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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Does this mean that any engineer that turns up to repair or sort out my system could possibly arrive by bus?  |
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It means all the employees earning less than 50K lost their personal fuel allowance, the lucky ones earning over 50K kept the perk. It was a big issue with some of us due to old agreements that ntl agreed to honour.
They have also taken cars off network engineers and given them vans in my old region. remember when we complained about other regions having better pay we were usually told. "Yes, but you were given cars with personal use as part of your package instead of vans" It goes wothout saying they have taken the cars away but not increased the wages of those affected to compensate.
I am not trying to take it off topic, but if you were in one of the meetings that I was in and heard HR's attitude towards employees it was disgusting. I do admit to having a little smile when they made all of HR redundant though, and these people had a taste themselves because they couldn't see they were nothing special to ntl management either.
The big joke of it was that HR was moved centrally, I understand that didn't work so it was moved back into the regions again. That's just typical ntl departmental re-orgs, they last about 18 months and when it's clear they are not working its all change by mixing the same ingredients they have used before to come up with a different flavour yet again.
Trouble is they all tend to leave a sour taste!
I am sure ntl will be looking to recruit in certain job functions in the future as they cut things to a level where the company ceases to function, but one things for certain is the best candidates are the ones that already have the experience and not many of them will touch ntl again out of choice.