Energy Efficiency Beware! - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

1.0
Oct 12, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I can only speak on behalf of the energy efficiency department as I am not familiar with the company as a whole - there are no pros.

Cons

No work life balance. You are expected to work 12+ hour days with no lunch break, or be looked down upon because you stepped away from your desk, then management will find you and interrupt you on your lunch. Beware of job descriptions, they will promise you a very detailed and challenging job however you will end up getting information fed to you that you simply regurgitate. Challenge is not welcome, according to upper management you are always wrong, even when you have a stronger educational background then your superiors. Very high turnover, no retention; probably due to the fact that HR has no idea what is going on in the departments. They do not give exit interviews and they are not available when you actually go to quit! Anyone applying for energy efficiency run for the hills, everyday is a disrespectful nightmare.

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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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