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25th May 2009, 12:59

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Gaero

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Well Engineering took a hit today ...

Heard a number of people from Lean Sigma got the chop.

TS was also hit today with a number of departments loosing all of their "contractors", which were mainly engineers ... and get this, it was explained that these engineering positions are a part of the 500 management/executive positions that were announced to go

. How engineers and even a very junior engineer is classed in this bucket is beyond me. Mean while no real management positions have gone from those departments and remaining staff were told to brace for the effect of the 1450(?) general staff positions that have been slotted to go. That was one sneaky trick pulled by the "big guys"

. I realise that they were "contractors" but AJ did tell the public/staff that 500 management positions had to go ... maybe the message got mixed up down the chain.

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