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Overall it's not a bad place to work. Benefits are great and the pension is decent. The pay could be a lot better considering there is potential to kill someone or blow up an entire neighborhood if you're wrong. The training is poorly done and poor work often goes unnoticed for months. 

The QA guy never leaves his house and audits your work from his couch. Good for you if you have poor quality, bad for the guy with a shovel about to get cooked by a missed hydro cable.

Little to no representation on your behalf from area managers to the head office dummies in London. The people responsible for negotiating contracts are either mindless or getting a kick back because according to the managers the company makes no money year after year. 

If you can ignore the stupidity pouring down from the management team and the know-nothings at the head office, this is an amazing place to work. Benefits are great, pension is as good as you can expect these days, and the pay isn't horrible. Not good, but not horrible. You plan your own day and don't really have to deal with anyone unless you either mess something up or one of their favorites is feeling lazy and they need you to do the hard jobs while they have coffee.

To get fired, you would probably have to kill someone. There are guys there that have damage after damage due to absolute lack of effort without any kind of discipline. 

They also will not provide you with all of the tools you need to do your job. You'll find yourself waiting around for special wrenches and vault finding equipment, only to be berated for not doing enough work.

Like I said, it's a perfect job if you can ignore idiots. If you can't, don't bother. This place is full of them.

Please, please, PLEASE do not waste your time here unless you want to get paid a minimum amount for something strenuous and unfair. My husband worked for this company for about 6 months. Great for the first couple weeks until we started noticing some unfair and contradicting things coming from management. They are never on the same page with their employees to start. They'll tell you one thing in the interview and completely change everything they said when you start working for them. It was enough to quit but he didn't, only because he hadn't had any luck finding a different job, which is what he started doing after working here for those first couple weeks. 

My husband just returned to work last week after being bed ridden for 2 weeks due to flu and strep throat, doctors note included. He had asked for a couple hours off in the morning tomorrow due to a doctors appointment just to check up. Then he got a call from management when he got home today saying, "You can either come to work for the full day tomorrow, or you can quit." And that was the last straw. I will now have to go through court to make sure they don't get away with this again.

Started at GTel and there was quite a learning curve.  I am still learning after more than 8 months in but that is not a bad thing.

Job is not as easy as it looks. It is important to ask questions as often as you can. Team Leads will do their best to guide you.

Wage is okay but if you do piecework and on-call work and stuff that others generally do not want to do you will make more. 

Benefits are the best. Full dental, massage. I have used thousands of dollars of coverage so far.  Almost everything is covered.

If you have a good work ethic, if you enjoy working outside and getting exercise and if you want a challenge, this job is for you.

Work hard and it will be recognized.  Slack off, call in sick all the time, don't work 44 hours minimum and you will face some pressure to do better.

The reason I dropped a star is just because the starting wage is a bit low but it gets better.  The work-life balance depends on you. Do you start extra early in the day and come home early?  Do you like working Saturdays to help out sometimes?  Do you like overtime?

They give you an unreasonable workload with objectives that cannot be met. The expectation is that you will fail so they don't have to pay you what you're actually worth. You will never get a reasonable rate of pay or appreciation for the work you put in. It is a fly by the seat of your pants, highly stressful work environment. 
You cannot care about your job, because you will lose your soul. 
I have not met one person here that likes working for this company except those fake till you make it people. The management is a JOKE (except for a VERY few), and they just keep moving up them up the ladder because they happen to be buddy-buddy with someone at the top.
They have lost most of their veteran employees because they don't want to pay them fairly, yet will pay contractors more when they are in desperate need. 
Corporate run, soul-sucking machine. 

After working for GTel 2 years, they are unable to keep employees due to low wage and total lack of care coming from upper management. Vehicles falling apart, losing tires, they toss you into an inadequate rental and don’t even ask if you’re okay when you could have died. Promise profit sharing (bonus) only to have it removed for union members. Anti-union sentiment from management. Company thinks they own every hour of your life: if you have kids be ready not to see them. No work/life balance. Health and Safety is a sham, doesn’t hold up to reality. Territory to cover is far too large, they take on contracts when they don’t have the staff to match workload. 

I could go on, not worth the effort of applying.
They’ll lie unabashedly to get you hired, nothing but false bottom lip service.


I have only worked for GTel approximately 2 months as another job came up unexpectedly that matched my needs more. The management are supportive and understanding and they don’t micromanage. The job as a whole is very physically demanding and you will have an adjustment period where your legs will absolutely feel it unless you’re already physically active and do lots of walking. My feet are still sore at days end. I’m leaving because leak surveying is underpaid. Easily this position should start at $20 and go up to at least 25. This is understood by management but the parent company is resistant to making a change and this will continue to make the position high turnover. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Great place to work. Awesome atmosphere low stress, great pay, amazing management. I know why there is a big waiting list to get in. Highly recommended.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Really nothing at all. Since things changed about a year ago its a stress free environment. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Easy going, friendly but professional. No problems if you do you work. It's a self starter job that requires you to be able to work with low supervision.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
730am-430pm doing tge work that's assigned to you with seasonal dig season overtime available

They give all kinds of great incentives to lure you in! Expect to be used and abused as well as your vehicle. They tell you you will get all these great perks and benefits after 3 months of killing yourself and your car trying to get the job done. Told to take it easy and rest because so many people off injured already...but then if you do and aren't getting your route done fast enough you are not "suitable" for the job. Expect to be let go before the three months so they don't have to give you notice or any warning. They will just hire a new group of suckers. Also won't have to give you any benefits they promised! Don't ever expect to see a manager either or have anyone care about your well being. Also don't ask questions or raise concerns if you want to keep the job.

Meter reading is a physically demanding job. The mental component is overlooked and is just as difficult.  The monotonous walking and driving over and over again takes a fair bit of self motivation and drive to keep going in all kinds of weather. You are typically given a route a day to finish anywhere from 400-700 meters to read. There is a mix of good and bad managers. Most of the team leads are awesome and helpful. You work alone a lot. The exercise is good for the body. Pay is higher than minimum wage but not great. Yearly profit sharing is nice every spring.

The hours are endless, so the pay can add up, if you want to leave your personal life behind. Completely unorganized management. Manager does not care about your mental well being, only pleasing their boss. They will belittle you, be prepared to take alot of sick time off due to the high stress and high demands of this job. The only real benefits are decent co workers, paid fuel, work vehicle, and getting to travel. Also, the training is useless, they expect you to learn on your own, to be as experienced as the senior techs by the time you're 6 months in, then it's constant issues with management. From experience, choose your health, and family over a job like this. This isn't worth it.

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