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Great news that the Contact Centre will be open, here in Campbeltown, on 26th September.

Contact 4 open their new centre at Snipefield with the creation of 100 jobs expected by Christmas 2005.

Recruitment is currently underway for Contact Centre Advisors and Team Leaders and will continue over the coming months until all staff are in place.

An open day is being held on 1st October 2005 at the Contact Centre where there will be information and presentations on career opportunities with a chance to apply on the day.

See www.contact4.com for more details.

Super news for Kintyre!

That is great. Is the call center up and running yet? Any more info?

Annie wrote:That is great. Is the call center up and running yet? Any more info?

Aye Annie, fully functioning and I think they are looking for more recruits.

petewick

Hi Petewick ,
Always great to hear about new jobs and Companies setting up in ''The Toon '' ,Thanks for keeping us up to date.
I hope the wave of employment continues right through the town so Longrow looks a lot more attractive . I do not think that , at present, it gives a true '' First Impression '' of the town to tourists or first time visitors.

fROSTY

Any news on the call centre?

Heard the workforce were locked out this morning.

howlsatthemoon wrote:Any news on the call centre?

Heard the workforce were locked out this morning.

The workforce were told today that the centre has closed and they are out of a job

Would this coincide with the end of the subsidies etc?

amron wrote:

howlsatthemoon wrote:Any news on the call centre?

Heard the workforce were locked out this morning.

The workforce were told today that the centre has closed and they are out of a job

That is indeed sad.....

That's terrible - how many workers does this affect?

Kevin Mc wrote:That's terrible - how many workers does this affect?

Talking to someone last night, thinks about 24.

jdcarra wrote:

Kevin Mc wrote:That's terrible - how many workers does this affect?

Talking to someone last night, thinks about 24.

Also heard it has affected twenty four jobs but there were numerous pay offs, transfers, sackings in the months leading up to Christmas.

All seems part of their plan to move out of the town. Some people last month were told they either move to Glasgow or lose their job. (I am sure one regular forum member could tells about this...)

Apparently they moved all the furniture out before Thursday. Don't these companies give a sh!t? People have just spent Christmas and New Year thinking they have a job to go to and turn up to a closed door and "your oot o' a job mate!"

Contact 4 opened up just over two years ago in Campbeltown - with the help of just under £800,000 from the HIE!!

Thieving bastard$

Jock Strap wrote:Some people last month were told they either move to Glasgow or lose their job.

Exactly what Vestas told 14 of their staff in August. "Move or lose your job" Only it was a lot worse than moving to Glasgow. Vestas wanted these staff members to move to another country, England. Twelve of them felt that was unacceptable and refused.

Jock Strap wrote:Contact 4 opened up less than two years ago in Campbeltown - with the help of just under £800,000 from the HIE!!

They opened September 2005, 2 years and 4 months ago with a grant of £750.000 to be paid in 3 installments over 5 years.

I know someone who worked there and who wrote to AIE and that is what they were told.

Hopefully Peirse Flynn is still waiting for the second and third installments!!

Spangles

spangles wrote:

Jock Strap wrote:Some people last month were told they either move to Glasgow or lose their job.

Exactly what Vestas told 14 of their staff in August. "Move or lose your job" Only it was a lot worse than moving to Glasgow. Vestas wanted these staff members to move to another country, England. Twelve of them felt that was unacceptable and refused.

Yes, that was terrible too. It is rather sad how some companies can treat people in this day.

spangles wrote:

Jock Strap wrote:Contact 4 opened up less than two years ago in Campbeltown - with the help of just under £800,000 from the HIE!!

They opened September 2005, 2 years and 4 months ago with a grant of £750.000 to be paid in 3 installments over 5 years.

I know someone who worked there and who wrote to AIE and that is what they were told.

Hopefully Peirse Flynn is still waiting for the second and third installments!!

Spangles

Sorry, got my times wrong - its Sunday and Mrs Strap has been working me hard today so I'm tired!

Looks like they waited long enough to get their second installment but surely the HIE will be on to this. Makes you wonder how much the whole call centre business cost the HIE when they paid for the building of it then were willing to give a company £782,000 to work there!! (that was the figure I got when my next door neighbours cousins penpal wrote! )

Terrible news for the start of the year.

Well JS, between you, me, the lampost and the bedsheets a spokesperson from the AIE recently catagorically denied that the Call Centre would close. Or so my mothers uncles niece twice removed said today. Seems contact4 must have came in with the sun at their back.

I suppose they could all get a job at the Shipyard when it opens.

S

spangles wrote:Well JS, between you, me, the lampost and the bedsheets a spokesperson from the AIE recently catagorically denied that the Call Centre would close.

There was a piece in the Courier not too long ago: http://www.campbeltowncourier.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/4395/Sub_prime_woes_for_call_centre.html