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Escapee · 07-02-2005, 20:12

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.[/QUOTE]

I think Treveor Gent may of been with Telewest, certainly with a company in the London/South of England area. I know he had been around the cable industry for a while, he was looking after ntl's interests in Europe and came back to the UK around the time of the planning for growth. There was no position for him so they gave him our department to look after, he was full of promises but easily seen through as far as I was concerned.

I never met Tom, but I understand he was the powerfull one and Alfredo just rode on his back. I met Alfredo a few times and certainly wouldn't trust him, we had a meeting on one occassion when he decided that he was going to try and force the network techs to work shifts. I was a network tech back in those days and they had been to a big conference in Spain, some manager put forward plans to get the network engineers working shifts, as it would save the company a lot of money in overtime!

The guy who put this proposal forward didn't consider the extra network techs he would need to take on, or there would be no-one about to fix faults in the daytime

that just about sums up ntl management!

I remember as usual all the techs were up in arms about the plans, but when it came to the meeting one or two were kissing his backside, the majority sat there quiet as mice, and it just left me and another guy to tear him to shreds.

07-02-2005, 20:12	#146
Escapee cf.mega poster Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: This Planet Posts: 4,028	Re: ntl budget cutbacks 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 arhole! 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 hl they ever got there. [/QUOTE] 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.[/QUOTE] I think Treveor Gent may of been with Telewest, certainly with a company in the London/South of England area. I know he had been around the cable industry for a while, he was looking after ntl's interests in Europe and came back to the UK around the time of the planning for growth. There was no position for him so they gave him our department to look after, he was full of promises but easily seen through as far as I was concerned. I never met Tom, but I understand he was the powerfull one and Alfredo just rode on his back. I met Alfredo a few times and certainly wouldn't trust him, we had a meeting on one occassion when he decided that he was going to try and force the network techs to work shifts. I was a network tech back in those days and they had been to a big conference in Spain, some manager put forward plans to get the network engineers working shifts, as it would save the company a lot of money in overtime! The guy who put this proposal forward didn't consider the extra network techs he would need to take on, or there would be no-one about to fix faults in the daytime that just about sums up ntl management! I remember as usual all the techs were up in arms about the plans, but when it came to the meeting one or two were kissing his backside, the majority sat there quiet as mice, and it just left me and another guy to tear him to shreds.