Your dreaming, if you think you have 5 years. Maybe for the guys building new plant, FS will be cut in half within a year
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Pro union
I second that
None of you have balls to collectively vote yes so why continue wasting your time posting about it and get on with your lives. For those of you who are in favor for the union, I commend your efforts. For those who oppose, your just flat out stupid with no common sense, and a mild form of retardation to think your going to be just fine and dandy in five years.
I just love the way management comes on this site, and tries to justify the elimination of a workforce.
It is not happening they will not invest any significant amount of money they have done nothing but taken out all extra revenue Ponzi Sceme? Hmmm
To add to what 1cde wrote: is there any benefit to the company that is able to reduce or eliminate the current practice of installation of service to a customers home by going wireless?
*No service lines on the outside or inside of a customers home.
- no calls to ask when tech is coming or to complain tech is late or didn't come at all
*no damage complaints
*no tech got my carpet/floor dirty.
*no wiring complaints
*no tech stole something complaints
*no tech was inappropriate or disrespectful with to me, my wife,daughter, family.
*no longer have overhead of having to keep coax or fiber, or any other hardware available to provide
good service to customer device.
*no ground to install/maintain
*no CLI to monitor and repair
*no employee overhead for field technicians contractor as any home visit by a technician will result in a
charge in which the company not only recovers the expense it incurs by sending a technician
it makes a profit.
...now why would any company do that?
Don't forget that customers are being conditioned to have equipment mailed to them so they can replace their own devices/equipment. In time between going to the local customer walk in and/or having equipment mailed to them will become the norm. The only time that a company employee will be in a customers home as a norm will be for the install. Once wireless technology is developed and cheap enough there is a potential to have the customer plug a wireless adapter into the back of the TV and call in to have the device activated. Install complete. What is happening and will happen is not personal from an industry standpoint it's driven by technology. In most of our lifetimes we will see the cable industry change to one in which there is no person to person contact with the customer. The technology already exists. The WiFi network just needs to be built to support it. It won't matter who you work for down the road. All companies will be like Netflix or Hulu. Technology will make it so.
@1exe and 1ewu, You guys been s---ing on the Dolans titty for so long that you can't come to grips with whats about happen. You can see there is something wrong, you know there is something wrong but you can't admit it to yourselves because its less scary to just tell yourselves that it is all going to work out. But it not, Altice is gonna put a lot of you on the street and I think they are gonna get away with it cause you guys ain't got the balls to do anything about it.
And, for those who think that Verizon uses contractors so the union doesn't matter that's bs VZ's work is all done by Union Techs from line work putting up the poles, hardware copper and fiber cable, to Fios installs/repairs to Core, Specials, Splicing and Central Office work all done by Union workers.
They are doing the same thing that was done by the phone company did decades ago. ATS in practice will be contractors while unionized workers will be similar to the Bell Atlantic Core team. anyone not a member of the core team was a contractor. Over time they gave more and more work to the Contracting groups and reduced operating cost of in house employees to the company. In time the unionized core team almost entirely disappeared. The real threat is to the union employees whose numbers will decrease with attrition. (They will not be replaced 1 for 1. One thing that will change for all will be that you will no longer work in a specific shop or system. You will go where needed as determined by work load and company need. ATS employees get ready to pay more tolls, increased personal vehicle fuel and maintenance cost to get to work. All of you will be buying your own tools and uniforms in time. Lose a tool you will pay for it out of your pocket. Everything you are required to pay for is tax deductible so save your receipts. In truth everyone's world will change even more than it has. Each person must decide how and if they will deal with It. Once fiber to the home is completed the amount of technicians needed will be a lot less. Remember the reliability of fiber makes the need to troubleshoot go away in most cases. How much do you think you will make spending your time in most cases swapping out defective equipment. Probably a lot less than you have grown used to making as a technician that was required to troubleshoot at every job to the degree you have. System monitoring in a fiber to the device system will eliminate most of the troubleshooting you are required to do now.
1exe my thoughts exactly
I don't get it....why don't they just use the techs they have to do the fiber build out instead of creating an entirely new sub-company?
Meaning what? Offers went out over 2weeks ago. Are there more?
Are you sure