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Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairman to Replace Elon Musk
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Re: Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairman to Replace Elon Musk
#42Another Australian here, surprised to hear Tesla selecting someone with a background in such a reviled (in Australia) company, Telstra. It's like if Microsoft had picked a former Oracle exec to replace Balmer, except in a world where Oracle was also hated by the average Joe Blo, not just techies.
Re: Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairman to Replace Elon Musk
#43I posted this as a response to another comment, but I think it deserves a top level comment: I just want to chime in here to say: when I recently tried to purchase an iPhone SE from Telstra's online store, the device was out of stock. They couldn't tell me when they expected to have it back in stock, or it was being end-of-lifed. No straight answers. I spent 15 hours, over two weeks, on the phone to Telstra trying to…
If people are in the store I’m responsible for and they blackmail me I would call security or the police, too. That‘s unacceptable behavior.
I understand your frustration, and it really sucks that Telstra put you into that situation, but that doesn’t make your behavior ok and excuse abuse of employees.
Re: Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairman to Replace Elon Musk
#44In most companies, the CEO reports to the chairman of the board and the chairman of the board reports to the shareholders ( particularly the major shareholders ).
The biggest TSLA shareholder is elon musk and many of the large shareholders are friends/backers of elon musk.
So this is a purely superficial move for optics.
She gets a nice sinecure with a fat paycheck. Musk gets the feds off his back.
Re: Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairman to Replace Elon Musk
#45I posted this as a response to another comment, but I think it deserves a top level comment: I just want to chime in here to say: when I recently tried to purchase an iPhone SE from Telstra's online store, the device was out of stock. They couldn't tell me when they expected to have it back in stock, or it was being end-of-lifed. No straight answers. I spent 15 hours, over two weeks, on the phone to Telstra trying to…
You should have waited for the police to arrive and stated your case. A friend had a similar thing happen in a case of demanding rent from a ex room mate while I was with them. They threatened to call the police. I said go ahead. There was another witness present by myself so it wasn’t like they could claim falsely that my friend had done anything wrong. When the police arrived, I explained to them the situation and they told me my friend would not be able to demand the money then and there but asked to see the paperwork and once verified, explained to us the process for legally squeezing the money out of the room mate right in front of them. Needless to say, that shut the ex roomie up and they scraped together their share of rent within a week. Police will usually side with the law and they generally don’t like watching people get taken advantage of.
Re: Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairman to Replace Elon Musk
#46I posted this as a response to another comment, but I think it deserves a top level comment: I just want to chime in here to say: when I recently tried to purchase an iPhone SE from Telstra's online store, the device was out of stock. They couldn't tell me when they expected to have it back in stock, or it was being end-of-lifed. No straight answers. I spent 15 hours, over two weeks, on the phone to Telstra trying to…
If people are in the store I’m responsible for and they blackmail me I would call security or the police, too. That‘s unacceptable behavior. I understand your frustration, and it really sucks that Telstra put you into that situation, but that doesn’t make your behavior ok and excuse abuse of employees.
Define blackmail.
Re: Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairman to Replace Elon Musk
#47I posted this as a response to another comment, but I think it deserves a top level comment: I just want to chime in here to say: when I recently tried to purchase an iPhone SE from Telstra's online store, the device was out of stock. They couldn't tell me when they expected to have it back in stock, or it was being end-of-lifed. No straight answers. I spent 15 hours, over two weeks, on the phone to Telstra trying to…
If people are in the store I’m responsible for and they blackmail me I would call security or the police, too. That‘s unacceptable behavior. I understand your frustration, and it really sucks that Telstra put you into that situation, but that doesn’t make your behavior ok and excuse abuse of employees.
This is not abuse of employees, this is abuse of customers.
Re: Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairman to Replace Elon Musk
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your assessment isn't correct at all. Telstra sold the copper network to NBN in 2014. And NBN isn't replacing that network at all. They are still using it for FTTC, FTTN and FTTB which will make up the large bulk of the NBN rollout along with HFC which they acquired from Optus. And it's widely known in the industry that Telstra is positioning itself to potentially buy back the NBN given they recently split the compan…
Forgive me if I have any misconceptions or out-of-date knowledge, but while Testra owned the copper telephone network (including, I believe, the copper cabling within everybody's houses), it's only FTTN that uses the traditional copper network -- as it uses copper cabling between the premises and the node (with the node being those above-ground grey pillar box in every suburb, I believe). FTTC and FTTB don't use the…
I can't remember where Telstra's ownership stopped whether it was to the first in-house socket or to the curb. It's all a bit irrelevant now as NBN owns the network and its problems.
Because what NBN is finding is that the last bit of copper is actually responsible for a lot of the problems. And so even though FTTC for example should be seeing significantly better results than FTTN in fact it isn't the case. So much so that NBN is looking at whether to go into people's houses to fix up the wiring.
FTTC is definitely a better option than FTTN especially since with G.Fast you are able to attain 1Gbit/s speeds.
Re: Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairman to Replace Elon Musk
#49I posted this as a response to another comment, but I think it deserves a top level comment: I just want to chime in here to say: when I recently tried to purchase an iPhone SE from Telstra's online store, the device was out of stock. They couldn't tell me when they expected to have it back in stock, or it was being end-of-lifed. No straight answers. I spent 15 hours, over two weeks, on the phone to Telstra trying to…
If people are in the store I’m responsible for and they blackmail me I would call security or the police, too. That‘s unacceptable behavior. I understand your frustration, and it really sucks that Telstra put you into that situation, but that doesn’t make your behavior ok and excuse abuse of employees.
Who said anything about blackmail or abuse of employees? The GP said he asked to speak to a manager and, I quote, "wasn't being threatening at all."
I don't see an issue with refusing to leave a store when you're denied a refund you're legally owed. That's literally the least threatening form of protest one can make.
Re: Tesla Names Robyn Denholm as Chairman to Replace Elon Musk
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
So previously a private company monopolized the business and now government would monopolize it. I wonder which one is the worse...
The private company was privatised after previously being a government run organisaion. They floated it to get a bunch of income, but the nature of large infrastructure is that it's incredibly costly to build a new network. Thus, Telstra simultaneously acted as a private company (trying to deliver returns to shareholders) whilst being this sort of Frankenstein's monster of regulated wholesale monopoly, which hamstrun…
What many people don't know as well was that Telstra was subject to a Structural Separation Undertaking which meant that their Operations arm of the business would treat their Retail arm as like a seperate company. Otherwise it would be unfair for competitors.
Except that this was routinely broken meaning the entire telecommunications market was constantly distorted. It really was the worst of all worlds.