Ashley Etchell

Just come across this blog by Lee Strafford while googlin’ for a friends name who appeared in my search engine referrer logs (you got to love the web!): http://plusnetter.wordpress.com. Makes for an interesting read for anyone who was working at Plusnet at the time and nice to see I was remembered! I enjoyed my time at plusnet, the work was hard and dealing with the odd-balls who called support was testing, but I loved it, and it pushed me to move forward into my current career.

 Lee had a bit of a reputation amongst the trenches at plusnet. He was scary and hard faced and staff generally secretley moaned about him or hid under desks as he walked by. I quickly learned to keep my head down and get on with stuff and because of this I simply ‘got on’ in the company. Lee managed to weedle out slackers and prats in a matter of seconds but if you impressed him then you couldnt go far wrong. I liked Lee, he kept people in check and ensured that ’shit happened’ and I liked his ballsy, ‘ a spade is a spade ‘ attitude too. I dont think plusnet would be where it is today without him running the show for so long. (and no, this isnt some kind of sycophantic post…..)