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Ex-Employees to Sue Eircom

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  • 03-04-2008 9:49pm
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    Altreab
    Registered Users Posts: 667 ✭✭✭


    Listening to the news tonight it seems the employees Deafness claims against Eircom are to go ahead. This is what Spongebob predicted some 2 years ago before Babcock and Brown took over.
    Looks like 7 employees are going to court as the test case but be sure that if they win there will be a flood of further claims coming through. Wonder what the cost of this will be???


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    byte
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    byte


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0403/eircom.html


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    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    Anyone else think its strange that its the current incarnation of Eircom that is being sued when it was a state owned and run company back then? Surely the government should be who is getting sued.


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    watty
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    When a Company is sold, it's normal for the new owner to be responsible for any future liabilities. Anyone purchasing is supposed to do "due diligence" to evaluate risks of possible future income & liabilities.


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    clohamon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭clohamon


    I have to own up here. The loud noise that they heard from coin operated machines was the sole of my shoe repeatedly connecting with the side of the coinbox.


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    byte
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    byte


    clohamon wrote: »
    I have to own up here. The loud noise that they heard from coin operated machines was the sole of my shoe repeatedly connecting with the side of the coinbox.
    Hehe :D


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    Sponge Bob
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    some 5000 of these aurally imparied persons exist !


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    Supercell
    Registered Users Posts: 15,409 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    You know, I feel it hard to blame Eircom for this.

    This seems like opportunist suing..bit like idiots that trip over cracks on the pavement and blaming the corpo because they didn't watch where they were going.

    These people got jobs and were happy to have them at the time, if they felt the sound was too loud they could have quit...
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    Mr Burns
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    If these cases suceed, the floodgates will open. Anyone that has ever worked in a call centre could claim off the back of the Biddys claim.


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    Sponge Bob
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    Mr Burns wrote: »
    If these cases suceed, the floodgates will open. Anyone that has ever worked in a call centre could claim off the back of the Biddys claim.

    Not quite, Biddys claim is on the basis of damage caused to her by pre 1990 technology . Call Centres with adequate digital noise filtering only appeared in Ireland after that time...meaning they always had proper gear in them.

    Biddy was 'afflicted ' in the period between 1960 and 1990 according to her claim and that of the other 4900 Biddies who are lined up gnashing behind the first few Biddies.

    I can just imagine Biddy in court, unctous Brief asks Biddy to address the judge at all times , Biddy glowers down at unctous brief and famously says in the dulcet P&T tone we all remember !

    "How can I help you caller ?"

    unctous brief quakes at recovered memory of happy times on the phone to Biddy .


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