Paging the BigBlue drones

I wouldn't let on that you've got time to sit in the office reading
this, if I were you...

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Bit late, it was in the news at the weekend...

--
Mike Buckley
RD350LC2
GSF600S
http://www.toastyhamster.org
BONY#38

 

Snot looking good, especially for the Greenock plant. Still once they
have laid off everyone who knows how to actually-make-things-work they
will have to take them back as Contractors for 2 or 4 times the cost.

'Hog

 

So much I could write, so much I'm not going to.

 

you still got a job then?

 

Right now, yes. But nobody's telling any of us enough to know what the
f*ck the big plan is.

 

There's always a plan, whether it relates to any of this, or just to the
illuminati is a different matter altogether.

 

I suspect that there is no big plan when it comes to this stuff, more of
a suck it and see type approach.

--
Martin:
"For a minute there, you bored me to death."
VTR1000 Firestorm
TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html
martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com

 

The trade press seem to think they're trying to scrape out a layer or two of
management to save costs, but it's all the coal-face guys round here who
have "expressed interest".

I'm currently dredging Jobserve for radical left-wing terror groups looking
for trainee extreme wetwork artistes...

 

Our site is closing and all the manufacturing is moving to the states
(that's where the decision makers live) even though our site was;
compliant, qualified, validatable, efficient and kept the customers happy.

--
Martin:
"For a minute there, you bored me to death."
VTR1000 Firestorm
TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html
martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com

 

Marconi are apparently moving buildings in Coventry, because they
can't afford the lease payments, having done this.
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I've got irons, in fires, locally, along similar lines.

I put forward the concept of a silent protest with colleagues today, if
*everyone* in the the firing line were to register interest in the
voluntary package just before the deadline it'll keep HR tied up for
months....

 

Martin emerged from their own little world to say

Sounds familiar. Although my job didn't go to the US where the parent
company, Xerox, is based. They outsourced everything to Flextronics plants
in Hungary, China & Mexico.

 

Salad Dodger wrote

The bakers round the corner closed last week because they couldn't
afford the lease.

A bugger it is, I was getting all happy when I went out to vote thinking
that I could stop off on the way back and get a cake or two to have with
a cup of tea that and no Monster Raving Loony Party to vote for spoilt
my whole day it did.

 

Is it BAe that are moving their entire accounting function out to
Hungary to cope with IFRS? (and save a packet)

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\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^' RBR Landmarks: 12 Pts: 220 Miles: 914

 

Bear emerged from their own little world to say

No. They are the darlings of the shareholders. A year before I left them
the share price was $4. Now it's at $13 [1] since they screwed their
traditional workforce and continue to exploit the emerging countries.

[1] although it appears to be on a downward trend according to
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=XRX&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

 

Abbey National?

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I envy wavey davey as he had two raving looneys on his ballot paper, one
standing for the party, and one in the form of kilroy silk. that's like
30% mong.

if anyone deserved to be represented by mongs it's the population of
Erewash.

OgMong: Has anyone notices how all the BNP candidates seem to look like
yoda?

 

platypus says...

Always the case IME. If you're a middle manager with 20 years under your
belt at big blue where else are you going to go. Now some'coal-face'
worker with 10+ years of Java, J2EE, DB2 etc... the world is your small
bivalved mollusc.

An expanding market if there ever was one.

 

Owned, not exported.