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Well,

don’t

you think it says a bit about Bertelsmann.

This team-leader is

obvioulsly to immature, to have responsibility for people.

I

don’t think people who write cantina like this: ‘CaNTiNa!!!’, should

have manager-responsiblity, because if they write like that, they are

most probably to imature, to have very much people-skills.

Even

if she’s intelligent, I think she should be more mature, to be a

manager.

What does this say about the company?

I’d say,

that it says that something was wrong there, at Bertelsmann Arvato,

when they let a girl, that was immature, manage the Microsoft

Scandinavian Product Activation-campagn, with line-manager

responsibility for around 10 people.

Then they aren’t taking

their employers, who have this manager as a line-manager and

team-leader, seriously.

This is what this tells

me.

Sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog

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23 hours ago by "johncons" (R)

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Nope

just you. Yes, she writes informal emails to her team; that doesn’t

make her a bad manager. In the UK, Vivian can be either a male or

female name. Her use of the ‘Venus’ symbol in her signature is

clearly a disambiguation statement (a nice touch which I haven’t seen

before).

I’m guessing that this is a personal issue (I note

from your CV that you worked there for a while). If so, please don’t

clutter this site by posting rubbish which is of no interest to

anyone but yourself.

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Ok,

I

don’t think she should use the Venus-symbol in the company

e-mails.

Only on her spare-time.

This is a summary from

a meeting and shouldn’t be written like it was a child writing

it.

This is a job, that people need for making their living,

not some funny spare-time activity.

Bertelsmann clearly don’t

take their staff seriously, when letting immature girls manage the

campaign.

A position like this, when you have line-manager

responsibility for around ten people, can be compared with being a

manager of a small or medium-sized company, so people should have a

bit life-experience.

She’s obvioulsy naiv, one can see it on

the form she writes the e-mail, she trust blindly in the new Managing

Director, who want’s people to only use one door, (or else people

face disiplinary action).

I have nothing personal against this

girl.

I only know her from work, and I only focused on the

work when I worked there, I needed the job to pay for the rent and

food etc.

This is an atempt to whistle-blow about the problems

in the company.

Sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog

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10. februar 2009
StatCounter: Someone are making a point of, that the Bertelmann Arvato Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation in Liverpool is now moved to Germany.

PS.

That’s not really the point, the way I see it.

If some Scandinavian and other people are being bullied by managers in Britain or in Germany, that’s more or less the same, the way I see it.

I think the problem is in Bertelsmann.

At least, I don’t think this problem will disappear, if it isn’t brought into light, in the media etc.

I also know that many of the same people that worked at Bertelsmann Arvato, now work in an almost similiar environment.

Working on behalf of Lufthansa, in the Bosch call-center, in the Cotton House, I think it is, in Liverpool.

Who knows if they aren’t being used as whores there as well.

Like I’ve explain I think went on in the Cunard Building here:

https://johncons-blogg.net/2009/02/liveleak-more-about-product-activation.html

It seems to me, that the Bosch call-center/Lufthansa/Scandinavian girls stuff in the Cotton House, could possibly be a similar type of set-up to the Microsoft/Bertelsmann Arvato/Scandinavian girls in the Cunard Building.

That the same girls that previously were being used as Illuminat-whores, or what it really was, in the Cunard Building, now are being used as Illuminati-whores, or what it is, in the Cotton House.

‘Same shit, new wrapping’, like the Americans says.

And people are probably or possibly being bullied just as much by Bertelsmann in Germany, like they where by Bertelsmann Arvato in Liverpool, on the new Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation, in Germany.

At least we have seen how Bertelsmann operate in Liverpool.

But this is just a small part, of the Bertelsmann company.

We don’t know anything about what’s going on in Bertelsmanns divisions in other parts of the world.

Bertelsmann is a very big company, that employes many tens of thousands of people, all over the world.

And I’ve got messages on this blog, from Arvato employees, complaining about how Bertelsmann operate in Mexico.

And I’ve also read about on Facebook, that one guy thinks they operate like ‘nazis’, in the USA.

So I think this problem is much more widespread, than that it’s just a problem with the Bertelsmann Arvato Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation, in the Cunard Building, in Liverpool, in 2005 and 2006, that’s why I think it’s important to get these problems out in the light of the media etc.

So that’s what I’m trying to achive.

That people get to know what’s going on, so that these problems could be dealt with and put light on.

Because or else, I think the problems are just going to be moved, to other buildings, and to other companies.

So that’s how I think this is.

Sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog

9. februar 2009
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Well,

don’t you think it says a bit about Bertelsmann.

This team-leader is obvioulsly to immature, to have responsibility for people.

I don’t think people who write cantina like this: ‘CaNTiNa!!!’, should have manager-responsiblity, because if they write like that, they are most probably to imature, to have very much people-skills.

Even if she’s intelligent, I think she should be more mature, to be a manager.

What does this say about the company?

I’d say, that it says that something was wrong there, at Bertelsmann Arvato, when they let a girl, that was immature, manage the Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation-campagn, with line-manager responsibility for around 10 people.

Then they aren’t taking their employers, who have this manager as a line-manager and team-leader, seriously.

