Leeches
I see that Ziggy Switkowski has quit/been sacked as CEO of Telstra . In his time, the share price of Telstra has slipped 42%, he (as in the company he was running) lost billions in a failed foreign expansion campaign and the company has lost market share. He will get a payout of at least $2,100,000. Including a payment in lieu of notice. He's not leaving until March.
Meanwhile, any union which seeks any payrise for it's members at all, in good times or bad, is going to ruin the economy. Stop believing the media, people.
Meanwhile, any union which seeks any payrise for it's members at all, in good times or bad, is going to ruin the economy. Stop believing the media, people.
posted by Dirk at 1:30 am
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Can't even get a union into those call centres! Yeah, considering the workers are under the thumb constantly... timed calls, timed toilet breaks, insidious bonus programs that make them not want to take sick days because they'll lose the team's bonus*... and then 2.1 million for doing a less than average job. Makes me puke.
*maybe not a Telstra policy, but certainly policy in other call centres I've been acquainted with. **
** Hey, I just did a Dirk Disclaimer!! hehe
i don't agree with not seeking a payrise. we'd never get any payrises if we waited for them to be handed out, and the cost of living would still go up.
sure it affects the economy but it's not black and white in my ignorant opinion :-)
Hooch and Rat,
never let anybody fool you that "What's good for the company is good for you." These are the same people who will say that a director's only responsibility is to his shareholders. The two statements are irreconcilable. A company will employ as few people as possible, pay them as little as possible and keep them on casual wherever possible. That is what they mean by looking after the shareholders.
A lot has been made of the apparently good job figures. What they don't tell you is the number of times they have changed the method of arriving at the figures (a process begun by Keating but considerably improved on since then), or the number of people put into 'traineeships' or onto pensions in order to fudge the statistics. Nor will they make mention of the rampant casualisation of the workforce.
Instead, they'll go union bashing and fucking idiots who don't know anything to do with the history of unionism will jump on board. Collective bargaining is bad, huh? Better get rid of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, then. Will we're at it, the EU is a no - no, too and the proposed South East Asian trading bloc is surely an instrument of the Devil.
Want to see the glories of capitalism unfettered by the bloodsucking evil of unionism? Go to any south-east asian Nike factory.
ahh, my bad. i misunderstood how you wrote that.
Don't be too hard on Ziggy. Lets face it, here in Straya, name me a bigger cheese with a better name.
"Want to see the glories of capitalism unfettered by the bloodsucking evil of unionism? Go to any south-east asian Nike factory."
And then, compare the lives of those factory workers to their fellow countrymen who aren't lucky enough to have a factory job. And you will indeed see the glory of capitalism.
Tony,
gotta admit, it's a pretty cool name.
Anonymous,
if it's so fucking good, go work there.
I'll make a deal with you. I'll go work in a Nike factory in Thailand, and you can go work in a rice paddy with a Water Buffalo for a seeder. Then we'll compare jobs after 1 month ;)
Not a problem, Anonymous, any unionised rice paddy you care to name.
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