Horsemeat

[kyburg]

I just got word that a bunch of my friends worked at AT&T. Note the tense.

Yeah. This time of year - bye bye worky, so long.

I've had to cope with this - last time, it was 1992, then 1993 (yeah, two years in a row, same time of the year...I had the diabetic husband, remember?) - and all I can say is I hope they find wonderfully fun temp jobs that pay as well as that one gig I got at Warner Brothers for six weeks AT Christmas in 1993.

Because the rest is SUCK.

So much for that iPhone...until they have another provider. I was just beginning to soften up a bit towards the idea, too.

And if I didn't have to have them for local service, I surely wouldn't.

Fuckchops.

Comments

[odiedragon.livejournal.com]

I agree - the Massive Layoff bug is totally going around :/ Though I'm starting to think that being a survivor isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Yup, my group escaped a layoff but did get reshuffled and we don't know the big picture at all yet.

(HUGS) to your friends.

[semy-of-pearls.livejournal.com]

It gets better. Heard that the center they are keeping, the one in Texas, is hiring a bunch of new contractors, because they are 'understaffed.'

These are the same contractors who find any means possible to avoid doing the work. Our numbers on metrics outstrip theirs any day of the week.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

The 'you only earn minimum wage when your tips reach it, and THEN you get to keep them' Texas?

They get what they pay for. Hope they all die in a fire.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I don't even like to *call* them AT&T. They are NOT the AT&T I used to tolerate. They are SBC aka Pac Bell aka Teh Debul Monopoly, wearing ATT's sheepskin over their rabid wolverine self. I know they gutted most of ATT's old employees already, at least in the departments I heard anything from.

The remaining idiots can't even give me a consolidated bill - even though we are stuck with them for both local phone AND Internet - without changing our service plan(s) to a more expensive one. (They apparently own our fiber or something. Grr.)

Fuckchops amen.

[turandot.livejournal.com]

Man, that is pretty annoying. Why do companies always fire people before Christmas? Nevermind, I think I just figured that out: no paying out holidays, or vacation time and all that. Still, sucky on their part.