Comments on: So, is Australia a racist country? http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2009/05/27/so-is-australia-a-racist-country/ Author KS "Kaz" Augustin Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:20:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kaz http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2009/05/27/so-is-australia-a-racist-country/comment-page-1/#comment-17684 Kaz Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:52:12 +0000 http://blog.ksaugustin.com/?p=420#comment-17684 No Tim, actually you're quite wrong. Trujillo and his friends did not "buy" Telstra. Telstra was, and still is, 51% owned by the Federal government. And Trujillo was appointed by the (Australian) board during a supposed global executive search, so it was all the board's initiative. Also, I believe only Trujillo was of Hispanic descent, so there were not 3 "mexicans" "owning" Telstra. Telstra's level of service has always been abysmal and it didn't improve under Trujillo. I agree that he mismanaged a few things but predicating all your comments on a false premise is incorrect. And, btw, I worked for Telstra when it was still called Telecom so I know the company quite well. No Tim, actually you’re quite wrong. Trujillo and his friends did not “buy” Telstra. Telstra was, and still is, 51% owned by the Federal government. And Trujillo was appointed by the (Australian) board during a supposed global executive search, so it was all the board’s initiative. Also, I believe only Trujillo was of Hispanic descent, so there were not 3 “mexicans” “owning” Telstra.

Telstra’s level of service has always been abysmal and it didn’t improve under Trujillo. I agree that he mismanaged a few things but predicating all your comments on a false premise is incorrect. And, btw, I worked for Telstra when it was still called Telecom so I know the company quite well.

]]> By: Tim http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2009/05/27/so-is-australia-a-racist-country/comment-page-1/#comment-17621 Tim Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:48:17 +0000 http://blog.ksaugustin.com/?p=420#comment-17621 You do not seem to be aware of the context behind this Trujillo fellow. He and another 2 mexicans (so yes, they were called the three amigos by our press) purchased the Telstra tellecomunnications company, which had up until that time been a state-run business. In his brief time as CEO of the company Telstras profits and level of service declined tremendously while Trujillo and his buddies gave each other ever-increasing executive bonuses. To cut a long story short he strolled into our country, bought a business that was funded by taxpayers money, drove it into the gound and walked away with the profits. So hell yeah, i think mexican bandit is an apt description of Mr. Trujillo. You do not seem to be aware of the context behind this Trujillo fellow. He and another 2 mexicans (so yes, they were called the three amigos by our press) purchased the Telstra tellecomunnications company, which had up until that time been a state-run business. In his brief time as CEO of the company Telstras profits and level of service declined tremendously while Trujillo and his buddies gave each other ever-increasing executive bonuses. To cut a long story short he strolled into our country, bought a business that was funded by taxpayers money, drove it into the gound and walked away with the profits. So hell yeah, i think mexican bandit is an apt description of Mr. Trujillo.

]]> By: Kaz http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2009/05/27/so-is-australia-a-racist-country/comment-page-1/#comment-15646 Kaz Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:59:55 +0000 http://blog.ksaugustin.com/?p=420#comment-15646 I'm sorry you had to go through that, oncean aussie. I imagine that, like us, it finally got too much and you left. Pity. It IS a beautiful country. I’m sorry you had to go through that, oncean aussie. I imagine that, like us, it finally got too much and you left. Pity. It IS a beautiful country.

]]> By: oncean aussie http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2009/05/27/so-is-australia-a-racist-country/comment-page-1/#comment-15638 oncean aussie Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:57:38 +0000 http://blog.ksaugustin.com/?p=420#comment-15638 I live in that place for 15 years and found a lot of discriminatory comments from my boss, managers, engineers, fellow workers who are mostly white australians . Their famous quote is "He is an asian anyway" you can here this anywhere, train station, parking lots, mall. yes australia ia very nice place, but with prejudice and racism it turns it into a slum, stinking place. I live in that place for 15 years and found a lot of discriminatory comments from my boss, managers, engineers, fellow workers who are mostly white australians . Their famous quote is

“He is an asian anyway”

you can here this anywhere, train station, parking lots, mall.

yes australia ia very nice place, but with prejudice and racism it turns it into a slum, stinking place.

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