IN these fast-moving times when corporations gobble each other up to increase their market value, workers are invariably the casualties in the drive to line the pockets of shareholders and stock dealers in the City.
With the tragic closure of Inverclyde's EE call centre, so much more was lost, as workers there helped enrich life in our community with their voluntary work. Thanks to the voluntary community improvement tasks undertaken by the workers, the call centre was more about people than corporate identity.
Pic1: When the centre initially opened as mobile phone company One2One, workers there who took part in a sponsored Run for Life raised £841 for Cancer Research in the year 2000.
Pic 2: Call centre staff went the distance when they held a sponsored walk to raise vital funds for a number of charities. The group staged a number of fundraisers in celebration of the introduction of their One2One, 'Up 2 You' package.
Pic3: This pic features then-call centre workers Lynda Gilchrist, Moira Bradley, John Swan, Phil Nardini and John Jamieson of T-Mobile, who took part in a Macmillan Cancer Support charity fundraiser in 2010.
Pic4: In its time as a call centre under the EE banner, workers built friendships with Greenock Medical Aid Society residents as part of their befriending and gardening initiative in 2022.
Pic5: This shot shows just some of the hundreds of call centre workers who gave time to take part in community improvement programmes across Inverclyde.
This T-Mobile team was pictured with kids of Gibshill Children's Centre, as they worked together to revamp the centre's garden and surroundings.
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