“What complete BS. Seniority means Jack-S, it's what you do that matters. I'll take an enthusiastic new guy who gets stuff done any day over an old entitled dude who thinks they have a God given right to stuff just coz they'll hung around for years”
Wow this is the same stuff you posted on the company website almost verbatim Nick Jeffries.
I personally am not a fan of the union either. However, your concept leads me to believe you don’t think guys that have been at the company for years have a better grasp on the physical plant, it’s procedures for operation, it’s capabilities etc. as compared to a dude that’s been employed by you for a year or a contractor that just hopped over the border last week. And in fact YOU. It’s clear by how you run the company you think you can just put bodies in whatever position and they will perform. I’m assuming that’s how you got your job which is why you think that. Make no mistake. Most of your talent and knowledge running this infrastructure is in the upper seniority guys. It’s definitely NOT the management teams that barely understand their functions and think their entire job is done from monitoring a spreadsheet and sending emails to enquire others of the progress of tasks. Again, not even understanding what those tasks are.
You keep trying rebrand this place as a technology company when clearly it’s not and will never be with you managing or your management structure. There is no innovation, there is no forward thinking. You and your team throw random ideas out often funded by the fed just to see what works. Nothing so far has worked except for the blatant falsification of claiming homes passed by splitter adds. Most of which still have no new customers from last years adds. Yet more are being installed. The first sign of poor management of a company is trying to cut costs on the backs of the knowledge base. Your union proposals are insulting. Especially, considering even the top pay California will be getting doesn’t even match up to what they would be getting if they still worked for Verizon and not the dysfunctional, haphazardly run “company” it is now. You keep battling with your technical knowledge based employees. I guarantee you will lose. Especially, in California. You wonder why it’s hard to get employees with real experience at every level. Especially management. No one in their right mind would come work for a company where their knowledge in low to middle management is greater than most of their superiors. It’s also why technicians that could have and should have moved up or back to management haven’t. This companies sole promotion ideology is based on the Peter Principle. Just look at your engineering teams in California. You’d be better off just giving your techs an address. It’s my understanding that’s how they complete their work anyway because the “prints” they get from engineering make about as much sense as a 3rd grader trying to explain quantum physics.