Highly skilled employee - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

2.0
11 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

buy a vacation week, some opportunity to work from home in some departments

Cons

Over reliance on UK EEs that cost the company a ton of money. Should build US capability with full time US EEs, not UK EEs or consultants. Low skilled people whether from UK or US. Not many Ivy League educated or best practices happening here. People work hard (long hours) but not smart (manual fixes to reports, cutting pieces of paper on papercutters, buying own supplies). I doubt the Brit invasion will stop because of Brexit. I was told by one seemingly well-regarded UK employee, "I don't care about metrics ... I stay far away from numbers as possible" and things like, "You Americans don't know how to make tea", and "You Americans are too uptight" (in response to advising a UK colleague that perhaps they don't want to use a game called, "Chinese whispering game" which has negative connotations). See? elitist attitude. My department is run on fear.

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Pros

At NGED the few pros are lessened by the day as the cons are increasing. The idea of a career has gone and now most are resigned to just having a job.

Cons

Aside from the reality being very different from what the leadership team sell IE they don't care about people or net zero, it's all spin and marketing. Now at NGED we are in a situation where staff you have known for many years simply disappear from duty and no one seems to know why, a couple of weeks later they have left the business with an NDA. It's happening all over the business. There seems to be a drive to remove any leaders who have industry technical knowledge and replace them with people from outside the industry who knows little to nothing about electricity. Despite safe to say being an important value, speaking out against this usually results in an NDA. It's toxic positivity where playing along seems to be more important than the role you fulfil.

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