Re: amazon to move to eire because of bliar's education, education, education...

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 03:02:37 +0100, abelard <abelard2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Last week, the internet store Amazon announced that it was re-locating its
European customer service centre away from the UK. Its base had been in
Slough, but the difficulties involved in recruiting staff with the
necessary skills in foreign languages proved too great. So the company
decided to move to Cork in Ireland where, its executives say, there is a
more plentiful supply of the sort of well-educated, multilingual people
they wish to employ

Possible, but I'll believe it when they pay thier Corcian call centre
workers the same as whtaever-you-call-people-who-live-in-Slough. The
UK economy has been gravitating to the south-east since the 1920s at
least, and this hasn't made it any cheaper to live there. Call
centres, on the other hand, can be located anywhere and Amazon might
simply be following the well-established trend for moving them them to
the Celtic fringes, where people, in general, need the jobs more and,
in general, are a bit more polite.
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