Hmmmmmmm, well I suppose there are a lot of EXDS/GCTR people past and present who would agree with you about the moving to Exchange I suppose.....probably just as well they had to lay off most of the IT roll-out team (imagine bringing engineers from CA to London to put on a ghost image of W2K on user machines....... gaaaahhhhh!!!!) The roll-out team were due to implement an Active directory integrated network across their domain model. >
My heart does go out to all the good people who are laid off in continual rolling redundancy drives. I was one of the first to go and was angry @ the time but an now in a good job and can observe the war-zone with an emotion mainly consisting of detachment.
Eliza
Yes the NOC were a great bunch of people but what this person fails to record was that the 'tender mercies' were supposed to be the educated guidance of the technical account managers (TAM's) and subsidised training which was never forthcoming under the GCTR or EXDS system of CRM.
At least this was the case in London, obviously I cannot comment on the situation for the rest of the Datacentres only the one I had experience in.
Eliza
You say that you are a former GCTR employee (who isn't on this page, I am beginning to suspect??) but then you have all this inside knowledge of what is going on in the company...haah!
To quote:
"EXDS wasn't doomed by mismanagement, overspending, or anything else that people keep talking about."
'Scuse me if I wasn't working for another company and thinking it was EXDS!
That was exactly the problem with EXDS, a CEO with a track record of not being able to gauge the IT future never mind the nose in front of her face, namely M (H)ellen 'the internet will never catch on' Hancock
Perhaps that is the perception that you have been given but as someone who talked regularly with people who worked for EXDS on IRC ('lo all, 'cos I know you are all going to read this eventually:) there was a common heartfelt world-wide consensus that what exactly to blame was a top-heavy spending mad management structure headed up by (H)ellen and her cronies. A structure that when the crisis started to hit ended the subsidised vending machines and encouraged people to use less pens in company-wide mails (I wish I was joking!) instead of implementing country-by-country economic streamlining.
I agree with you about the only possible solution for the predicament that Exds finds itself in now but please do not put anyone under any illusions about the causes of that same situation.
Eliza
As a person who claims to have been in "the" building during a fire drill, you neglect to mention which Exds facility in London you were in.....There were 3 customer sites owned by them at one point as well as a further three administrative buildings. I am presuming that it was park Royal that you were in, a huge multi-buildings site. The reason for the finger scanners is to ensure that in the event of a REAL fire that the security staff have a list of the people that were in the building and can ensure that all of them got out. That story about you skimming up any scaffolding is nonsense because the security doors to the customer facility would not let you in without having first received authorisation from you having checked in @ the front door.
Tsk.......some people....
Eliza....Ex-Exds and Ex-GCTR
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Hmmmmmmm, well I suppose there are a lot of EXDS/GCTR people past and present who would agree with you about the moving to Exchange I suppose.....probably just as well they had to lay off most of the IT roll-out team (imagine bringing engineers from CA to London to put on a ghost image of W2K on user machines ....... gaaaahhhhh!!!!) The roll-out team were due to implement an Active directory integrated network across their domain model. >
My heart does go out to all the good people who are laid off in continual rolling redundancy drives. I was one of the first to go and was angry @ the time but an now in a good job and can observe the war-zone with an emotion mainly consisting of detachment.
Eliza
Yes the NOC were a great bunch of people but what this person fails to record was that the 'tender mercies' were supposed to be the educated guidance of the technical account managers (TAM's) and subsidised training which was never forthcoming under the GCTR or EXDS system of CRM. At least this was the case in London, obviously I cannot comment on the situation for the rest of the Datacentres only the one I had experience in. Eliza
You say that you are a former GCTR employee (who isn't on this page, I am beginning to suspect??) but then you have all this inside knowledge of what is going on in the company...haah! To quote: "EXDS wasn't doomed by mismanagement, overspending, or anything else that people keep talking about." 'Scuse me if I wasn't working for another company and thinking it was EXDS! That was exactly the problem with EXDS, a CEO with a track record of not being able to gauge the IT future never mind the nose in front of her face, namely M (H)ellen 'the internet will never catch on' Hancock Perhaps that is the perception that you have been given but as someone who talked regularly with people who worked for EXDS on IRC ('lo all, 'cos I know you are all going to read this eventually :) there was a common heartfelt world-wide consensus that what exactly to blame was a top-heavy spending mad management structure headed up by (H)ellen and her cronies. A structure that when the crisis started to hit ended the subsidised vending machines and encouraged people to use less pens in company-wide mails (I wish I was joking!) instead of implementing country-by-country economic streamlining.
I agree with you about the only possible solution for the predicament that Exds finds itself in now but please do not put anyone under any illusions about the causes of that same situation.
Eliza
As a person who claims to have been in "the" building during a fire drill, you neglect to mention which Exds facility in London you were in.....There were 3 customer sites owned by them at one point as well as a further three administrative buildings. I am presuming that it was park Royal that you were in, a huge multi-buildings site. The reason for the finger scanners is to ensure that in the event of a REAL fire that the security staff have a list of the people that were in the building and can ensure that all of them got out. That story about you skimming up any scaffolding is nonsense because the security doors to the customer facility would not let you in without having first received authorisation from you having checked in @ the front door. Tsk.......some people.... Eliza....Ex-Exds and Ex-GCTR