This is an extraordinary decision by the Industrial Relations Commission. Telstra has had its right to sack an employee upheld, where the basis of the sacking was that she had sex with another employee (or employees, it seems) outside of work hours and then refused to tell her benevolent employer corporation the details.
In the first […]
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use telstra and no-one gets hurt
02Aug07This has to be a new low in corporate spin, even for Telstra. Apparently if genuine competition is allowed in the Australian broadband market, we will be more vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
Conveniently this directly links Telstra’s near-monopoly position and commercial success with the safety of Australians who (rightly or wrongly) are genuinely afraid of terrorism.
Obviously the […]
petitio principii
29Jun07This is a dangerous piece of circular reasoning: the solution to the problems created by an ageing population is to increase population growth.
The ‘logic’ employed appears to be that, in order to sustain the current number of wrinklies in their retirement, society requires a greater number of youngsters to be working, paying taxes, and generally […]
how to undo 61 years of progress
21Jun07This is a heartwarming little story - the process put in place to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay lacks some of the essential elements of fairness that were afforded even to the senior Nazis tried at Nuremberg. That is according to Henry King Jnr, who was chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, where a number of […]
welcome to the working week
08Mar07From the letters in The Age today:
CHANGES in the approach to work hours, in relation to family or rest time, are long overdue — but this applies to all sections of the workforce, not just those with an obvious “family” reason such as children, elderly or disabled relatives. Single, unattached members of the workforce require […]
There is an interesting post on Samizdata (a UK blog best described as libertarian or individualist in philosophy) about the complicity of Western companies such as Google in the crimes of totalitarian regimes, and particularly China :
…one of the bees in our bonnet is collaboration of Western corporations with totalitarian and authoritarian regimes anywhere, in […]
branding the planet
15Nov06Kentucky Fried Chicken has apparently taken the novel step of branding the planet itself with a giant KFC logo in the southern United States. One of KFC’s soulless marketing drones makes the following vacuous remark:
The Colonel is truly a global icon and we want everyone in the universe to see KFC’s new look of […]
