[/QUOTE] 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.
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I think I met Trevor Gent once, did he use to work for United Artists before it became Telewest? I used to work for Mercury Comms and I'm sure I met him at meeting in Woking in about 1992/3 to discuss the cutover of their new Croydon switch from the Mercury Network. I wasn't impressed.
I've seen both of the De la Rocco brothers, Tom & Alfredo (although you wouldn't think they were brothers if you saw them. They were part of Barclay Knapps original entourage. I was working in Cabletel at that time.