Apparently even Garlands are cutting back on a large scale!!
Food prices going up.
Fuel expensive.
Weathers shite

It's the weekend lightning tree, just put saturday kitchen on, have a bacon buttie and worry about it monday.

Just having egg and beans on toast
I dont work at Garlands, our lass does.
Was planning a good day out at the riverside festival, the weathers fooked that

fook the weather!
drink
enjoy
smile
erm
eat
fook the weather!

Garlands losing vodafone contract, they are losing cable &wireless contract aswell, itll be shut within 2 months.

No they aint losing Vodafone T1gro only Cable n Wireless, The Vodafone contract is up for renewal

As much as i don't like Garlands, the garlands brand, or the way the company is run, i feel for the people being let go by them.

It's awful at most places. Where I work they've made at least 25% of the staff redundant and scaled back the contractors working hours for the next 3 months (around 50% of the remaining workforce).

Luckily I work on an account that's not up for renewal for 3 years but even we've had to cut to the quick and come very close to our targets.

Thankfully i work for a company which deals with something that everyone will always need - water!

not what ive been told, you will hear more on monday at work mate

I always feel sorry for anyone under pressure to keep their jobs - what an awful situation.
I was going to jump ship if redundancy was offered at our firm as the future didn't look too good, but now a huge drugs company has pumped £27m into our firm to de-bottleneck one of their processes for a major manufacture. It looks like the potential for two big plants to be built, possibly a takeover and working for a company with excellent benefits and bonuses compared to what I'm getting now. Maybe my luck has turned at last - plus the scumbags will be out of the house next door on Friday!! Hooray!!!

who do you work for parmo?

Toys R Us

I think food prices are on their way down again
The weather is always shite in the UK, its hardly a shock for it to piss down in August is it?
I agree on the fuel front mind

And of course Chipolata is privy to the high level contract renewal discussions, when he isn't fixing routers and bust mobiles

I'm sure when I was a kid in the 6 weeks holiday we got sunny weather for more or less the full 6 weeks

Ah, halcyon days indeed

I think that too, but I doubt it was sunny every day for six weeks in reality

Apparently approx over 200 have gone from vodaphone via redundancy / relocation Middlesbrough. According to our lass

I worked for C&W once

Clue and Witless is more like it

But they did pay good money and lots of overtime

talk talk is

How many people work at Garlands? It's really bad news if they are trimming their workforce, I think most people will know quite a few people who work there or have worked there....

Come the Revolution and big Companies won't be allowed to 'own' essentials like water, and we will be able to go and help ourselves to as many buckets of water as we like.

Even urinal attendants jobs are going to the wall nowadays, you'll be replaced by one of those auto bogs.

cable and wireless were interviewing/hiring potential recruits all day thursday. hardly likely to be hiring at the end of one week and firing the following monday.

probably best to stick to bumming about craft fairs in skipton and harrogate rather than talking about something you are clueless about.[/quote]


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I simply pointed out the fact you aren't privy to the what goes on at senior level in a call centre

And it happens quite often, releasing staff then re-hiring at a cheaper rate

It went on at British Gas in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008

Them autobogs take the piss

the Parmo for the whole of England company!!!!

Not really - Avecia

I understand what you're saying Chip, but I can't look at that without thinking Country & Western instead of Cable & Wireless, and imagine you doing a do si do in time to the music.

Ehhhhhh Conference calls, whatever next, you'll be telling me people use phrases like 'moving forward' and 'near shoring'

Well some of us are, well 50 calls in half a day anyway; and they're not all irate, I had a nice conversation with a lady about her daughter going to the same Uni as Jonny today.

Tip the fook out. I did, lots of us have. Them people who say the grass is always greener on the other side are absolutely correct.

It'd be nice to pop back for the occasional match and a gig though.