Posted on 12/14/2016 3:33:36 PM PST by LouieFisk
Comcast has issued a statement apologizing for this week’s incident.
“When I watched this video I was very concerned by what I saw,” says Ed Marchetti, SVP of Technical Operations, Comcast Cable, in a statement emailed to Consumerist. “Our employees should always protect people and treat them with respect no matter what the situation. Safety matters most – especially in dangerous weather conditions like this.
“We are actively investigating what happened when our technicians were on site to restore services during an outage and we will reach out to those who were impacted by this incident.
“Within the next 24-48 hours, my team leaders will meet with our technicians across our company to use this as an example of how important it is to make everyone’s safety a priority in everything we do.
“And just as important, there’s no place for disrespect – treating people the right way is the only way to work.”
(Excerpt) Read more at consumerist.com ...
Best to err on the conservative side.
If those Comcast workers were to have that same exact conversation with a cop that they had with the guy doing the video they would have been arrested and/or shot. Too bad that didn’t happen.
They were knowingly endangering lives and they didn’t give a sh*t.
Disgusting.
A$$hat that filmed the issue should have stood at the top of the hill flagging down cars to slow down instead of continual b!tching at the workers. He made his point to them. He was aware of the issue and besides his little “I put up additional cones” (which weren’t cones) did nothing to stop further slide-offs and accidents.
Blah Blah Blah..everyone that slid off the road was using excessive speed for conditions because if they were not they would have been able to control their vehicles.
The ones that got rear ended were rear ended by some idiot using excessive speed for conditions.
IMO some of the cars were going pretty fast for the conditions. I think the Comcast guy was right using his truck as a barricade to protect himself from the cars. Could he have put cones at the crest of the hill? Probably if he had them.
One of the dumber things in the video was they guy saying he put his own cones up after the Comcast guy didn't put any more out. If he already had them, why didn't he deal with the problem when he saw it instead of rag on the Comcast guy?
Step 2 for all of these drivers is to pay a visit to the local hospital and get medical complaints on the record. I do not encourage insurance fraud of any kind, but Comcast will likely to be far more amenable to paying for the physical damage to the cars if they are facing the prospect of a half-dozen personal injury claims on top of all that.
It’s gonna be an expensive day for comcast...
no its not
dream on
The AH that was bitching at the tech should have called the cops and moved on.Problem solved.
The reason they slid off or crashed is they were not driving the road conditions. Speed kills.
If you rear end someone’ or slide off, whose fault is it EVERY time?......YOU.
If a kid pulls out in front of you on a bike and you slam on your brakes and the guy behind you rear ends you do you get to sue the kids parents or the kid..Nope.
Failure to have your vehicle under control and the guy that rear ended you,following to close.
Oh well
Using a vehicle to protect a work crew in the roadway is one thing. In this case, they are using the truck to block an active travel lane while the work is being done on the side of the road. This sort of thing should have work zone protection properly laid out.
Yes it is.
The evidence of this is the explanation the driver gives when he describes how many cones he laid out in the road -- "one for every ten miles per hour" or something like that.
If that statement he made accurately reflects the Comcast protocols for delineating a work zone, then they're probably in a heap of trouble because any such standards are almost certainly intended to be used on a normal road surface, not an icy one.
I saw the previous thread on this. I finally watched the video just now. Several times.
With the exception of the car that got rear ended, I blame the drivers. That was not a blind hill and there was plenty of room to stop. I have to stop for deer all the time. I also came up on something like this on glare Ice when I was only 16. I managed to stop by getting into the gravel shoulder and use it in intervals. As it pulled me off the road, I’d release my brakes, and get back close to the road. Did it about five times before I finally came to a stop.
The guy in the ram REALLY did not know how to drive in the snow.
Was this in Florida or something?
A$$hat that filmed the issue should have stood at the top of the hill flagging down cars to slow down instead of continual b!tching at the workers.
A$$hat that filmed the issue should have stood at the top of the hill flagging down cars to slow down instead of continual b!tching at the workers.
And then the police will look at the ticket they have for driving at an unsafe speed and laugh and laugh at them.
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