Virgin Media could make 900 redundancies

[broadbandking]

Its makes me laugh when they say they can work better with less people, yeah that's right less people ='s more work been done MUPPETS, so glad I left them now after a 10 year stint, also when my contract is up I am jumping ship to either BT or Sky as they have now installed fiber in my area.

[jb66]

Originally Posted by hedgie

But for many of us, a rubbish firm to be a customer of......

Sorry this thread is way of topic now.

Then dont be a customer

[richard s]

Here here... they need to improve with existing long serving customers properly. What puts people of most is the haggle haggle scenario.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by richard s

Here here... they need to improve with existing long serving customers properly. What puts people of most is the haggle haggle scenario.

The obvious answer is to go elsewhere. No-one forces you to use VM unless you're in a new build where they're the only option.

The haggle haggle scenario doesn't put me off in the slightest. The price list is fairly easy to understand. People either want to pay it or don't.

Perhaps Fuel or TalkTalk would be better options if price is the only consideration?

I regularly read complaints from people asking why the UK's broadband is behind some of our peers. I suggest it's because networks are expensive to build here and hardly anyone in the UK actually wants to pay for them if they can help it.

[jungleguy]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Richard Branson has pretty much nothing to do with the company.

You understand wrong, they're a good company to work for..

Explain to me why in my old team at VM, out of a team of 12 heads 6 have had significant absence from work through work related stress in the last 3 years....and 2 long serving employees resigned? Further more in Ipswich alone they've hired 3 heads last year, one left after a day, one left after a week and the other one left after a month. These statistics do not reflect an organisation thats good to work for.

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by jungleguy

These statistics do not reflect an organisation thats good to work for.

Sounds like a broken team, but that doesn't reflect the whole organisation. It certainly isn't my experience.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by jungleguy

Explain to me why in my old team at VM, out of a team of 12 heads 6 have had significant absence from work through work related stress in the last 3 years....and 2 long serving employees resigned?

No idea, you worked with them do you know? Where they easily stressed?

Explain to me how the experience of a team of 12 out of a workforce of around 14,000 is somehow representative?

Further more in Ipswich alone they've hired 3 heads last year, one left after a day, one left after a week and the other one left after a month.

Seems to be a problem finding reliable employees in Ipswich.

These statistics do not reflect an organisation thats good to work for.

they are not statistics.

I happy though that you've based your opinions on a representative national sample. I mean otherwise you'd look silly. Keep up the good work.

[jungleguy]

Originally Posted by Pierre

No idea, you worked with them do you know? Where they easily stressed?

Explain to me how the experience of a team of 12 out of a workforce of around 14,000 is somehow representative?



Seems to be a problem finding reliable employees in Ipswich.



they are not statistics.

I happy though that you've based your opinions on a representative national sample. I mean otherwise you'd look silly. Keep up the good work.

What are you saying? people in Ipswich are rubbish? Are you for real? Are Suffolk folk not worthy to work for such great man as Richard Branson (I mean Liberty Global).......My old team covered the whole of East Anglia for your information.

This is like arguing with a holocaust denier

and surely if you knew anything about VM network you'd know my avatar was that of an employee (or ex-employee)

[vm_tech]

Originally Posted by jungleguy

and surely if you knew anything about VM network you'd know my avatar was that of an employee (or ex-employee)

Not exactly, anyone could take a photo of a cab with open doors...

[jungleguy]

Originally Posted by vm_tech

Not exactly, anyone could take a photo of a cab with open doors...

you've taken my statement out of context, it was made in reply to the fact he had no idea I worked for vm......

[Ignitionnet]

PS: I have worked for one of VM's predecessors, therefore am allowed to enjoy the drama. So there.

There is a site called glass door where you can read people's views on any particular business. On this site you can also see that they have over 200 current vacancies.

In the official press release it talks about increasing heads by 2000 in other parts of the business but that seems to have been overlooked by some of the press outlets for some reason?

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview...6248.11,23.htm

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by jungleguy

What are you saying? people in Ipswich are rubbish?

Merely interpreting your "statistics"

and surely if you knew anything about VM network you'd know my avatar was that of an employee (or ex-employee)

a photo of a street cab, of course only employees could possibly have one of those.

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Originally Posted by jungleguy

you've taken my statement out of context, it was made in reply to the fact he had no idea I worked for vm......

I didn't say that.

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Mr Banana

but that seems to have been overlooked by some of the press outlets for some reason?

The whole thing seems to have been more-or-less ignored by the media. Interesting to compare with the coverage of the 1200 steel job losses announced earlier in the week.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by hedgie

But for many of us, a rubbish firm to be a customer of......

Sorry this thread is way of topic now.

... and for many more of us, an excellent firm of which to be a customer.

Let us hope that the redundancies weed out the twirks.