The ceremonial handing of the polo shirt back earlier this morning was a beautiful event. After a handshake as limp as a used condom, Rob handed back his box fresh polo shirt and thanked his master. Chris accepted the polo before saying “farewell and cowabunga dude”.
#hiChris
Hurling appears to be a mix of UFC, rugby, hockey, football, baseball, the egg and spoon race all whilst hitting a snooker ball as hard as you can as high into the sky as possible towards goal with what looks like the bones of a tomahawk steak. 10/10. Would recommend
#hurling
Hi Chris, Matthew and Rob, I hope this finds you and your family well. Well, we’ve had bad times and some truly horrific times.
Get the fuck out of this wonderful business and do not dirty our towels again.
Best.
THE ENTIRE ENGINEERING WORKFORCE. x
@centricaplc
@BritishGas
Firstly, FUCKING YAS. 🍾 🎉
Secondly, Chris can’t help but blame the Union and AGAIN implies engineers can’t think for themselves.
The Union and the engineers are not the problem here. Time to realise there’s only one person who is the problem.
@centricaplc
@BritishGas
Today is
#dontsignfriday
I’m heading out to one of the pickets in a couple of hours. Obvs can’t say which one 👀 but we can do this. We will do this. Been great hearing from so many that you’re handing the £1300 bribe back to the business.
#dontsignfriday
#WeDidntStartTheFire
Hello. I’m the fire and rehire elephant in the room. 👋🏻. Feel free to walk round me and not mention me whilst you are offered essentially the EXACT same deal as before.
"Family is far more important than work" says man who is actively and aggresively taking family time away from employees to make them work more.
The last 5 seconds of this is a narcissistic liar in full flow. Chilling how capable of openly lying he is.
#StopTheBritishGasFire
O’Shea is saying he needs 1M hours from engineers. Let’s say (at a guess) 500 engineers have left since he started all his shite (500 x 40hrs x 52weeks = 1M hours). He could’ve gained his 1M hours by retaining staff. Unstoppable moron.
#business101
#sackoshea
@centricaplc
👋🏻
All joking aside, it’s getting to the stage where the longer this SLT remain in place & keep their heads buried in the sand, the greater the likelihood of irreparable damage being done to
@BritishGas
. Something needs to change quickly. Get Bateman out and the firing off the table
New polling shows 74% of British Gas customers support the strike against fire and rehire.
It's a profitable company - they don't need to do this.
Time bosses withdrew their threats and got back around the negotiating table.
#StopTheBritishGasFire
🔥
Imagine being the head of a company who end up on the front of a national newspaper being called a disgrace. Ooouucchhhh. Would hate to be that guy. Or the board who allowed it to happen. Anyway,
#hiChris
😘 👋🏻
#BritishGasFiresKeyWorkers
BREAKING. Man who has just taken a £2M bonus instructs employees who have just taken a pay cut and who are working longer hours they need to pull in the same direction. 🤔
Im sure a lot of people will have heard about a BG engineer and colleague from Southport tragically taking his own life. This account has been set up in his memory. Rest in peace Sean. x
*movie trailer voice*
“This winter, One man takes on an entire workforce without realising the power thousands have against him and his impotent team. Will he succeed?!?!? Unfuckinglikely.”
I’m so glad the good DMs outweigh the bad but look at the shit I also get sent. Some laugh eh? The second pic is my response. Getting threatened from management under a pseudonym. At least they spelled anonymous correctly. Must be someone pretty high up to know two 9 letter words
Sending out people’s payslips weeks before -in a payroll first- they are due to be paid to force ever greater anxiety and worries on engineers is maybe, just maybe, your lowest move so far
#hiChris
. See whatever you think is a good idea Chris, do the EXACT OPPOSITE.
🎰SACK RACE🎰
Bateman 3/1
Harris 9/1
O’Shea 33/1
Resignations pay out 1/3 odds
Specials
More Bateman tears 2/1
Harris to use BG private healthcare to insert a spine 500/1
O’Shea to stop getting smashed on blue WKD then going on Yammer to fight 1000/1
@BritishGas
@centricaplc
An Open Letter to Chris. A Thread.
Ok, all anger aside, and there's a lot of that, enough is enough Chris. Enough. Please.
