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Date: 16 August 2006 15:38:17

Congratulations to the person who found my site by looking for the Channel 5 version of Star Wars. Not having seen any of the 6 previous episodes of Star Wars I can't comment on whether the porn version is any good. Personally I'd guess not.....

Today has been slightly bad news day. My former manager at our Cardiff branch is leaving tomorrow. After 8 years with the company he's had enough and is going to start up his own company. Why is this really bad news?

6 years ago, 2 months before I started, the company were taken over by another US logistics company. Dave was the last of the old managers left. Now he's gone there is no management left from the previous company. This is a bad thing.

All companies evolve over time. Ours is evolving for the worst. Instead of getting better we're heading the other way, as are a lot of our customers. It now seems to be purely about money. The only reason to give good service is to make more and more money.

We don't get to see our cut. Over the past 6 years they've taken away the share scheme; constantly messed around with our "incentive" scheme - to the extent that we had none last year and they tried to take this year's away to; morale is sinking quickly; more people are leaving and few new ones staying long. To give you an example Cardiff and Birmingham have people who have been with the company for 13-20 years. Most people had been there 5+ years. A sign of a good company.

Just out of spite I've applied for his job. Why spite? Well they always say that you have a career here but there's no evidence of this. My application is a form of protest at this dichotomy. If I get interviewed then I get to say my piece too and let them know there's at least one person looking to get on.