Steady as she goes at Capita Capita reckons the outsourcing market is picking up after a quiet 2009 and 2010. Even public sector contracts are coming back to life especially in local government and defence. In an interim management statement, Capita said it saw a solid performance in the first four months of 2011. It expects to hit targets for revenue …
"You don't know how low standards can get until you've worked for Capita."
When I had the misfortune of workking for them they couldn't play their health and safety video because the mains lead to the TV had been wound up and unwound so many times the insulation had come off exposing live mains wires which subsequently shorted out.
You couldn't make it up.
Most of the time I find silly names like M$ to be rather annoying, but in this case I can accept the Private Eye's renaming to be extremely apt.
Capita really are a useless bunch of cretins, intent on providing a bare minimum of the original spec ( when they can manage that! ) while charging 5 times the originally agreed price, paid for of course by the bottomless pockets of the tax payer! I know it's not the fault of the techs who often do their best, but the corpulent management structure that needs some serious culling.
I'm sure they can get their nosh elsewhere! Though I could have sworn I saw something on lastminute.com (or similar) recently along the lines of 2 courses for £30 at The Ivy. Can't say I rated it much when my missus and I went there a few years back. Maybe all the foodies/celebs have found a new place to be seen?
A friend of mine worked for Crapita, and they messed him about no end before making him redundant. Not a very nice company to work for.
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