* Posts by Westdene

4 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2012

Wifinity hands customers bills for Wi-Fi services they didn't want but used by accident after software 'glitch' let 'fixed term' subs continue

Westdene

Billing hasn't been working properly for years ....

Wfinity know their billing system is rubbish but as it always benefits them they have ignored it.

Capita cans Employee Forum a year after launch

Westdene

As someone that was part of the forum when an employee it rapidly became obvious we were there to sweeten the redundancy pill. A good example was that the forum put forward a number of cost saving ideas and every single one was rejected. The main one was scrapping bonuses to which we were told it was both impossible and it would effect the performance of the people on it. Bearing in mind it was a select few on the bonus scheme ( including Russ H and Mark Q ) AND that they did indeed scrap bonuses in the end it makes you wonder how much they really wanted forum input.

Capita ITS ditches UK job cuts, offshoring dream

Westdene

The thing Capita haven't told the press .....

..... is that 90% of the Capita ITS customers refused to allow their business to be offshored ! I suspect THAT'S what has stopped the programme not the threat of a strike.

Capita's IT Services top dog legs it after just 6 months

Westdene
Linux

As an ex-Capita ITS employee I'm not surprised to see Mark Q go ( or Hewitt ). When I was there the Unity programme was a farce - deadlines constantly missed, senior management not knowing or understanding what individuals actually did and penny pinching policies. The pay for non-tuped staff is horrendous while senior managers splash cash on posh hotels and jollies over to India. It really is a them and us culture and the service to the customers is dire due to severe staff shortages. Quartermaine was nothing but a bean counter. It was also highly suspicious how many ex C&W people were suddenly employed in high ranking positions - the jobs were never advertised internally. Jobs for the boys !