atw: Re: new words for corporate phenomena

Hi Erisa,
What clever old telcos we have working on us! The problem for the consumer is 
that 
the telco never accepts the consumer's own electronic register of calls made.

1] 'Blitz' in the German means a lightning strike or 'out of the blue'. What 
you have 
described is much more stealthy - and is close to what the banks call 
'phishing'. 
How about 'skunking'? [I am following your practice of verbifying a noun.]

2] I'm not sure we should be encouraging onanism over the telephone. What you 
have described is what lawyers and politicians call 'being economical with the 
truth'
- a variant of the power play 'divide and rule' - or what the CIA, MI5, ASIO, 
the KGB 
and the Chekka all did to prisoners - keep them isolated and let them think 
no-one 
else supported them. It's all well documented by Edgar Schein just after the 
Korean 
debacle, when he was trying to find out why there were so many successful break-
outs from German POW camps - the Stalags - and almost none from the Korean 
POW camps. The Germans, for administrative and economic reasons, grouped 
prisoners of like service and rank together - almost guaranteed co-operation 
against 
their jailers. The Koreans, on the other hand, identified the unofficial 
leaders - those 
to whom people granted authority - isolated them, 'trained' them in the new 
thinking 
and then slipped them back into the ranks of their mates; their new role was to 
report any 'wrong' behaviour, unobtrusively, for which they got better rations 
and 
clothing; now, no-one could trust his mates. Each person became his own jailer. 
Very economical. Just what we'ld expect rational economically-minded persons to 
do, don't you think? How about 'economic isolation'?

I don't think the telcos are alone in this behaviour - I had something like 
this 
happen to me when my motor vehicle engine was repaired by Purnell Motors at 
Arncliffe. They had told one of their employees to keep telling me that nothing 
was 
wrong with my motor after their repairs - 'to cool me out' as the Americans 
would 
say - when I and several others all knew there was piston-slap. The employee 
would not testify in court because he was certain of the employment lynching 
that 
would follow. Purnells no longer have that franchise - I wonder why?

Cheers,
Brian.
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