(7 hours ago)Adrian wrote I noticed they're advertising for a whole host engineering positions at the moment:

• Vehicle Electrician - £26.42p/h
  
• Chargehand Technicians - £27.67p/h
  
• Coachbuilders - £26.42p/h
  
• Master Technicians - £28.29p/h
  
• PCV/HGV Technicians - £26.42p/h
  

Looking at the salaries posted, and based on what you've written, it seems very odd! They're listing salary of 'up to' £26.42 for their Coachbuilder and PCV/HGV Technician roles, for example, which would equate to a £55k salary based on a 40 hour week (they say shifts will be 5 days over 7).

If that is anywhere near being accurate, then they're paying £13k-£20k more than Stagecoach? https://www.stagecoachbus.com/careers/jo...ng-3-24135
Arriva have a similar role at £18.95p/h: https://www.arrivabusjobs.co.uk/job-desc...d=JR028518

So if we're looking at an average of around £40k for the role, why wouldn't those with the skillset be flocking to GNE en-mass for paying well above the median? 

I wonder if this goes back to a topic done to death on here in the past: misleading pay/salaries being posted by this company on their job adverts. I assume the figure they're quoting will be some kind of enhancement for working a bank holiday or something like that, and in no way reflective of the usual hourly rate, hence the use of 'up to'

All I know is that there's definitely fitters that worked for GNE who have went over to Stagecoach, I don't know them well enough to confirm if they went for better money, but that's what other drivers who do know them better have said. So it's either the salary or working conditions weren't good enough for them.