Posts by rapid

Incoming comet will probably miss Mars, says NASA

Re: What about littl' Phobos and Deimos?

Suppose it does strike either moon. And like an interstellar game of pool, chunks of former orbiting confectionary come our way. Boom Boom Pow!

Will.I.Am will have something to answer for.

Garlands folds: 1000 call-centre jobs axed in Northeast

I worked there!

Up until yesterday I worked for Garlands, I was a team manager on the TalkTalk contract.

Anonymous Coward is right, there were multiple sites and it would have been impossible for the directors to have made an announcement in person to every employee, the in house radio was the obvious way, that is as good as it got for employees at Garlands!

They were not the best employers and I suspect they did not know what employee care was, their pay and conditions were below industry average. TalkTalk pulled out of Garlands as since the take over of Tiscali, they have been in the possession of the Manilla call centre, which is now a TalkTalk operation, from what I have been lead to believe, Manilla operates at a saving of 6p per agent per hour!

Today I signed on and have began applying for new employment.