Childishness Reaches New Low
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The RCMP confirmed Wednesday that two fibre optic cables were deliberately damaged, cutting off phone, internet and cable service overnight to 200,000 people in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
[<i>edit</i>] Linkage to the story : <a href='http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/06/09/nfld_phones040609' target='_blank'>http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/06/09/nfld_phones040609</a>
So now a quick background....
Aliant is the biggest telecommunications company in the atlantic Canadian provinces. Their non-management employees have been on strike since late April. Their reason is primarily wages (<i>which is funny since they're already some of the highest-paid workers in eastern canada</i>).
And back to the story.....
Two fiber optic cables that provide phone/internet/cable service to much of Nova Scotia and all of Newfoundland, including essential services such as 911, were deliberately cut.
But here's the interesting thing - these cables are well-hidden and protected. For the most part, the only ones who know where to find them or can get at them are Aliant technicians. And apparently, internal investigation so far has indicated that this was definitely caused by these Aliant technician(s).
I mean, seriously. How chilidish can these people be? It seems that since Aliant isn't willing to increase their wages, at least one technician took the "initiative" and cut the fiber optic cables.
Oh yeah, that'll surely encourage Aliant to agree to their terms. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And this isn't the first time these off-the-job employees have made things more difficult than they should be either. I've frequently seen Aliant picketers actually <i>throwing</i> things at technicians as they're hanging from telephone poles, doing their jobs.
So anyways, the point of my post is for commentary on this particular situation, and possibly even for some discussion about workers on strike negatively interfering in everyone else's day-to-day life - just how far is "too far"?
[<i>edit</i>] Linkage to the story : <a href='http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/06/09/nfld_phones040609' target='_blank'>http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/06/09/nfld_phones040609</a>
So now a quick background....
Aliant is the biggest telecommunications company in the atlantic Canadian provinces. Their non-management employees have been on strike since late April. Their reason is primarily wages (<i>which is funny since they're already some of the highest-paid workers in eastern canada</i>).
And back to the story.....
Two fiber optic cables that provide phone/internet/cable service to much of Nova Scotia and all of Newfoundland, including essential services such as 911, were deliberately cut.
But here's the interesting thing - these cables are well-hidden and protected. For the most part, the only ones who know where to find them or can get at them are Aliant technicians. And apparently, internal investigation so far has indicated that this was definitely caused by these Aliant technician(s).
I mean, seriously. How chilidish can these people be? It seems that since Aliant isn't willing to increase their wages, at least one technician took the "initiative" and cut the fiber optic cables.
Oh yeah, that'll surely encourage Aliant to agree to their terms. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And this isn't the first time these off-the-job employees have made things more difficult than they should be either. I've frequently seen Aliant picketers actually <i>throwing</i> things at technicians as they're hanging from telephone poles, doing their jobs.
So anyways, the point of my post is for commentary on this particular situation, and possibly even for some discussion about workers on strike negatively interfering in everyone else's day-to-day life - just how far is "too far"?
Comments
they probably cost millions of dollars in peoples machines that need that fiber optic line to do business with the world
Such greed and immaturity is inexcusable.
Go go out-sourcing! Feed my people!
That is too far. Then again, with what the supermarket workers are doing in L.A. for the past 8-9 months or longer, is screwed. They screw with people going in to shop, insult them, spit on them, mean stupid stuff. Idiots.
Why not Customer Service, just because they are from another country doesn't mean they are idiots or they have horrible accents or they don't know the language, or some other bull**** stereotype. I think they are just as capable as anyone else, as long as they are educated and understand the product(s) that they are providing service for.
My mother came to this country with a degree in English, she was foreign, but that didn't automatically mean she was a boor.