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14 Apr 2016, 1:15 pm

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14 Apr 2016, 1:27 pm

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/13/why-tens-of-thousands-of-workers-from-verizon-to-mcdonalds-are-walking-off-the-job-thursday/

Hmmm, more reason to stick with T-mobile. :P


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14 Apr 2016, 1:33 pm

Here's The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job. http://tiny.iavian.net/9uco


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14 Apr 2016, 7:19 pm

So ... service at a fast-food chain and a telecommunications corporation just Became marginally worse. How does this affect me? It's hard to tell the difference between the presence and absence of service people when their service is lousy to begin with.



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14 Apr 2016, 8:18 pm

Fnord wrote:
So ... service at a fast-food chain and a telecommunications corporation just Became marginally worse. How does this affect me? It's hard to tell the difference between the presence and absence of service people when their service is lousy to begin with.

That is due to management rules.

Many of the people who walked off for Verizon work in the infrastructure part of the company.

To be fair this is the same Verizion that is refusing to fix copper/DSL lines even in areas where Fiber isn't available for reasons CEO and his team won't reveal.


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14 Apr 2016, 10:43 pm

nurseangela wrote:
Here's The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job. http://tiny.iavian.net/9uco

I work at Burger King on Saturdays. That means I'm a burger-flipping rob0t! But I haven't put anyone out of a job yet. :D


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15 Apr 2016, 4:20 pm

nurseangela wrote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/13/why-tens-of-thousands-of-workers-from-verizon-to-mcdonalds-are-walking-off-the-job-thursday/

So, where do you stand on these issues. Or, are you simply putting a provocative news item on the board to see what sticks. Either way, it would be helpful to know...



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16 Apr 2016, 9:40 am

marcb0t wrote:
nurseangela wrote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/13/why-tens-of-thousands-of-workers-from-verizon-to-mcdonalds-are-walking-off-the-job-thursday/

Hmmm, more reason to stick with T-mobile. :P


If T-Mobile is using a CDMA network, then they're leasing bandwidth from Verizon.--Can you here me now? As far as McD's, who cares, I don't eat their toadburgers anyways.


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18 Apr 2016, 11:20 am

pcuser wrote:
nurseangela wrote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/13/why-tens-of-thousands-of-workers-from-verizon-to-mcdonalds-are-walking-off-the-job-thursday/

So, where do you stand on these issues. Or, are you simply putting a provocative news item on the board to see what sticks. Either way, it would be helpful to know...

Crickets...