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Originally Posted by injuneer
I know some of the power guys that were transferred to Broadcast recently. They cover a vast geographical area now and all management do is question the amount of overtime they book, most of which is for emergency call out. Do they think engineers actually enjoy being called out in the middle of the night to some god forsaken place for christ's sake? They do it because they want to maintain a good service for customers, nobody I know is on the "fiddle", they only book the actual time they are out. I've heard that the new owners of broadcast (Mcquarie) are a better employer so hopefully they will be treated with more respect than they are now.
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I guess they are probably offloading people onto broadcast to save on redundancies, just like cable and wireless did when they sold part off to ntl. I heard managers they didn't want were being transferred before that sale.
I guess the broadcast guys could be the lucky ones, many I met were not happy when CableTel bought ntl. They were fortunate to be of large enough size and have a union to stop CableTel/ntl walking all over them.
I guess ntl home/networks will have to employ people to look after the generators and power, or possibly contract it out. then again they may just take a chance as they have done in the past.
They took a chance with some of the network management servers by saving money and not bothering with a maintenance contract, they found out the hard way when they started to fail and it took almost a week each time to get someone from sun out to look at them!
