Call Centre Closure Announced

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 09:24 AM

The closure of one of the call centres in downtown Prince George will not leave the City holding the bag. "The City didn’t have any guarantees with Outsourcing Recovery Solutions nor did Initiatives Prince George," says IPG General Manager Gerry Offet "It was strictly a landlord tenant deal."

The call centre was leasing the space from a local company. It is expected the lease will be honoured.

Outsourcing Recovery Solutions, a division of Outsourcing Solutions Inc of St. Luis Missourri, has announced it is closing the doors of its Prince George office because of , among other things, the rising value of the Canadian dollar.

The closure will take effect at the end of April and will impact nearly 40 employees. The company is offering voluntary severance packages and help in finding new employment.

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Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 09:24 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: owl on March 28 2007 12:47 PM

It has not been rising for about 6 months .... If their survival was based on foreign exchange, they should have bought C$ futures .....

;-)

Posted by: jonnypg on March 28 2007 3:04 PM

That should take care of the help wanted in the Citizen!

Posted by: jonnypg on March 28 2007 3:06 PM

Also the forcasted $10.00 minimum wage increase didnt help neither!

Posted by: owl on March 28 2007 4:11 PM

I think they were making more than that .. not much more, but more nevertheless.

Posted by: Gofaster on March 28 2007 5:57 PM

Trust the yanks to run when the going don't go their way...
as I see it anyways...
one day maybe the Canadian government will stand up to the US but I doubt it.
I for one don't buy anything American ....
it takes some planning but not as hard as people think...

Posted by: owl on March 28 2007 6:54 PM

Mitec Telecom (a Canuck company) closes its US operations (January 31, 2007
http://www.mitectelecom.com/files/files/file_en_210.pdf

Must have been the dropping US dollar �..

;-)

Posted by: owl on March 28 2007 6:55 PM

Isn't "free" trade a wonderful concept?

Posted by: Chester on March 28 2007 8:48 PM

Shouldn't we be thankful for the opportunity to provide some jobs for a period of time for a lot of folks.

Eventually, everything is tied to economics. The reality is, things are getting more expensive to do business in PG. So, on to other opportunities. Big deal, they don't owe us anything. Thank you for what they did bring to PG. Chester

Posted by: Palopu on March 29 2007 10:12 AM

I agree Chester at least some jobs were created for some people, for some time, however I am not sure that I would feel the same way, if the Call Centre that was established with Taxpayers money left town, and we were left holding the bag.

Posted by: owl on March 29 2007 11:52 AM

Yes Chester, we should be thankful. It shows that no matter how good or bad the economy, jobs can be created to fit the economy of the day.

Those who work that way used to be called "fly by night" operations. At least this one brought money into the community.

However, in this day of continuously looking on the positive side of things, we really cannot call it that, can we? That would not be "politically correct", as it says in a cartoon today, the most common oxymoron.

As long as we keep a good number of "fly by night" operations cycling through the city, it really does not matter. It might stress the workers out a bit with "now you got a job, now you don't", but hey, we got a great social net in this country to take care of those minor side effects.

;-)

Posted by: owl on March 29 2007 11:55 AM

Just thinking about it. I guess the PC word for "fly by night" is unsustainable.

Posted by: owl on March 29 2007 5:42 PM

I noticed today that Synovate next door has a large "we are hiring" sign in the windows .... guess school is almost out and some will be going treeplanting.