One for kráftéé ?

Copied from ADSL Guide.

BT has entered the IT support market by launching a service called "BT Home
IT Visit" targeted at home users. BT Broadband customers can arrange for an
engineer to visit their home and install a broadband service from £50 and
anyone with a BT line can use the Home IT Visit service for IT-related
problems for a fee of £75 for the first hour, and £25 per 30 minute
increment thereafter.

The company has been running trials for three months and now has a team of
up to 2,000 trained engineers who are providing this service. The service is
ideal for households wanting some help in setting up a wireless network,
moving data to a new computer, connecting new printers, etc. Engineers can
also carry out a 'health check' on your PC.

Peter Crosland

Peter Crosland wrote:
> Copied from ADSL Guide.
>
> BT has entered the IT support market by launching a service called
> "BT Home IT Visit" targeted at home users. BT Broadband customers
> can
> arrange for an engineer to visit their home and install a broadband
> service from £50 and anyone with a BT line can use the Home IT Visit
> service for IT-related problems for a fee of £75 for the first hour,
> and £25 per 30 minute increment thereafter.
>
> The company has been running trials for three months and now has a
> team of up to 2,000 trained engineers who are providing this
> service.
> The service is ideal for households wanting some help in setting up
> a
> wireless network, moving data to a new computer, connecting new
> printers, etc. Engineers can also carry out a 'health check' on your
> PC.
> Peter Crosland

That'll be BT Global, not us grunts out in the cold, up poles & down
holes, doing the real work.

In other words you'd pay for your visit & they'll turn around & say
you ADSL is borked & walk out (can't get their pretty hands dirty can
they). Knew they had something up their sleeve, may go for it if it's
advertised but I'm afraid my face doesn't fit the corporate image (i.e
I haven't got a brown tongue or nose) so I doubt if I'll get the
post....

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:54:49 +0100, "Peter Crosland"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Copied from ADSL Guide.
>
>BT has entered the IT support market by launching a service called "BT Home
>IT Visit" targeted at home users. BT Broadband customers can arrange for an
>engineer to visit their home and install a broadband service from £50 and
>anyone with a BT line can use the Home IT Visit service for IT-related
>problems for a fee of £75 for the first hour, and £25 per 30 minute
>increment thereafter.
>
>The company has been running trials for three months and now has a team of
>up to 2,000 trained engineers who are providing this service. The service is
>ideal for households wanting some help in setting up a wireless network,
>moving data to a new computer, connecting new printers, etc. Engineers can
>also carry out a 'health check' on your PC.
>
>Peter Crosland
>
One thing is for sure - they won't be "BT" engineers - I've seen
nothing about this in the in-house job news and I've been looking to
get out of my crap service management job for ages

jim

All the more reason why anyone new to the pc/internet world shoud try and
do their best to do a bit of self-teaching. To think you could be paying
around £75-£100 to have someone come to your house, set up a new printer
and give your pc a 'health check' seems extortionate. I also think the
health check translates as running a few basic scan/diagnostic tools on
your pc - which you can easily do by yourself. I think BT are being plain
greedy.

mafustokes wrote:
> All the more reason why anyone new to the pc/internet world shoud
> try
> and do their best to do a bit of self-teaching. To think you could
> be
> paying around £75-£100 to have someone come to your house, set up a
> new printer and give your pc a 'health check' seems extortionate. I
> also think the health check translates as running a few basic
> scan/diagnostic tools on your pc - which you can easily do by
> yourself. I think BT are being plain greedy.

Make that BT Global & you may be very right

jim wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:54:49 +0100, "Peter Crosland"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Copied from ADSL Guide.
>>
>> BT has entered the IT support market by launching a service called
>> "BT Home IT Visit" targeted at home users. BT Broadband customers
>> can arrange for an engineer to visit their home and install a
>> broadband service from £50 and anyone with a BT line can use the
>> Home IT Visit service for IT-related problems for a fee of £75 for
>> the first hour, and £25 per 30 minute increment thereafter.
>>
>> The company has been running trials for three months and now has a
>> team of up to 2,000 trained engineers who are providing this
>> service. The service is ideal for households wanting some help in
>> setting up a wireless network, moving data to a new computer,
>> connecting new printers, etc. Engineers can also carry out a
>> 'health
>> check' on your PC.
>>
>> Peter Crosland
>>
> One thing is for sure - they won't be "BT" engineers - I've seen
> nothing about this in the in-house job news and I've been looking to
> get out of my crap service management job for ages
>
> jim

They could be using all the slack which exists in BT Global, I do know
at least one memeber of that team who has been roundly bollocked for
trying to do more than 2 Cisco installs/commisioning in a day, whilst
when we were doing them it was at least 3 if not 4.

But keep an eye on the internal job news as I have heard whispers that
they are looking for extra 'engineers' but could you afford the
paycut?

