Congratulations fraz, hopefully I’ll be getting a call soon as well then I’ve got no holidays booked so should be easy to slot in a space if available. Would love a March start date.

I'm with you there mate! No holidays, can hand in a weeks notice just want to get going it's killing me seeing everyone's start dates haha

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Congratulations fraz, hopefully I’ll be getting a call soon as well then I’ve got no holidays booked so should be easy to slot in a space if available. Would love a March start date.

Cheers, I did ask how they slot people in but she just laughed and said goodbye haha

Im gona be waiting forever!

Have a weeks holiday booked in May.

Also just asked my place what notice I need to give and they reckon 11 weeks.... dont think that will be happening somehow haha

What sort of contract are you on to need to give 11 weeks notice? That's mad. 4 weeks is normal.

A week for every year I have been employed apparently.

Never actually seen a contract nevermind signed one so they can stick 11 weeks lol

Hopefully be able to negotiate to around 6 weeks which seems about right.

"Long winded process" - you're not wrong there! I applied last Feb/March. lol

Edited by DisneyFan (Wed 14-Feb-18 19:40:02)

If you dont owe any holidays,you can just jack anyway,they have to pay any holidays owed by law and ur not due any redundancy as leaving so just leave when u want,BT wont care mate,they wouldnt even know if u never served any notice,how i see things is companys are quick to get rid whoever u are nowadays so works both ways

It can be i applied in june 2016,and got start in may 2017,but i had to give it up so didnt start till sept 2017,it all depends how many apprentices they need in an hours radius of each exchange,last year pretty much most people got starts straight away in London as they needed a massive recruitment drive there,its luck of the draw really

Yeah I understand that mate.

The problem I have though is losing out on my week in hand if I jack, then potentially not getting paid for another month or so when I start at OR.

5 weeks without any income wouldnt do my bank balance any good with bills to pay :/