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Originally Posted by Mr K
So what are all these people doing that are no longer needed?
Why don't they make pay rises simple e.g. RPI+3.9% like they have for customers. Seems fair.
Is there a union?
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There's the CWU, but that's mainly for O2, VM doesn't recognise any union and most VM employees are not unionised.
The 2000 includes the 500 or so that finish this week.
VMO2 CEO Lutz Schuler, had to send out an email/ video message at 18:00 yesterday advising of the Telegraph story and also informing everyone of the new round of redundancies.
This was immediately after another video he sent apologising for the way they have handled the previous redundancies, which has been shambolic.
It really is amateur hour at VMO2.
Redundancies were always inevitable, that's the reason for the merger, cut duplication maximise synergies.
But the way it's being done, I feel embarrassed for him. I think the phrase that will be used next time he tries to get up front everyone is "he's lost the dressing room"
It's funny, on the VMO2 internal social media platform, it's all about "well being", "mental health", "look after each other" etc, etc, etc of course, us more experienced people know non of that matters when there's a bottom line.
What also doesn't look so great is that VMO2 drew down a £325M line of credit last month to pay it's shareholders.