something wrong should look like a birds nest....

I've still got my old butt in the garage..don't tell my line manager

No Avo 8? :) Father was a jointer in Lambeth in the 70s.

Glad you enjoyed it!

@@MrJoelDavies the money is usually the dominating factor buddy..and the benefits, like more leave pension etc..

Go Him.

im still using a hawk a retired engineer gave me ;) still in great nick as well!!

SA9083

@@phililpb and the 301c

@@phililpb every time.

@@phililpb No TDR on a 9083

Christine Valiente we could do! Didn't expect to get so many views on this haha

just call ogea helpdesk they'll be sure to help you out swiftly.......

tony margo hi I have a video interview to complete online soon could you give me any advice?

@@deejmiles1612 hi How was your video interview ? Any tips?

Can you do another ?

There are better, less stressful ways to earn money.

BTW, did you join or did you swerve? If so, how is it?

@@thePeterpumpkin68 I'm still in the motor trade for the time being, thankfully the management got to grips with wage vs experience balance, however I know a few mechanics who left their job at car supermarkets to join openreach, they seem to be enjoying it (for now)

At VM on all new broadband and phone installs the phone line is VOIP. We are also actively moving customers away from the unreliable copper network and migrating them over to VOIP if they have broadband which most do. One less potential phone related trouble call at each address.

@@KZfaqSupportTeams And that's the way it should be done. Although I'd rather they just go FTTH everything and scrap copper so we can just go onto the net directly, but maybe that's something to do in the next 10 years.

@@Pieh0 In our region we have more FTTH on the network now than HFC.

@@Pieh0 www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/retiring-the-copper-network

lol, with this comment being a year old, I bet you're eating those words, by now.

How is it pls thinking to join

gavva2010 not really, I enjoy it, i guess I’m where should I be doing what should I do so happy days 👍

Elcoco nasin if you like challenge and don’t like routine you will love it 😉👍

Nosnx1987 whats is the assessment centre like. What should i be expecting?

Yes and they still don’t get done and written off after 5 years 😂. To be fair joint remakes are getting done a lot more.

E side is green and d side is blue :)

@@k1ngd0mh34rts That is how it should be, but in the real world, try it both ways, and while you are at it, try going 10, 50, 100 either way. I am not criticizing, but take everything with a pinch of salt until you have confirmed everything yourself.

@@MrDickBills wherever your fast tone from the house is coming out is your D side. Your CPI tone is your E side.

They try keep you in the area for work you only go out of area when another area is struggling or behind or your area hasn't got enough work, not that often

@@jawaadahmed684 oh ok. What does the training comprise of. I'm assuming you need to study and attend tests.? Are you a trained fully qualified engineer? Tell me how it's like as a newbie?

@@iTheNem3sis 1 week in yarnfield health and safety stuff getting your clothing and equipment plus picking up your van then you'll be at your local training school for the rest of the training period about 6 weeks I joined just before the lock down now fully qualified, there's enough help with the company to support you

@@jawaadahmed684 what are your hours like. Routine etcetera. I thought Yarnfield was for 6 weeks phew. When you go to Yarnfireld. How is it like? Where do you stay for a week?

@@iTheNem3sis yarnfield isn't the best place but you can get though it easy, 8 till 16:10 first year is Monday to Friday then you can choose what rota you want to be on

In the USA, where they always install surge/overvoltage protection at the point where the phoneline enters the customer's building AND at the exchange/CO, it'll just make that protection do it's job and short out your neon transformer. In the UK, probably the same thing. Presumably the UK installs protection in the same location.

I'd say 30 days.

Warren Humpage 1m to the verb is all that is required. And why need an I for board while he's there. Just ask

there's less than 1m between the guard and the rail and one of my colleague got a 5 point defect for not displaying info board

your completely right, that's just the point I was trying to get across. Forgot to mention the one that gets me the most which is the hard hat.

