stick it to the man guys!
I don't see anything new here... Telstra are always firing people, regardless of the economy. It is what they do best.
He fired a women recently who had credited her phone account with $4000... so she didn't have to pay a phone bill for a while. He fired her, she lost it, tired to commit suicide 3 weeks later. He got an attacking email from the women's brother, a photo of her in her hospital bed and him saying "if she dies, you die".
He's had a security guard walking him too and from his car at work since then, two weeks ago!