This continual ability of not listening to the engineering workforce and putting more pressure and stress on our mental health just isnt fair.
Yesterday..
PLOT TWIST IDEA FOR
@BritishGas
PR TEAM and SLT-
The engineers who haven’t signed are now offered redundancy. If there are as few as you say then you can afford it (we know you can afford it anyway) All of the people you’re about to fire do not deserve to leave like this.
Asking the guys who have shown the strongest morals and courage who stood tall and were fired to come back. Chris O’Shea is a laughing stock and it warms the depths of my black soul seeing him scrambling about trying to solve his self made mess.
#hiChris
👋🏻 😂 🤡
Our direct labour model is certainly cheaper than 200,000 jobs needing to be rescheduled and the risk of those 200,000 customers upping and leaving. It’s incredible they are sticking to their guns. “It’s only an iceberg! Full speed ahead!”
#WeDidntStartTheFire
“I did challenge the legal advice as I wasn’t comfortable & didn’t think it would help”. This new Chris video is off the fucking scale. Fully admitting it was wrong and just going along with it. “I did think invading Poland was wrong but I had just bought a new winter jacket.”
🚨 The 17 minute service is BACK!!!🚨
£85 for a 17 minute service. That’s literally £5 a minute (£300 an hour) for the pleasure.
Profits up, quality down. Business 101.
#ohRob
#hiChris
#edgeofseventeen
Strike day 1,840,394.
A massive shout out for
#InternationalWomensDay
To all the women who’ve stood shoulder to shoulder through this. Engineers, office staff, partners/ families of engineers, GMB (esp
@HazelJN
) & all who have helped throughout this cause. Solidarity. 🟩🟪⬜️
Meanwhile at
@BritishGas
HQ.
Rob, did you send that email? Matthew, stop crying. Wait. Rob. Which email did you send? No! I was steaming drunk! I was brainstorming! Matthew, stop crying!! Rob, send another. Just say “jumped the gun” or something. Phew. Crisis averted.
🚨Chris O’Shea being called a liar in the House of fucking Commons son! This is like treacle being poured in your ears whilst getting a foot massage and listening to Serge Gainsbourg. A serious aubergine splash movement. 🚨
This government had a chance last year to put a law in place to stop this exact practise from happening. Instead, we get hand wringing and calling P&Os behaviour “completely unacceptable”. They are 100% complicit and enablers of fire & rehire. Fuck the Tories.
#pandoferries
#GTTO
Bullshit. Absolute fucking bullshit. The company deserve NOTHING from engineers after what they’ve put us through. Fire and Rehire needs to go. That’s the line in the sand. Negotiations should be going on DURING the strike. The company lift the suspension&everyone’s fired again.
Despite shitting the bed for their
@BritishGas
members and telling them to sign up, this just goes to show that strike action works. We CAN win. This is a massive shot in the arm for workers all over. Big shout out to the folk who’ve messaged “sTrIkinG acHeiVeS NotHinG” to me.
We did it! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
We've secured a deal (subject to a members' vote) that ends the use of
#FireAndRehire
by
#BritishAirways
in its cargo division – the last part of BA where it was still a threat.
To our BA cargo members who stood firm during 9 days of strike action: ✊🏽✊🏽
🚨 🏛Tune in later around about 5ish when I post the first ever Clown Hall 🏛🚨
#clownhall
Nb. Currently trying to record me impersonating Chris’s voice but I’m struggling to get through a sentence without laughing.
#corpsing
If a new deal/vote is quickly thrown to engineers before the select committee report back, it is OBVIOUSLY going to be to try and force it over the line. Hold the line and vote NO.
Starting to collect these types of submissions as there’s been a few. Please send on any that your kids might have done and I’ll get them all put together.
#StopTheBritishGasFire
So important that people know these are the facts. When the fake bots message saying “tHe PuBliC DOnT knOw The FuLl TrUtH!”, well here it is. We’ve bent over backwards for the company year after year. We’ve continually adapted whilst the bosses have continually failed.
Chris, I will be here to continually attack your Fire and rehire policy every single day. That is not bullying or harassment. Every political party in the UK agrees it’s abhorrent. You will find no sympathy trying to act like a victim. This is YOUR doing. Own it or retract it.
