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    BT suspends 30 call centre staff

    BT has suspended 30 of its call centre staff after they were caught forwarding an email joke poking fun at the Irish.

    Bosses at the telecoms firm did not see the funny side of the story, which involves four Irishmen, and an investigation is under way.

    But the probe was today branded a waste of time and money, and a cynical ploy to axe staff during the recession.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...oke-email.html

    So we can't even have a laugh any more at people caricatures. Things have become too serious.

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    Re: BT suspends 30 call centre staff

    It was light-hearted but one person complained
    kill them!!
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    Re: BT suspends 30 call centre staff

    No, its just an excuse to fire people, BT need to make cutbacks right now everyone who works for them must know this.

    The problem is with every new peice of legislation that new labour have past (and boy did they love passing it) its made it harder and harder for businesses to operate. Hiring people is really quite tricky, we are advised to not say "5+ years experience in Java", instead you have to say things like "Senior Java Developer Wanted".....

    The problem is that every peice of bull**** crap passed by someone gets worked around, this is an example of it, BT wanted to axe some employees but its so hard to do that now, however if you pick up on something they've done wrong it can make it a fair bit easier.

    Proxy logs have been used at places i know about to help justify making people redundant.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: BT suspends 30 call centre staff

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    No, its just an excuse to fire people
    Yup.

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    Re: BT suspends 30 call centre staff

    Quote Originally Posted by transylvanic View Post
    Yup.
    Indeed. I agree entirely. This is going to happen more and more as the recession gets more grim. Similar thing has happened at a friends work.

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    Re: BT suspends 30 call centre staff

    One person complained

    Bet they weren't even irish..........
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    Re: BT suspends 30 call centre staff

    did not see the funny side of the story, which involves four Irishmen, and an investigation
    I don't know that one... I know thew one about Four Irishmen and a Lawnmower though...

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