Which centre do you work at, it wouldn't be Leicester or Coventry
would it, if so I'd better run & hide ;-)

"kráftéé" wrote

> ....... up poles & down holes, doing the real work.

Ah, now I know why we had such a big influx of people from a certain country
after the last E.U. expansion.

Sean

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:55:50 +0100, "kráftéé"
<kraftee@dontspamkrafteeunless you know what'sgoodforu.pus.com> wrote:

>jim wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:54:49 +0100, "Peter Crosland"
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> Copied from ADSL Guide.
>>>
>>> BT has entered the IT support market by launching a service called
>>> "BT Home IT Visit" targeted at home users. BT Broadband customers
>>> can arrange for an engineer to visit their home and install a
>>> broadband service from £50 and anyone with a BT line can use the
>>> Home IT Visit service for IT-related problems for a fee of £75 for
>>> the first hour, and £25 per 30 minute increment thereafter.
>>>
>>> The company has been running trials for three months and now has a
>>> team of up to 2,000 trained engineers who are providing this
>>> service. The service is ideal for households wanting some help in
>>> setting up a wireless network, moving data to a new computer,
>>> connecting new printers, etc. Engineers can also carry out a
>>> 'health
>>> check' on your PC.
>>>
>>> Peter Crosland
>>>
>> One thing is for sure - they won't be "BT" engineers - I've seen
>> nothing about this in the in-house job news and I've been looking to
>> get out of my crap service management job for ages
>>
>> jim
>
>They could be using all the slack which exists in BT Global, I do know
>at least one memeber of that team who has been roundly bollocked for
>trying to do more than 2 Cisco installs/commisioning in a day, whilst
>when we were doing them it was at least 3 if not 4.
>
>But keep an eye on the internal job news as I have heard whispers that
>they are looking for extra 'engineers' but could you afford the
>paycut?
>
>Which centre do you work at, it wouldn't be Leicester or Coventry
>would it, if so I'd better run & hide ;-)
>
:-)
No, you're quite safe - it's Newcastle - and I'd be prepared to go
back outside if I kept my C3 / TO grade .......................

jim

jim wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:55:50 +0100, "kráftéé"
> <kraftee@dontspamkrafteeunless you know what'sgoodforu.pus.com>
> wrote:
>
>> jim wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:54:49 +0100, "Peter Crosland"
>>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Copied from ADSL Guide.
>>>>
>>>> BT has entered the IT support market by launching a service
>>>> called
>>>> "BT Home IT Visit" targeted at home users. BT Broadband customers
>>>> can arrange for an engineer to visit their home and install a
>>>> broadband service from £50 and anyone with a BT line can use the
>>>> Home IT Visit service for IT-related problems for a fee of £75
>>>> for
>>>> the first hour, and £25 per 30 minute increment thereafter.
>>>>
>>>> The company has been running trials for three months and now has
>>>> a
>>>> team of up to 2,000 trained engineers who are providing this
>>>> service. The service is ideal for households wanting some help in
>>>> setting up a wireless network, moving data to a new computer,
>>>> connecting new printers, etc. Engineers can also carry out a
>>>> 'health
>>>> check' on your PC.
>>>>
>>>> Peter Crosland
>>>>
>>> One thing is for sure - they won't be "BT" engineers - I've seen
>>> nothing about this in the in-house job news and I've been looking
>>> to
>>> get out of my crap service management job for ages
>>>
>>> jim
>>
>> They could be using all the slack which exists in BT Global, I do
>> know at least one memeber of that team who has been roundly
>> bollocked for trying to do more than 2 Cisco installs/commisioning
>> in a day, whilst when we were doing them it was at least 3 if not
>> 4.
>>
>> But keep an eye on the internal job news as I have heard whispers
>> that they are looking for extra 'engineers' but could you afford
>> the
>> paycut?
>>
>> Which centre do you work at, it wouldn't be Leicester or Coventry
>> would it, if so I'd better run & hide ;-)
>>
> :-)
> No, you're quite safe - it's Newcastle - and I'd be prepared to go
> back outside if I kept my C3 / TO grade .......................
>
> jim

Unofficial news......Contractors are pulling in the 'slack' full stop.

Official news....Contractors are taking up the slack for the short
term but jobs may be advertised (not much difference but I can tell
you there are a lot of very unhappy people at the present moment)...

"kráftéé" <kraftee@dontspamkrafteeunless you know what'sgoodforu.pus.com> wrote
in message news:451adfad$0$24478$(E-Mail Removed)...

| Unofficial news......Contractors are pulling in the 'slack' full stop.
|
| Official news....Contractors are taking up the slack for the short
| term but jobs may be advertised (not much difference but I can tell
| you there are a lot of very unhappy people at the present moment)...
|

That means the posts will be filled by woman, ethnics and others judged suitable
on their appearance, religious grounds or gender.