FIRM TO OFFER JOBS TO WASHINGTON MUTUAL WORKERS.Byline: Gregory J. Wilcox Staff Writer THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - A call center in Thousand Oaks said Friday that it will offer jobs to some of the 1,000 Washington Mutual “WaMu” redirects here. For the Washington, DC radio station, see WAMU. Washington Mutual (or WaMu; NYSE: WM) is the United States' largest savings and loan association. workers who will loose their positions when those operations are moved to Texas and Costa Rica Costa Rica (kŏs`tə rē`kə), officially Republic of Costa Rica, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,016,000), 19,575 sq mi (50,700 sq km), Central America. . NetworkOmni Multilingual Communications, which handles the state's 911 operations and provides translation services, says it currently has 38 openings, including supervisor, agent and translators. ``Nobody likes to be out of a job, but we have openings and we thought, what a great way to help another company by taking their people,'' said Valerie Higgins, a human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. assistant at the company. Affected Washington Mutual workers can e-mail their resumes to hr(at)networkomni.com. The starting pay is $10 an hour, depending on skill and language level. NetworkOmni currently can translate more than 150 languages. ``I'm certainly happy to get information like this and share it with our human resources people. We are going to work very hard to provide job-search assistance to our employees and this will be useful. It's welcome,'' said Washington Mutual spokesman Tim McGarry Tim McGarry (born 1964) is an actor and comedian from North Belfast in Northern Ireland. He is a member of the comedy group Hole In The Wall Gang, and played "Da", a Sinn Féin spokesman, in the comedy series Give My Head Peace. . The Chatsworth jobs will be phased out over the next four months. The move is being made as a cost-savings measure. McGarry would not say how much less expensive it is to do business in San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. versus Los Angeles. But he said the company's announced goal over the next five years is reducing noninterest expenses relative to total revenue from about 60 cents on the dollar to below 50 cents on the dollar. When the move was announced, Bruce Ackerman, president and chief executive officer of the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , said he thought that other area call centers could absorb some of the Washington Mutual workers. ``It's excellent news,'' he said of the NetworkOmni offer. ``They are the cream of the crop of call-center workers coming out of that Washington Mutual operation.'' Gregory J. Wilcox, (818) 713-3743 greg.wilcox(at)dailynews.com |
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