bunch of staff being made redundant
very sad ,it came out the blue as centre not been open long
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Coming into bonus time as staff liking everything on linkedin to qualify for their bonus. Don't follow and like we dont get paid! Paying us to promote company
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Finally, someone has taken action and dealt with those who kept complaining and were beyond reform! It's about time that such attitudes were no longer allowed to spoil the atmosphere and hinder progress. Kudos for taking action, it was definitely needed!
Imagine being so talented in HPC, in a market that’s desperate for those skills, yet choosing to stay put and complain instead of grabbing one of those amazing opportunities out there.
I mean, think about it - there are places with better flexibility, better gyms, better free snacks (because let’s be honest, that’s what really matters, right?), better pay, better managers, better air to breathe, and who knows, maybe even better coffee!
But no, instead of making a move, let’s stay here, rant endlessly, and become part of the furniture. Because clearly, that’s the best use of energy. Self-motivation? Self-investment? Nah, let’s just complain.
having friends and family log on to red arrow everything is like cheating in an exam. meaningless.
Close the door on your way out you won't be missed.
LOL. seem to have touched a nerve or two. my work here is done. LOL
Must be so many of us agreeing as the family message to do down arrows been outnumbered by staff agreeing how bad it is.
HPC Team Lead job has been vacant for well over 6 months just been updated to say only a few days. Clearly nobody wants to report to the person above that.
In reply to the comment below about quitting, some people have worked here many years and have settled down and have kids in school so not that easy to just leave. Also, admittedly the training here is pretty bad meaning that over time employees skills have diminished meaning that they are less valuable in the jobs market. Viridien pay them just enough to make it difficult to leave and find better pay elsewhere without uprooting their families. Probably the one good thing that HR are good at.
Back like an old penny
LOL so many down arrows this morning. the family/clique are in and they're displeased.
To those hurling the vitriol, if working here is so bad why haven't you left already?
Staff are paid to like company stuff on linkedin, if we don't then don't get our bonus. Most haven't a clue what they repost but managers keep tabs so they can mark them down on performance.
beware of Follow The Sun.
if the work can be done from another country
with more unions
and cheaper labour
then it will.
dont forget to train them before you head to the job centre.
Viridien have staked their future on HPC after the dismal performance of Beyond the Core that was formulated during one of PW’s wet dreams and executed by his loyal minions. Neither have worked and it’s time for SZ to go. Fresh management is desperately needed at all levels of the company. It’s not such a GPTW.
No talking in the office. No television in canteen. Gym wasted on most people apart from playing D&D games, especially since someone got themself and the Mrs a nice transfer to Houston. Only things to eat is fruit or snacks. If they did the GPTW survey from Bolney alone the results would be embarrassing.
Yep they are fresh from uni and promoted to 'managers'. Think they know everything and demand the earth.
Same as managers here in Bolney village, no idea how to build teams, rule by fear as the are untouchable.
I feel your pain regarding 'jumped up Geos', we have them in North Wales too!
Same thing in the Crawley office except the family doesnt exist but the clique is alive and well. Jumped up Geos promoted far above there stations.
That family deserve what's coming to them, bet the US team love them haa ha. great atmosphere, when colleagues can't be bothered with leaving cards. obedient husband, what a joke
forget family dynamics...... least one member has been frozen out.
was a notable no show at the all expenses paid leaving party.
redundant staff didnt even get a card.
more to do with the eastern european clique. not forgetting the high powered wife with a very obedient husband.
When clients visit Bolney the staff are kept out of sight.
Management are afraid employees will speak out of turn.
People will often WFH as office environment is unfriendly.
Sick absences have increased since the move from Redhill.
ALL THE GOOD GUYS HAVE JUMPED OR BEEN PUSHED.
Obviously People are not key to everything Viridien do as claimed on FB.
What do you expect with our management here on Bolney village
place is hemorrhaging money.
Vanity plates on their company cars too.
Clearly data center manager doesnt know what they are doing so just keeps hiring yet more managers to do what he is incapable of.
True, relation of previous centre manager who promoted himself and his wife to Houston site. He doesn't work here now but left his family running the site and recruiting more managers to make them look good.
clearly data center manager doesnt know what he is doing so just keeps hiring others to do what he is incapable of.
The only reason this company is still going is that it is used as a training ground for French execs. Hence the excess of middle managers: the execs-in-training each need their full complement of subordinates to practice on. That these middle managers don’t really have a clue what they are doing is ideal as it gives the execs-in-training a challenge before they move on to bigger and better things elsewhere, in another French company that actually makes money.
Middle management here seem to be Teflon coated, nothing will stick. Despite numerous official staff complaints about the same managers they still remain untouchable by HR. Zero people skills and they still recruit more of the same. No leaders all managers with thr same 'qualities'.
Probably other relations from their ever growing family of inbread, 4 HPC management all from same family. Inside recruitment of family is appalling.
Season's greetings, I hope next year is better for you all
ChatGPT write me a comment about the bureaucracy of middle management etc etc
Ah, the labyrinthine corridors of middle management, where logic is a fugitive and necessity is an apparition. It is as if the organization has conjured these posts not out of need but as a mechanism to sustain its own inertia, a self-perpetuating bureaucracy that thrives not on outcomes but on the act of managing itself.
Here we see the absurdity laid bare: the reduction of the team necessitates not streamlining but the addition of new overseers, as though fewer workers require more shepherds to direct their dwindling labours. These managers, faceless arbiters of assessments and metrics, will scrutinize the remnants of the workforce with a precision that defies comprehension, while their purpose—like the ominous assessments of April—remains ever elusive.
Middle management becomes a surreal barrier, a layer of obfuscation between decision-makers and those who enact those decisions. It multiplies tasks, proliferates meetings, and creates the illusion of progress while stifling innovation. Each new post feeds the machine of stagnation, choking the lifeblood of efficiency and morale. Business, in this sense, is not improved but consumed by the very structure that claims to support it, like a parasite devouring its host.
There is still capacity for more middle management posts. In the time since redundancies were announced there have been 3 new managers, 2 of which will be managing the much reduced team left behind. Next business assessment in April.