6. Someone who can lift spirits and re-energise a workforce that is dead on its feet. Someone who understands the importance of trust and rewards people with the same time to spend with their family/friends that they signed up for.
It's just not you.
Fuck off,
Bathew x
The best engineer in my patch (for FTF/general fault finding & has been here for 20+ years) just phoned to see if I knew how long a notice period you have to serve as he’s off to join the local council. Imagine 5 years ago thinking you’d leave
@BritishGas
to work for the council.
Big shout out to everyone who took part in the strike. We go back tomorrow as even more determined engineers after seeing our colleagues all over the UK pull together to show
@BritishGas
and
@centricaplc
that we won’t be bullied and that we deserve better. Solidarity to you all.
MyTwitterAnniversary
Rather than hang around like the bad smell that may come from a Mail order box of shit or outstaying my welcome like
#hiChris
, I’m making up a wee montage video to close it all down. Thanks to every single one of you who has shared/liked/commented. Bathew x
Day 3 and we have had ANOTHER leaked video of Matthew, support from
@Keir_Starmer
and an avalanche of public support again. Let’s keep this push going. So brilliant to be a part of it all. Stay strong out there. See you tomorrow 👏🏻✊🏻
#StopTheBritishGasFire
Happy new year to all of you when it comes. Thanks for all your support this year. Big shout out to all of those who have moved on to pastures new. ✊🏻Here’s to 2022 being a much happier year for all of you wherever you are. Bathew x
Ps. Here’s my 2021 favourites dump 👇
Day 1 done. Genuinely brilliant day talking to so many of you. Felt like all of the engineers from every corner of the 3 countries came together today and the public support has been absolutely superb. On to day 2.
#StopTheBritishGasFire
#hiChris
#hiMatthew
#hiRob
#cheers
How can you claim £27Million pounds in furlough and then fire staff???
@BritishGas
Can we please all get this signed, shared, retweeted etc etc.
Inspired by the relentless pursuits of
@PeterStefanovi2
, i'll be sharing this every day.
@centricaplc
CDMs now being instructed by AMs to phone engineers who are off sick to get them back to work because sickness levels are off the charts. It’s almost like if you create an environment detrimental to wellbeing, people might need to take time off due to stress and anxiety. 🤪🙄
“Ignore the noise”. The only noise we are hearing is the deafening silence from the SLT.
Make no mistake, they’ve not been quiet because we asked them to be. When have they listened before? They’ve sat back quietly and allowed an army of engineers to form against them.
I was one of the many who fell for those tears many months ago without realising he was sharpening his blade to stab us all in the back at the same time. Will never be forgotten Matthew son.
#StopTheBritishGasFire
This video was out together by one of our amazing British Gas activists
It shows how
@GMB_union
members feel about management’s threats to sack workers to force through worse terms and conditions
#StopTheBritishGasFire
Don’t forget,
#DontVoteTory
today.
@KwasiKwarteng
has sat on that ACAS report for months & those bastards did ZERO to help. That’s not to mention the sleaze and corruption that goes on daily with that lot. Literally vote for ANY other party.
#CountBinface
ps.
#fucksakeHartlepool
We support the British Gas workers in their fight against ‘hire & fire’ practices. We have donated to the strike fund - please do also if you can
@GMB_union
Was out tonight with a CDM who agrees the company is on its way out. Those CDMs and AMs are the ones who need to stand up and go against the top brass. They know and they are too scared. Stand up. Kick out the top folk. BG was a fantastic company. Stop being pawns.
#britishgas
Whatever comes next, to all of you who have held the line, stood against F&R, fought for a fair work life balance and against the SLT, by ourselves we have created & achieved an unbelievable bond & unity.
Nothing has changed. The business still want more for less. Solidarity ✊🏻
Live scenes from the homes of the SLT tonight as they wait to hear the news that no one wants to return. Another business masterstroke from the Brain trust. I feel you know this Chris but for clarity, It’s not us, it’s you.
#hiChris
#matthewbateman
#robharris
#britishgas
#bullies
It is mad watching this back. Thinking at the time, this guy seems to have a soul then it turns out he was crying due to his “extracurricular” activities. He was sharpening his knife for the workforce at this EXACT time. He KNEW what was about to happen and it is unforgivable.
