This just isn't true. It might be 'published' as such somewhere, but there is such high demand for skilled IT workers and programmers in other large cities (I'm in Bristol myself) that you can get near London rates outside of London and the living costs are substantially cheaper.
Probably because they do the software stuff right, but a huge number of their employees are schlepping boxes in warehouses, or doing customer service?
Anyway, it's not an especially big deal to me that they would fire someone for taking too many sick days right before Christmas. If they disclose this to employees beforehand, they're likely to weed out people who tend to take sick days, whether for legitimate reasons or not.
I've also heard from software people that it isn't a good place to work. In fact, I've only heard it from software people. I haven't talked to or read blog posts from anyone who's worked in their warehouses.
Depends on where you are. "Front-facing" teams (e.g. site front-end and whatnot) tend to have a lot of sleepless nights when things blow up and a fix is immediately needed.
Software guys in the "back" tend to not live such a stressful existence, since there's far more time leeway for fixing things.
The difference between this and various screen shot addons is that it outputs each piece as a photoshop layer, so they can be easily hidden/moved around.
If you take a screen shot then load it into photoshop and move around a window, you'll get a big white box where the window was, because the screenshot app didn't record any information 'underneath' the window.
