I’M writing in response to Charlie Arnold’s letter in the Daily Echo of May 7.

While I appreciate no one is promised a job for life, I’ve worked for British Gas at the Southampton office since I was a school leaver at the age of 17; I’m now 51.

I don’t see losing my job as just being a ‘change’ that I ‘just have to accept’.

The building may be old, but the people that work in it are the reason that it has been run from there successfully for so long!

GERRY ALLAN, Southampton.