To Peter Cox: you should try reading a little more carefully before you go off on a foolish attack. I did not say that the ‘amigos’ business was tiresome for Trujillo. I said that I found it tiresome, as a reader of the Herald, to have its journalists constantly harping on it at the expense of more insightful analysis.

Seems like paradise to me.

“Tiresome”? What’s tiresome about being the sometime head of Telstra, our quasi-monopoly telco, & being the occasional - very occasional!!@*(&%#!- though allegedly Australian-resident CEO) due to all those ‘essential”? trips back to the US? How much of Telstra’s business is done in the US??? With the Republican Party?) and now trying to trash the reputation of the dills who hired you? Surely Mr Trujillo now has another game he’s playing? Redemption, perhaps??

Must now seem like a fun game to Sol, whom I have heard used the “amigos” label within Telstra for himself & the men he knew & hired as confidants & “had to have at whatever price, because they’re so good” (?I presume). Now, to try to rescue his reputation after he’s left the business & the country (again)? Doesn’t seem to work in anyone’s interests, apart from his & his mates’.

When he was hired for the job, I recollect I read he’d just garnered something like USD60M for the (apparently unfortunate, to be polite) telco job he’d just been involved with in the US.

However, one mustn’t judge except on the performance one sees. In my opinion, that was *!*!*@ dreadful.

Being in charge of a company which pays you a rich salary while you’re apparently bent on trashing the company’s relationship with the Federal Government which controls the fate of your business, then in the year you’re leaving after you’ve seen the shareholder’s value plummet by ~17B during your reign collecting a failure bonus of ?$34M, does not seem to be performance that’s worth trumpeting.

Most people would LOVE to have that sort of payout for stuffing up, but perhaps Mr Trujillow & Mr Evans are convinced the upper levels of business work to different rules. It seems, from observation, that perhaps that particular situation might possibly be changing in Australia, but only if the major shareholding companies’ managements start working solely for the interests of their own shareholders.

The Brit interviewer [Racism alert!! Blatant!!!], Mr Evans, must surely be acquainted with the works of the great & good extolled CEOs of the most recently publicised banks in Britain, formerly known as Great. That did not seem to be of any concern to Mr Evans, because he did not appear to know of any connection between Mr Trujillo’s performance as Telstra CEO and what has actually happened.

Of course, all of that Telstra stuff was in “Australia, a land of involuntary immigrants”. And therefore of no consequence, except for rubbishing.

Racism? Heavens no!! Truth!! It must be truth, because a he, a Pom, said so!!

Perhaps Mr Steve Evans would be able to answer honestly to: “Who set you up, and what impelled you, to ask loaded questions that served the interviewee’s apparent purpose so well?” Or “Do you really want to be a ‘shock jock’ , or perhaps to get a job with Fox ‘News’ “??

If the latter, we have a Mr Jones who could give you invaluable lessons.

Mr Evans would do well to understand a difficult fact: there are at least some Australians - especially Telstra shareholders - who don’t in general dislike people because of their background (there are of course exceptions, as in any land, including his - and Sol’s).

However, people from any land are often particularly unhappy about those who rip the shareholders off & exit stage left with bags of loot, then slag off from a safe distance.

Brits have a rich history of such folks.

Perhaps its just not as amusing as Trujillo and his “3 ammigo’s”

Would that cause a stir?

If I had just been given such a golden handshake and someone drawing me riding a donkey out of town was the most of my worries, I’d count myself fairly lucky.

You can bet your bottom dollar that if it was a question of Irish descent and leprechaun cartoons or Danish and Vikings or Even a Kiwi with a sheep we wouldn’t be reading any of this.

The whole ‘amigos’ business was pretty juvenile really and tended to discredit the journalists involved and indicate that they were the ones not up to the job.