Oh so many tales
But this is perhaps typical.
In a fanfare of shiny presentations and webcasts, the corporation's five core values, as decreed by our CEO and senior board, were unveiled to the masses - so, we are:

Straightforward
Helpful
Inspiring
Trustworthy

Oh and "Heart" but no-one can figure out how to be "Heart"...

Credit to whichever bright spark managed to bullshit senior management into picking those. God knows how much time and money they wasted on it, perhaps it's telling that they have stuck with it and either haven't noticed or don't care.

In case you're wondering, I work for a large telecommunications company based in Britain.
(fridgefreezer inserted a topical reference into his sig on, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 14:29, 4 replies)

telecommunications
any way of getting a large telecommunications company based in Britain to waive their exorbitant £124.99 connection fee for an address to which there once was a telecommunications line although said telecommunication line had since been disbanded and remained out of operation. The cheeky little buggers want 125 smackeroonies to plug a wire into a socket! I would rather boil my feet than pay that.
I wonder if they have had a large firm fist propelled up their own anal canals as they seem to think prospective new customers like it.
(little lord muthafuckin fauntleroy, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 16:42, closed)

aha!
It all makes so much sense now!

Its just ironic that those core values are true, but wrong at the same time...
( rydonabike I'm not unthinking everyone of nothing...., Mon 28 Jan 2008, 17:44, closed)

For LLMF
Aahh, you want a different bunch of fine fellows to blame for that, it's a long and boring story but due to "opening up the market" "equivalence of input" and "fair competition", everyone, BT included, has to buy their bits of wire from OpenReach at the same "fair" price, even though they're a part of BT.

Otherwise it'd be an unfair competitive advantage and therefore bad for the consumer of course.

I'm sure that will give you a warm feeling as you hand over your £124, knowing that one multi-billion pound global communicationss provider isn't unfairly undercutting another multi-billion pound communications provider.

Although the engineer in me would like to point out it's not just plugging in a bit of wire...


Length? <3km twisted copper pair from exchange to customer premises for optimum performance.
(fridgefreezer inserted a topical reference into his sig on, Tue 29 Jan 2008, 0:33, closed)

Heart?
It made no sense for Captain Planet and it makes no sense now.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 30 Jan 2008, 14:51, closed)