What are your thoughts on EISP in 2018?
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I'll tell you tomorrow
I hear 3Q18 a super Eipp is coming out for wireline on Long island due to the aging workforce and injuries. Cheaper and quicker to hire temps to get the 5G rolled out.
I will take any at this point
I just want the regular isp.
My Local just posted a bunch of tech. openings including temporary FIOS techs. Hope they are doing this in anticipation of making an EISP offer to get us off payroll. I sure hope so!
It's not a layoff nitwit.
They always have layoffs before the holidays (Oct/Nov)
..... nothing new
2yav is correct!!!
Feb 2018....haven't heard anything except what someone posted on here. Oct 2017 I've heard rumors from several good sources....
Hashtag FEB2018EISP
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Summer temps are just that...SUMMER TEMPS. In over 31 years, I've never heard about a spring,fall or winter temp. They hire summer temps then after summer either let them go or make them full time....so being that October is a fall month, I would think that the summer temp dilemma would be over, this allowing the company to offer an eisp. As stated earlier, it would make financial sense for the company to offer an eisp to get people with five weeks vacation, are at the top of the pay scale, and have a pension coming to them...off of the payroll and replace them with someone with only two weeks vacation, at the bottom of the pay scale (most cases it takes five years to reach top pay), and has no pension coming, only an enhanced 401k. The company has to pay insurance on the pension for EACH employee, so if the employee takes the lump sum, the company would not have to pay for insurance for all of the people that take it. The company wants to get rid of every employee with a pension and be left with a workforce that only has a enhanced 401k...so the longer it takes for someone to leave, the more it costs the company. The fastest way to get rid of employees with a pension is to offer an eisp. Any sound arguments against this logic?
I hate to break it to the guy who said the October eisp has more merit than the July eisp because in July they couldn't offer the eisp cause they had summer part time hires working . If you look on the website indeed ,they are hiring all kinds of part time FIOS techs , hired from 6 months to 36 months so now what ? fall hires don't effect the eisp. Bottom line is someday there will be an eisp but none of these rumors have any merit whatever!
Yes @likb why don't you rebut that and dazzle us with some more bullsh*t!
I agree with you , the fact that they say check your mailbox is suspect. If they were "in the know" they would know the union would know and post before any mailings went out. And posting that an eisp is coming out and not concerned about that posting but saying if they post titles and area's would expose them , as if no other 3rd ,4th levels would know is false and playing on peoples emotions who would like to retire . Sad someone would do this. Hang in as long as you can!
I think that person is full of S#$^t! Watch your mailbox? the union would be notified before any mailings and it would be posted along with titles and numbers on union web sights. Sworn to silence ? why would posting titles get you in trouble? This is BS i'm afraid.
@1ikb sorry I'm sworn to silence. I could tell you but then you would have to be violently eliminated. Just watch your mail is all I can tell you!
I hope you are right!! I'm chomping at the bit to go. Did they mention titles or areas?
October is the eisp. My 3rd level confirmed it to me personally with the assurance I would never disclose names or any information on the upcoming eisp.
July 21st rumor was just some troll starting sh*t...it was stated over and over that they would not offer an eisp while there are summer temps working....but people kept on feeding into it. Now the October rumor has some merit. I've heard about it over a month ago from a very reliable source.
Let's see, July 21st EISP rumor came and went, we still have the September, October and now February 2018 rumor one of these times someone is bound to be right although I consulted my 8- ball and it said "doubtful".
I heard October 2017....is February 2018 in addition to this or is the October rumor wrong?
Hey lamont, it's pertinent, because Frederick did indeed pass away. #FEB2018. Start saying it, hashtag Feb 2018
@OSdxCkk-1cgj, I once overheard Fred Sanford, saying, "This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!"
Not sure if that's pertinent though.
My 4th level is saying February 2018 is going to be the big one, like today's eclipse if you live in Tennessee good. He won't commit officially but did the wink wink thing to our group this morning.
I thought they said one was supposed to be offered in October 2017??? Did you give up on that one. Haha. This board is a joke!
I can't stand another day!
They might ,but dont think that they will give you any extra on the esip,this company doesnt care about anybody,so you leave when your ready,if there is no incentive to leave stay an extra couple of years and do your time until you are ready to leave that what im going to do and i have 32 years but i started young.