Cant wait to leave.......... - Gas Engineer-field Force National Grid Employee Review

3.0
4 Mar 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Sharesave,sick pay scheme,reasonable pay and conditions which unfortunately are now being eroded to the point where the company is actually serving up pay cuts with a "like it or hike it"attitude.

Cons

Undervalued by the company and its management. No developmental opportunities.treated as second class employee. Company treats its field force as lower class,low grade hirelings who are disposable. It manages them by threat and continually seeks ways to erode existing terms and conditions. Highly experienced Engineers with decades of experience now leaving in droves and glad to be going. Company talks a lot about work life balance but this doesnt apply to the field force

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1.0
30 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

At NGED the few pros are lessened by the day as the cons are increasing. The idea of a career has gone and now most are resigned to just having a job.

Cons

Aside from the reality being very different from what the leadership team sell IE they don't care about people or net zero, it's all spin and marketing. Now at NGED we are in a situation where staff you have known for many years simply disappear from duty and no one seems to know why, a couple of weeks later they have left the business with an NDA. It's happening all over the business. There seems to be a drive to remove any leaders who have industry technical knowledge and replace them with people from outside the industry who knows little to nothing about electricity. Despite safe to say being an important value, speaking out against this usually results in an NDA. It's toxic positivity where playing along seems to be more important than the role you fulfil.

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