RE: Solidarity7 Dec 2019 09:47
Lam, you never post an Opinion, post drivel, and change your spin on things depending on which way the wind blows.
Go back to BT, it was a good share once, its management and reform have killed off its future performance, it did pay a good dividend, how long that can continue is debatable, you should have sold December 1999 on that one, when competion was fair with other companies like C&W arm Mercury, it did compete fairley, now it is FORCED to allow others to piggyback on its network at cost, how can this be fair, to allow your competitors to use your network to compete against you without having to develope their own network. much like all the re sellers of gas and electric, it is not competition it its true form, why do I feel this way on BT, well I worked for them for 40 Years after Marconi, It was a very good company, with mangement who had worked their way up in the company and staff respected them for that, when they changed and employed the 26 year old graduate as your manager who did not know anything techicnical at all, but would pull you up for being off route as per the information on the vechicle tracker as in being parked up in some telephone exchange for 3 hours and not out working, well if you kept a diary you could respond and point out that YOU held a Team Talk on that day in that exchange for 3 hours...... that was the sort of thing you had to fight, any chance to mark you down when you had done nothing wrong, GPO, PO, BT were good in training its Techinical Officers to a very high standard, we new every aspect of the company and were specialists in our particular field, for myself, Private Wires , Transmission Systems Optical and copper, repeater stations, When they went from the paper job sheet to laptop based things went downhill, not in the way you would think, they decided that you managers score depended on you hitting the " hamburger and chips" button IE lunch between 12.30 and 13.30 and if it was pushed out side of this time slot your mangers score went down, so you as an engineer had to walk out of a customer even though an extra 3/4 hour would have finished the job and go and sit in your van and eat your lunch, customer fuming vs manager score and reprocussions, not a nice enviroment we always used to put the customer first. another thing we used to provide the link/PW and fit end equiptment, Ofcom decreed we were unfair as we saved a customer visit vs the competition providing end equiptment, so now, one van turns up to prove the link, one van turns up to fit kit and so on, the company does not now want to pay the expensive Techinical Officers that it trained up in its own training schools and would rather employ a cheaper workforce that are unfortunately not so trained, and even subcontractors. Sorry for the off topic, this is for Lamtree, only my personal view of BT after working for the company for 40 years before retiring in 2014, I did enjoy my employment and felt they remunerated their staff well.
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