Clueless - Technician National Grid Employee Review

1.0
19 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

We get paid every month

Cons

National Grid do not understand what they have taken on: they think they can run an engineering company-a specialist engineering company no less- with “people managers” with no industry experience whatsoever. Then leave all the high level engineering based decisions they should be making to the many experienced yet overworked and underpaid engineers who are already heading for the exit door in droves, only to then take the credit. Frittering ridiculous amounts of money on things like DEI but pleading poverty when it comes to equipment or tools to do the job. Slowly chipping away at terms and conditions to try and get more for less out of the ever dwindling staff numbers.

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1.0
30 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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