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Originally Posted by Ignition
Hrm how many of the impressive cars at Crawley are owned by ntl employees and how many by Arquiva I wonder.
There are some semi-technical departments in Hook which are vastly overpaid and overtrained considering the rather dubious results they consistently turn out which have to be corrected by other less well paid departments to actually work. (Yes ntl you can send these guys on all the courses in the world and pay them stupid amounts, doesn't make them good at what they do!)
Since my job change I've been on more courses (in 2.5 weeks) than I was in a year with ntl, I'm paid more, respected more, work in a more pleasant environment where there's more to life than just stats.
Also there are two company sponsored drinkies sessions coming up.
ntl is in my opinion a poor employer, with little respect for the majority of its' staff. A small section pretty much universally based at Hook love it, though they might as well work for a different company to the rest of us, we saw none of the perks, etc they did and were paid considerably less even those who were more technically experienced and skilled.
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I agree with all that you say, I may of been from ntl for a long time but people working in COBI say things are even worse than they were 4 years ago.
There was always a core of corporate engineers in Hook, and there were a few rejects who had been kicked out of Telewest because they didn't come upto scratch. The core used to stick together and back one another up over bad decisions, and backstab anyone who showed them up for what they were.
It may not seem a nice thing to say, but the company deserves to go down the pan. Through all the redundancies many of the worst technical employees are still in there raking in the bucks.
It can all be blamed on the top level management attitude, that says employ people with degrees but no experience and send them on a few training courses to make them engineers overnight. Some technical disciplines at corporate and regional level have ended up with low skill levels and no real experienced people for them to learn from.
I personally learn a lot more if I am thrown in with people of greater experience, as it becomes a challenge to catch up. I'm sure most people are the same, and the level of skills can only be as good as the best in a department.