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Just heard city link are going admin.tell there workers on Xmas day
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Not nice for anyone to find that out Christmas Day. Especially all those poor gits out delivering right up to Christmas and I can say first hand it's not an easy job at that time of year. I'd have expected yodel to go first as they loose more then they deliver and that's not over exaggerating just look online. It amazes me large company's use them. We've lost a few company's over the years in one form or another.
I'm not sure what the administrators were supposed to do. They have legal responsibilities that don't take any account of emotion about the date.
said earlier on the news that the workers found out by listening to the news not by being told which is just wrong in my book.
I agree with you Steve, but how do you tell 2700 people something without it getting on the news before you get to the last one? If you text or email it, you will be condemned for being heartless. You can't telephone everyone. Its a 24hr a day operation so only a proportion of the work force will be at work at any one time. You can't write to people over Xmas, and whatever you do, one of the first hundred or so will go to the press, so some of the last few hundred will hear from the radio or tv. How can that possibly be avoided?
Sometimes bad things happen without there being a villain.
I agree with you Steve, but how do you tell 2700 people something without it getting on the news before you get to the last one? If you text or email it, you will be condemned for being heartless. You can't telephone everyone. Its a 24hr a day operation so only a proportion of the work force will be at work at any one time. You can't write to people over Xmas, and whatever you do, one of the first hundred or so will go to the press, so some of the last few hundred will hear from the radio or tv. How can that possibly be avoided?
Sometimes bad things happen without there being a villain.
I agree with Scrooge mcduck. **** happens.
I had to make 4 blokes redundant once, just before Xmas. It was a long time ago, but we had a new building, which we had taken under licence - ie we were paying rent week to week whilst the solicitors did their stuff before we signed the lease. We hired the staff, opened the branch and started trading.
About 6 weeks in, I got a phone call from the solicitor saying that the local authority search showed that the council had applied for a compulsory purchase order on our car-park, in order to widen the road to make a dual carriage-way. So if it went ahead, we would go from having a nice tradecounter with a carpark on a single lane road, to a worthless building without parking, fronting straight onto a dual carriage way. There was no other vehicular access to the building.
There was absolutely nothing to do except pull out. At that point in the firms development, signing a lease on that could have bankrupted us, and put the other 20 odd employees at risk. So I went down there, a week or two before Xmas, and made them all redundant. The worst job I have ever had to do. After it was all over, I was in the carpark having a *** when one of their wives came storming over and gave me a right earful. Couldn't blame her really, so I just stood there and took it.
The really sh1te part? The council never excercised the CPO, the dual carriage way was never built, and last time I saw the building it was a thriving furniture store, and still had a great car park.
But you had the nuts to go there and do it in person. That's the difference.
But it was one depot and 4 blokes Adam. I think I read that CL had 2700 staff at 53 depots. No boss can be in all those places at once.
So why not wait till tomorrow?
Those workers will be lucky to see 7p in every pound they earnt in December
40% of them will be contractors
They are even worse then Yodel, parcels just chucked in the back of the vans!! most items damaged!! They must pay more in compensation then they get in charges!! not surprised at all!! shame for workers though!!
me said:We have a CL depot as neighbours, and I think that quite a lot of their people are contractors. But the writing was on the wall - they were sold for ÂŁ1 last year and their long term losses were widely reported. If you take on a long term contract, don't you credit check your client?
think the administrators do things right.
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