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Originally Posted by injuneer
Wasn't Peter Black their chief technical man once? I think he came from Broadcast originally but he got pushed out a couple of years back because he didn't agree with the board about the way things were going. He could see the brown stuff approaching the fan!
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Thats going back a fair while, Peter Black was Director of Networks? (I think)
I think he upset a lot of people, I wasn't keen on some of his ideas and I think someone like Peter Black coming into the company from Broadcast, found that no matter how much power he had there were others ganging up to stab him in the back.
I think Alfredo De la Rocco was a director at some point, I heard there was a senior director asked to leave over some money discrepencies and back handers, he dissapeared around that time. I was told about how many millions he placed in orders and maintenance contracts that were never honoured. I lost my job that I went to after ntl cos of that.
My old department was taken over by Trevor Gent, he was a director without a job, so they gave him engineering to look after. I put my notice in and my boss decided to get Gent down to have a chat with us and perhaps I would change my mind. The other guys thought he was a great and would do good things for the department, I said he was an ar**hole! A few months after I left they were saying the same about him, he had just used the position as caretaker until something else cam along, and made lots of false promises.
There have been many in senior engineering positions, and in fact there still are like that. I can think of a few and wonder how the h**l they ever got there.