4. Power and love to you all, as without this community we wouldn’t have come this far. We’ve all leaned on each other and supported each other and that type of spirit was created by the workers, you and I. Not the management. So here’s to the workers. 🥃 Bathew x
#IAmAlan
"Happy colleagues equals happy customers equals happy shareholders". Its jaw dropping in its deceit. Here's a man firing 7000 engineers saying he wants happy staff.
@centricaplc
your CEO is a liar. Proof.
🎶 Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
And through it all, when there was doubt
I ran to hide, from the fall out
I avoided it all and I stood small
And did it, did it my way 🎶
So long Matthew. Bowing out at the very bottom. Skål 🥂
Right. Fuck sake. That’s now
@BorisJohnson
AND
@Keir_Starmer
saying it’s unacceptable. Time to get a law passed ASAP and do what’s right for EVERY employee in the UK. Shame on you
@BritishGas
(not that you have any sense of shame).
🚨 Urgent meeting on Thursday at BG after the leaked videos, where Rob categorically says data will never be 100% correct and management have been told to start disciplinary processes towards engineers after 7 days of CTAP going live were “taken out of context”.🚨
#hiChris
#ohRob
6 days after SMART engineers voted for new terms based on being up skilled,
@BritishGas
and
#robbarris
have pulled the plug. For anyone on the fence signing new terms in every other dept, this is happening right in front of your eyes.
#robsaliar
#chrisisaliar
#matthewsaliar
Right, I’ve absolutely shat it with the video because I’m far too paranoid you can pick out my actual voice/accent coming through. I’ve saved it for another day tho. And anyway, it’s the movie themed quiz tomorrow so we can all enjoy that without the fear of a knock at the door
Follow on from last nights Q. Not 1 person asked for a wage increase or better terms than the current ones. Now guys saying they aren’t surprised at no 1/4 bonus/no Qdos payments. Years of bullying showing that we don’t feel any worth. We ALL deserve better than to feel like this
🚨 Current
#hiChris
position.
400 jobs being cancelled PER DAY and a shortfall of 80,000 hours per week expected this winter. That’s based on it not being a bad winter.
Looks like our Chris was back on the blue WKD last night. Tried to have a go at verbal sparring with an engineer and got his arse handed to him. Full time result, Engineer 3
#hiChris
0.
As well as it being the 1 year anniversary of
#hiChris
being CEO, it’s also the anniversary of the Titanic hitting an iceberg and starting to sink (make of that coincidence what you will). SO, I’ve recreated the film Titanic with a different cast and slightly different story...
It’s so fucking galling. Suspending fire and rehire is such an empty gesture. Regardless of negotiations if its still there in the background, suspending it does fuck all.
#sackchrisoshea
Can we all take June 21 and 22nd off work and meet in Newcastle for a night out? That’s apparently the geographical centre point of the UK. I know you southerners tend not have been north of Watford buts it’s alright up north. You’ll still be able to get your shandies up there.
I remember setting up this account thinking “right, I won’t swear & I’ll always be respectful when I take the piss because I need outsiders looking in to be on our side. Can’t come across as being *too* partisan. Facts and figures only”. That’s that absolutely fucked.
Official statement proven to be lies. 40k minimum. Except the ones who earn 30% less on £28k a year. They might as well say to the press that we arrive on flaming unicorns. In the running for the worst lying bunch of twats out there.
@TheFCA
@centricaplc
#StopTheBritishGasFire
One of My beautiful, amazing daughters, seeing me on BBC news channel, talking about the strikes
She was saying “Daddy Daddy I made you a card” ❤️
They are the ones effected most by this whole ordeal. They are my world
#StopTheBritishGasFire
Today in Parliament
@Conservatives
MPs have an opportunity to vote with
@UKLabour
to end fire and rehire.
Fire and rehire has no place in Britain and must be outlawed now.
1. Ach you’re a lovely bunch really. ♥️ Love & thanks to everyone who has got involved in
#iamalan
(really means a lot). The sole purpose of Bathew was/is to highlight mismanagement of
@BritishGas
and over 12 months, Chris O’Shea, Matthew Bateman and Rob Harris have given me