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Originally Posted by Russ D
That's never been in doubt - my point was to question whether increasing the pay succeeded in bring in quality people or just saw an increase in people fancying a good level of pay.
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IMHO you can only employ good people, if the people selecting the applicants know their onions!
There are now pockets of employees in ntl earning extremely good wages just because they are good talkers. It makes my blood boil that in meetings with very senior management we discussed employees coming in on higher wages, and they used the excuse that it was happening because these people were better quality.
Thats was rubbish, some were worse but generally their skills were the same as the existing guys. ntl had to pay more money because the market dictated it, however they didn't need to pay more money to existing employees. ntl now has a certain amount of employees who have moved up to fill the places of people who have left, the block on outside recruitment for these positions has meant accepting lower quality employees from inside the company, and very often it has involved appointing employees to the position just because they were on the "At threat of redundancy list"
These practices have not helped ntl any way shape or form. It's hard to remove these people if they dont perform once they have been installed into a new position. I have every sympathy for people who have lost their jobs through redundnacy, but I have little sympathy for the ones who have been placed like a round peg in a square hole.
No one has taken charge in ntl and dealt with these matters, some employees have been shuffled around because managers dont want them and are unable to get rid of them. They just find a way of off loading them onto someone else!