Anyone worked for Openreach?

rossk26

rossk26

rossk26

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Hello,

Have an interview/assessment on Monday, and was wondering if anyone has any info or tips for me?

It's for the Openreach "engineer" role.
 
Well if it is any help i have had 3 or 4 openreach engineers working outside my shop for the past few working days. I shall give you some tips that seem to be how an openreach engineer conducts his job.

Swear a lot under your breath...
Leer at young girls...
Blame "that ruddy dave" for every problem you come across...
Block the pavement with over the top barriers...
Constantly moan about how under paid and over worked you are, while doing no work and scoffing a greggs pastie for the 5th time that day...
Look forward to the next "training day" with its huge budget and the fact you can all get wrecked because hardly anyone will be there so more beer money!

:p hope that helps
 
AtreuS said:
Well if it is any help i have had 3 or 4 openreach engineers working outside my shop for the past few working days. I shall give you some tips that seem to be how an openreach engineer conducts his job.

Swear a lot under your breath...
Leer at young girls...
Blame "that ruddy dave" for every problem you come across...
Block the pavement with over the top barriers...
Constantly moan about how under paid and over worked you are, while doing no work and scoffing a greggs pastie for the 5th time that day...
Look forward to the next "training day" with its huge budget and the fact you can all get wrecked because hardly anyone will be there so more beer money!

:p hope that helps
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Like pretty much every other civil engineering/utilities jobs then :D
 
The trick to Openreach is denying the existence of BT

Interviewer: "What do you know about BT"

You: "I'm sorry, I can't say I've ever heard of them"

Interviewer: "Great, when can you start"
 
You also need to be able to huddle in groups of three while all of you make a phone call to someone, presumably to explain why connecting one wire to another has taken three days plus overtime.

Be able to stand around doing literally nothing, and be able to keep a straight face while people drive by on their way to work.

To park as close as possible to a blind bend, in order to turn a quiet leafy suburb into a apocalyptic scene of carnage as people try to get past.
 
turn up to fix something and break other peoples connections

turn up to fix a problem the customer didnt report and say you cant help them with the one they did report as thats not on your work sheet
 
Sunbed said:
Sorry to be pedantic but Openreach Engineer =/= Civil Engineer
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They both stand around looking into a hole in the ground whilst talking on their phones?

Phones mostly work but I'm fed up of badly designed road junctions and blind dips on newly built bridges :p
 
"How would you go about customer care?"

"Always find a fault on the premises"

"When can you start........
 
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