Tuesday, October 06, 2009

France Telecom Suicides! Yea Gads Get'em Back to Work!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/06/work.death/index.html
is a link to the news story regarding the number of France Telecom suicides since the start of 2008...I think the number is 24 currently. Bar the windows, disarm the employees and the bosses (too many of those!), only bike to work and ban all pills and poisons. That ought to do it, at least it'll reduce the skipping out/malingering/striking dead for s while til they find another way to end it all.
Inside a France Telecom Office:
Ringggg! goes a phone...Rinnnnggg! Rinnngnnngg!
Employee: Alo!
the other end: Anyone alive there? Been calling for 2 days!
Employee: Call 0678100100 to complain.
the other end: I WORK for France Telecom!
Employee: Too Bad...next sound "BANG"
the other end: Alo? Anyone there?

Thats NORMAL these days! Who in their right mind would want to work for such a failed
company? My God, why? So many employees and noone capable of doing anything useful...who is hiring these folks anyway...shoot him or them (likely a committee!) as soon as you can find him/her/them. I have watched oh so many times the looks of fear, frustration, disbelief on the faces of both a paying customer AND the employee that I'm used to the comedy by now. So many arguments about bills, service, contracts, missed calls, bad equipment, Orange(!), DSL, Dial-up (yes..these days the still sell it at $20 Euros a month no less!), missed appointments et al. It's a company without a head, the buck...no...Euro stops nowhere! Even the billing doesn't stop after THEY turn you off! Amazing! While at the same time employees AND their management walk the streets in protest to "working conditions". I guess so. So no one is inside doing anything for the poor wo-be-gone customer who needs help. Tough life.