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Texas Call Center Closing Could Leave 400 Jobless
More than 400 jobs will be lost when a Texas call center closes later this summer.
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PORT ARTHUR (June 26, 2009)--More than 400 jobs will be lost with the late summer closure of a Sitel call center in Port Arthur.
A news release from Sitel says the facility will shut down Aug. 29.
The business process outsourcing company says it is working to help find jobs for all of the 409 employees at the Southeast Texas call center.
Sitel is encouraging those employees to apply for open positions at company units in Dallas and Longview.
Mallory Morrison, site director at the Port Arthur facility, says the closure is due to changing business needs.
The company, according to its Web site, has more than 60,000 employees in 27 countries.
Sitel is privately held.
Onex Corp. of Canada is the majority owner.
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Posted by: Texan
Location: Texas
on Jun 29, 2009 at 07:22 PM
To Patriot "No Child Left Behind"Just another FAILED GOVERNMENT POLICY!!! OPEN THE MARKET TO HARD WORKING AMERICANS WITH THE DESIRE TO SUCCEED!! Drilol for OIL NOW, BUILD MORE REFINERIS NOW, BUILD HYDROELECTRIC PLANTS, USE NUCLEAR ENERGY,GET RID OF ALL THE TREE HUGGING COMMIES IN WASHINGTON AND PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK.If you were as educated as you would like people to believe you would know this and would not sound so much like an IDIOT!!!! Get rid of ILLEGALS,STOP IMPORTING AND START TAKING CARE OF OURSELVES "JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT!!"They did not need the Government to make choices for them!
Posted by: Patriot
Location: SE Texas
on Jun 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Education always has been and always will be the greatest equalizer. It's time for us to recognize the failure of our educational system and all the weak initiatives we continue to create to mask the problem like "No Child Left Behind" and others like it. We need to face the harsh reality that our country is no longer at the top in some pretty critical categories. We are no longer the brightest and hardest working. The low expectations we allow our young people to live up to have resulted in extremely low work ethics and a third rate education. That's never been the formula for successs. In fact, low work ethic (desire, willingness and attitude) and a poor education are two of the primary ingredients in the recipe for failure. The same will eventually happen overseas because they are copying the US model. But because they value some of the things we now take for granted, they're likely to enjoy the benefits for another 10 years or so. The root issue is bigger than 400 jobs.
Posted by: Jasper
Location: third planet
on Jun 27, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Uhuh, call customer service or some help line and get someone that cannot even speak proper english and a jibberish accent. Amazing, more job losses to foreign countries occurring even in a deep recession. What is even worse is that this company is rooted internationally to be able to channel US jobs loses to foreigners. Little by little businesses keep shutting down. The Texas unemployment just got a notch higher. They say finding those fired employees another job is just PR bs.
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