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Meter Reading Job. A Con?
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I've just filled out an application form for employment with a gas/electric meter reading company (Meter-U). I have just read their employment information and the company are expecting successful applicants to hand over �520, which would then be re-imbursed weekly over the first three months of employment. I would have to 'beg, borrow or steal' this amount of money! Does anyone else on AB have any experience or advice about this company? Many thanks in advance.
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OK - I am very suspicious of the contributers on here vehemently defending this company and the set up. If I worked for a company already I wouldn't bother looking them up to contribute on the net & its unlikely I'd defend them to the hilt even if I was deleriously happy with my lot - I'm only looking now as I was considering giving it a go. dturn et al are so obviously company plants.
I'm not applying. To treat people like such idiots when they're just looking to make an honest living is bang out of order. Get bent meter u. So glad I looked this up.
I'm not applying. To treat people like such idiots when they're just looking to make an honest living is bang out of order. Get bent meter u. So glad I looked this up.
Meter-U exploit people who need work. They claim via their ads on the Governments JobCentre Plus web site that readers are capable of earning the minimum wage for working 40 hours per week.
This is absolute crap. To properly plan your working day you need to plan your route etc,this can take at least 2-3 hours per day, for which you are not paid.
You are expected to work within 30 miles of your home address but you do not receive any form of mileage allowance/payment.
They allocate work to you and because of their unrealistic targets this can mean that you are allocated jobs that you can not possibly complete within the designated timeframe. You are then penilsed by having your total payments reduced by 35%.
When you attend the training they are typical of so many rip off merchants, they don't have enough training manuals, heavy emphasis on health & safety crap, and nothing about how you canmake a living, sorry they do mention about using their recommended rip off accountants at £65 per month.
Don't work for this company, they seem to think that they are exempt for The Abolishion of Slavery Act.
ps their H & S Compliance manager is an absolute jobs worth.
This is absolute crap. To properly plan your working day you need to plan your route etc,this can take at least 2-3 hours per day, for which you are not paid.
You are expected to work within 30 miles of your home address but you do not receive any form of mileage allowance/payment.
They allocate work to you and because of their unrealistic targets this can mean that you are allocated jobs that you can not possibly complete within the designated timeframe. You are then penilsed by having your total payments reduced by 35%.
When you attend the training they are typical of so many rip off merchants, they don't have enough training manuals, heavy emphasis on health & safety crap, and nothing about how you canmake a living, sorry they do mention about using their recommended rip off accountants at £65 per month.
Don't work for this company, they seem to think that they are exempt for The Abolishion of Slavery Act.
ps their H & S Compliance manager is an absolute jobs worth.
You dont have to pay £520.00 the amount is only £100 andthat is for your handheld unit and the franchise position which is only payable after the four months trial and then it is taken out of your wages in two installments at £50 each. I know because my husband has joined them and recieved the information in writing when he was told he had got the job
The pay while you are training is basic minimum wage then you onto your various rates per reading depending on whether you work for british gas or scotish power ifall your meters are outside then targets are achievable if all meters are inside then you have no chance for 30 hours work some training allowance and two days holidays the wages were 232.00 gross
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