In reply to a post by btbert:

Some old boys still talk about "91s" lol

How could anyone manage without a pair of 91s? A really good/useful tool!

In reply to a post by project_x_uk:

We were pretty much told we had to park vans at home unless we really couldn't but still ha ssh to be at first job by 8.what's U/G skills

Oh dear, these new contracts hey? I don't understand that though, how can you be onsite by 8am if you don't know where the first job will be?

Have to get them off either work phones or laptops. That's what they said at interview mite all change by the time training is done. Anyone stayed at yarnfield

Get payed from 8 but you pick up work so can leave by ? We get a time we have to leave home by this is time to drive from home to the centre of your PWA ( perferred working area ) or your patch so veroius times so lets say 7-30. So if 1st job is 1/2ha away you get there for 8. I its 1hr away you get there for 8-30 ect.If 1st job is 10min away happy days as you get 20mins at home . And much the same at the end of the day ie first 1/2hr driving home is unpayed but if longer is payed.So we give them 5hrs a week for free but then you dont need a car to get to work .So ups and downs but for me it works to park at home still.

But new starters maybe on a different contract? If so it will be worse.

Yep about 10 times in all but years ago . The best bit is �The Labour in Vain� a pub just off site, had many a pint in there.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2939584/Staf...

In reply to a post by btbert:

Get payed from 8 but you pick up work so can leave by ? We get a time we have to leave home by this is time to drive from home to the centre of your PWA ( perferred working area ) or your patch so veroius times so lets say 7-30. So if 1st job is 1/2ha away you get there for 8. I its 1hr away you get there for 8-30 ect.If 1st job is 10min away happy days as you get 20mins at home . And much the same at the end of the day ie first 1/2hr driving home is unpayed but if longer is payed.So we give them 5hrs a week for free but then you dont need a car to get to work .So ups and downs but for me it works to park at home still.

But new starters maybe on a different contract? If so it will be worse.

Not for us new boys it's have to be on site for 8 if it's 1hrs away u travel there for free then get paid from 8 then when u finish last job the travel home is unpaid so if it's 2hrs drive home it's stuff

Yep i had heard that maybe the case.

In reply to a post by btbert:

Yep about 10 times in all but years ago . The best bit is �The Labour in Vain� a pub just off site, had many a pint in there.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2939584/Staf...

My sister and husband live in Yarnfield, I've been to the 'Labour' several times, it was a pleasant pub but not so much these days. Her husband is quoted in that Mail article.

In reply to a post by project_x_uk:

Not for us new boys it's have to be on site for 8 if it's 1hrs away u travel there for free then get paid from 8 then when u finish last job the travel home is unpaid so if it's 2hrs drive home it's stuff

Same or worse for a very high number of people in other jobs I'm afraid.

Exchange parking is the best deal. You are paid from 8 and you have to drive off from the exchange by roughly 8.15. It doesn't matter where your first job is. Travel back to the exchange after your last job is paid.

I don't mind Yarnfield at all, the rooms are a bit dated and the wifi is [censored] awful but I always thought the food was decent enough. A lot of people expect burgers and chips and it's not like that at all! If you like home cooked style food you'll like it. There's really nothing to do round there though at all.