Sacked III once had a "friend" (I hated his guts) who lost two jobs on the same day - he drunkenly crashed the taxi he was driving when he was supposed to be at his office job. How have you been sacked?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 29 May 2014, 13:33)
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I have one very tiny problem with this story. Hutchison Whampoa and all it's trading names did notrebrand Hutchinson Communications (worldwide paging, worldwide fixed line, broadband, vpns the list goes on) to Orange - the brand name was Orange and then that brand became it's own incarnation of a PLC when Hutchison Whampoa floated it. To my knowledge the division Hutchison Communications still exists and is quite happy and in the UK it's brand is 3.
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d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 29 May 2014, 22:08,
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At the time Hutchison was moving its money out of HK prior to the hand over to China.As a worker at the coal face I didn't know too much about the politics up at the top. My brother stayed on for many years as a network performance management chimp. One day it was Hutchison, the next it was out they had decided to rebrand themselves as Orange prior to the public launch. I can't say with certainty that maybe one division span off into a separate entity but...that's not the point of the confessional.
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 29 May 2014, 22:33,
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Yes, yes I see. Sorry. Finally connected in my head.They, the subset, became Orange, Whampoa continued in their original boots. I'm an engineer. Branding is outside of my area of experience. Every few months you get new letterheads sent round for official use.
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 30 May 2014, 0:47,
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