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Originally Posted by Pierre
Aye, the republic of Teesside.
This is where the seat of power of COBI lies. The MD of COBI was originally MD of ntl:Home North East. The Director of Field Ops of COBI was originally Director of Field Ops in ntl:Home North east, the Director of COBI Design and Civils Ops was - thats right - Head of Design and Civils in ntl:Home North East.
There's only two ways of doing things in COBI, the Teesside way or the Teesside way.
Because they did things SOOOoooo much better than you mere mortals that worked for other cablecoms bought by ntl.
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This underlines the area that always pi**ed me off about ntl, the empire builders gain power and move everything into their own region and appoint their own Kronies. The ones that have had their noses put out of joint then keep their heads down hope to survive redundancy and wait for the next bout of confusion (Sorry I mean re-org) and then make their move to build their empire and staff it with their own. All it takes is for one of the managers to get a sympathetic ear of the new appointed director for that division and they are suddenly top man, nothing to do with ability. A similar thing has happened recently with managers redundancies, a couple of managers who were on 30 day notice ganged up (sorry teamed up) and made their case to keep their jobs, but get rid of the third manager, the director in question follwed their advice and got rid of the one who was most use to the company.
It's been an ongoing cycle for many years in ntl, it was once Huddersfield, then Surrey and later Glasgow having the networks power. IMHO this sort of thing has been the big killer for morale in the networks department (COBI) The same happened with planning when all the jobs were lost in wales to keep people in jobs in the midlands.
This will never end in ntl, it's an ongoing survival with managers building empires to surround themselves by as many people as possible, all in the hope that they will look important and only loose a percentage of the people below them when redundancies happen. I know it was a few years ago now, but one department had contractors sat around doing nothing. They were being kept on to use when there was the next round of redundancies, to save full time employees in the cuts.
The politics in ntl stink
