Job Application: Wanted someone to destroy ITV.
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TheEnd said:
I saw a story about this in the papers, the unions hated him, despite the fact he turned the company around from losing £1m a day to making £1m a day.
Yeah, and he's pocketing the biggest portion of it! He was useless at the FA that's why they wanted to sack him but he resigned before they made him jump.
At RM he's closed nearly 6,000 post offices, the lifeblood of most villages and towns. 1st class stamp increased almost 45% under him from 27p to now 39p. 1 delivery a day now instead of 2 and first is now later. Lost 55,000 jobs! Any fool can do that!
Then he jumps ship part way through... (his heart was in his job, eh? Oh, but he's hanging in there until March when he can get his ruddy great fat paycheque. Obscene.
Letters delivered daily dropped by 10 million under his stewardship. He leaves RM with a pension deficit of massive proportions, whilst picking up a 7 figure salary, as said he almost destroyed the English FA, and of course he made jobcuts there too. He works hand in hand with Manpower too... via his wife!
How do you think they got temp staff cheap to work at RM prior to Xmas?
Good riddance. I don't need ITV, but I need Royal Mail.
dandarez said:
TheEnd said:
I saw a story about this in the papers, the unions hated him, despite the fact he turned the company around from losing £1m a day to making £1m a day.
Yeah, and he's pocketing the biggest portion of it! He was useless at the FA that's why they wanted to sack him but he resigned before they made him jump.
At RM he's closed nearly 6,000 post offices, the lifeblood of most villages and towns. 1st class stamp increased almost 45% under him from 27p to now 39p. 1 delivery a day now instead of 2 and first is now later. Lost 55,000 jobs! Any fool can do that!
Then he jumps ship part way through... (his heart was in his job, eh? Oh, but he's hanging in there until March when he can get his ruddy great fat paycheque. Obscene.
Letters delivered daily dropped by 10 million under his stewardship. He leaves RM with a pension deficit of massive proportions, whilst picking up a 7 figure salary, as said he almost destroyed the English FA, and of course he made jobcuts there too. He works hand in hand with Manpower too... via his wife!
How do you think they got temp staff cheap to work at RM prior to Xmas?
Good riddance. I don't need ITV, but I need Royal Mail.
dandarez said:
TheEnd said:
I saw a story about this in the papers, the unions hated him, despite the fact he turned the company around from losing £1m a day to making £1m a day.
Yeah, and he's pocketing the biggest portion of it! He was useless at the FA that's why they wanted to sack him but he resigned before they made him jump.
At RM he's closed nearly 6,000 post offices, the lifeblood of most villages and towns. 1st class stamp increased almost 45% under him from 27p to now 39p. 1 delivery a day now instead of 2 and first is now later. Lost 55,000 jobs! Any fool can do that!
Then he jumps ship part way through... (his heart was in his job, eh? Oh, but he's hanging in there until March when he can get his ruddy great fat paycheque. Obscene.
Letters delivered daily dropped by 10 million under his stewardship. He leaves RM with a pension deficit of massive proportions, whilst picking up a 7 figure salary, as said he almost destroyed the English FA, and of course he made jobcuts there too. He works hand in hand with Manpower too... via his wife!
How do you think they got temp staff cheap to work at RM prior to Xmas?
Good riddance. I don't need ITV, but I need Royal Mail.
Edited by 10 Pence Short on Saturday 30th January 09:04
Jasandjules said:
Well, I guess we will soon see far more advertising on ITV and more repeats then.
Have you watched ITV recently ? Very little new anything - except the very cheap to produce, ratings efficient "talent" mularkey, of which dancing is this years buzz-word. Even now in what is supposed to be the prime season the highlight of their Saturday night scheduling for tonight is All Star Mr & Mrs and a not very fabulous Hugh Grant 1995 movie - Nine Months.
Given even Crozier's poor record I do wonder how ITV's production standards can be lowered further. Advertising revenue has collapsed, Sky keep pushing the technical boundaries with first HD and now 3D, leaving poor ITV trailing behind, copying ratings chasers from the BBC and re-creating old, poor cheap shows with a celebrity twist for the new century (like All Star Mr & Mrs FFS)
Where is Greg Dyke when you need him ? At least he had an understanding of what the viewing public appreciate. He has previously saved GMTV & LWT - this was surely his moment ? Perhaps he turned them down ?
dandarez said:
At RM he's closed nearly 6,000 post offices, the lifeblood of most villages and towns.
Ah yes, those great businesses which were profitable on sales of just £20 of stamps a day and handing out pension money to 30 pensioners once a week . . . 
