RE: BT are cheeky f*ckers!

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Don't worry Frank.
If there were, they wouldn't notice, would laugh at themselves without
realising it, our would keep asking where the porn was, and what this Home
automation stuff was...

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Mc Alinden [mailto:armagh@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 April 2002 12:58
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] BT are cheeky f*ckers!


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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