tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post116935933881562287..comments2023-09-15T18:46:21.457+10:00Comments on the public house: Think first, before you let the Boss DownMine Hosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09319158585057502587noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11072522.post-67629148066238665332007-04-10T14:46:00.000+10:002007-04-10T14:46:00.000+10:00re your response at LP Rodeo - "GoAwayBrownie: The...re your response at LP Rodeo - "GoAwayBrownie: There are a few benefits for Optus to hire “contractors” instead of employees, however I cannot see that Optus being absolved of performing slave labour for the ATO is one of them. Are you able to expand on your point?"<BR/><BR/>For 12 months I calculated the very complex pays for an evolving group of about 80 of these poor exploited people<BR/>"not 'employees' but 'contractors' I was repeatedly told. and that they had to make their own tax arrangements and had no guaranteed income. <BR/>They were sucked in with big $$ promises. <BR/>It was 1995 and the telco industry was very different then from now.<BR/>What I do know, is that Optus is evil, and owned by Singaporean business interests now, and that they jerked me around for their own financial gain (well of course, it's <I>business</I>) and I have no respect for them.<BR/><BR/>Barista blog had a recent post about Optus screwing him too.<BR/>I can recall a time when being a Company Director commanded some respect - those days are long gone.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for actually reading my little comment among the many at LP.BwcaBrowniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11500142856655553009noreply@blogger.com