Sacked and left stranded: phone book staff called to HQ, fired and told to hand over company cars | Mail Online
“Hundreds of workers were left stranded and in tears yesterday after they were called to their company head office, unexpectedly made redundant and then told they could not use their company cars to get home.
Sales representatives for telephone directory Thomson Local received a mysterious email late on Tuesday afternoon ordering them to attend a meeting at head office at noon yesterday.”
Sales representatives for telephone directory Thomson Local received a mysterious email late on Tuesday afternoon ordering them to attend a meeting at head office at noon yesterday.”
Well I never!! I remember me and Clive being invited down to Thomson HQ a few years ago, thinking they might consider buying us, they in fact tried to flog us their database.
It was a surreal experience and I remember at the time seeing the army of basement workers trying to cleanse their data and watching the hard copy book get thinner, it was only a matter of time with the sheer amount of overhead they must have. Then there is the army of sales guys in their company cards, proper old school hard sell directory model.
So with Yell up to it's eyes in debt, and Thomsons exit stage right, is this an opportunity or a worry??
