Engineers! Get in here!

Malevolence said:
Thanks to a wagon setting itself ablaze on the A500 this morning, I wish we did get paid to commute. The gridlock was insane. Took me an hour to cover less than 3 miles.
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I drove straight past that going towards Britannia at 7am this morning, commuting to my engineering job :p

I would be nice to be paid for commuting as it's an hour each way for me, but I don't.
 
Marky said:
I'm talking electricians, plumbers etc. Never understood why people get so frustrated about the technicality where people call an electrician an engineer... (Please don't see that as an invitation to explain it to me :p)

Thanks for your feedback so far all :)
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But in this case it really does matter. It's common in industry for technicians to get paid overtime but engineers not to.
 
I'm salaried. Only get travel time if I'm away from the main office but that's normally flying long haul so tends to be a working day or two. Don't get overtime. Get offshore pay though.
 
Yes, but only when travel took you more than 2 hours outside the working hours of the day. So if a meeting's travel home took until 8pm then we would be paid overtime, if it only took until 7pm then it didnt.

I never claimed it so wouldnt know how hard it was to get though - i did however get £1.20 per mile expenses and plush hotels to stay in :)
 
[TW]Fox;23359667 said:
:p
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I'm with Fox to be honest. Engineers are only those who've done "Engineering". Electricians, plumbers, and TV installation people don't qualify.

Anything that takes 3 or 4 years of University level mathematics deserves some distinction IMO.
 
When I was an Electrical Engineer many moons ago I'd get paid from the moment I left and returned minus the normal traveling time/distance to work. So if it was a 4 hour commute but normally it took me 1 hour to get to work, I'd get 3 hours overtime. Same sort of calc for mileage.

I saw it as quite fair too, time and a half, or double time for driving home..
 
As an electrician you normally just get paid for time on site. A site that is some distance away will normally pay extra for travel but that's something you would discuss with your employer.
 
Marky said:
I'm talking electricians, plumbers etc. Never understood why people get so frustrated about the technicality where people call an electrician an engineer... (Please don't see that as an invitation to explain it to me :p)

Thanks for your feedback so far all :)
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Let be honest, its not likely to be a problem when you at the bottom of the 'engineer' foodchain, and yes, I went there. :p
 
If im doing site/offshore/out of office work then I charge a higher day rate than if I was based in the main office.

Standard 12hr day + uplift + travel expenses.

KaHn
 
[FnG]magnolia;23361114 said:
Welp, good old GD never lets us down :o
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Most the people who get wound up about it are young engineers, once you get more experienced and earn substantial amounts more than the "sky engineers" it just becomes an office joke normally.

I was the same when I was fresh out of uni, espcially talking to girls......

"So you did aerospace engineering? Do you fix aeroplanes and stuff?"

KaHn
 
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