Would you want a sales guy taking on the job of a dentist and drilling your teeth? I sure wouldn't.
A few online courses isn't going to stand in for years of experience. Everyone in the union knows this, and you're not fooling anyone.
To my "lead" HR lads and ladies: If you want to cost cut, start with Stankey's compensation package.
Always refuse to climb the telephone pole in the training class. Fail the class on purpose. Your lawyer will have an easier case should you get injured or die.
Try and get the unsanitary, bug infested central office cleaned, temperature regulated, lights working, restrooms restocked and cleaned this time. Replace the John Wayne TP with something that isn’t rough tough and won’t take cr-p off of anyone. Might improve morale and Purpose.
As a Central office Tech, I'd settle for one, just one bathroom to work. I've used the the "Women's" bathroom since it still has toilet paper from 2015. There has not been a female in our building since 2012.
How funny, CWA is not in a position to financially support a strike. Waiting for the day all unions will be gone.
1 day ago by Anonymous | 13 reactions (+2/-11)
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You will not need to wait very long worrying about the Union. AT&T will purge you from the payroll soon and your new retail job will not pay the mortgage.
1st you lose your toys, 2nd you lose your vehicle to a repo tow truck driver, then the home foreclosure. Seen it more than a few times.
Maybe your wife with sticks around with you, probably not though. She will get half of what's left of your retirement. They alway bail and collect those checks.
Contingency training doesn't mention old, fat guy tired to ladder carry and pulls a hernia. Cost company in lost time, medical cost when clearly he is past his time.
Next time don't hide the test sets on top of the cabinets. Too bad we worked all the orders after we lost a day looking for the test sets. No over time for your CO. HAHA.
We can't find working test sets on a good day, one working T-berd6000 in the CO for 5 or 6 offices we cover.
You worked two or three POTs and one DSL order. You were in an temperature controlled environment. You are a Union BUSTER! Tell yourself that. AT&T values you, they really do.
I'll never forget one of my contingency training classes where this little 5 foot nothing woman had to do the ladder carry. She was strong for her size but her lack of height wouldn't allow her to put the ladder back on the truck properly. She did her best. The instructor said "what are you going to say to the guy behind you whose car just got destroyed by the ladder you didn't secure"? She just calmly looked at him and said "I'm going to hand him the AT&T number and AT&T can explain to him the logic of someone like me being out here pretending to be a repair girl with a tuck and ladder". The instructor realizing there was nothing he could say just nodded his head. The entire class busted out laughing.
Ok, you don't want to go to the dentist and you don't want to update your skills. Lazy much?
How funny, CWA is not in a position to financially support a strike. Waiting for the day all unions will be gone.
Try and get the unsanitary, bug infested central office cleaned, temperature regulated, lights working, restrooms restocked and cleaned this time. Replace the John Wayne TP with something that isn’t rough tough and won’t take cr-p off of anyone. Might improve morale and Purpose.
Next time don't hide the test sets on top of the cabinets. Too bad we worked all the orders after we lost a day looking for the test sets. No over time for your CO. HAHA
Yeah, I guess we can probably be honest here, we're all friends;) I did the training 3 times. It was fun to participate, as for me, it was in another state, and also required some travel, hotels and food covered... good times. The training itself was fun, but we all knew no one would actually climb on a darn pole and splice cable or whatever it is we allegedly learned. Instructors always knew no one is doing any real work, they didn't really train hard either. Heck, believe it or not, we were even told at one point that if it comes to that, all we were really expected to do was to drive a company van to a location, look around, pretend like we're checking things out, go tell the customer that we're sorry, but it's not something we can do at that time and that we would send someone else over as soon as we can. Then move on to the next "job". It's all for show.
I was originally hired to be a I&R tech. Then I completely failed the hearing test. (I can’t hear high tones at all). So they said I don’t qualify and gave me an inside position instead.
Odd thing. My not qualifying to be a technician doesn’t prevent them from making me be a technician during work stoppages. So which is it? Is the hearing a safety issue or not?
I sat in the van and took naps all day in that long weekend strike. There was zero training for that. If it happens again I’m still planning on doing nothing. Let it back up.
If the union strikes, I believe it will be longer than the 4 days they were out in 2019 for the SE contract negotiations. Like the last time, I’ll sit around and watch the “training videos”, it will be a nice distraction from my increasing workload. I hope the union gets a fair contract, we all benefit when labor is successful.
If management is forced to dispatch, take or work a load, we wont be efficient or competent and safety is a major concern for those of us working outside. I and the majority of my peers respect the skills and experience it takes to become a competent technician. Don’t worry we can’t replace you so, good luck and hopefully both sides will negotiate in good faith from the start!
The only thing required is to know where the sac boxes are to park at for the shortest distance to a coffee shop.
I've been involved in CP training many times, and the one thing that I learned during each CP training cycle was how to take CP training courses. Did I learn how to actually do the job I was going to fill during a work stoppage? No, but I did learn how to take the training!!!
The company is so low on managers that if there was a strike and a significant number of managers were called to contingency, it would mean disaster.
I miss the old days of contingency training when they'd send you to another market for "training" which was actually a 3-day vacation on the company dime. Nobody took it seriously or actually learned anything.
If the union had any guts, they'd actually go on strike & make all these middle managers get out & crawl around under houses all day. The company would have to give in within a week.
Many employees don’t want to go to the office to actually do their primary job. Thinking there will be any dedication to take on additional work is crazy!
stop group thinking when it comes to voting.
why do you think they keep so many managers on the payroll?
Yes it’s pointless. Last time we just sat around at the field office all day and weren’t allowed to do our regular job during that time. Just sat around and did nothing for a week. Whatever. I get paid the same either way.
It's just a way to seek leverage before and during negotiations, even if customer service suffers.
Be concerned what the union reps do or fail to do. What 'managers' do or don't do is not important. Don't be sold out.