'Faceless' Liberty Global has 'sucked the very soul' out of Virgin Media

[Ignitionnet]

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/201...out_of_virgin/

Exclusive Virgin Media staff have voiced widespread discontent over its gobble by Liberty Global, with one describing their new corporate daddy as "faceless change drivers with no concern for the Virgin values," according to a Q&A with senior management this week seen by The Register.

The questions, which were part of the company's quarterly feedback "grill," also reveal extensive staff anxiety over their future, with a major company-wide reorganisation under way and an outsourcing programme of long-serving employees to Ericsson.

[Kushan]

"faceless change drivers with no concern for the Virgin values"

Having worked there, I'm not entirely sure those "Virgin values" were worth ****.

[Pierre]

I think whoever leaked the transcript from the session is a typically selfish person.

Those sessions are a rare opportunity to access the Senior leadership and ask frank, unedited questions.

If these sessions now stop because of this then ....thanks a lot.


In regards to the sentiment, as we all know Virgin Media has never been owned by Branson, there was no Virgin heart to rip out.

As someone who has been at the company a loooooong time, I can say that this current re-Org and round of redundancies is no different to the countless others there has been in the companies history.

At least this time around they've actually offered VR across the board to all Engineering staff. Which is a good thing.

Losing your job is not nice, being on 90 days and left dangling like a puppet is not nice, but don't try and kid yourself that the company was all rose tinted a fluffy previously , because it wasn't

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Pierre

I think whoever leaked the transcript from the session is a typically selfish person.

Those sessions are a rare opportunity to access the Senior leadership and ask frank, unedited questions.

If these sessions now stop because of this then ....thanks a lot.


In regards to the sentiment, as we all know Virgin Media has never been owned by Branson, there was no Virgin heart to rip out.

As someone who has been at the company a loooooong time, I can say that this current re-Org and round of redundancies is no different to the countless others there has been in the companies history.

At least this time around they've actually offered VR across the board to all Engineering staff. Which is a good thing.

Losing your job is not nice, being on 90 days and left dangling like a puppet is not nice, but don't try and kid yourself that the company was all rose tinted a fluffy previously , because it wasn't

[sollp]

Originally Posted by Kushan

"faceless change drivers with no concern for the Virgin values"

Having worked there, I'm not entirely sure those "Virgin values" were worth ****.

I believe they certainly helped the company come out of the NTL/Telewest disaster.

Really depends on what part of the company they are now working in as to why they are feeling that way. I remember the dark days of NTL and the constant rounds of redundancies and re-orgs, the criteria for redundancies forever changing to suit the needs of the company ect.

Definitely a lot of out sourcing will happen over the next few years