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Not the dream job that some think it would be.
Only job I have ever had where you are paid less for doing your allocated work more efficiently. Bonuses originally promised were never received, and then removed when management reassessed the contact. My KPI shifted to be my fastest completions.. Moving the goal posts or what!
All about the numbers, their rules and regs.
As an essential worker, the dole paid more on some pay cycles in the early C19 outbreaks. No PPE was supplied to my regional area, ever, although requests were made. The back office it seems will spend big $$ working out how to shave money off the contract at the expense of their field staff. Phone allowances that dont cover a plan at 1.25/day, deducted if you didn't work on a certain day, meanwhile your personal phone is full of their stuff. Expectations to travel up to an hour daily to and from routes where you may only work for 3 to 4 hrs equating to 20 % of time unpaid. Considering regional, we house the company vehicle at home, sign keys in and out of the company safe, and pay the electricity to charge their HHD, it seems unfair. Needs to change, and soon. I am at around 600 unpaid hours now. Expected available for 38hrs, but get around 20 to 30, making it impossible to hold another PT position elsewhere. As casual can not put enough aside to take holidays, let alone exist some fortnights. Christmas break sucks, less work and less pay at the hardest time of year. All employee feedback is politely met with ignorance. Coming into my sixth year now, and in my 50's if I could get another job, I would.. 

I worked here as a meter reader for about 1.5 years. It's a lot of walking, but once you get used to it (10-30km a day) it's not so bad, the pay is decent for someone just out of high school. it's pretty tricky in summer when it's 45C and you don't really have access to water (or if you carry it with you it gets warm very quickly, even when frozen, and then you have to go and find public toilets which takes forever). rain also sucks. customers can be very rude, and also aggressive. SAPN, whom we are contracted to, don't care about us, so there isn't any reward for being a good worker (no chance of a pay rise) but service stream try their best to look after us as employees. the people ate the office are friendly and respect that you have a life outside of work. although we're not supposed to go on properties with dogs, i gave out many pats to very friendly dogs, which always boosts my mood. There is some flexibility with hours if you work hard they try harder to accommodate you if you want to change hours or take leave. it is good working without a boss looking over your shoulder, but it can get lonely going a whole day without having an actual conversation. there isn't much culture for field staff or anything because we work by ourselves, but we are included in the end of year christmas party, and we have group meetings sometimes.

Good job for someone who enjoys outdoors and exercise, unsupervised work requiring travel in company vehicle to various locations in remote and rural areas, talking to customers and establishing customer relations while gathering electricity meter reads and required data entering into handheld computer for accurate billing charges for both industrial and residential premises visiting different locations daily within roughly 250km radius from personal residence flexible start and finishing times within a 7am-5pm allowed window to complete each days uploaded runsheet on handheld device that all data entry is stored and then uploaded after completion of run each day to the head office to be processed. GPS location tracking and various safeguards in place ensure that even in remote locations with no phone reception an up to date log of real time location pins and hourly welfare sms verification mean that in the event of an emergency a meter reader can be quickly and accurately located anywhere, and as  another layer of safety a gps satellite phone kit is in work vehicle aswell as a medical kit and fire extinguisher.

A typical working day invloves long working Hours and weekends and management never reward you for your efforts.They only want to get the job done and the onus is on us to complete it any cost even if we have to train ourselves  through self-study.Lack of training provided is another big issue.
They throw you at the end of a project with virtually no backing up or support.It was always finding your own way to get on top of things.
Pay is below par industry standard, Job insecurity(Each year, there was a wave of layoffs!)
Favouritism. 
Politics in terms of career advancement.
Bullying at workplace- Once complained, but no action taken by Management.
Constant Restructuring.
Company takes in Complex & Tedious Projects, Good work experience, which helped to gain decent paying employment elsewhere.

Service Stream were initially all that I could have asked. I had huge respect for the person that recruited me and loved that we all received a lot of training. The person that recruited me left after a while and things were never the same. 
I spent a lot of time auditing and on the road looking to find ways of improving the safety and compliance of the many contractors we had. We had various divisions in an differing facets of power and telecommunication fields. 
As a team we discussed injury management and training methods in regular online national phone conferences. I especially enjoyed meeting the team at yearly team meetings.  
Service Stream started well but changed the management of the HSE staff. These subsequently made most of the existing personnel redundant and were advertising their jobs while they were serving their notice. I was one of the unfortunates.

Management incompetent giving 2 people same work always behind because they treat readers poorly and can not retain staff .A typical day involves walking in rain,cold or heat sticking head in bushes digging meter's that are buried and being alone for the entire day not good for your mental health.Don't fall for managers talk about incentive for doing work quick only his mates get that.The work culture is pathetic 80% of readers hate company and carn't wait to leave.Hardest part of job is dealing with the incompetence of the 2 contract managers and the lies they tell.Most enjoyable part of job was seeing managers constantly screwing up giving wrong routes putting 2 on same route having 2 on route and both doing same part.Don't do this job reason why there's always jobs is because it suck's

Get ready for hardworking, long hours and no payment for mandatory overtime. All bad comments around this business came true, they don't care about your personal life, only number of jobs done matters. Trust me the day you get the job with this business start searching for new opportunities. The high level management have no idea about the industry. Most of the managers have no qualification or experience to help or plan to solve the simple problems. 
When some employees are under extrem pressure to meet the deadline some others play Games on their computers and it's unbelievable. The employees work hard get sacked easily and brutally. 
Safety trainings are great just to cover managers responsibilities and you will never feel to have safe job even after many years of working hard.

I had a good time working for Service Stream but we lost the Green Field contract as a Cable Jointer and a Field Supervisor the team was friendly and helpful, this made my job very easy as anything required to make my job meet sometimes unrealistic time frames achievable, nothing was too hard as from the Management to Program Scheduling to providing stores at the warehouse to our contractor, everyone is equals and everybody has and does his or her role to the best of there ability, we all work as one to provide a quality product and as our record stands we are and always be the best team, it is a shame that I may have to leave but we only can control what we can and good luck to the Contractor that won the contract they are going to have to set a high standard to even come close to Service Stream New Dev's team.

I still remember my first week starting the job, it was scary because they have only just launched their new system, but the 2 and half years I was there I was working under great team leaders and great management very professional, learned so much from team leaders and the people were great, very friendly and still cherish those people 's friendships, the atmosphere was great and we all became one family I think the hardest part was when we all got made redundant because we all got so comfortable with each other and have that respect, but I enjoyed working there I think the most enjoyable moment was when I got the opportunity to mentor a new team member and new to the job because I was excited to show them what I had learned from the job

In a small team in two months there were 3 resignations by contractors, two contractors fired without warning or justification and 2 longterm contractors let go because of false allegations made by a permanent employee. Such allegations included accusations of the contractors not smiling enough.  The HR depart. even interviewed these contractors & told them to suck it up and smile more. It was disturbing to watch and to ecperience. This is a toxic environment for contractors and they dont even have maternity leave for permament employees. I would strongly discourage contractors from working in the Melbourne office. Toxic from the top down.

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