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Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com> |
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Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com> |
Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:32 PM | |
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To: Law Clinic <clinic@liverpool.ac.uk> | ||
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Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com> |
Advice letter
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Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com> |
Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:32 PM | |
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To: Law Clinic <clinic@liverpool.ac.uk> | ||
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Someone wanted me to describe this file.
I have an employment-case, against Bertelsmann Arvatos Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation.
There were so many problems there, with young women being controlled like slaves by other employees, and young women suddently being home sick, and not returning, and some Scandinavian women only working one day a year, and being sick the rest of the year.
So I feared that some of these women were under ‘mafia-control’, or something like this.
And there was also a lot of bullying from managers, and the company used illigal management-methods, reinforcement, that I think is meant to be used only for training dogs and other animals, and not at work.
The Police also started bullying me, and told lies, and sent me a letter calling me ‘Miss Erik Ribsskog’, etc.
So I reported the Merseyside Police, to the IPCC, with 18 complaints about misconduct.
The Police claimed that the complaint didn’t have any claims of misconduct, or what the term they used was.
So this file is my appeal, to the IPCC.
The complaint was upheld, so the IPCC belived my version and not the Police’s.
Please just contact me if I should explain more, I’m trying to whistleblow about this case, since now, neighter the employment-case or the Police-complaint case is going anywhere.
Sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
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Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com> |
Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:40 PM | |
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To: Trond Halvorsen <trond-h@getmail.no> | ||
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Today I was at the Universtity of Liverpool, at the Law Clinic there, which I have contacted about the Bertelsmann Arvato/Microsoft-case (See the ‘Arvato-case’-label on the blogg).
https://johncons-blogg.net/search/label/Arvato-case
The meeting was at 12 noon, and now its around 2 pm., so the meeting was a couple of hours ago.
So I thought I’d write a summary, from the meeting, while I still have the details in my head.
The meeting was with Solicitor Susan Grady there, and two law-students, who looked like they maybe were Arab or something(?)
I shoke hands with them, but I didn’t notice their names unfortunatly, because there were three new names at once, and I’m from Norway, so I’m not so good at catching the names etc., in meetings that are spoken in English.
I signed a cooperation-form, that the students gave me.
I explained that there were several hundred files, to do with the case, so I hadn’t printed them all, but I had a CD with me, with most of the files.
They asked what the problems were about, bullying they knew from my e-mails to the university, so I gave them a file called ‘Problems detailed’, that I wrote in 2007, before the meeting at CAB with the Morecrofts-solictior, Pool.
https://johncons-blogg.net/2008/06/enclosure.html
Then they asked if I had an explanation where I explained about the problems in more detail, and I gave them enclosure 7, from the indexed files.
https://johncons-blogg.net/2008/06/enclosure-7.html
They asked me if I had brought the problems up with the company.
That’s why I gave them enclouse 7, from the meetings with my line-manager, Slettvold, about the problems in the company.
Then the students asked if there was a problem that was more serious than the others.
Then I explained about the problems with the team-leader Steinsland.
That I have posted about on the LiveLeak-website.
That she e-mailed me pictures of a bum, called employees ‘lazy’ in company e-mails, and some other e-mails with sexual harassment from her.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=921_1234232761
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5fb_1234107705
I explained that this was only the harassment from her, that I had about in e-mails, but there was also much other harassment/bullying from her, that I had explained about in enclosure 7 and the other files.
After a while, the Solicitor interupted, and said that they couldn’t help me with taking this case to an employment tribunal, since I would have had to deliver a claim, within three months then.
I explained that I hadn’t been ignorant, but that I had been dealing with the case regurarly.
But that the Police had lied, and said that CAB were Government, when they are a charity.
And that I had also been bullied, by the Police the Citizens Advice Bureau, (and the Law Soicesty and the Legal Services Ombudsman), etc.
https://johncons-blogg.net/2008/06/explanation-e-mailed-ipcc-may-2007.html
So that maybe the problems with the Police and the CAB etc., should have been included in the case.
Then the solicitor said that the case was to much for the students to deal with, since it was a to big case for them.
I said that I wouldn’t argue about that with her, but that I tried to learn and understand the legal-system.
The solicitor said that they would send me an e-mail with advice, on how to go forward with this case.
So this is how I remember the meeting.
I wrote some notes on the meeting, that I’ll scan and include in a PS to this blog-post.
Sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
PS.
Here is the e-mail about the meeting, and my notes from the meeting:
PS 2.
Here is an example of the ‘cooperation-form’, that the law-students gave me to sign, at the meeting at the Law Clinic today:
Average
wrap-up time between calls included in Bertelsmann asDP (staff growt)
programme
At
Bertelsmann Arvato’s Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation, in
Liverpool, there was being put a lot of focus on average call-time
and wrap-up time between calls, for staff.
(On the expense of
the content of the calls?)
(We were a bit like guinea-pigs, I
think, there.
Collegues has described it as ‘almost like being
in
prison’:
https://johncons-blogg.net/2008/10/heisann-christine-3.html).
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These
e-mails are from a girl who was a team-leader with line-management
responsibility for around ten people at Bertelsmann Arvato’s
Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation, in the Cunard Building, in
Liverpool, UK, in 2006.
The one with the bat translates
to ‘The nasty Miss from Bergen says "have a nice weekend
;)"’.
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huh?
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Batgirls
rock!
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You
guys have some really strange definitions of sexual harassment.
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I’m
sorry, I thought it was funny. I’d give her a promotion to head of
light humor department! I hope you didn’t try to get her fired or
reprimanded for an innocent joke like that… It’d be worse than me
getting fired because the company’s owner’s son told him that I smoke
marijuana… Oh wait no it’d be a lil’ better because I wouldn’t have
to had experienced it v.v Some people are just a*sh*l*s… Not sayin
you are I don’t know you.
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I
didn’t think it was funny.
The definition of harassment is
something that’s degrading and unwanted.
And this was
degrading geting sent e-mails of naked butts, and girl-jokes.
And
strange bat-heads.
It would probably have been ok to be sent
the jokes if I had been a girl.
But it’s not ok for girls to
send jokes like that, that makes fun of and degrades men, to men, i
think.
So I’m sure that this must be sexual
harassment.
Sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
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PS.
This
was on top of all the other problems in the Bertelsmann-run company
and on the
Microsoft-campaign:
https://johncons-blogg.net/2008/06/enclosure.html
http://www.scribd.com/groups/view/14830-arvato-services-ltd-s-microsoft-scandinavian-product-activation
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Bertelsmann
team-leader sends sexual harassing e-mails
These
e-mails are from a girl who was a team-leader with line-management
responsibility for around ten people at Bertelsmann Arvato’s
Microsoft Scandinavian Product Activation, in the Cunard Building, in
Liverpool, UK, in 2006.
The one with the bat translates
to ‘The nasty Miss from Bergen says "have a nice weekend
;)"’.
And it has a picture of a bat, which is called
‘flaggermus’, in Norwegian, ‘flying mouse’, in English.
And
mouse in Norway is a synonym for ‘c*nt’.
So the picture of the
bat probably means a c*nt that flyes around.
(She had a
boyfriend).
(I only knew this girl from work, and never met
her outside of work).
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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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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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