Being a Pom who's been in Australia for 3 years I have to say that managers are very much at fault. There seems to be a huge gap in management practice here compared to other parts of the world. About a 20 year gap to be precise. Its truly is a great place but it seems to me that there is an arrogance in Australian management that beggars belief when it comes to OSS and modern management practice in general - "bullying" for want of a better word is rife and is not only applied in the workplace, it is accepted as a norm. I thought Aussies were "hard" people who gave as good as they got but are actually decidedly sheepish and would seem to lack "moral courage". These are meant to be educated people but many of them have got degrees and still can't manage to reason their way out of a wet paper bag. Sophistry is the order of the day when management are asked to reply to any mention of OSS as a serious option for the business. They play it safe "no-one ever got fired for buying MS IBM etc etc blah blah". As someone said on a previous thread Telstra are also to blame wholesale for their practices - not just with regard to the downloading of ISOs but the whole business model is out of date and Australia will suffer.
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Being a Pom who's been in Australia for 3 years I have to say that managers are very much at fault. There seems to be a huge gap in management practice here compared to other parts of the world. About a 20 year gap to be precise. Its truly is a great place but it seems to me that there is an arrogance in Australian management that beggars belief when it comes to OSS and modern management practice in general - "bullying" for want of a better word is rife and is not only applied in the workplace, it is accepted as a norm. I thought Aussies were "hard" people who gave as good as they got but are actually decidedly sheepish and would seem to lack "moral courage". These are meant to be educated people but many of them have got degrees and still can't manage to reason their way out of a wet paper bag. Sophistry is the order of the day when management are asked to reply to any mention of OSS as a serious option for the business. They play it safe "no-one ever got fired for buying MS IBM etc etc blah blah". As someone said on a previous thread Telstra are also to blame wholesale for their practices - not just with regard to the downloading of ISOs but the whole business model is out of date and Australia will suffer.