RPI
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- 6 Dec 2010
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I remember FNW and they were s**t , Northern started off for the 5 or so years gr8 then a change of top dog put paid to that, Virgin staff all seem to be happy and over the years Virgin had the franchise that is rare. of course things wont probably be as bad as they think, but they are worried and there is no getting away from that.
I work for First and they are fine, never had a problem with them, far superior to NX who we had before and Prsim before that, get plenty of benefits and they just leave you to get on with the day job so they don't have anything to worry about, the only reason they are dreading it is all of the BS that Bransons mob are putting about, now, if Virgin are the wonderful employers then why would the be scaring the crap out of their employees? I've gone from franchise to franchise more than once and to be fair the incumbent operators both were great from the day of the announcement answering questions on what would happen, giving us regular updates on everything and we even had our new uniforms a week before the takeover, so Virgins childish behaviour in all of this actually makes them a bad employer.