re: #444 lawhawk

No creepier or greedier than any of the other Baby Bell spinoffs, which are all congealing and reforming into the next generation of telco provider that engages in the same shady dealings with customers and employees.

The Verizon strike drags on, and Verizon is now threatening cutting off health benefits for striking workers by August 31 if they don’t agree to their terms, which are a major cut in benefits at a time when Verizon as a whole is doing gangbusters.

But at the same time, the striking workers have to realize that the landline business (which is where the union is operating) is a shrinking business model - even with FiOS) and needs to recognize new marketplace. There should be room for negotiation and an agreement where neither side is entirely happy, but it looks like both sides are settling in for Armageddon and the customers are getting screwed (myself included in that batch).

Heard about the threatened cut-off of healthcare benefits. Screw Verizon too. Earthlink and Comcast are a couple of sleeze bags as well. In fact, I would venture to guess that all telecom companies are run by assholes. Probably worse than the airline industry.

That’s our new legacy in America. Creepy, greedy, whiny ass companies with a foot in the government door — which is something AT&T has been working on in order to approve their latest merger. That is they’ve been spreading the cash to particular politically appealing non-profit groups in order to garner favoritism from the current administration. The mafia wish they had this gig going on with them.

This pisses me off to no end. They shouldn’t have taken 1G. It’s would technically have to have gone into overage charges or 10 bucks for 1GB. This was 2 days ago:

AT&T Msg: Youve used 65% of your data plan allowance. Overage bills @ $10/1GB. Tip: Mobile Data is unlimited over Wifi. Learn more at att.com

I had 400MB left according to the meter.

These guys should all start selling used cars.