Avoid this company like the Plague - Customer Service Representative (CSR) National Grid Employee Review

1.0
Dec 29, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not very difficult to succeed here. Tuition reimbursement program. If you know how to schmooze --you can't lose. As a TWU Local 101 Represented employee, there's a fair amount of job security.

Cons

Nepotism. At least 80% of employees got hired through relatives so you have entire families running departments like little mafias. Good luck trying to climb the corporate ladder next to someone whose uncle is best friends with the interviewer. Management looks the other way with discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation. If you don't have a relative in management you WILL be held to a higher standard of performance than someone who is connected.

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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