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mass exodus from eircom

  • 28-06-2010 6:36pm
    #1
    horse7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,833 ✭✭✭


    heard there were over 800 people left eircom last friday,these were ordinary workers,not high fliers,there must be a very small number of, staff left.no mention in the papers.how many are left.the ex vodophone chief is top dog now and the australians have legged it with the family silver.ordinery workers are paying the price for their bosses mistakes.


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  • #2
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Are you sure?


  • #3
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,460 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Ya thats correct. Can't blame them. Shower of cowboys the men at top of Eircom.


  • #4
    Cheap Thrills!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    500, it is true.

    But I think there is a good few thousand left.


  • #5
    Tomtata
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭Tomtata


    Heard it was 900 signed up for Voluntary leave with 850 or so given the go ahead. That should be the end of the good old Telecom Eireann staff.


  • #6
    jesus_thats_gre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    There is probably still too many staff left.


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  • #7
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    I worked for Eircom once. Jesus H Christ it was grim.


  • #8
    Cheap Thrills!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    jesus_thats_gre wrote: »
    There is probably still too many staff left.

    Too many chiefs more like :cool:

    The injuns took their love to town.


  • #9
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    horse7 wrote: »
    heard there were over 800 people left eircom last friday

    I thought this was about customers who got a warning about file sharing and told Eircom to get lost !


  • #10
    Mick Daly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Mick Daly


    I'm sure we'd hear and see about it if it did.


  • #11
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    Well if vodafone are in charge of it things wont get much better. Its strange telecom eireann owned eircell. Eircell is taken over by vodafone who are now in charge of telecom/eircom.


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  • #12
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    But yet their ads say people are coming back to eircom? :confused:


  • #13
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    But yet their ads say people are coming back to eircom? :confused:

    I know yeah its madness. I like eircom workers as in the lads on the road. They dont really drag the day and do a good days work..


  • #14
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Drastic problems call for drastic solutions. When measured in terms of the cost of insuring debts - and they have a lot of them - Eircom is the 5th-worst-off company in the world, as reported last week. Translation: Doomed. If these layoffs are the result of managers in a panic, they're right to be in a panic.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #15
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    But yet their ads say people are coming back to eircom? :confused:

    yeah apparently they didn't like the red paint on their doors.


  • #16
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Is that bollox Jim still there?


  • #17
    Mick Daly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Mick Daly


    Jim is shown in the ad working nights at some big office building.


  • #18
    Truley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    Alot of staff were offered early retirement/voluntary redundancy packages with a deadline to take them up by June. My dad took the retirement, finished last friday after 40 years with the company :eek:


  • #19
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    adrian280582 wrote: »
    Ya thats correct. Can't blame them. Shower of cowboys the men at top of Eircom.

    It's true. This is their new theme music.


  • #20
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    The guy who lives up the road, goes into work at 0830 and is home at 1530 every day is still with them!


  • #21
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Tell me, is the weedy-looking customer service beardo with the cool minority report screen-swiping skills still in a job? :confused:


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  • #22
    Tomtata
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭Tomtata


    Truley wrote: »
    Alot of staff were offered early retirement/voluntary redundancy packages with a deadline to take them up by June. My dad took the retirement, finished last friday after 40 years with the company :eek:

    NICE 140+ gg's for him


  • #23
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    bonerm wrote: »
    Tell me, is the weedy-looking customer service beardo with the cool minority report screen-swiping skills still in a job? :confused:

    That's Jim.


  • #24
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    That's Jim.

    Ah! I thought the aforementioned "Jim" was some fella you went to school with or something.


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Confab wrote: »
    I worked for Eircom once. Jesus H Christ it was grim.


    I too, I worked the Emergency Services. The stories I could tell about that place. So bad, I made formal Complaint to ComReg. So bad, they followed through with it. They found reason to investigate, where as funnily enough, when Eircom did their own Internal Investigation everything was tickety -boo. I was not happy with their investigation, and told them I was able to vindicate at least some of my accusations.I also told them I wouldnt have made such an allegation, had I not strongly believed in that something should be done, and I was not a liar, and I was not going to walk away with the truth untold. So I went to Com Reg.

    management ass kickers, underlings bootlickers. Grown men telling tells and tattling, other behaviour too, which I wont mention. Not yet anyway :) But was shocking, and Im not easily shocked.
    .
    I called it a pit of vipers, I grew to feel sick going in. I did however in fairness find the majority of staff were very decent people.
    I had a wonderful wonderful man for my team lead though.Thing was he wasnt on all my shifts, had he been I might have stayed. Pure gentleman.
    Apart from him my time there was pretty much dire. I loved the work.


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