Cable Forum - View Single Post - It's the end....but the moment has been prepared for!

scrotnig · 29-04-2005, 20:48

Thanks to everyone for their kind comments.

Although I've been psyching myself up for today, and got through it reasonably well, once I got home a sort of enormity begun to dawn on me - I've given up my job! :o What was I thinking of?

Of course, this is tempered by the fact I have a new and better paid job starting on Tuesday. But at the moment, I'm officially unemployed, and it's a very peculiar feeling indeed.

Also coming to the fore is the worry that I may have made a huge mistake. For all ntl's perceived faults, I knew them and how they worked and being there was really a bit of a comfort zone. It doesn't help that I now hear that some of my former colleagues that left at Christmas to join the same firm I have now joined, apparently don't like it all that much. Though this gossip may be malicious, I did make some enemies in my time at ntl.

So I'm left tonight with this rather bizarre feeling that I am unable to explain properly. Never mind.

As for the new job...it's with a firm in the telephone/broadband business, though obviously as resellers via BT lines. They also have just launched the new WLR (Wholesale Line Rental)product which most firms will soon use - this does away with the annoying need to continue paying line rental to BT and means your entire relationship as a customer is with one company.

My role will be on the business side of the operation, which is small and currently only sells telephone not broadband, unlike the residential side which does both. It's a young operation so I'm joining at what you would think would be the right time, unlike with ntl when I joined mere months before it all went titsup.com in 2001.

My actual job will be similar to one of my previous roles at ntl...customer retention. Dealing with people who want to leave and are often a bit annoyed something, and trying to put matters right and retain the business.

I should be really excited about this, but I lack the confidence in my own decisions for that. Most people who know me are absolutely gobsmacked that I actually had the courage to hand in my notice and leave. Come to think of it, so am I.

So if I appear a bit timid in the coming days and weeks, this is why.

29-04-2005, 20:48	#12
scrotnig Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 2,499	Re: It's the end....but the moment has been prepared for! Thanks to everyone for their kind comments. Although I've been psyching myself up for today, and got through it reasonably well, once I got home a sort of enormity begun to dawn on me - I've given up my job! :o What was I thinking of? Of course, this is tempered by the fact I have a new and better paid job starting on Tuesday. But at the moment, I'm officially unemployed, and it's a very peculiar feeling indeed. Also coming to the fore is the worry that I may have made a huge mistake. For all ntl's perceived faults, I knew them and how they worked and being there was really a bit of a comfort zone. It doesn't help that I now hear that some of my former colleagues that left at Christmas to join the same firm I have now joined, apparently don't like it all that much. Though this gossip may be malicious, I did make some enemies in my time at ntl. So I'm left tonight with this rather bizarre feeling that I am unable to explain properly. Never mind. As for the new job...it's with a firm in the telephone/broadband business, though obviously as resellers via BT lines. They also have just launched the new WLR (Wholesale Line Rental)product which most firms will soon use - this does away with the annoying need to continue paying line rental to BT and means your entire relationship as a customer is with one company. My role will be on the business side of the operation, which is small and currently only sells telephone not broadband, unlike the residential side which does both. It's a young operation so I'm joining at what you would think would be the right time, unlike with ntl when I joined mere months before it all went titsup.com in 2001. My actual job will be similar to one of my previous roles at ntl...customer retention. Dealing with people who want to leave and are often a bit annoyed something, and trying to put matters right and retain the business. I should be really excited about this, but I lack the confidence in my own decisions for that. Most people who know me are absolutely gobsmacked that I actually had the courage to hand in my notice and leave. Come to think of it, so am I. So if I appear a bit timid in the coming days and weeks, this is why.