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Re: Company doublespeak said by WernerSchutz:said by spewak:Whenever a Company cites "Customer experience", LOOK OUT!! 
Being robbed is also an "experience". A bad one, but nowhere do they state it has to be good. Customer experience translation: profits for our stockholders. They do not care about anything else nor have they ever in the past. Once stockholders become involved there is one and only one thing these companies care about and that's profits at any cost. Clearwire has made the profits all at the expense of unsuspecting people who signed up for their service expecting something useable.
As a tech I've had plenty of clients using Clear and most of them thought their computer was broke until we got to the down and dirty and found Clear had throttled them back to dial up speeds. Hell, might as well get two phone lines and bond two dial up modems together and have twice the speed. |
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| said by megarock:said by WernerSchutz:said by spewak:Whenever a Company cites "Customer experience", LOOK OUT!!
Being robbed is also an "experience". A bad one, but nowhere do they state it has to be good. Customer experience translation: profits for our stockholders. They do not care about anything else nor have they ever in the past. Once stockholders become involved there is one and only one thing these companies care about and that's profits at any cost. Clearwire has made the profits all at the expense of unsuspecting people who signed up for their service expecting something useable. It is profits for management that get huge pay and bonuses disguised as paying the "employees". Stockholders get the measly leftovers and ultimately get shafted when the executives greed runs the company into the ground. |
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said by megarock:said by WernerSchutz:said by spewak:Whenever a Company cites "Customer experience", LOOK OUT!!
Being robbed is also an "experience". A bad one, but nowhere do they state it has to be good. Customer experience translation: profits for our stockholders. They do not care about anything else nor have they ever in the past. Once stockholders become involved there is one and only one thing these companies care about and that's profits at any cost. Clearwire has made the profits all at the expense of unsuspecting people who signed up for their service expecting something useable. As a tech I've had plenty of clients using Clear and most of them thought their computer was broke until we got to the down and dirty and found Clear had throttled them back to dial up speeds. Hell, might as well get two phone lines and bond two dial up modems together and have twice the speed. Werner pointed this out, but stockholders have much less say in day to day affairs than people like to believe. The only ones who matter are the board members, and all they care about is their individual power and profits.
There is a reason companies like GM came out exclusively against government provided healthcare when it would have made them far more competitive around the world. GM Canada in fact is a HUGE supporter of single payer healthcare. They wouldn't be able to compete with other car manufacturers if they had to worry about their employees' healthcare.
But GM America is controlled by its board members, and they don't want to pay slightly higher taxes to fund a government option. And that's ultimately what it all boils down to. |
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| said by sonicmerlin:But GM America is controlled by its board members, and they don't want to pay slightly higher taxes to fund a government option. And that's ultimately what it all boils down to.
Trust me, they would like to pay no taxes at all. Last year the average American paid 27 - 30% in taxes. Google paid 2.7 and Rush Limbaugh paid a little under 13. It's all but a given GM paid somewhere in the same range.
As far as the board members go they are generally majority stockholders. There are always tons of stockholders who are very much in the minority and a handful that hold the voting power. If those people become unhappy it's very easy to get rid of the head of the company or anyone else in it. That's why in the end if you take away a companies profits they have no choice but to reverse course because profits are all they are there for. Serving the customers - that's just a joke. |
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