Re: BT are cheeky f*ckers!

["Frank Mc Alinden" <armagh@xxxxxxx>]

God those comments were funny hope theres no Company Directors on the list.
Frank Mc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:50 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BT are cheeky f*ckers!


> >Inheriting an ageing badly run copper network - with everyone in
the city
> saying that the local loop
> >is a millstone around BTs neck - then spending billions on
improving the
> quality of the network -
> >then having improved the network everybody else says ooh can we
have a
> share of that please - for
> >nowt ???
>
>
>
> >Meanwhile the government encouraged some American companies to
build
extra
> infrastructure which
> >wasn't needed, whilst telling BT that fibre to the home was not
needed.
>
> Indeed. utterly pointless. So now, rather than competition, we have
NTL
> about to slide into oblivion, and Telewaste looking to clear up.
>
> >Why the local loop couldn't have been hived off and upgraded by
all the
> companies everywhere
> >only a politician could answer :-)
>
> Would it help? Only if the board of directors was recruited from
outside
of
> the UK.
>
> The problem in my mind is clearly that of incompetency in management,
which
> seems to be an almost pervasive British illness.
>
> It has been my experience (across several large companies) that the
Board
of
> Directors is almost exclusively comprised of mind numbingly stupid
people
> with incredibly poor social skills, who are deliberately kept far away
>from
> the business to minimise the damage that they do, whilst the next
level of
> management does the *real* work, but has to work in isolation, rather
than
> involve the board.
>
> Thus delivering companies which are factioned, and cannot work
internally,
> and staff without any positive direction.
>
> Please note: I am not taking a techie intellectual superiority stance
here.
> I recall one particular Director of IT who:
>
> a) had to get his secretary to dial the phone for him, as he couldn't
grasp
> "line1, then dial"
> b) started a fire in his office by placing an electric heater on his
desk,
> then covering it with papers
> c) managed to break the secure entry to the car park, by driving his
land
> rover into the end bay, and smashing the electrics off the wall...
>
> Add to that a catalogue of horrific body odour, one moron (a Chief
Exec no
> less) with the social grace to refer to one of the coloured guys in
the
> support team as "monkey boy"
>
> Given that BT's board read's like a Who's Inbred entry, I would be
> thoroughly shocked if they could muster a full set of non-webbed toes
> between them.
>
> Ian.
>
>
>
>
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