He left British Gas after the company used fire-and-rehire tactics, forcing employees to sign new contracts or lose their jobs. Rather than accept the terms, he walked away and started his own business, Jones the Gas.
I was actually looking into going into a completely different industry altogether. I was that fed up with the job and stuff like that. So tell us about leaving British Gas. The main reason was in the end, I didn't really have much choice. So there was a sort of fire and hire, fire and rehire tactics used to, I think, get rid of some of the workforce and different things like that. To cut a long story short, we were given a new contract which I didn't like or agree with, and you had to sign it. And if you didn't sign it, you went. So I did. And that's when I started up Jones the Gas.
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