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ZDNet ran an article yesterday about Telstra and how they’ve asked for volunteers to rock up and help clean their exchanges:
Did Telstra ask for clean-up volunteers?
Telstra’s main union has accused the telco of asking for “volunteers” to help clean up its telephone exchanges on a Saturday, with a BBQ lunch to be supplied and family invited.
A statement posted by the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) on its site claimed that Telstra network executive Michael Rocca — who was yesterday promoted to acting chief operations officer — had sent a letter and an SMS message to staff requesting volunteers for the clean-up effort.
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Apart from getting over the shock of Australia’s biggest company being too fucking cheap to actually pay anyone to do their work (and asking employees to volunteer their personal time as well), the real lolz came when the article was viewed in Safari on the iPhone:
I, for one, am pleased that the excessive line rental fees I pay to Telstra each month aren’t being used to pay some dirty, smelly new immigrant to clean and tidy MY local exchange.
Some of the most entertaining graffiti I’ve ever seen is in Telstra exchange toilets….
Provide some examples?
As a teenager I used to clean the local exchange. It was not quite volunteering but close. The positive was they had an extensive porn mag collection in the linesman’s hut.
I’d volunteer for that if I got free porn. Did you take any home or did you just whack off there and then?
I think most Telstra staff would tell them to get fucked even if they got a free Optus SIM card.
It says quite a lot about the Optus network if they’ve gotta resort to giving away SIM cards.