Let me put this bluntly, some people are right Avonline, Cobra, and Kelly’s are no different than any other company out there today, they corporate entitites looking out for their shareholders in a competitive environment and corporations exist to make money – that is all, I just expected there to be human “people” in these corporations who would go the extra mile to make sure they were not inadvertantly f*cking another humans life over for a £ or to hold on to their “stats” – I at least expected there to be management somewhat protective of those who tried to do a good, (complete) job despite the conditions – even if they didn’t get their hands dirty themselves.

I say this is absolutely your own fault citizens – it comes down to this: you complain about everything and don’t do a thing about it because you’re too busy f*cklng around living your own lives to realise that you could stick together, make a personal sacrifice and see change through for the benefit of everybody. As a workforce or a group of consumers you are weak, pathetic, and couldn’t organize a p155 up in a brewery. You are going to get F*ck1ng trodden on in the latter part of this century just like you did when they lorded it over you before. Good luck, I’m out of here.

As for the UK I hope you all catch the rage virus and eat eachother until you go hungry and starve. Just like a ‘B’ grade movie I saw recently.

Comments are closed, any updates will be when Mark Wynn, Richard Branson, or Neil Berkett actually contact me with some developments of what’s changing, if you have anything to say that’s not already been said, feel free to contact me.

I think the main point I would like to make is that I know for a fact that Avonline make a tiny profit out of the Virgin contract due to the margins they are forced to work under by VM.

the only contractor that is considered a good payer is one that uses a tax loophole to pay their staff, but this has side effects in that they cannot use their full salaries when trying for mortgages / pensions etc.

In my experience Avonline are a very good employer and they do try their best for their staff, but they are limited in what they can pay, by what they are paid themselves. They would love to pay their VM techs £25,000 a year for a 38 hour working week, but they would go bust in a week.

If VM want top quality techs they should pay for them, not keep squeezing the margins down.

Then again, if people want to pay vitually no install fee when getting virgin then they’ll have to put up with the installers they get.

the install fee for Sky is far above that of VM, but I know from friends experince that their techs are paid no better and if anything worked harder.

Good luck Avonline and Virgin Media – you do your best in a hard market.

The thing is we have teams here who are happy to help if you do have a problem. There are always people who will help you when you have an issue with a customer/wages.

I deal with the TM’s and if one of them come to me with an issue its resolved within a day at the most. You will also find this is the same if you approach people in Finance/HR or Fleet we are all happy to help, regardless of rank in the company.

Avonlines techs do a damn good job if there perpaired to put the effort in and things do get easier but is does take time. You cant expect to come in to a company and know everything straight away thats why the hours are so long but when you do get used to the work and you will find that you get through things quicker.

Anyway goodluck to Avonline and its employees.

Do not – Take a job with these cowboy’s. It took me 6 months and I burnt out and had to see a psychiatrist! Lost my girlfriend! 6 Points on my liscence! No opportunities to do a damn thing about it!

I was screwed at every turn!

Whoever wrote this post – Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am glad it is out in the open now! I hope you will become a great success!

The pay was a compleate fuck over and the managers/teamleaders would promise money for favours, money that would never be seen.

The pay slips were more confusing then the actual jobs, there was always deducions for summat unnecessary.

Then Birmingham avonline lost the contract and i thought that would be the end of all the whinging. Then along came kellys, only been a couple of days and hes stayin positive going on about the good things, however, i have heard alot of down sides about kellys so im not looking forward to whats going to be comming out of this one but only time will tell. Lets hope kelly doesn’t end up another Avonline!

Have fun you w*kers!!!