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Originally Posted by hairy_mick
what i dont understand is how AG got the job with a contractor he was no good at ntl,you cant get rid of these people you would have to shoot them.
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The ones who are no good generally get on very well.
I can think of one HOD who reputedly had a house built for him by contractors, one who resigned over malpractice after finally getting caught, and another who they eventualy got rid of was about as useful as chocolate fireguard, the last I heard of him he was a CEO of a cable company in Bemuda.
The old boys network is still very much alive and well in ntl, many of the clingers on have made contacts and moved. There still remains the really bad ones who are unemployable elsewhere.
I was glad to hear one senior engineering manager is finally out of his position, I remember one of the guys telling him over the phone to ping a device. He said "how do I do that" the answer was "from the DOS prompt..."
He said "how do I get a DOS prompt" !!!!!
He was the sort of "technical" manager who went around trying to tell everyone how good he was and how they should do their job, and how much more he knew than everyone else. In fact it was all a bulls**t to hide the fact that he was technically very weak.
ntl will never change.