(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'

Think you've nailed it with the last bit there, I'd assume that they're an overtime rate, no doubt at 1.5x the actual salary. Mind I've never heard of any company doing upto salaries, talk about lack of transparency as an understatement.

(It's 'upto' £45k on here btw - https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/careers)

Credit to Arriva for being transparent here without any upto bollocks - https://www.arrivabusjobs.co.uk/job-desc...d=JR028638. Mind not sure £12.92 is exactly attractive, but that's for another thread.

Edit: Mind one thing that's noticeable is both Stagecoach and Arriva are both minimum NVQ Level 3 and GNE is NVQ Level 2. Quite a big difference there considering one is A-Level Grade and the other is GCSE Grade. Not sure I'd want a bunch of GCSE Grade staff in my garage if I had one, unless it was an apprenticeship.

(6 hours ago)PH - BQA wrote 8804 didn’t even make it to 4pm today, being pulled after the 1500 to the Freeman. It wasn’t replaced until 1620, again GNE missing 2 full round trips on a NHS workers contract due to no vehicle.

Really doesn't make sense to me, I don't understand why they don't use the two diesel Yutongs which they used for ages on the service without an issue. Mind it'd be interesting to see what the fines are like for it. Similar for BSIP services since I noticed the tax payer is now paying for cancelled services on the 21.