The job market is improving!!!
Just not in America.
Thanks, Obama.
Thanks, liberals. Nice work.
Free Trade:
We TRADE your job for someone in a 3rd world country
You now get FREE Stuff.
I would have been mad at this in the past, but one study shows that Americans will choose lower prices over “Made in USA”. The businesses have no choice but to outsource to compete.
When you look at all of the governmental administrative burden that these companies must contend with, cutting labor costs is the only way they can stay in business.
Please stop whining about offshoring and start whining about the insane governmental abuses of business, get rid of OSHA, EPA, IRS, etc. and they will be very happy to pay good wages. They need and want good people, but if the choice is to close up shop or offshore, they’re going to offshore.
Employees can also take a pay cut. How many offered to do that to help keep the company in the black.
and i heard the Verizon workers want 6.5% raise. geesh. who gets that much anymore except young people on the low end of the spectrum that they are trying to keep?
This is as Ted and John and the rest of the GOPe like it.
Vote accordingly.
Verizon, without notifying me, just switched my internet service over to something called Frontier Communications. Apparently, at least in CA, Verizon got out of the ISP game.
They also switched my email service to AOL. AOL used to be an ISP. Now they only have email.
I’ve always despised AOL so I don’t use them. I opened up a gmail account. Much better than AOL anyway.
Is Verizon’s corporate headquarters in one of those places that require a $15/hour minimum wage?
Hmmm?
Go with T Mobile. Great service and very acceptable coverage, better than I had with verizon.
Call center people have all been delightful, sharp, helpful, happy AMERICANS!
After 6 months I cant recommend them enough.
Damn, I’d boycott and change my service, but where oh where?
I liked this quote from the New Yorker:
“In sum, what we are seeing is a fight between a company stuck in a business for which it has no enthusiasm, and workers stuck with a company to which there is no alternative. Wall Street analysts have suggested that Verizon should sell all of its landline business, but there is no natural buyer. What’s clear is that McAdam and others have a vision of the future with no wires and, consequently, with no unions.”
Oh, great. I get to talk to another Vietnamese, whose English is so awful I can understand only about every eighth word. Or perhaps I will get “Steve” in Bombay.
How I hate foreign call centers and the companies who use them.
I had 31 years with Verizon Business which was formerly Bill McGowan's old company MCI.
My 401K was destroyed by The WorldCom buyout and the subsequent Corporate Accounting Scandal, but I decided to retire anyway with what little I have been able to build up again since then.
Bernie Ebbers is still in Federal (PMITA) prison and will no doubt die there. Bernie was Canadian-born too, just like Ted Cruz!
One thing I love about Verizon is that when I call for tech support, almost all the time the reps speak perfect English. If that changes, so might we.