Any guesses as to how long they are going to keep them , seems to me that they would want to get rid of everyone
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@173+1kf7g44p8 your local coffee/donut shop will keep your seat for the next day, relax
Thank you. Finally, someone who gets it. In-house workers will piece sh-t together, dig and scrounge looking for equipment, temp runs out to get it back on. Contractors don’t care. They will show up, not fix it, and still get paid for the job. So sick and tired of hearing that contractors are anything other than cheap second-rate labor.
@ja nothing will get fixed unless we do it ourselves , almost nothing gets approved for repair to construction 3months , 6 months , infinity-the project disappears , then a year later someone submits again and it sits there again . There’s no money they say , they shrink the depts .but somehow the ceo got 750,000 bonus , on top of 14.4 million . Amazing
overtime and no accountability best job in cable
"Little tiny wire guys" dude cmon. Im a plant guy and you've managed to strike a nerve. Stop patting your own back, your doing what you get paid to do.
@173 there you go champ, let that god complex scream a little louder.
We all getting called out last night in sub-zero weather and will be for the next week. Where were all of you little tiny wire guys? In bed with your pound puppies? GMADB..
All metrics with service techs are way down including points, productivity and customer satisfaction. The only thing that is up are repeat calls.
MTTR is worse every year
Anyone involved in this bickering should find a new career. Its about putting food on the table and a roof over your families head.
@v6 the only one claiming to be amazing here is you, acting like you’re doing the lords work, you’re a maintenance tech, nothing more, nothing less, but yea “let’s see how they feel when they get called out at 2am”
Wow, people like you just shouldn’t talk at all. It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. You’re not only an embarrassment to yourself but also to any one of us that does this job. First, you go on to tell us how amazing YOU are and then say how you were trained on the job. THEN you criticize osp for being the exact same thing - trained on the job! Congrats on being a real company man - all while being a scab contractor! You do good work.
@jw I’m on call every other week as it is, any contractor can do any of the things you just listed, do you think there’s anything special or one off about Altices cable plant? Have fun with you power supplies, unless you wanna trade and take the fiber outages, and don’t you you already do, spending half the day rebuilding a pdo isn’t the same as when a crossover with interconnects, hfc trunks and Lightpath cables gets taken out by a truck. Just remember, the same way they trained all of us, they can train anyone else. For the longest time OSP had this superiority complex, nothing more than a person trained on the job.
True, but I’ll still be parking my BUCKET truck for coffee 😁
without OSP, Coffee shops everywhere will not stay open past 1pm
@bs there’s no FCC rule that says outside plant (OSP) construction/maintenance has to be kept in-house. They can contract OSP work out (construction, line techs, maintenance, etc.). What the FCC generally cares about is that the operator meets its service/technical obligations—not whether the worker has the operator’s logo on their paycheck.
After reading your post I am realizing that you sound more than capable of covering my standby rotation next week. After all, any company schlub can do what we do. So being that it will be in the low teens outside and we are expecting 6-9 inches of snow, I nominate you to cover my standby. You sound like you have the skill and knowledge to splice broken trunk back together, can repower the plant after the power supply cabinet is destroyed from the tractor trailer that just smashed into the pole. You can also rebuild that PDO that was ripped apart and is in a million plastic pieces all over the ground now. It’s 2:00 O,clock in the morning and this is the last place that you could ever want to be but hey, it’s easy and anyone could do it? Right!
@gn lmao you think they need you guys to stay in house for a pole strike or some down strand? You guys just role on it and refer it out to contractors anyway. They can send any schmuck in the company to go survey it and then refer it out. In house construction is equally as useless, all they do is role to the outage with cable for the contractor to use.
Hey pal, I’ll tell you ya what - the next time you get called out at 2:00am when it’s 6 degrees out and roads fully iced over, you let us all know. After the police dept calls the company and wants an immediate response and they send a contractor 17 hours later, we will see how that goes. Can’t stay in business operating like that.
@bs so you think they would need in house for osp amd construction but not for the millions of customers that feed everyone’s paychecks . I don’t think so . Your time is counting down . If they can outsource the customer side why would they care about the sides that doesn’t face customers
As much as they want to, they can’t go full contractor on OSP/construction. The FCC and PSC, state utility laws will not allow it. And if they did find a way, they can kiss what’s left of this company good bye.
OSP will go by the way of FS. To operate in its full capacity, they will start with FS and eventually OSP/Construction. You can take a look on their website, they do cable splicing and construction. If you want to protect what you still have, everyone needs to organize. Otherwise, wait your turn. It's coming.
You need in house in some capacity to work on the plant cannot be completely sourced out per the FCC.