Member Info for Handymandy

Carrington, your words are like music to my ears.

Poker, you played a perfect hand there

This board is fast developing into an exchange of posts between CWU members bent on causing genuine BT shareholders anxiety. My prediction is they will be suffering their own share of anxiety sooner than they think. Increased BT cost savings will mean more redundancies, sooner than they think. They've only got themselves to blame, with their outdated thinking and actions.

I would not compliment you on your spelling Abject. But it does complement your personality. Rough and ready sums it up.

Bungalow Bill was mere bagatelle compared to me BeeTee

Abject, some would say you are a clueless, working class buffoon. I would never say or imply that. But I vigorously defend the right of others to do so.

To the chip on the should merchants who keep going on about Lord Jansen's salary. He doesn't need the money. He's got millions from other roles. And he certainly doesn't deserve the abuse he's getting from the CWU and its members. Running BT is a thankless task. Phil relishes challenges. That's why he's doing the job. He and his management team deserve the support of all BT Group team members. If you don't like the terms and conditions, move on. Simple as that.

Decent, hard-working people like me who speak the truth are often hounded by left wing activists like you BeeTee. Shame it appears the greedy Openreach engineers don't want lower paid team members to receive an additional rise. Think we can look forward to far fewer people coming out if there is another strike call. Divide and conquer. Brilliant move by the company and its brilliant CEO, The Lord Jansen of Aldgate.

So true fleccy. Said this myself a couple of weeks back.

I believe in free speech Abject. Shame you don't. Perhaps you are a highly paid Openreach engineer! LOL

A one off payment, targeted at lower paid BT/Openreach team members seems, to me, to be a fair and just outcome. The government will be hitting the better off next week. And rightly so. The CWU and their better paid members need to think more about their lower paid colleagues and less about themselves. In these troubled time, greed is unacceptable.

Keeping up with the comment about BT in the media is like watching Sky News (which I don't any longer, mainly due to the two opinionated witches - Kay Burley and Beth Rigby). Everything they say is depressing. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. Everyone is starving. Can't afford their heating, climate change, minority rights, etc. I wake up every morning happy to be alive. Admittedly, as I go through the day and interact with the working classes, including Openreach engineers on occasion (when I berate them in their manholes for their recent strike action), I become angry. Thankfully, thanks to BT, we'll soon all be living in a society governed by AI and these depressing human touch points will be eliminated. Thank you again BT.

Lovely touch of irony there Poker :)

Then please enlighten us Pedro

Abject, why are you so interested in other people's relationships. Is it because you haven't got any! That's a statement, not a question. Only the CWU and the Labour Party probe that kind of stuff. If you must know, and if you absolutely promise not to tell anyone else, it's because he's a Coronation Street fan and I'm four square behind East Enders. We've had many a handbag fight over that.

Don't try and kid me fleccy. You've got nothing else to do :)

Fleccy, you mean far enough away to be of NO concern. Best go back to cut & paste. Safer that way.

Sounds like a plan Accountant.

One thing you've both got in common. You're both rampers. You for the CWU and fleccy for BT. Nothing wrong with that. Just wish you'd both come out of the closet, metaphorically speaking :)

Sting in the tail there Fleccy. Good to see you're being a little more adventurous these days. I'm sure your BT paymasters will approve :)