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Message: <blockquote data-quote="garymh" data-source="post: 1872738" data-attributes="member: 60134">Many of you on the forum will know that I am the sports optics technician for Leica in Milton Keynes.Unfortunately Leica in the UK want to concentrate more on sales, especially from their new shop in London's Mayfair.As a result of this the warehouse and workshop facilities at Milton Keynes are being closed down and all their associated staff are being made redundant.The only "servicing" work done in London will be cleaning external lenses, fitting eyecups and cleaning digital camera sensors.  Everything else will be sent to Germany.I have worked for Leica for nearly 17 years.  I loved the company, collected Leica binoculars and even wrote a book about them. During my time there I was a member of the innovation team in Germany whose job was to design new products.  Others being made redundant include David Humphries who has worked for the service department for 32 years and Nobby Clark who has over 40 years experience in the trade.   That is one hell of a knowledge base to lose !!!!!!!!!!I had the offer of applying for a job in the London store but thought that cleaning external optics and packing boxes to be posted to Germany was a bit of a waste of my years of training - especially after the £6000 wage cut and taking into account that I would have to take the train to London from north Northampton ( with no assistance towards the £8000 per annum cost). I will be leaving Leica in the next couple of weeks and hopefully will stay in the optics trade.  I will still be around on the forum and will still give bits of advice where I can.</blockquote>

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