Telstra are tools!

[taz]

Thanks for that!

Had tried to fix it before, but the people in the telstra shops were obviously not very helpful! Now, no more diving into my bag to find the phone before it cuts out!

Although... it is only my work mobile, so maybe I should leave it the way it was! Answering it is usually trouble!

[GrahamL]

When the "Trujillo' virus is done and gone with all the cost cutting and
bumping all the very experianced techs with all the local smarts away with "voluntary " redundancies ..whos going to cost effectively maintain the out of the way services that don't make the big dollars but are essential as a
comunity nessesity ... user pays yeah ?....anyone else think the selling of these monopolised public utilities (power ,water) ect to the beck and call of shareholders is plain obscene??

[Shaun]

I don't have message bank, if they want me bad enough they will ring back.....lol

[erick (Eric)]

I finally upgraded to new phone and NextG a few months ago. Did it so I could hand down my phone to my daughter. She said she loved it for a month then went and got a new one - go figure!

Everything OK except I hate one "feature" of the Telstra-badged LG phone - ascending ring volume! By the time you realise it's ringing (even with vibration on as well!) and rush for it, I'd miss the call. So I've done the reprogramming - I think that's added some additional time, thanks.

Have tried everything to fix the crappy feature (even recorded the ring tone loud to start with - no joy) the damn phone continues the same way. Have searched for a solution - everyone has the same problem and complaint - LG say not it's a lovely feature, we won't give you a fix! Grrrrr!

[avandonk]

A good friend of mine who was very high in the tech area was retrenched from Telstra. Some months later they asked him to work on contract, He said OK one condition I want $2k per day in cash paid daily otherwise no deal!
They said no way you are trying to screw us. He said you already screwed me and now I have you by the short and curlies. They finally agreed and he worked for over twelve months under these conditions.

There are more of these stories. When the bean counters are in charge of science or technology they always fail miserably due to lack of understanding.

The only way we people who have the real knowledge can get back is to treat them as they have treated us.

The only trouble is by then the incompetent twits have run away with the money and left an awful mess behind.

Look at the pathetic geniuses that run the biggest banks in the world and the losses (sub prime meltdown) they have incurred while still paying themselves huge bonuses! Thirty billion of bonuses in NY alone! Would you put your money with them!

Bert

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

The Water Corporation in WA did the same thing. Gave all these guys voluntary redundancy and within 12 months more than 1/2 of them were back on contracts at more money as they had the experience and knowledge. They'll never learn. Best one was a foreman who had been with them for 30 odd years, made him redundant and a few weeks later rang him up to ask about the layout of some pipework he had been in charge of burying. Short answer was Bu**er Off! I'm retired.

Bill