90 days tomorrow

[GazzaB]

I feel for you Mark B I really do, I'm on my last month of 90 days notice with Ntl in the Nottingham office. Ntl is really loosing some valuable staff but doesn't really seem to be particularly bothered!
4 years of some highs and lows are coming to an end which is sad and it's horrible to say it but I hope things go pear shaped for the upper management in Ntl because they don't care at all that is quite clear. To those staff that are transfering departments/staying on then Good luck I think you will need it!

[scrotnig]

Originally Posted by gooner4life

I like the way we have to work over Christmas knowing the job is going nowhere

29th of December lol

We have been more fortunate in that regard, we have been told that although we technically need to work over Christmas, the plan is that we'll finish before then.

[scrotnig]

Originally Posted by GazzaB

I feel for you Mark B I really do, I'm on my last month of 90 days notice with Ntl in the Nottingham office. Ntl is really loosing some valuable staff but doesn't really seem to be particularly bothered!
4 years of some highs and lows are coming to an end which is sad and it's horrible to say it but I hope things go pear shaped for the upper management in Ntl because they don't care at all that is quite clear. To those staff that are transfering departments/staying on then Good luck I think you will need it!

Good luck Gazza!

I take it you're not redeploying? My former boss here is now a manager in Nottingham, she is recruiting I believe and she's a very fair manager, I enjoyed working for her and will be forever grateful to her for giving me the chances that she did.

[GazzaB]

Thanks Mark, Unfortunately there is no similar replacement role for me here. Nottingham is now specialist in collections and telemarketing, neither of these roles appeal. I assume the manager you had has gone to one of these departments?

[scrotnig]

Originally Posted by GazzaB

Thanks Mark, Unfortunately there is no similar replacement role for me here. Nottingham is now specialist in collections and telemarketing, neither of these roles appeal. I assume the manager you had has gone to one of these departments?

Yes, I believe she's running the new-look Collections down there. She's done collections before so will be ideally suited.

I believe it's also a promotion for her. I hope she does really well, as she was fantastic up here.

[scrotnig]

Originally Posted by Mark B

Yes, I believe she's running the new-look Collections down there. She's done collections before so will be ideally suited.

I believe it's also a promotion for her. I hope she does really well, as she was fantastic up here.

I have to say, I am absolutely devastated at the news, and, if I DO decide to leave, I just don't know how I am going to cope financially.
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[scrotnig]

Well, that's that done and dusted.

We're encouraged not to be bothered by this news, after all we've known since April and all of us have either got new jobs within ntl, or have decided to take the money and run...a formal decision on which I have yet to take.

Nonetheless, an era is coming to an end. Regardless of everything else, I enjoy working for ntl and I have really enjoyed my curent role. It's reasonably paid, interesting, satisfying, and the shifts are great.

I may enjoy my new role if I decide to stay, but that doesn't alter the fact that this, for me, is a very sad and upsetting time. Last time ntl made me redundant, it didn't really amtter as I'd only been there four months and had no 'affinity' with the company. After three and a half years you know the company inside out, you know its foibles, you know how it works, you understand it and in fact, whether you like it or not, you become a part of it...and to a degree, it also becomes a part of you.

So it's sad, very sad, and I make no apologies tonight for shedding a metaphorical tear at the passing of my current job, and possibly, the passing of my entire employment with ntl.

I've been in this situation twice before, once with a national pizza company which I was an openings manager for, the company was quite quirky (as is ntl, I always seem to work for quirky companies!) and abruptly got sold to a rival. Then again with a supermarket chain for whom I was a department manager and my job 'went'.

Both occasions were sad, and both occasions resulted in my leaving a job I didn't want to give up.

People tell me, whatever happens, it'll be a new era of my life and I will probably enjoy it as much if not more. That may be so, however none of that alters the huge sadness at the ending of something in this way.

summed up very well, in my opinion. I have only been made redundant once, (so far), & in similar fashion to yourselves, we knew about it well in advance of any statutory notice period.

I found it a very strange experience, it was a job I enjoyed, with a benevolent employer & amazingly, everyone (the whole site was sold off), got on with their jobs & behaved in a very loyal fashion, even though we were being dumped.

It was very sad when the final days came, but the worst thing was losing touch with colleagues, as, although a lot of them carried on working for the firm that took the site over, some others took the money & moved on.

So, anyway, I sympathise with how you all must be feeling and can only hope, whatever happens, it will lead to better things in the future.

[etccarmageddon]

Originally Posted by Mark B

...Nonetheless, an era is coming to an end...

I hope you find your smile cos you sound pretty down.

Come and be a teacher! We have such a shortage in certain subjects like Maths and Technology.You sound such a dedicated worker with shedloads of enthusiasm and a real people person and ntl's loss would be our gain.


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