had a chat with an ex-colleague who told me some rather disconcertin news about the ex-MadHouse of the workplace:
1. they are in the process of laying off a total of 179 people - possibly more - bluemarble wide
2. internet surfin is disabled
3. emails to individual's outside the organisation are monitored
4. incomin phone call's are tapped
woeful. thank god i fucked off moon's ago.
and i thought the MD announced the other day that last year was the first time they made profits.
what i could speculate is the long-drawn court battle in india over cricket telecast rights with their Indian rivals that bled the company. they dragged the latter to court over perceived infringements - every year - which said MD never failed to boast that they would win. just because they are a far superior as well as the cosmoverse's premier sport broadcaster.
serves em right that they lost their case yet again earlier this year. besides, they spent million's on the english premiership rights. for each broadcast region. in spite of complaint's from viewers that there's too much footy on the telly. just imagine being fed a daily staple of footy and sport news, 20 to 22.5 hour's a day.
even i got sick scheduling the darn thing.
all this came about through a self-deluded belief that their viewer's asiawide - except taiwan and the subcontinent - are clamourin for more footy and sport news. and all this while they don't realise that their production standards have been declining since the start of last season.
and the most perplexing bit is, instead of distributing the so-called profit's they had declared, they wasted it on revamping the transmission suites. to impress em visiting VIP twat's.
so idling chief and DW - cancel yer subscriptions immediately. i'd like to see em shut down their operation's altogether.
as enscribed by the letter b @ July 16, 2005 11:59 AM | someone's pingedoh Celeste, she's the only one who's been around for yonk's whilst the others came and went. pretty ok cow to work with, i say that cos she has had problems with temp's. whatever it is, i wish you all the best :)
as blahed by the letter b @ July 18, 2005 08:42 AMI was interviewed by Celeste. In truth, nothing is really worse than the gulag I have found myself in at the moment.
as blahed by D W @ July 18, 2005 07:57 AMoh no, let me warn you about them marcom "executives" ::ptui:: apart from the sitting-pretty-but-doin-nothin-much cunt's [they tend to hire females] the job is not that fantastic. you'll find yourself "serving" the needs for em sales twats. and generally attending functions for the media, and showing VIP's around the premises. that's all. i know, cos i first temped with marcom as PA to the director.
you were interviewed by Stephanie wotsit right?
as blahed by the letter b @ July 18, 2005 05:29 AMMarcom executive. Went there for an interview just a couple of weeks ago for the first round. Don't think I have done enough to get to the second round though. :(
as blahed by D W @ July 18, 2005 05:19 AMalamak, we could have been colleagues! may i ask which position you were interviewed for? nah, you'll get over the withdrawal symptoms :D believe me, there'll be more footy magazine programmes which will be getting crappier due to the quality of part-time producers they hire.
as blahed by the letter b @ July 18, 2005 05:08 AMThis is interesting... To think that I went for a job interview there just recently... If I cancel my subscription, where will I get my weekly dose of footy? :(
as blahed by D W @ July 18, 2005 04:47 AMbut not as bad as having to work with the evil amoebae.
as blahed by the letter b @ July 17, 2005 08:14 AMGad! It sounds rather like big brother.
as blahed by "Alice" @ July 16, 2005 02:23 PM