dont know about you
but i had quite a nice end to a redundancy...

i worked for a call centre which was due to be moved to bangalore. upon hearing this my team went crazy (as people tend to do in these situations) I, however, kept my head down, and continued to work. I had a family to keep, and couldnt afford being sacked before my redundancy.

a week passed, with people calling in sick, and a general dip in office performance.

I was then secretly offered £250 bonus if i stayed for 1 month, £500 if i stayed for additonal month, and an additonal £750 if i stayed until the full transition (3 months = £1500) This was seperate to the offered redundancy money.

I was then invited to Stornoway (where some of the operations ended up) to transist office operations. I was flown first class there and back Monday til Friday for 4 weeks all on expenses, I returned in my final wek to the original office to be then offered another new job within a different wing to the company.

I have never looked back.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Thu 22 May 2008, 14:43, 3 replies)

Nice one!
it's good to read a slightly more positive story occasionally
(Bazongaloid, Thu 22 May 2008, 15:14, closed)

Smart cookie...
....he who laughs last and all that. Bet all the drop-outs are doing the exact same job but for a different firm!
( The Pollitt chooses to listen to Enya on, Thu 22 May 2008, 16:02, closed)

sounds very familiar...
... I think I worked there, but in a different call centre. The word went out that the work was going to Bangalore, nine months before the planned date of the move, and it didn't go to schedule. By three months after the announcement, so many of the agents had taken jobs elsewhere that the management had to hire contractors to make up numbers, and offer retention bonuses to the remaining staff. Great planning, folks.
( bnt what, me worry?, Sat 24 May 2008, 0:17, closed)