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More project names. Dave Goodman and Bob Grahame both wrote independently to tell us of their experience working for BT under chairman Sir Iain Vallance. ‘BT ran Project Sovereign to encourage all the best people to leave the firm by reorganising everything every week until nothing worked and then offering voluntary redundancy,’ says Dave.
Bob recalls that it was subtitled: ‘Because the customer is King’. For the 120,000 BT staff who took redundancy, it stood for something else: it soon became know as ‘Sod Off Vallance Every Reorganisation Ends In Going Nowhere.’
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