Wish me luck...

http://www.ctc.org.uk/about/vacancies.aspx Guy
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:12:01 +0100, "Just zis Guy, you know?" <guy.chapman@spamcop.net> in
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>http://www.ctc.org.uk/about/vacancies.aspx

Which post?

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> Which post?

Training Projects Manager would be my guess. Good luck Guy. Or should that be "break a boom" ;-)

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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:12:01 +0100, "Just zis Guy, you know?" <guy.chapman@spamcop.net> wrote:

>http://www.ctc.org.uk/about/vacancies.aspx Guy
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Well, you're intelligent, articulate, ride a bike or two, got plenty of experinence, and boy, can
certainly talk a good game....so you must be in with a decent shout.

Good luck that man.

gb

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <guy.chapman@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> http://www.ctc.org.uk/about/vacancies.aspx Guy

Best of luck. If you get it I will certainly be more inclined to join up! At least you already have
the regulation moustache

Alex

Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> http://www.ctc.org.uk/about/vacancies.aspx

Consider luck wished. Also consider that if you get the job, you'll be fractionally self employed,
and fractionally funded by the likes of us (other membroid) oiks!

Which job were you going for exactly?

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In message <b1nfjv08nt8busng30mg2di73rfpeiv473@4ax.com>, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
<guy.chapman@spamcop.net> writes
>http://www.ctc.org.uk/about/vacancies.aspx

I can't see any mention of 'Official CTC Goolie Remover'

Anyway - goodluck :-)
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"Just zis Guy, you know?" <guy.chapman@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> http://www.ctc.org.uk/about/vacancies.aspx Guy

Yeah, good luck Guy. (which post?)

Pete

In article <b1nfjv08nt8busng30mg2di73rfpeiv473@4ax.com>, one of infinite monkeys at the keyboard of
"Just zis Guy, you know?" <guy.chapman@spamcop.net> wrote:
> http://www.ctc.org.uk/about/vacancies.aspx

CTC? How far is Reading-Godawful? I have a suspicion it's a little further than I'd choose to
commute, though I s'pose you have things like trains to Guildford?

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"Nick Kew" <nick@fenris.webthing.com> wrote in message news:hirbhb.g81.ln@jarl.webthing.com...

> CTC? How far is Reading-Godawful? I have a suspicion it's a little
further
> than I'd choose to commute, though I s'pose you have things like trains to Guildford?
>
you do - not particularly reliable ones. Guy could probably get there faster on his bike

Alex

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:00:33 +0100, nick@fenris.webthing.com (Nick Kew) wrote:

>CTC? How far is Reading-Godawful?

A Bleeding Long Way, though Greg Woodford manages it, hence (answer to others' question) applying
for the work-from-home flavour post. But we shall see.

No chance of being able to afford to live there, being about half the salary, so work from home
looks attractive :-)

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In article <ie7ljvcsssr8bo67i6bkdukl2okendc6sc@4ax.com>, one of infinite monkeys at the keyboard of
"Just zis Guy, you know?" <guy.chapman@spamcop.net> wrote:

> New! Improved!! Now with added extra Demon!

Grrr ... I've just been nearly three hours without connectivity due to Demon outage. My modem was
redialling automatically throughout that time.

Time to find an ISP that isn't living on a reputation acquired ten years ago and long since
abandoned:-(

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"Nick Kew" <nick@fenris.webthing.com> wrote in message news:6urehb.r13.ln@jarl.webthing.com...
> In article <ie7ljvcsssr8bo67i6bkdukl2okendc6sc@4ax.com>, one of infinite
monkeys
> at the keyboard of "Just zis Guy, you know?" <guy.chapman@spamcop.net>
wrote:
>
> > New! Improved!! Now with added extra Demon!
>
> Grrr ... I've just been nearly three hours without connectivity due to Demon outage. My modem was
> redialling automatically throughout that time.
>
> Time to find an ISP that isn't living on a reputation acquired ten years ago and long since
> abandoned:-(
>

Demon were crap 10 years ago. Set the debt collectors on me for not renewing a yearly contract.

I thought this unreasonable because:

The Initial contract was for a year and paid in advance. I had not signed or seen any contract
specifying automatic renewl. I had not used the service after my initial contract expired.

They only gave up after I wrote a recorded delivery letter but I really don't need that kind
of hassle.

So Demon = Scum

"Nick Kew" <nick@fenris.webthing.com> wrote in message news:6urehb.r13.ln@jarl.webthing.com...

> Time to find an ISP that isn't living on a reputation acquired ten years ago and long since
> abandoned:-(

We've used Demon and BT Openwoe for ADSL and a number of other ISPs (e.g. UUNet) for leased lines.
Demon have provided consistently the most responsive customer service, and they managed to get
BT-supplied routers replaced in less than half the time of BT's own ISP arm.

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On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:54:59 +0000 (UTC), Frank X <sep1752@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Demon were crap 10 years ago. Set the debt collectors on me for not renewing a yearly contract.
>
> So Demon = Scum

Well, the Demon financial people are. In our case, set the debt collectors on us for not paying an
invoice they hadn't yet sent to us (when it eventually turned up it was dated after the action) and
which was for an account that wasn't ours anyway.

Also took over 18 months to credit us for an account that was paid in advance and cancelled
(entirely in accordance with their terms).

On another occasion we got a full set of their escalating-nastiness letters and the invoice they
referred to, all received in teh same post and postmarked the same day.

Customer services are nearly as bad (repeat after me "billings is not a customer facing
department") and there are some woeful failures in whoever devised some of tehir processes. They
also don't understand that there might be some things where I the customer know more than they the
customer services flunky - I had customer services flunky claiming teh data protection act applied
to soemthing it didn't, even as I had the act on my desk in front of me and read from it down the
phone to them.

However, if you have something that doesn't involve financials, and you manage to flummox the
'technical support' people and get to the actually technical people, I've found they know what
they're doing and either things get fixed, or you get an admission or explanation of what and why
Demon do what they do (but I still think their DNS system is broken).

Since, most of the time, our financial people deal with their financial people, and I deal with
their technical people when necesary, and I pick the ISP (pretty much), we stick with them, but they
do have their moments.

regards, Ian SMith
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