oooh, trade secrets leaking out there. Any more gossip for us Kit? How about what the churchill dog gets up to at the weekends? From what I here he becomes a MRS churchill dog…
Hehe. 
It’s no secret, there was a front page article in Insurance Times a while back about how we’re getting bought by Direct Line. This was of course the first any of us employees had heard about it.
Managemtn were forced to issue a statement to us all, basically denying everything, but we don’t believe that. They sent out another statement a fortnight ago saying that they can’t make any comments on the rumours in case it affects share price. Which we take to mean that we <i>are</i> getting bought. Otherwise they’d have just said “no” and got it out of the way. Ah well.
I’m all for a red phone, me.
perhaps you could have a hybrid phone - dog thing. that would be funny!
Why is it that with big corporations, the employees are always the last to know about anything going on? True most of them probably don’t care, but even so…
We do care if it’s our jobs on the line. :sigh:
Who knows though? Heh, we certainly don’t. 
My proposal for the new website design is heading more and more towards red and white and phones. 
its a red and white phone revolution! You could be the queen of opressed red and white phones everywhere! Why, with an army like that, you could take over the world!
Seriously though, is it likly to affect your job? If you do get taken over, will you have to join forces with the evil Direct-line webmaster (sorry, dont know your job title) or will you lose your job?
Beats me. I seriously doubt that Churchill would just cease to exist, it’s too big a company for that. It comes down to three possible options really.
One: We’re currently owned by Credit Suisse. Direct Line buy us from them, and we carry on as normal.
Two: Direct Line buy us, and phase out the Churchill brand over time in which case we could have to join with their eCommerce dept.
Three: We get bought and fired.
Oh, and I suppose we could not get bought. So four options. Who knows, really. The board aren’t giving us any clues, it’s all just rumours.
‘the board’ = evil, no matter what the company is. I hate big companys because the guys at top ‘earn’ an insane amount of money.
I also Love big companies because you get greater job security and, in general, better training.
Grr… Im sure you will be ok Kit, they wouldn’t want to lose someone as great as you
Well I also earn a fair bit, so I’m not going to complain too much. :beam: But I think we’re pretty safe job wise, at least for a while longer.
Im bored of my job at the moment, nothing much going on. But its ok because Im going to Uni in september (Nottingham Trent!) and my company is sponsoring me
Is there anyone on the forum who is from/near nottingham?
*Originally posted by TheOrangeOne *
**perhaps you could have a hybrid phone - dog thing. that would be funny! **
like the phone from the BT add
but with a Dog and he could sing, who let the dogs out:P
When HSBC (Yay Brits!) bought us we carried on as normal. All that changed was how we display our logo… We had to add “Part of the HSBC Group” at the bottom. =0) Although its kinda cool, Now we (as part of HSBC) are the second largest financial group in the world. (Citi Group is the largest.)
Cheers!
-Niann
who did they buy
maybe they bought niann’s soul?
“niann, part of HSBC group”
Maybe we should put that under our names? “part of the KIRUPA group of companies”
Something like that…
I work for Household International, a part of the HSBC Group. =0)
Cheers!
-Niann
aww man… I missed all this conversation… and I’m too mashed to read it… 
lol… it was my just asking Kit what she did…???
