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Jr8black3:
My personal experience with Bartlett, they took very good care of my wife and I till that fateful year, the year 1988, my wife and I had just completed a outage at H.B. Robinson for them as senior deconners ( NO FUN AT ALL!!) and we were promised (BOTH OF US) decon supervisor jobs at Perrys first refuel outage. Well, we did our part and showed up at Perry to learn of a loss of a contract at Fermi, and because of that I lost my postion and had to go into Perry as a Jr. HP @ a dissmal 6 an hour and 35/day perdiem, pretty sad huh? But that wasn't all we were also promised we would be out of Perry by early may, as we had a July wedding planned, and we hadn't been able to get home to do much planning, as the outage wore on and got extended, May came around, we were told to quit if we wanted to leave, and that we would be on two years jail time with Bartlett. So I looked at my now wife and told her to go tell her friends goodbye.
Three months later the phone rang it was JUDY to tell us she had 7 plants we could choose from to go to. We did make the choice to go back to work for Bartlett at that time, we went toCY and then to Catawba and ended up staying busy for the next two years working the S.C cycle, then they gave us a great offer to go back to our home plant and work for three years, so we did, then after three years Barlett lost the contract to ARC, my wife stayed on with ARC, I left because ARC had labeled me a good ole Bartlett boy, and I knew hell was down the path for me if I stayed, but I did go back with ARC for one outage, and I did get treated as a good ole Barlett boy, so I left once again, only to get that dreaded call from my wife while I was at WNNP-2, hunny you last three checks from ARC bounced!! Barlett did me right and helped me to make sure I had work and that I had money coming in, I never seen my three weeks of pay I lost from ARC.
Then I had another experince with Barlett, mostly my fault ( Yes I can admit I made a mistake) I went to Maine Yankee 1995.. Partied to hard and got nailed on a FFD ( MY FAULT NOT BARTLETTS) But when I returned home, I made a phone call to the office to find out after I was properly escorted off site I got accused of smashing windows out of cars, which is totally false, and the Bartlett officed believed those rumors, and told me I'd never work for them again. Anybody that knows me knows I'am not that way, I walked away from that job knowing I messed up and had a greater fear to face. MY WIFE!!!.. Trust me it wasn't pretty..
All in all I don't dislike Bartlett, they did things for my wife and I others never would have, but they also wouldn't believe me, and yes Eric they lied to me, but if I look back at all the companies I've worked for I don't think any of them have ever been totally honest with you 100% of the time.
Personally I think Barlett is one of the best choices out there, but thats the great thing about this business is there are always choices, if you not happy leave. Just one thing don't go away mad, just go away..
Kevin
makua13:
I do like Bartlett and refuse to work for anyone else any more. Do you guys remember IRM? I have gotten to know Bartletts home office staff and the people are very nice, and yes they do care. I worked the conferences demonstrating some equipment for Bartlett, and I have to tell you the difference between Bartletts Executives versus those of the other companies is astounding, the professionalism and the credentials.
And for the Techs out there, I was surprised too, but I swear it is true since the meeting was held iin my own hotel room, Bruce himself and others were in meetings with diferent Plant peiople in an effort to raise Tech pay. It turns out that in many cases the plants are holding money down. OK we wont discuss Wolf Creek, but that was a new contract and Bartlett wanted to look good. I hear rumors that that pay will come back up too.
Just dont be too quick to MF Bartlett, they are the best out there.
thenukeman:
I never worked for Bartlett but have heard bad and good about them. The good is from people who work hard and mostly cared about their work. The bad is from mostly losers anyway. I think thats how it goes for the most part. Eric did apologize to Remo and that gives me a warm fuzzy for them. I have been called about a dozen times by Bartlett In the last few months at Oak Ridge. All I can say is I hope they get the SEC contract. I like what I am doing now but would consider Bartlett in the future. Oh by the way I used to be a loyal hardworking SEC alliance worker until SEC decided to kick SAIC and Auxier out of the Alliance. SEC offered us pay cuts to keep our jobs. Even when they were paying people what we asked for. I say Bechtel Jacobs give Bartlett a chance. SEC fostered too much hate, discontent and incompetence to keep this contract.
halflifer:
--- Quote from: remowil55 on Sep 25, 2004, 05:10 ---So Mr. R. At what point do you stop being nice and call there hand. They told me i would not get my money from them, that i would have to ask the courts. Remo
--- End quote ---
Actually, federal labor laws are pretty specific about when an employer can withhold money from your check and a call to the Federal Dept of Labor would probably have straightened it out quicker than litigation with the additionaly benefit of NOT GIVING ANY MONEY TO LAWYERS!!!!!
halflifer:
I have to add, though, that I've worked for Bartlett quite a bit over the course of 25 yrs (workin' for them now, actually) and while I won't say it's been problem-free (and they probably wouldn't either), I can't think of more than 1 or 2 problems that were truly the result of the offices action (as opposed to a recruiter or a site coordinator/project manager). I know if you can't work things out with payroll, per diem, insurance.....whoever.... a call to Nick or Jerry will get action on the thing and in most cases, the office will and has jumped through hoops to rectify the problem most expeditiously without any other calls being necessary.
While I'll admit, WebMaster Rennhack has appeared to take the tone of Official Bartlett Proponent, it's not one he would take if it didn't represent his true feelings. Mike and I both work at the same project though probably for not much longer) and I've heard him express feelings that leave no doubt that he is not a Plymouth Lap Dog.
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