Warren Humpage hard hat???

Ye, meant to wear hard hat at PCP and UG. really bugs hows it any different than walking down the street

He's an Openreach Field Engineer

Get wet.

@@Friel744 and curse a lot

And get shocks

Qland22 Wow you sure are ignorant

its possible with a tone tracer but also against the law

Nothing a bit of encrypted VoIP can't fix. 🐸☕

of course you can they are all direct feeds to the customer's master socket but why would anyone want to!?!

@@KZfaqSupportTeams Some people like gossip, it would be a good source of this by listening to peoples phone calls

@@Teddy_Bass nobody's got time for that in this trade mate. At least not at the company i work for. You don't get all day to sit at a cab listening to phone calls. When you start a job there is a countdown timer to get the fault fixed and time is extremely tight. You are looking to save time as much as possible, not waste it so it doesn't have a snowball effect on all other service calls in your day and push you out late. In my opinion it's a pretty sad thing to do anyway. I couldn't care less what other people are talking about on the phone.

Tut tut. Blocking the highway.

Ah, I see, that's a good point smifffee

who has time to use guards??????

Yeah you are aware that in shit loads of places there isn't even a meter between a closed cab and the kerb?

Then they go on the road and die. Are you for real ?

@@siedliko lmao

@@siedliko it's because of him we have ridiculous health and safety bullshit to deal with

H&S mangers, reps etc are the cause of this great country getting pussified!!!

I like the 301C cuz you can eat your fish and chips off it - its nice and flat. Battery clips are weak on it though so you have to wedge cardboard in to stop the C-cells coming loose.

let's be real the bloke never wears gloves goggles and gates for a cab only... that's if he wants to become manager....

Wrong

The Clock is king.

@@thePeterpumpkin68 that's why openreach engineers bugger off and run when a fault gets tricky! Because their managers (Who have absolutely no idea) are chasing them for 4 plus faults a day, amatuers now a days

You can't compare a 9083 with a JDSU because they are different beasts doing different things. The 9083 is for testing the integrity of the pairs, connectors etc with the skill being able to interpret the analogue dial. The JDSU is a TDR looking for impedance mismatches with the skill being able to interpret what the reflection from the event means. On a day to day basis doing Telco I would pick up the 9083 but there are weird faults that a 9083 simply can't find and you need a TDR but these are much rarer occurrences.

@@trollobite1629 try finding an earth fault with a JDSU, I've been on sites where openreach say "Line testing good!" Yet there's noise on the line or earth hum etc. each to their own but I'd put my fauls finding skills up against ANY new openreach engineer and just by using an SA9083. I seem to spend lots of my days clearing up after openreach

@@ivoruren3086 Got back and read what I posted. I made it clear that a 9083 is for finding leaky pairs and is the goto choice if any decent engineer for *standard* faults. If Openreach _engineers_are using the JDSU for pairs leaking to earth then they ought to be shot 😃 because TDRs are best for the distance to an open or a short circuit or an impedance mismatch. Out of curiosity, the next time I find a leak to earth on my 9083 I'm going to wack my TDR on it to see if it can find it 😃 If it makes you feel better it's not just Openreach with skill shortages on the 9083 it seems it's across the industry. I work with guys who, for the last 20 plus years only use their butt phones for mo noise tickets and swear by their technique but in truth, they do that because they don't know how to use the 9083 😐

NOTV* and no, usually manager wannabe's in that division ;)

Depends on what you're doing

True but who was responsible for raising the youth of today? YOUR generation, buddy.

@@WillyJunior we used to be called "youths in training" it was a gpo joke .

or dog shit/piss sitting right in front of the cab doors to greet you

Fines for doing his job? Bullshit

what would he be fined for

Have you changed your phone 😁

Colin Everton ETID I dont think they are acting for an Oscar...

mr sociable idiot

bitter old man. bet you refuse to buddy up too

You were a new recruit once...