Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

SAN DIEGO SPLICERS

Here’s a group that would actually be more productive after a 50% layoff. Instead of just shucking and jiving at Huts and Central offices they might just have to complete some work. It’s the only group of outside “workers “ that never get dirty. EASY MONEY

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Haiku format:
1st sentence- 5 syllables
Sentence the 2nd- 7 syllables
3rd sentence- 5 syllables again.

Keep with the format please. We ain't trying to do free prose here. Don't try to be some kind of telecomm poet laureate. :)

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Post ID: @3ubx+1jVf0zGS

Here is an alternate haiku for your entertainment:

I'm better than management;
Smart because I'm craft ;
I just got surplussed;
Welcome to prem tech land!!!!!!
(Or sit in the job bank for 6 months hoping for a handout miracle)
(Or be lucky enough to be a tech in the west region where JOG will keep u indefinitely on the payroll waiting for a handout job).

You really can’t make this stuff up. It’s totally true!!!!!!!

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Post ID: @2pui+1jVf0zGS

Was gonna say the same thing. The number of techs in splicing job titles who don’t know Jack squat from applesauce is ridiculously high. A huge number of them only know basic I&R and drive a bucket truck and that’s what qualifies them as “Splicers” I guess. Same can be said for first line managers. Only a small fraction are really great managers and leaders. The rest are just lazy, unskilled former union techs who didn’t want to work outside anymore.

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Post ID: @2mqu+1jVf0zGS

Oh Alperv and Wa---r will save the day !

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Post ID: @2jgo+1jVf0zGS

Here is a haiku for your entertainment:

I'm better than craft;
Smart because I'm management ;
I just got laid off;

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Post ID: @2qmm+1jVf0zGS

I upgraded my work truck today with three sunshades - passenger window, front windshield, drivers side. Midday sun is horrible when taking a nap at the pedestal.

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Post ID: @2ycx+1jVf0zGS

If they worked at an auto factory quality control would be out of their minds! “ What dipsticks forgot the lug nuts?!?!”

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Post ID: @1nej+1jVf0zGS

Yeah, visited a yard one day and saw the hanging out and playing pocket pool. Then off to breakfast. That is easy money !

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Post ID: @1wvm+1jVf0zGS

don’t be a hater, take care of your own business. besides, splicers can have that work. boring and back breaking.thanks to all the splicers out there for your hard work. Merry Christmas

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Post ID: @1yyi+1jVf0zGS

Ya could say the same about half the NTECs in SNDG

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Post ID: @1vry+1jVf0zGS

Do they take turns shucking one day then jive the next day? Another game of cat and mouse ? How fulfilling!

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Post ID: @1zae+1jVf0zGS

Having been a splicer in Tx for 17 years I believe somewhere around 50% are competent. Probably 1/3 are valuable.

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Post ID: @1itv+1jVf0zGS

Spot on.
When I was a Tech in a C.O. I gave a P-d a short and when he couldn't see it on his meter he asked me to run a few thousand pair. I told him H511 NO - tell me what cable & pair you want & I'll send you a tone. Hour later that mo--n calls me & wants to hand off a ticket & he tells me I have to rewire the wool side of my frame. Evidently it was spliced wrong outside for some years and his answer was
a. Me take a Code 5
b. Rewire the frame because the tone shows up wild outside.
Couldn't believe it. When I refused he told me he was calling his boss to transfer it.
When his boss called me, I told him to call my boss - and - Be sure to tell him
that that mo--n wants me to re-wire a few thousand pair.
Splicers.

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Post ID: @opx+1jVf0zGS

Some of these so called splicers don’t even know how to do the job. If a handful of
knowledgeable peeps leave the company there will be a bunch of floundering stooges

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