Another 'Sky Engineer' scammer
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Aside from the lack of identification, then it sounds like most Sky 'engineers' I've had to deal with.
The two that came to install Sky Q had uniforms and marked Sky vans. They looked as thought they were ready for combat.
Apparently one of their special teams and very good they were!
My next door neighbour had a Sky engineer out last year to fit a new dish, he looked like Robocop the amount of gear he had on, hard hat, goggles, knee pads, elbow pads, everything. he even drilled into his brick wall to fit a safety loop for his safety harness to attach to while he was up the ladder!
So what was the scam?
Please tell me you are joking?
Sky installers bring their own brick walls to drill into?
Nope. We were pretty dumbfounded by it.
Worrying thing is I've actually got Sky coming this Thursday to fit me a new dish as well, god help us if it's the same guy.
Hope he remembers his crampons!
He won't be. Sky won't upgrade my dad's LNB for Sky HD as it's not directly accessible with a ladder so they want to install a second dish instead.
Guess who put it up there in the first place
They've done that where I live, drilled into the brick wall outside to secure too.
Its not to support the engineer iirc when they did ours, it was to secure the ladder to stop it wobbling.
Sounds reasonable to me that an employer requires their workers to do everything possible to reduce any risk of injury, after all it will be them ultimately responsible for their employees.
Drilling anchor points and using a harness may sound over the top but there's regulations to adhere to and if even if this goes above and beyond that then at least an employer is taking the safety of their workers seriously whether its for genuine concerns or only to cover their own backside, in any case what ever the reason, the employee should be at less risk from serious injury
It's all the new working at height regulations, just be grateful that they don't put scaffolding up
