Hahaha mate!!absolutely buzzing.cant wait to start

Definitely mate!could be on same train

Cool! glad for you Hoss!
Now those that have got details of their start of course is it 2 weeks in Yarnfield Park and 6 elsewhere or is it 1 and 7?

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I am 1 week Yarnfield,7 weeks at Livingston and 4 weeks with buddy

Cheers!

Just thought I'd pop back into the forums, 5 months today I started my training at Yarnfield, if there's anything I can try answer, I've been through it recently although it looks as thought the training has already changed slightly. Can also suggest if anyone happens to be from North of Scotland you'll possibly get a flight from Inverness to get to Yarnfield.

What happens at your first week at Yarnfield?What do you all need to take?

If I can remember it all haha,

An extra case to take all your corporate clothing and PPE back (mind you you'll probably get it in a box and it can just go in the back of the van). Think they also want you to take your documents again just in case and your driving licence. Possibly a passport photo although you may not need that until the following weeks. That's all I can remember that they actually ask you to take, the rest is personal belongings.

The first day is like an introduction to the company, also a very brief overview of the network (Exchange-Cabinet-Pole-Socket). They put all 45 of us together for the first day and done some ice breaking stuff to introduce us all. After that we had a quick look around a standard Vivaro and got our clothing/PPE.

The next day you get broken down into your training groups by what centre you'll be going to afterwards. So it was eight of us going to Livingston. That day is just a health and safety course, it's one of the courses you may need a passport photo for but our trainer just took new ones that day on his own camera.

Wednesday was customer care, all about how to treat the customers, also about equivalance, being Openreach and treating all providers (BT, Sky, TalkTalk) the same.

Thursday was driving assessment, morning is theory, no test involved, for us is was more like an informal chat and some videos on a Powerpoint. Then after lunch you go out in a van around Stone/Yarnfield and on the motorway, do some manouveres etc. Tip, if you go out in a Vauxhall Vivaro and stall it, don't turn the ignition off, it restarts itself, I found that out the hard way on a roundabout haha. Providing your deemed safe, which as long as you aren't a maniac you should be, you get your van to take home. Us guys from the far north of Scotland (Inverness/Thurso) got to go out to Magna Park on the Thursday night to collect them since it's such a long drive back on Friday, you tend to leave on Friday about 11/12 after a few hours on manual handling course and go out to Magna Park if you haven't gone out on Thursday.

As for Yarnfield itself, I found it alright to spend the week at without venturing out, apparently there's a pub in the village but the shops are a few miles away. There's the bar that our group normally went to most nights after dinner, also vending machines in the accomodation blocks, which I seen them starting to renovate when I was there so the whole lot might be done by now.

Also the Wednesday/Thursday may get switched around, since they can't have the whole lot of you doing driving on the one day. As I say that's what I had, they might have changed some things now but will probably be pretty similar.

Cheers thanks for the great info

What was the training like after you left Yarnfield?

What are you now doing day to day?