Breaking News - VM axes 149 jobs.

Media Boy UK · 09-03-2007, 14:45

Virgin Media is to axe 149 jobs as part of the NTL - Telewest takeover

Info from BBC News.

NTLVictim · 09-03-2007, 14:49

I wondered when it was going to start.

Bored Cable Cust · 09-03-2007, 15:13

Here's the Link........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/6434175.stm

NTLVictim · 09-03-2007, 15:21

"Virgin Media stressed the potential job losses were not connected to the company's legal row with satellite broadcaster BSkyB"

Probably more to do with the fact that Virgin Media lost a net 37,000 customers in the last quarter and ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£122 million. (source; Bloomberg.com)

09-03-2007, 15:27

Maybe the job losses were pencilled in pre sky row, part of the package that saw NTL become VM.

NTLVictim · 09-03-2007, 15:28

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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004

Maybe the job losses were pencilled in pre sky row, part of the package that saw NTL become VM.

Good point..very likely.

Halcyon · 09-03-2007, 15:46

It's never fun when there are job cuts. Let's hope not too many jobs are exed and that those affected get work elswhere.

Bob · 09-03-2007, 15:47

I believe some new jobs were being created in Teesside because of redundancies in Manchester. Forgotten where I read that now

09-03-2007, 15:55

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Originally Posted by Bob

I believe some new jobs were being created in Teesside because of redundancies in Manchester. Forgotten where I read that now

I am sure richard will put on a train to ferry manchester workers to teeside

Bob · 09-03-2007, 15:58

Or some people may be prepared to move. Also there is already a direct train between the two. And btw... Teesside has two s's

09-03-2007, 16:00

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Originally Posted by Bob

Or some people may be prepared to move. Also there is already a direct train between the two. And btw... Teesside has two s's

Indeed it doess

AndyCambs · 09-03-2007, 16:00

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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004

I am sure richard will put on a train to ferry manchester workers to teeside

it is a Virgin Trains route, isn't it?

Bob · 09-03-2007, 16:02

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Originally Posted by AndyCambs

it is a Virgin Trains route, isn't it?

Transpennine Express - you'd have to get off at either Thornaby, Yarm or maybe even Middlesbrough and then get a bus to the Preston Farm Industrial Estate

There maybe a Virgin Trains service to Darlington, but that's a good half an hours drive away. Anyway, we digress...

scrotnig · 09-03-2007, 16:05

This was perhaps the primary reason for me leaving ntl in 2005 after more than four years.

Four years - three redundancies. I got sick of it. "Manchester is going to lose jobs to Coventry" then "Coventry loses jobs to Tesside" then "Teesside is losing jobs to Manchester" and it just goes round and round and round and round.

Each time a new management team comes in they have their own idea of structures and implement these with no thought for the effect on staff. It's all about egos, and it appears that hasn't changed.

09-03-2007, 16:07

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Originally Posted by scrotnig

This was perhaps the primary reason for me leaving ntl in 2005 after more than four years.

Four years - three redundancies. I got sick of it. "Manchester is going to lose jobs to Coventry" then "Coventry loses jobs to Tesside" then "Teesside is losing jobs to Manchester" and it just goes round and round and round and round.

Each time a new management team comes in they have their own idea of structures and implement these with no thought for the effect on staff. It's all about egos, and it appears that hasn't changed.

Not even with a change of badge.