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NewfBC
May 6, 2009, 12:04 AM
Not a good sign! - 700+ jobs
Ebay Announces Plan To Consolidate North America Customer Service Operations
http://beta.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/news-sources/?date=20090505&archive=bwire&slug=20090505006778
Ron.
That's not good. The recess. hittin' hard down there?
What I find stupid is that it's "increase the number of employees at its Salt Lake City facility, which currently employs more than 900 customer service agents"...
Why would you let 700 people out of their jobs just to increase the jobs in Salt Lake City? Why not even it out, not expand the Salt Lake City location, and just try and keep as many jobs in both locations, cutting less jobs in Vancouver. Stupid.
mr.x
May 6, 2009, 12:16 AM
^ eBay is American, i think their American priorities would come first.
I don't see why they can't salvage both. Why expand 1 when you can save 2?
SpongeG
May 6, 2009, 12:19 AM
i knew some people who worked there years ago - probably glad to see it shut down
whatnext
May 6, 2009, 1:21 AM
Ebay jumped the shark a long time ago.
GeeCee
May 6, 2009, 2:33 AM
:( :( :(
Anyone got a new job for me?
That's not good. The recess. hittin' hard down there?
What I find stupid is that it's "increase the number of employees at its Salt Lake City facility, which currently employs more than 900 customer service agents"...
Why would you let 700 people out of their jobs just to increase the jobs in Salt Lake City? Why not even it out, not expand the Salt Lake City location, and just try and keep as many jobs in both locations, cutting less jobs in Vancouver. Stupid.
US firms are bailing on their regional operations in Vancouver big-time.
WarrenC12
May 6, 2009, 3:57 PM
The Ebay office here was paypal, which was then bought by Ebay right? I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.
700 jobs sucks to lose in this economy, but it's a call centre, hardly highly skilled work or pay.
GeeCee
May 6, 2009, 4:49 PM
The Ebay office here was paypal, which was then bought by Ebay right? I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.
700 jobs sucks to lose in this economy, but it's a call centre, hardly highly skilled work or pay.
It opened as mostly eBay with part PayPal as well, but they later moved the PayPal support down to Omaha and moved the people here into eBay jobs.
Vancity
May 6, 2009, 5:02 PM
The Ebay office here was paypal, which was then bought by Ebay right? I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.
700 jobs sucks to lose in this economy, but it's a call centre, hardly highly skilled work or pay.
Yeah, but it is still work. It's tough, and you've got to feel for those people who lost their jobs. 700 of them. man, that's a lot. Unfortunate that it had to come to this.
phesto
May 6, 2009, 6:13 PM
Ouch, that's a blow to the Burnaby office market - glad to hear Metrotower III signed an anchor tenant, because an additional 90,000+ sq ft of sublease space in that market is not good news.
mrjauk
May 6, 2009, 7:32 PM
That's not good. The recess. hittin' hard down there?
What I find stupid is that it's "increase the number of employees at its Salt Lake City facility, which currently employs more than 900 customer service agents"...
Why would you let 700 people out of their jobs just to increase the jobs in Salt Lake City? Why not even it out, not expand the Salt Lake City location, and just try and keep as many jobs in both locations, cutting less jobs in Vancouver. Stupid.
Is this a rhetorical question? If not, and you really asked it in earnest, then think about an appropriate answer to this question:
If you wanted to minimize operational costs, would you rather have
a) One workplace--in one country--with 1600 employees, or
b) Two workplaces--in two countries--with 800 employees each.
glad to hear Metrotower III signed an anchor tenant
Since when?
SpongeG
May 6, 2009, 9:09 PM
The Ebay office here was paypal, which was then bought by Ebay right? I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.
700 jobs sucks to lose in this economy, but it's a call centre, hardly highly skilled work or pay.
thats kinda rude
they made better than minimum wage which in todays world is lucky plus they got benefits which is getting rare today too
240glt
May 6, 2009, 9:14 PM
Does anyone know if the eBay office in Vernon is affected ? A friend used to work there, checking auctions for legality and ligitimacy. I've heard some crazy stories....
phesto
May 6, 2009, 9:25 PM
Since when?
Last week? It was posted in the Metrotower 3 thread.
Last week? It was posted in the Metrotower 3 thread.
No formal announcement yet. They'll be chasing HSBC just like everyone else.
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