Plissken wrote:
You only have to look at the resistance within the BBC to the move to MediaCity in Salford to see that the attitude sucks.
The resistance within the BBC to Salford, that's a whole different ballgame. Imagine you have a family and commute in to TVC or BH everyday. Your wife has a good job locally and your kids are in school. Now your employer tells you that you have to go to Manchester to work. Wouldn't you be a bit pissed off? Wouldn't your wife/kids/relatives be pissed off? It's got nothing to do where they are moving to (Manchester for the main is far better than London) but it sucks to be told you have to uproot or lose your job.
I know it happens in other industries, but it still sucks.
Except it's worse than that. The BBC tell the PC brigade the reason they are moving because they love Manchester and all those crazy northerners. The real incentive to move is that it's a bloody good way to downsize without paying a penny in redundancy. The London facilities needed upgrading anyway, so why not just build new facilities in Manchester (also downsized) and accidently lose a load of staff on the way up the M6? BBC management give themselves a pat on the back and a payrise, while as usual the staff suffer.
And lets not even get into the whole Pebble Mill debate where they knock down an excellent (if aging) facility in Brum one year and then suddenly decide they need a whole new set of studios in Manchester the next. Salford should never have happened, the BBC had a world class studio outside of London and it was Pebble Mill in Birmingham. They mothballed it, let it go to rack and ruin before pulling it down. Fucking disgraceful.
Not for the faint hearted, Pebble Mill as it was pulled down. Fucking shame.
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