Air Products

Advantages: good career prospects, national company
Disadvantages: poor pay, stressfull, lack of support

...After finishing my degree I decided to work for a while to have a change of scene and get some money. My agency found a job at BOC Special Products for me, and I applied successfully. When I received the contract I noticed a discrepancy in salary and different job title to that in the profile I had been given by my agent. It worked out that BOC supplied the agency with the job profile of another position, and the manager in question hasn't justified that error to the day. Not having had many options I decided to take the job on. All colleagues where really nice and welcoming. My training was very good, as it was job based with personal coaching from a colleague. Soon after some downsides of the job became more dominant. Being in a national customer service call centre there was a lot of pressure on answering the telephones... Read review

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Advantages: good for planet and pocket
Disadvantages: we may have to adjust how we look at products

...and throw that on the floor and then also chuck away the points card. Pull out the ciggie - smoke it and then throw the stub on the floor. They do this twenty times and then throw the packet on the floor. I'm not saying every smoker does this, but a huge proportion do. Cigarettes are hugely overpackaged, WHY?? It's because we expect them to be. A wine connosseur (sp) once told me that corking a bottle of wine makes absolutely no difference to the taste of the wine inside, it's just that consumers expect a quality bottle of wine to be corked. The same thing with cigarettes, or washing powder, or mayonnaise - we all expect certain products to be packaged a certain way. This means that when new products are launched into a market place the packaging has to be seen not only to conform to the "norms" of that particular market, but also it has... Read review

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Advantages: Essential Fuel
Disadvantages: Global warming.

...noise and providing air quality benefits, particularly in congested urban areas. They have also worked hard to improve the environmental performance of their own operations:  First oil company in the UK. to introduce systems to capture and recover petrol vapours - they can now contain vapour emissions from refinery to forecourts.  Reduced road tanker fleet's energy consumption by 11 per cent since 1990, roughly equivalent to 1.5 million litres of fuel saved per year.  Installed new power generation facilities at their UK refinery to produce steam and electricity simultaneously, potentially reducing energy consumption by about 30 per cent.  Reduced refinery emissions of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen (the major products of combustion which influence air quality) by over 40 per cent since... Read review

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