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Koz said:
“TCS may well be a wonderful employer but as I've tried to point out that does not mean they are great at providing service.”

Not sure I understand the above as clearly if TCS wasn’t providing a good service how would they grow and continue to be a major player.
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Marketing and sales can account for many things. But the point stands on its own. Just because they are a wonderful employer does NOT mean they are great provider and will continue to be a major player. There may well be other evidence to support this, though

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Unless I misread what you have stated TCS has about 450k workforce worldwide
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Consultancy_Services

Apologies a parsing error compounded by wine.
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'4,46,675 employees' is what Google returned. There's some serious comma screw ups there. Anyway doesn't detract from my point that it's not really a statistically valid experience.

Dunno why this wasn't posted last night. More wine error :lol2:

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midlifecrisis said:
I believe that some of the coal from Selby was under the North Sea. So a bit difficult.
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Same at Whitehaven. If the new mine does eventually open up there, most if it will be under the sea. Frightening when salt water starts to **** through the rocks.
Went for a job once on the Channel tunnel working for the Chief Geotechnical Engineer. She said the tunnel was only 300m below the sea bed in soft rock, which wasnt a problem until salt water started pouring through! Needless to say I turned that job down.:oops:
 
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Wack61 said:
Most of Yorkshire is nowhere near the sea , same for Lancashire

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when the mines closed there was uproar , strikes and riots but many industries have suffered, just not in one go like the mines, I was born in Kettering, the shoe industry was easily the biggest employer , they'd built houses for the employees same as mills and mines but the gradual closure of factories and the loss of thousands of jobs attracted no attention, I bet there's not 5% of people still making shoes in Northants today.

My dad worked for Loake as a foreman , they were the days , I used to buy seconds for £27.50 in the late 80s
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All because most of UK ( and many other western nations) manufacturing has been 'offshored' over the last 30 years......mostly to China! All driven by price and fu$k the quality. Time to put some of that thinking in reverse now.
 
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My two biggest worries now are Greta retuning to the podium , and getting back out to Africa without contracting covid through the airports , Elon Musk it sounds is trying to bring his Red herring to the UK , good for jobs not pretty for long term investors .....................maybe some of the Mclaren guys can get employment
 
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Silvercat said:
All because most of UK ( and many other western nations) manufacturing has been 'offshored' over the last 30 years......mostly to China! All driven by price and fu$k the quality. Time to put some of that thinking in reverse now.
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Loake is a good example of what's wrong, they offer 2 ranges, the 1881 range all made in the UK and the rest made in India and finished in the UK , it comes down to what the customer wants, if they didn't want them cheaper they wouldn't sell a single pair made in India, without the indian sales there wouldn't be an 1881 made in the UK range at all because they would've gone the same way as all the other shoe factories.

Ultimately business supplies what the consumer demands

Regardless of what everybody wants to happen with China if the consumer won't pay more they'll still dominate the market.
 
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Wack61 said:
Loake is a good example of what's wrong, they offer 2 ranges, the 1881 range all made in the UK and the rest made in India and finished in the UK , it comes down to what the customer wants, if they didn't want them cheaper they wouldn't sell a single pair made in India, without the indian sales there wouldn't be an 1881 made in the UK range at all because they would've gone the same way as all the other shoe factories.

Ultimately business supplies what the consumer demands

Regardless of what everybody wants to happen with China if the consumer won't pay more they'll still dominate the market.
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Well its time that the 'throw away society' we have created over the last 20-30 years rethink where they want to be in the future. Based upon the current trajectory, it would suggest that the way in which society is living today, it is already becoming unsustainable, so I get the market forces argument but there are some difficult decisions heading our way and society will need to start waking up to this sooner rather than later.
Years ago my Mum used to have a great phrase, ..'you buy cheap, you buy twice'. This has proven to be so true throughout my life.
 
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lozcb said:
My two biggest worries now are Greta retuning to the podium , and getting back out to Africa without contracting covid through the airports , Elon Musk it sounds is trying to bring his Red herring to the UK , good for jobs not pretty for long term investors .....................maybe some of the Mclaren guys can get employment
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Musk to manufacture cars in the UK you say?? Got Delorean written all over it....
 
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lozcb said:
My two biggest worries now are Greta retuning to the podium , and getting back out to Africa without contracting covid through the airports , Elon Musk it sounds is trying to bring his Red herring to the UK , good for jobs not pretty for long term investors .....................maybe some of the Mclaren guys can get employment
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Speaking of Greta, how is it that carbon emissions have been exceedingly low for the last 3 months, but in the UK, May was the sunniest May in recorded history, and May also happened to be the sunniest month ever recorded in the UK? ;)
 
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doodlebug said:
Speaking of Greta, how is it that carbon emissions have been exceedingly low for the last 3 months, but in the UK, May was the sunniest May in recorded history, and May also happened to be the sunniest month ever recorded in the UK? ;)
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Exactly , my point , had we had moe emissions it would have been cooler , i thinks she has got her arce about face ;)
 
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doodlebug said:
That's why I put the smiley. It was a nod to all the proponents of anthropogenic climate change who regularly cite short term changes in climate to justify their arguments. ;)
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Environmentalists will also say that no car/bus/plane use means sunny days, but conversely no rain either!
 
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doodlebug said:
Speaking of Greta, how is it that carbon emissions have been exceedingly low for the last 3 months, but in the UK, May was the sunniest May in recorded history, and May also happened to be the sunniest month ever recorded in the UK? ;)
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Yep had my best ever month for my solar PV system, 70p per kWh, sometimes being an early adopter pays.
 
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Checked my contract and the generation and 50% assumed export equals 57.31p per kwh, eight and a bit years into a 25 year index linked contract - over generous. Then there is the saving from using what you generate and use. Need to get a Tesla and a powerbank!
 
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