If only every business could generate a profit from effectively nill sales, a nice cup of tea and a chat
10 Pence Short said:
I take it what you're trying to say is, during a period in which Royal Mail lost its monopoly to leaner and more efficient private competition, Crozier managed to make the business competitive and able to survive, ensuring thousands of workers kept their jobs?
All that really counts to the average person is that mail is now more expensive, less frequently delivered and less people work in the postal service.Having seen how efficient these private companies are and the prices they charge (whilst still using Royal Mail to door the last stage of delivery) I can only disagree and say we're all worse off.
It's incredibly easy to save money by cutting service and laying off employees, any fool can do that.
Takes a much smarter man to grow the business and provide a better service.
Bugeyeandy said:
10 Pence Short said:
I take it what you're trying to say is, during a period in which Royal Mail lost its monopoly to leaner and more efficient private competition, Crozier managed to make the business competitive and able to survive, ensuring thousands of workers kept their jobs?
All that really counts to the average person is that mail is now more expensive, less frequently delivered and less people work in the postal service.Having seen how efficient these private companies are and the prices they charge (whilst still using Royal Mail to door the last stage of delivery) I can only disagree and say we're all worse off.
It's incredibly easy to save money by cutting service and laying off employees, any fool can do that.
Takes a much smarter man to grow the business and provide a better service.
The PO has grown, there are lots of services they offer via PO Counters but they are a regulated business and are prevented from competing in some areas.
The Govt. wanted more competition, probably because of lobbying and back handers from the likes of FedEx and TNT . . . why else would they take apart a service which was working well, keeping costs under control etc ? You could send a letter form anywhere in the UK to anywhere else for 30p and it would arrive next day . . . what's broken about that that needed to be 'fixed' ?
Apparently ITV's broadcasting won't start until the afternoon, and programmes may be shown anything up to a couple of days after the expected air time. There is, however, a Special Programme Delivery service which guarantees your programme will be delivered between 9am-1pm next-day, although you're not allowed to be out when it airs as you have to be there to watch it at the time they choose to air it.
Bugeyeandy said:
10 Pence Short said:
I take it what you're trying to say is, during a period in which Royal Mail lost its monopoly to leaner and more efficient private competition, Crozier managed to make the business competitive and able to survive, ensuring thousands of workers kept their jobs?
All that really counts to the average person is that mail is now more expensive, less frequently delivered and less people work in the postal service.Having seen how efficient these private companies are and the prices they charge (whilst still using Royal Mail to door the last stage of delivery) I can only disagree and say we're all worse off.
It's incredibly easy to save money by cutting service and laying off employees, any fool can do that. Takes a much smarter man to grow the business and provide a better service.
There are some things in life that are 'natural monopolies', where the economies of scale and maximum customer density provide the best opportunity for lowest price and best service. See roads, postal service, education, healthcare and utilities IMO. However, this requires both management skill and employee commitment to operate effectively.
Privatization and 'competition' tend to attract smarter management and, to some extent better employee commitment, but with competition comes the loss of scale/density and the added cost of competing. Privatization/competition has NEVER improved services and lowered cost - it can't, it can do one or the other ....in theory. In reality, the 'improved service' option comes at a price, this impacts on competitiveness, so instead lower costs (to suit 'the average person') brings lower standards. BUT given the loss of market share and addition of competition expenses in the shift out of monopoly, the more likely outcome costs rise AND standards fall.
"A smarter man" does not exist to reverse these issues. "To grow the business" is to converge on monopoly which is not permitted; no organisation that was previously a monopoly will ever be as cheap or efficient ever again.
whoami said:
dandarez said:
TheEnd said:
I saw a story about this in the papers, the unions hated him, despite the fact he turned the company around from losing £1m a day to making £1m a day.
Yeah, and he's pocketing the biggest portion of it! He was useless at the FA that's why they wanted to sack him but he resigned before they made him jump.
At RM he's closed nearly 6,000 post offices, the lifeblood of most villages and towns. 1st class stamp increased almost 45% under him from 27p to now 39p. 1 delivery a day now instead of 2 and first is now later. Lost 55,000 jobs! Any fool can do that!
Then he jumps ship part way through... (his heart was in his job, eh? Oh, but he's hanging in there until March when he can get his ruddy great fat paycheque. Obscene.
Letters delivered daily dropped by 10 million under his stewardship. He leaves RM with a pension deficit of massive proportions, whilst picking up a 7 figure salary, as said he almost destroyed the English FA, and of course he made jobcuts there too. He works hand in hand with Manpower too... via his wife!
How do you think they got temp staff cheap to work at RM prior to Xmas?
Good riddance. I don't need ITV, but I need Royal Mail.
'Comrade'... you ***t!
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