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So Jack...What would you say to my men if you were in my shoes..."Suck it up guys and be thankful you've got a job!"?

I fire people who are "Dead Wood"...The first tech I fired when I took this position had 24 years with the company. He thought he was untouchable. He openly bragged to the Line Crew..."Well, vacation is coming up...Gotta start padding the overtime!". I can track my men on GPS and I ride with...

And truth be told, I wish we had competition. This company has been the sole provider for telephony up here for over 100 years. These people have no clue of what it means to compete!! I cut my teeth in capital venture funded startups in Silicon Valley. I love competition! I carve it! But these...

I put my ass on the line and my men won't stand for themselves...Proves to me why we won't ever have a revolution in this country (although it's sorely overdue)..."Testicular Fortitude" seems to have been bred out of most.

But really, this whole thing is now academic. I put my ass on the line for my men and they won't even stand up for themselves...despite the fact that they're being squeezed. At this point I shouldn't let it bother me, but my conscience won't let go of it. The person in this company "calling the...

Doubtful...We're an ILEC (Independent Local Exchange Carrier). We are protected by tariffs from someone like Verizon coming in and providing dial tone. We're not a private company. We're a Utility company regulated by the PUC.

That thought has definitely crossed my mind, but as Duke states, these jobs fall in the "skilled trades" genre. My guys cross-connect dial tone across miles in rural countryside, troubleshoot dial tone from Central Office to the house, install/troubleshoot DSL, install/troubleshoot CATV and...

Understood and thank you. Wanna know what's fucked up about this whole thing though? I was informed by the CWA (Communications Workers of America) that I, as a manager, cannot organize my men. As much as they can appreciate what I'm trying to do for my men....I'm "The Enemy". They need to talk...

As a Conservative...I implore anyone of the same mindset to watch "The Motorcycle Diaries". I've said it in earlier posts...."I understand how men like Che Guevara are created by their governments." As a conservative, I cannot in good conscience stand idly by and watch my men be exploited for...

As long as we get our Nike running shoes, we don't care. Here's a true story... I've traveled to Indonesia twice. On my last visit, I stayed at a resort run by Germans. The "lead servant" was named Wayan ("First Born"). Anyway, he invited us to his home for dinner. We "broke bread" together. We...

I fight that demon myself.

Heh...I like Like Chris...You post shit like that though...Heads might explode.

But at least he was born in the USA...I've seen the Birth Certificate.

Indeed. +1

Allow me to "set the stage"....so to speak. I've been anti-union for most of my life. I come from a blue collar family and my father was a member of the Machinist Union working for Peterbilt. He worked there for 23 years and was promptly fired when they moved the facility in Newark to...

Not sure what the man was thinking. I'm no fan of Clinton, but deep down inside I feel that his intentions were good and I mean that. It's a classic case of the old adage "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."...Agreed?

**cough **cough** Gramm-Leach-Bliley **cough

209-419-0901...Call me.

<sigh> OK Munch. You've offered the community, myself included, an insight as to the person you really are. You've exposed yourself. Even I make mistakes from time to time. I'm fully aware of the difference between the possesive and the contraction. It's when the errors are consistent and...

Don't be a nazi? The fact that you're smoked is a bullshit excuse. Seamaiden, who could smoke your ass out in a heartbeat, and I have involved political and scientific conversations everyday and she remains articulate and precise. Don't feed me your inept excuse for your lack of education...