An update.
This is true, and due to threats of being sued by the council officer that rang me for today I wont mention his name.
We'll call him X for the exercise.
Last Tuesday, 24 April at 8.39am X from Brisbane City Council Assets Management rang from number 384071589 and left a message for me to call him back via the call centre 34038888 which I did within the hour. Left a message.
Friday 27 April 11.50am I rang the number that came up in my phone 384071589 and left another message, with a lady, mentioned this was 2nd call back for X.
Tuesday 1 May around 10am I rang 34038888 the main call centre. Now that it has been a week I asked the guy who took the call what the council policy was on call backs ... like another company I worked in it was a 2 hour policy. I also mentioned it was the 3rd call back for this X and 1 week had passed.
11.51am X rang me. X said his call back delays were due to fighting fires (I didn't call the fire dept but the council though). X said the trees were part of council assets and the arborists were happy with the work they'd done.
I mentioned that details were posted on a public forum and no professional arborists were happy with the tree for the location and lack of signage or public awareness.
I stated the tree defied our knowledge and training of suitable habitat management and information was available on this site.
X proceeded to tell me that Brisbane City Council owned the trees and as such could do whatever they liked to them, that they weren't bound by laws, they had total autonomy and the information on this site is
SHIT.
I mentioned the information on this site came from many sources including respected universities and colleges as well as professional educated arborists. X said they got their own people and information and could do as they please and that there were just as many people saying they were happy with the tree.
I asked why he was talking to me and not an arborist in the decision making process and if they were so clever and knowledgable why wouldn't they wish to share their grandeur on a forum where this was all documented. X responded that they don't talk in public forums.
I said on any given topics there'll be those for and against, and we wanted to see the reasoning behind their decisions. To that X said they dont have to explain anything to anyone, they own the trees and that's that. To which I responded that they are accountable to the community and Stalin style suppressive govt is history, we are an educated society looking for reasoning.
By now he was huffing and puffing, scoffing and carrying on like a child. I told him I would be putting the details of the conversation on the public forum along with his name and position to which he responded ...
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Quote:
| You mention my name on that forum and I'll fuggen sue you, you fuggen asshole |
then abruptly hung up.
11.56am I rang 34038888 and reported the phone call and the threat and the language of X.
X was representing a govt body, can he sue? Can council sue? The BCC call centre records it's phone calls, that's right. The inbound calls from ordinary people, I wonder if they recorded the call between X and I, I sure wish I did. I bet they don't record the outbound calls of their people.
So there we have it, you make your own mind up. It aint over yet, but this isn't a surprise to me.