and a life.

 

[Engineer54]

Don't really understand what's going on here, you all jump up and down about how low an electricians rates are these days or have a right set too on a given advert offering silly rates, and then have a pop at the OP making a point on exactly the same issue??

If you are answering an advertised position for employment as an electrician, why would you also be expected to undertake tiling, plumbing and painting, if no mention was made on the advertised position being a multi trade/discipline position??

It seems this is the way things are going, in that fully qualified electricians are being thought of and more importantly treated like semi skilled tradesmen....

 

[dazza1981]

This is exactly what i am implying eng54.
I knew the money before i went to the interview so thats not the problem here.... i just was not expecting to have to do the other jobs aswell as it was not on the description.
Im not on the dole either because as i said im doing a few of my own bits to keep ticking over but wanted to gain employment.
I would love to learn plumbing tiling etc from the professionals but this was not the job description!!!

 

[pepparz]

these days working in an industrial or most other environments ur employer and other fellow workers will expect u do do non electrical jobs to help out, its a sorry state of affairs if u think ur too good to touch on another type of task.

 

[pepparz]

in most interviews for industrial sparks u will get asked what would u do if there was no electrical work that needed doing, and they will expect you to say that you'll help the fitters.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

but this `bit of this...bit of that` crap has to stop....full stop.

one trade...one job.

thats how skills are maintained....

 

[7029 dave]

Well I see both sides of this debate, nothing wrong at all with having other skills.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Well I see both sides of this debate, nothing wrong at all with having other skills.

yeah...but being told its one thing....then its something else.....

 

[MDJ]

LMFAO, Biff is just winding the OP up, why do you think he is the forum Troll, he is laughing his head off now at all the biting thats going on, brilliant lol haha

 

[telectrix]

a bit of plumbing and painting is not too bad, but toilet cleaning?? you have to have a degree for that.

 

[Silly Sausage]

That's bullsheet.
The only bog you'll ever find me cleaning is my own.
I'll doing anything (almost) for cash!