OLD NEWS: Vodafone Newbury HQ under water

Ewan here. Vanity publishing galore. I forgot that Alex has posted a note on Vodafone’s HQ flooding last week and I went and spent quite a bit of time creating some art for this post.

Alex then wisely put this article to ‘draft’ status last week.

However it’s time to publish, I reckon. It is, after all, Friday afternoon. It’ll get it out of the draft queue too. I couldn’t bring myself to delete it…

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Hello to SMS Text News reader and Newbury resident ‘P’, who emailed to confirm he’d be well up for coming along to the SMS Text News Unlimited Drinks — and also to tell me that Vodafone’s HQ has ‘got it quite bad’ with the recent rains.

‘Most of the ground floor is flooded,’ he reports, ‘with water half way up your leg in the car park!’

Staff were apparently sent home at lunchtime.

Well flooding is a total arse, especially when half of the Atlantic descends upon you within a few minutes. I’ve no doubt Voda’s Newbury HQ will be back to 100% shortly.

I wonder just how disrupted the HQ team has been based on the fact that one imagines they’re all well equipped to work remotely at least for a few days (3G cards all round?).

(Above right: Artists impression of flooded Vodafone HQ)