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[Lizzie_Zoom]

Hardly surprisingly with the further vast reduction in the demand for steel, Corus is cutting a further 2,000 jobs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8118584.stm

What a shadow of its great days, but times really have changed globally.

[Welung666]

Have Corus got anywhere left to shut?

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Have Corus got anywhere left to shut?

Good question, but apparently they do:

http://www.corusgroup.com/en/company/about_corus/

 

[waspy]

When i was fabricating our buyer would source the cheapest steel possible. We would take delivery of profile from India, Russia & a few other places. The qaulity was SHIT & REALLY SO.
When we took a delivery of steel from British Steel as it was known then, it was a very high standard of quality. It cut smoother, welded better & was a good deal stonger too. Hence "YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR"
I buy my own tools for work & when ever i can i always buy Britool. It's qaulity stuff at a decent price. I never buy Draper or any of these Chinese, Indian tat.
You know when you have quality

[Lizzie_Zoom]

When i was fabricating our buyer would source the cheapest steel possible. We would take delivery of profile from India, Russia & a few other places. The qaulity was SHIT & REALLY SO.
When we took a delivery of steel from British Steel as it was known then, it was a very high standard of quality. It cut smoother, welded better & was a good deal stonger too. Hence "YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR"
I buy my own tools for work & when ever i can i always buy Britool. It's qaulity stuff at a decent price. I never buy Draper or any of these Chinese, Indian tat.
You know when you have quality

Yes, that is one of the reasons, quite apart from a vast reduction in shipbuilding, motor car production and construction, why British steel production has declined form 27,006,000 tons in 1965 to just 11,700,000 tons in 2002!!

It was 16,293,000 tons in 1950 in austerity Britain, so we are even below that figure now

[markey mark]

i know i work there ! 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

i know i work there ! 

Oh dear Mark, very sorry to hear that!

Is your job safe? :-/

[markey mark]

i know i work there ! 

Oh dear Mark, very sorry to hear that!

Is your job safe? :-/

at the min yea its supposed to be white collar workers 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

i know i work there ! 

Oh dear Mark, very sorry to hear that!

Is your job safe? :-/

at the min yea its supposed to be white collar workers 

Well I wish you all the best Mark!

[Nickbat]

It's terrible that those who actually produce something lose their jobs especially when, in the bloated Alice-in-Wonderland world of the public sector, they are still hiring people at £119k per year who have "cross-functional experience" and play a "key role in ensuring the effective integration of national, regional and local drivers"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5627849/119000-council-job-advert-attacked-for-being-written-in-gobbledegook-and-waffle.html

Oh yes, the lucky person to get the post will not do anything useful like making steel, no they will make sure "That the diversity of Kirklees is understood by all in the organisation; is valued as a strength but a strength that challenges us to respond to its complex implications; and is reflected in the career structures within the organisation."

Kirklees Council again. (I seem to recall mentioning them a short while ago - can't remember in what context though).

What a country. 

[djm1964]

hope it works out OK for you Mark

[markey mark]

cheers lizzie and dave 

[Vamps]

The ideal candidate must have "cross-functional experience" and play a "key role in ensuring the effective integration of national, regional and local drivers", the Kirklees Council advert states.

I am pretty much up on these things but I have never heard those phrases.  Perhaps if I understood what it meant I might have applied.  Mind, not sure I would want to drop my salary that much........

[CaptainZok]

The ideal candidate must have "cross-functional experience" and play a "key role in ensuring the effective integration of national, regional and local drivers", the Kirklees Council advert states.

I am pretty much up on these things but I have never heard those phrases.  Perhaps if I understood what it meant I might have applied.  Mind, not sure I would want to drop my salary that much........

Sounds like somebody in Human Remains is playing w**k word bingo with the job descriptions.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

The ideal candidate must have "cross-functional experience" and play a "key role in ensuring the effective integration of national, regional and local drivers", the Kirklees Council advert states.


I am pretty much up on these things but I have never heard those phrases.  Perhaps if I understood what it meant I might have applied.  Mind, not sure I would want to drop my salary that much........

It usually means that as a manager you are capable and experienced of operating in a multi-functional capacity throughout the various departments and specialist sectors of your company.  You also have the ability to motivate, train and manage your team to achieve performance targets, with a driven passion for results.  That was a daily mantra for my managerial life, and still would be!! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)