The Sr. Leadership at this company is a complete failure and an embarrassment not only in the industry but to executive leadership period. I seriously question how these people have managed to sustain a career and have absolutely no leadership skills... — read more
HR making the rounds
Rumor has it HR is making the rounds in the New York metro area with sit down conversations with technicians . Also hearing some technicians were blatantly told they could not attend by management. Can anyone confirm?
Verizon Long Island Hiring
Several Verizon yards on Long Island hiring starting pay $49 hour for field service. Currently around 15 field service techs throughout the island have applied with even more estimate to be around 17 OSP techs. Where will Altice get the replacements... — read more
Come on WV and KY, vote the Union in already.
What is it Going to take before you stop trusting this company? Join the other two depots and become a stronger Union in WV/KY or any other state. The company CAN'T fire you, CAN'T threaten you, CAN'T intimidate because of Union activity. Get... — read more
Sharing the pain and not the profits
Drahi’s Altice Says Creditors Must Take Cuts to Reach Targets Altice bonds plunged on plans for discounted transactions Company released more aggressive leverage ratio target By Irene Garcia Perez and Benoit Berthelot March 20, 2024 at 11:59 AM... — read more
Appears Altice may be taken over by charter
Could be the best thing ever
Excel to move on to greener pastures
Excel OSP has officially ended it with Asstice. On to bigger and better things. Asstice OSP techs in a total panic . FTTH and HFC outages with staff untrained. Good luck! 😂
Field Operations is now “Network Services”
There was a comment on a topic a week or two ago that said “motion equals progress” referring to the sr leadership. Well I would have to agree with that comment in light of the renaming of Field Operations. It serves no useful purposes other than to... — read more
Welcome back to ATS
Yes, because of our good buddy M.L ATS is back. what does that mean for you in field service? Yep you got that right them dumping jobs on you at random getting four or five fiber installs a day without drops absolutely no care for safety whatsoever... — read more
Didn't see that coming
Another exec leaves they can't even hold on to the ones that can actually make a difference.
Package?
Any idea if the company is going to offer another package? Now we have a Laundry list of tests to run at every home and being threatened with write ups and “ plans” , backbreaking jobs with no drops that take hours to do But hey make sure you give a... — read more
Tech stocks are up…but not ATUS
Tech stocks are up but this looser ends the day at a loss. And no one is surprised.
Micromanaging is a trait of a bad manager
The micromanaging as we all know comes as a result of the Sr leadership not knowing how to run the company. They are all from the world of finance or engineering with no operational knowledge of the CATV/broadband industry regardless of the positions... — read more
W2s
When we getting them?
Tec Trac for back office employees.
Basically these geniuses what the back office employees to account for every minute of their day now. To document every single action taken much like a lawyer would do. So now every time I take a call it is to be documented in TT. If someone stops by... — read more
Lololol🙄
When a Vision pro contractor shows up with no ladders What do you do? Kick his a-s out Pathetic
Customers are paying more so they can pay you less.
https://isp.today/optimums-cable-internet-prices-may-be-going-up/#gsc.tab=0
At my limit the workload is insane
It’s been like that for a long time but it’s becoming worse somehow and it’s really not possible to manage without several more bodies which we will never get. None of these people know how to do anything but tell everyone else what to do and how... — read more
OSP gets screwd on call, trucks are going to be taken away
Thanks Asstice. Optidumb! OSP only gets 4hrs call out one time. WTF. Don't worry JW ill make sure I get to my outages on time ha haha. fyi won't be able to take your trucks home anymore either. Time to bring the Union to all of NJ. What else are... — read more
Cheddar News all got cut
All employees were cut today from Cheddar News !! Another Altice Disaster and more families ruined
FU and your holidays.
Retail lost all of their holidays for 2024 except Thanksgiving and Christmas. The company grabbed them, slapped them across the face and said "Happy New Year, go fu-k yourself". Unionize, unionize, UNIONIZE!
Cheddar News Layoffs
Cheddar News is an example of what not to do. The new owners need to get rid of the current executive producers and the one manager that's still there because they are horrible at their jobs, just look at the content. Speaking of the one manager... — read more
Cablevision Systems Layoffs 2024
Post any information about potential or actual Cablevision Systems layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
Christmas is over
That means that layoffs are about to start again. Probably not this week, but anything after is fair game.
Dumpster Fire
Xfinity is overbuilding Altice in Milford and Watertown, CT with EPON. Xfinity is not in the market to buy Altice All cable cos are posting net losses for Q4. This ship is going to sink because it can’t acquire customers. How do you build a fiber... — read more
What scam did PD pull this time?
ATUS stock was at $1.77 yesterday, this morning it’s up to $2.55. You can’t help but wonder what scam was worked.
LMAO TeleCable
What a joke!!!!! Stole $$ when you guys ran ATS (did everyone forget about McG and Kennedy) but some weren’t caught. Then you guys go to Excell and mysteriously when Altice is being investigated you guys create another umbrella company .. definitely... — read more
150k a song 🤣
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sony-warner-hit-us-internet-provider-altice-with-1-6bn-lawsuit-over-alleged-music-piracy-on-its-network1/
Predictions based on recent announcement
Looks like they are splitting up sides again What do we think is going to happen? Will they eat each other?
New Leaders Again
They are pathetic
The top guy says ….Could crash and burn
https://youtu.be/4ghjvrguCbY?si=yOFSrcnPRL_KYNgV
Everyone’s fed up.
Apparently things aren’t any better at the supervision level. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/wyckoff/veteran-responder-charged-with-torching-service-vans-at-bergen-optimum-store/
Billionaire Drahi’s Altice to Seek Bids Next Month for Key Assets
Buyout firms circle Altice assets as tycoon grapples with debt Bids for Portugal unit, France stake seen as soon as December. Saw this on Bloomberg.
VPs leaving almost weekly
Who's next to resign
Telecable..Excel 2.0!
Most of the excel jabroni's that got that boot or saw the writing on the wall jumped ship to Telecable. ATS 2.0?...or Excel 2.0? Its telephone..its cable...ITS TELECABLE!! I'd bet 14 cents its another Altice phantom company.