This is what this tells me.

Sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog
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9. februar 2009
LiveLeak: More about product-activation over the phone seeming like a phoney job. And that it seemed like the Nordic women there were whores etc.

Quoted comment by AvgDude2: Typical IS bullshit. Not all coding assignments are equal and the paperwork surround software life-cycle is often incredibly overdesigned making if the most minor of code changes and 2 week project. This happening inside an environment where changes often have to be done immediately to stay on release schedule leads the most productive developers to fix the problem first and do the excessive bullshit paperwork second.

Dickhead managers never get this. They just keep piling on the bullshit process tasks without thinking how those piled on bullshit task eat up precious labor hours that should be used to develop quality software. This is exactly why the best software comes out of small shops or even a single person. The larger the company, the shittier the code in their software because of excessive process that is just designed by assholes obsessed with CYA and replacing high-priced good programmers with low cost shitty programmers. They convince themselves that all the thousands of pages of bullshit software requirements, tech specs, unit testing designs, Quality Assurance designs and summaries somehow are gonna produce good software. They don’t. In fact, they do a better job of building shitty software and shitty software engineers who spend 99% of their time in meetings and filling out paperwork than actually programming.

Hi,

this wasn’t about software-development.

This was the Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation.

It’s for the Microsoft-customers who haven’t got an internet-line, or who have activated Windows to many times.

So then they have to call, and speak with a person.

But, as some callers pointed out, there’s really no need to use people to do this job, there’s really no point in product-activation over the phone, some customers said.

And, we didn’t have a main-goal.

I suspect, that this could be just a phoney job, to get access to young women in an almost scyscraper (Cunard Building) environment.

Young women on the campaign, were crying all the time.

At work, after meatings, in breaks after work.

All of them blond, I’d say.

I think this job, Microsoft Product Activation over the phone could just be an eg. Illuminati set-up to get hold of young, Nordic women etc.

At least with the Scandinavian Product Activation in the Cunard-building in Liverpool, due to the mentioned reasons:

No main goal, customers, who seemed enlightened, said that there was no purpose of product-activation (over the phone), women crying everywhere, and walking with very small steps.

So this could have just been a phoney job to make young, sexy, foreign women to whores, if they weren’t whores from before.

I also heard some Brits, that didn’t belong on the campaign, speaking behind my back, while I sat on the phone.

One wondering why I was there.

The other (none of them belonged in the office, they were ‘successfull people in their 30s or 40s I seem to remember that they seemed like) person said I was there so that to get the Nordic women to stay on the campaign a bit longer before the left.

(Their real job was to be whores, in breaks etc, I suspect).

Sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog
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Quoted comment by mikecurse:
Quoted comment by johncons: The team-leader was treating the staff in an decending way. (Degrading/looking down on them).

She was bullying staff, I think one have to say, by calling them ‘lazy’, in e-mails.

That’s not ok, at least not in Norway.

(And not in the UK eighter, as I’ve understood it).

And it’s not in-line at all with company policy, the Bertelsmann Essentials, (even if these weren’t implemented at Arvato at this time).

Even if a person is a manager, still the person haven’t got the right to treat staff in a degrading way.

Yours sincerley,

Erik Ribsskog

I believe “condescending” is the word you’re looking for.

Yes, that’s right ‘condensending’, I’m sorry I have to practise on my English, I’m from Norway you see.

Thanks again!

Erik Ribsskog

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8. februar 2009
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The team-leader was treating the staff in an decending way. (Degrading/looking down on them).

She was bullying staff, I think one have to say, by calling them ‘lazy’, in e-mails.

That’s not ok, at least not in Norway.

(And not in the UK eighter, as I’ve understood it).

And it’s not in-line at all with company policy, the Bertelsmann Essentials, (even if these weren’t implemented at Arvato at this time).

Even if a person is a manager, still the person haven’t got the right to treat staff in a degrading way.

Yours sincerley,

Erik Ribsskog
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8. februar 2009
LiveLeak: Bertelsmann Arvato Team-Leader using female/feminist-sign with signature on company e-mails

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8. februar 2009
LiveLeak: Bertelsmann team-leader calls co-workers ‘lazy’ in e-mail

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8. februar 2009

E-mail to the University of Sunderland.

Google Mail – Julie Clapham/Fwd: Study fees

Ante Valente <erik.ribsskog@googlemail.com>

Julie Clapham/Fwd: Study fees

Erik Ribsskog <erik.ribsskog@googlemail.com>

5 February 2009 15:52

To: creditcontrol@sunderland.ac.uk

Hi,

I spoked with Julie Clapham at Credit Control, today, on the phone.

My student-number is: 049039692.

After this communication, on e-mail, that I'm forwarding to you now, I was sent a payment-plan form,

that was supposed to be dealt with in a 'payment-plan meeting', at the University.

But I didn't hear anything, after this.

But I was busy in a new job at the time, and with a court-case, so I have had a lot of other things

on my mind.

And last year, like I told on the phone, I tried to call the University, but then my name couldn't be

found, on your computer-system.

So I went to the University, two weeks ago, on the train, and then I was given my student-number,

in the Gateway-reception.

