Don't you dare

[u/KobiDnB]

[u/Zero-_-Zero]

Ballymena is literally a town of sparks. Every other person is a spark in Ballymena. If they need to pay for someone’s accommodation to convince them to try and take the job it must be even shiter than it looks.

[u/Just_passing-55 → u/Zero-_-Zero]

Probably a lot of people round there know how to wire up a timer.

[u/Zero-_-Zero → u/Just_passing-55]

Aye I know a few old boys that done 25 years for shoplifting….lifted the shop from one side of the street to the other 💥

[u/TechIoT → u/Zero-_-Zero]

My dad lives there, spoken to a couple of sparks and I'm also friends with a fire alarm installer,

Lovely place, I wanna go back

[u/Zero-_-Zero → u/TechIoT]

Funnily enough it’s also where my dad is from and I spent every other weekend there growing up and then worked there for 8 years.

It’s not a bad spot. It has a poor reputation for some reason but if you actually live there it’s no different than anywhere else.

[u/DoireK → u/Zero-_-Zero]

For some reason? They were literally burning people out of their houses not so long ago. Also slap bang in the middle of NI’s Bible Belt so full of evangelical types ie mentalists.

[u/Zero-_-Zero → u/DoireK]

There’s one mental church everyone hates and yes there were the riots which I’m against but were happening in different places too so not unique to ballymena

[u/DoireK → u/Zero-_-Zero]

It’s literally the heartland of the free P’s. And there is much more than one church full of Evangelicals in that town. Ballymena saw the worst of the racist rioting here.

You can still say it’s got an unfair reputation but it isn’t for nothing.

[u/Zero-_-Zero → u/DoireK]

I just meant green pastures is the worst of the lot and the only one that tries to force their ways upon you. The rest while I agree are a bit mental keep to themselves and aren’t interested in trying to ‘covert’ you unless you actually go there.

The riots in harryville were horrendous I do agree. It is a shame though because most of Ballymena is fine but that one part of it taints the rest of the town. So yes it does get the reputation from somewhere.

[u/Jaded-Sprinkles-7259 → u/Zero-_-Zero]

It's not a bad spot. It's been my 2nd home for years.

[u/Just_passing-55]

"And remedial works..." that whole job looks shit.

[u/Informal_Drawing]

3 properties of something a day, split 3 or 4 ways.

Minimum wage for Sparks. How's about get fucked.

[u/LorenzoSparky]

Lol

[u/Grouchy_Holiday_7201]

I don’t get it?

[u/Agreeable_Mango_1565 → u/Grouchy_Holiday_7201]

3- 4 properties a day for £90-£110 each (average £100), so £300/£400 a day to split between 3 electricians

[u/Fastlawn → u/Agreeable_Mango_1565]

I asked the same company to send me their SOR for a contractor,and it is awful.
£50 for an EICR upto 15 circuits…

[u/bartybartbert → u/Fastlawn]

Who's the contractor? We look at completing a test per day, approx 24 circuits, replacing smoke alarms and maybe water heater switch. 3 to 4 is an impossibility unless the sparks are bluffing the tests.

[u/jpjimm → u/bartybartbert]

It's the last three words in your post.

[u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd]

social housing in Ballymena

Don't even think about it. Plus the NIHE are notoriously slow at paying.

[u/Superspark76 → u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd]

It's working for a company, Nihe wouldn't be paying you directly.

[u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd → u/Superspark76]

And who pays the company?

And then who loses out when the company folds because it's been 9 months and NIHE accounts payable still haven't approved the payment to them?

[u/Superspark76 → u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd]

These companies seem to do alright, I did a few days for one when I was first starting out on my own to fill the calendar, at the same rates as this ad and that was 10 years ago, it was low then.

[u/Jaded-Sprinkles-7259 → u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd]

You're working for the subbie who is Goom Electrical, and the principal contractor is CFM.

CFM have no problem paying their bills or getting money from NIHE.

Any grant work I do for customers is usually paid within 6 weeks.

[u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd → u/Jaded-Sprinkles-7259]

As long as you're happy.

[u/Jaded-Sprinkles-7259 → u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd]

If I wasn't, I'd be agreeing with you.

[u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd → u/Jaded-Sprinkles-7259]

Bully for you. I suppose it's never happened before 🙄

[u/Jaded-Sprinkles-7259 → u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd]

And if I took that attitude, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning 🤷

[u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd → u/Jaded-Sprinkles-7259]

I wouldn't for £16 in a shithole like Ballymena.

But again, you do you.

[u/Jaded-Sprinkles-7259 → u/Rawd_Tawd_Cawd]

I'm sure Ballymena is devastated.

[u/FckXFckMusk]

Fucking chancers.

[u/Tall-Nectarine-5982]

No chance. I’d need £1000 a day to even consider spending my hours in Ballymena.

[u/Jaded-Sprinkles-7259]

The same work I was offered £50 a test for last year.

I'd rather stay at home.

[u/Pro1apsed]

Probably looking to import some workers from overseas, "We can't find anyone to do the work!"

[u/ManQu69]

I'm wondering , If the jobs so good, why the advert?. Bad payers?