Outsourcery burned through more than £20 MEEEELLION in cash before it crashed Defunct cloud infrastructure and apps provider Outsourcery Plc attracted interest from 12 bidders before it was offloaded to GCI Telecom for £4m, in a pre-pack administration handled by EY. The Statement of Affairs filed at Companies House revealed the final weeks of the failed Manchester-based, AIM-listed corporation that …
Remember them setting a server up for us to test. I had to download the ancient creaking Cisco VPN client to dial in and access it, which would barely install on my laptop, no to mention totally unsupported.
Didn't seem to understand me when I told them it was obsolete, now they are!
I was repeatedly harassed by recruitment consultants for jobs at Outsourcery for most of the past two years, as were most other engineers in the whole of Manchester. Most people avoided it like the plague, since it has been a byword for failing business since at least 2012. It never came close to turning a profit and Linney and Newton paid themselves a quarter of a million quid a year each for... well, I'm not entirely sure what they were doing, tbh. Setting fire to large piles of other people's money, apparently.
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