And then I called Joy Taylor, about the problems with the payment plan etc., last week, and was

told to call Janet at Credit Control.

So I'm sorry that this has taken a lot of time!

I think something must have happened with the payment-plan form, that I sent you, in 2006, I think

it must have been.

(I probably have a copy of the payment-plan form here somewhere, but I have a lot of files here, since

I've also been working on a court-case etc., so I have three boxes with files here, so then I would need

some time, if I have to find any files, regarding that, but I think I should have some files also regarding

this somewhere).

Sorry again about the delay!

Yours sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog

———- Forwarded message ———-

From: Erik Ribsskog <erik.ribsskog@googlemail.com>
Date: 2006/2/11
Subject: Re: Study fees
To: International <international@sunderland.ac.uk>

Hi,

Thanks for the answer!

I havent heard from the Finance department yet, so I will call them about this next week.

Thanks again!

Regards.

Erik Ribsskog

On 27/01/06, International <international@sunderland.ac.uk> wrote:

Dear Erik,

Thank you for your email. I have forwarded it to our Finance department

who should be in touch with you in due course. You can contact them via

email at: income.finance@sunderland.ac.uk

I hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Michelle
Student helpline
University of Sunderland

Erik Ribsskog wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was a student at University of Sunderland last year, and since Ive
> had some economical problems etc., I havent
> got to organize an agreement on how i should pay the study fees etc. yet.

>
> So I was wondering who I should contact about this.
>
> Im sorry it has taken me so long to contact you about this!
>
> Thanks in advance and regards.
>
> Erik Ribsskog

PS.

This was an e-mail account, that I used from work, at Arvato.

The name I used first, ‘Ante Valente’, is a nick I sometimes use, just to put a name on forms etc, (because, when I first got the internet, then I didn’t like to write my name, on mailing-lists etc, and things like that), it’s from a TV-comedy in Norway.

(I was a bit stressed, since I was registering the e-mail account inbetween calls at work, that’s why I wrote Ante Valente, when I should have written my own name).

5. februar 2009

I sent an e-mail regarding the Arvato-case to an online publication.

Google Mail – Enquiry from Free Nations website

Erik Ribsskog

<eribsskog@gmail.com>

Enquiry from Free Nations website

Erik Ribsskog

<eribsskog@gmail.com>

Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:57 AM

To:

freenations@freeuk.com

Hi,

I read your article about Bertelsmann taking over Council-services,

(like incoming phone-calls from the people living in the

constituancy), in a Yorkshire town.

http://www.freenations.freeuk.com/gc-60.html

I was working for Bertelsmann Arvato Services Microsoft Scandinavian

Product Activation, in 2005 and 2006, and I also

recieved training, for doing this ‘Council-job’ for the Yorkshire

Council, by the way.

A Finnish girl working at the Microsoft-activation, Aniina, and

myself, we had to take the elevator down, from the 4th floor, in the

Cunard Building,

to the 1st floor there.

(Arvato had offices in both the 1st floor and the 4th floor, in the

Cunard Building).

And then we spoke with a woman from the town, and a manager in Arvato,

and we were to be a back-up, for the Council job.

So I had training answering call from ‘citizens’ that hadn’t had their

litter-bins emptied etc.

And we got a plastic-folder with a booklet, and a mascot, I think it’s

called, a green textile-thing, with a sticker on it, to put on the

computer-screen etc,

that looked like a strange animal with two eyes.

This I think must have been at the beginning of 2006.

And I was working at Arvato, untill November 2006.

And, we never recieved a single phone-call, from the Yorkshire town.

So I think must have been something ‘phoney’ at Arvato Liverpool, also

since I think it was only me and Aniina, (or Anina), who recieved this

training.

So this seems a bit odd, thinking back on this.

I also started an employment-case against Bertelsmann.

They used reinforcement, as a managment-method, that the team-leaders

were trained to use.

And this means, that if one sit more than eg. 15 seconds, between

calls, without seting the phone on ‘available’, then the team-leaders

are going to

scream at you, through the office/table, ‘Erik, you’re on wrap-up’.

This I’ve heard is illigal in the UK, I’ve heard it’s bullying.

Also there was a lot of bullying from managers, and other problems on

the campaign.

I’ve written about them in a summary from a meeting there, with my

line-manager, in 2006:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/4661735/7

And there are also a lot of other documents about the problems there:

http://www.scribd.com/groups/view/14830-arvato-services-ltd-s-microsoft-scandinavian-product-activation

I think that if someone went through these files, then they could find

a lot of documents/e-mails etc, from Arvato,

that showed illigal management methods/bullying from managers etc. there.

I think one could almost say that we were being used as slaves there

almost, and that the reinforcement was kind

of like a whip, from the ‘slave-keeper’, if one did something wrong.

On top of all the other bullying that was against eg. me there.

So if you have the time, then you’d be welcome to have a look at the

case, and see if there’s something there,

that you could write about on your webisite etc.

(I’m also trying to get a court-case up, with this employment-case.

But I haven’t got it that far yet).

Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this!

Yours sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog

5. februar 2009

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29. januar 2009