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Mactron
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| Re: Can it get much worse? said by insomx  :Can comcast employees get much worse? Blowing people's houses up, killing kids and torturing cats.... Their NOT Comcast employees. Comcast subcontracts out a lot to installer/repair contractors. Apparently Comcast doesn't require much background screening in their contracts. 
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insomx
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Canada | Re: Can it get much worse? Same difference, it's up to them to check out their contractors. | |
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Hollis, NH | Re: Can it get much worse? KatherynV and Karl both know that "Comcast" in the headline is much more misleading interesting than the actual organization involved. | |
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2 edits | Re: Can it get much worse? So is the percentage of comcast contractors that screw up and get into the news really any higher than that of any other company? Comcast has a huge number of employees and contractors, so you know they have a pretty good number of idiots, just like all other larger companies. There are a lot of idiots in the world.
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Titus Pullo
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| said by Mactron :said by insomx :Can comcast employees get much worse? Blowing people's houses up, killing kids and torturing cats.... Their NOT Comcast employees. Comcast subcontracts out a lot to installer/repair contractors. Apparently Comcast doesn't require much background screening in their contracts. Yes, the unstoppable buck syndrome. As companies subcontract more aspects of their business out to the cheapest possible parties, Joe consumer can only expect this to get worse.
If company C works for company B who was hired by company A to do a job, how much worry is there with the employees of company C about company A's reputation?
Comcast is asking for everything it gets by chasing cheap labor, especially when the people they sub turn around and re-sub the sub out to another party. It's ridiculous, and why this country is on the slow swirl, currently held in place by the bowl splatter. Ooooh, that's an image ...
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| Re: Can it get much worse? said by Titus Pullo :Comcast is asking for everything it gets by chasing cheap labor, especially when the people they sub turn around and re-sub the sub out to another party. It's ridiculous, and why this country is on the slow swirl, currently held in place by the bowl splatter. Ooooh, that's an image ... -- Been that way for years and not just Comcast, I think the big shift came late in the 1990's but it was starting to be done before that too. We saw signs of the sub-contract syndrome when the California tech job market crashed around 1992 and we were all trying to find new jobs.
I know that in 1999 when I was looking for a job, that was what most of the offers were, contracting firms, and I am an engineer. Had one job offer for Mississippi that I found out that I was talking to a contractor to another contractor who had the contract for an engineering job on a military base. No thanks!
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