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Tom, put simply the remaining workforce in Harland and Wolff were so demoralised by the influx of foreign management (read fuc*wits) who didn't know the first idea about shipbuilding, they just didn't give a sh1t anymore. Most just wanted to get their day in and if the opportunity arose to get the hell out of there with a full saddlebag of redundancy money. After an average of 25 years service they were not going to throw that away and resign even if there were other jobs to go to, which there weren't.
For example we had a new head of the HVAC department appointed who admitted he had no marine experience, had never worked offshore or on a ship of any kind and came from an ice cream company. We "oul hands" gave up in despair at what was happening but given the state of H&W today perhaps the "plan" has worked out perfectly.
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