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Originally Posted by James Henry
There aren't *that* many network techs you know, and service techs are already in some areas outsourced. I can remember an outsourced service tech resolving an issue I had with telephone service.
What about the headend bods I wonder?
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One of the guys out Friday is a Headend tech, it sounds like they will be the same. I dont know how it will work, I wonder if they will appear to carry out the same job only working for an outsource company.
One of the managers was saying that he couldn't see how they can make any big cuts after this one. He said all they have done is made people redundant and spent nothing on the network for 5 years.
They were also discussing the fact that they dont think there will be as many cuts in the latest restructure as senior management would like, and the main reason is probably because job roles between the two companies vary a fair bit. They are waiting to see a rumoured change to contracts, as it is thought they will try to align the job responsibilies to bring Telewest and ntl jobs inot line with one another, some seem to think cuts would then be easier to make.
One of the managers affected told me he felt his group had only kept their job this time around because there due to the different company structures were no roles in Telewest (they have all the power this time) that were similar to take over responsibilty.