What if every terminated Comcast employee, as a result of this unprecedented round of layoffs, refused to use any of Comcast services once terminated? Part of this has got to be for that bump in stock price that all the soul-less tech companies are doing/have done. How much of an impact to you think it would have? Let's say of the 180k workforce they lost 100k of subscribers in the month of Nov? (Arbitrary numbers folks, no insider info into the actual amount of layoffs.)
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Oh, I discontinued my customer relationship with Comcast long ago. Right about the time Comcast decided that an oppositional relationship with their employee base was the best way forward.
I did it right after i woke up the next day. Don’t forget to keep your receipt in a safe place when returning equipment! Those ghouls will come back to haunt you someday claiming you didn’t return anything.
The thing is, Comcast is expensive. So if I were to get let go, Comcast services would be cancelled anyway, and then I'd bring in wireless services only. There are much cheaper options available in the market. Comcast aint all that, but hey "we're a technology company" now.
@ac *FDX, but yeah. Super dud. Caused crazy service issues that they couldn’t fix for months. Still experience issues with it
Remember that any discouraging posts whether about this or unionizing etc could be posted by leadership themselves to discourage it.
@a2 They bet on some FDM software based method to support symmetrical speeds. It turned out to be a dud. Instead of doing the hard (and expensive) work of laying fibre, they sent that money back to shareholders trying to support the stock price as you said. The amount of short term thinking by leadership is pretty incredible. There's no coming back from a decade plus of continuous short term thinking.
@a5 That scale of customer loss is actually mind-blowing.
I know you want a big “sc--w you” but the 1 missed net add won’t mean much compared to the continuing decline of Coax networks due to their lack of customer service and innovation. Instead the biggest sc--w you, in your tool belt is to take the business knowledge with you. This company is still reeling internally from past re-orgs.
@a2 the whole idea that they should have spent money installing fiber is a strawmans argument. we compete with fiber and currently those installing fiber are taking massive hits to do so. innovation is an issue but the fiber argument is wrong
Yeah. I think they already factored in that the employees who were let go would cut as part of the projections.
Lol dude they already lost 144,000 more subs this quarter 😂 and that's broadband alone. And a quarter million cable subs. In one quarter and it's projected to increase drastically into 2027.
@a2 I've been talking to some other folks and that was not the general conclusion. I for one live in a place where Fios is inferior to Xfinity because we're near a dead zone. It's a gamble cutting off my nose despite my face but curious if it would have any impact or also if this is a consideration at all for the companies doing mass lay-offs.
That's not even a question and why Comcast in this mess to begin with.
Digital antenna for local broadcast + fiber internet + streaming services.
I mean, aren't we going to do that anyway? I was actually sad when I cancelled my Verizon services when I was hired because the employee perk for cable/internet was $30 and I was paying $100 for verizon. The issue was the Verizon service was way, WAY better than Comcast in my area. I went from never having any internet downtime to having to restart my router at least once a week and loosing connect once every month or so.
And then there was the speed. If Comcast had taken any of those billions of dollars in stock buybacks and sunk all that into fiber layout, we'd probably not even be in this mess right now. We would have had more revenue options, and at the very least our service would have been much more competitive in the market.
I'm switching back to Verizon as soon as I leave this he-l hole.
yeah that'll show 'em