Company is a junk box - A Mechanic National Grid Employee Review

1.0
Dec 10, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It’s a Job and that’s all you can really say.

Cons

Management for downstate NYC in GFO is absolutely garbage. The constant change in leadership really broke this place. Unorganized, garbage union that fights for absolutely nothing, horrible tools, horrible trucks, horrible work life balance and environment. Shut down a critical satellite yard cause they don’t want to pay. So it makes sense that a major utility company has 4 locations total and the one that’s convenient to a good amount of guys gets axed. So if you like your commute home being minimum 2-3 hours this is the place to be. 3% match on the 401k is an absolute embarrassment too. I don’t know how the union negotiated that one. No pension, no annuity, work till your dead mentality here. If you’re young avoid this place at all cost. Anyone that was worth anything is gone already anyway.

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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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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