pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
 ·Comcast
|  Executive Pay Cut?
Did any of the executives at Earthlink offer to take pay cuts for the better of the company?
Outsourcing tech support almost always turns out to be a bad idea. We've already seen Dell and AT&T bring back outsourced tech support jobs because of customer backlashes. I'm pretty certain these executives have pretty big golden parachutes, as they will need them once they have driven the rest of Earthlink's business away.
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ddg4005
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join:2001-08-22
Bronx, NY
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| An exec take a pay cut to save a company? That'll be the day. Unfortunately it looks like Earthlink is on it's last legs. I expect either a cableco or telco to pick them up for cheap real soon.
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TheWickerMan
join:2002-04-09
Enola, PA
| I used to have dialup with Mindspring years ago, and even after Earthlink swallowed them up I was still happy with them. I dropped them the for cable a few years ago, and I must have done it right before the whole outsourcing mess happened, because I remember talking to an American guy when I called in to cancel. Just recently, I needed to call them for a friend who I was trying to set up a router for, and ended up talking to a heavily-accented guy who claimed his name was "James." Like I really believed that. 
Earthlink used to have a nice big building in my area, which you could see from the highway. They closed it once they outsourced everyone, and it's been sitting there empty ever since. |
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raptor1418
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join:2002-12-03
Denver, CO
 ·magicjack.com
 ·Mesa Networks
| reply to ddg4005
Here is a good example of an Exec taking a pay cut to help stave off layoffs or downturn as they put it.
»www.xilinx.com/prs_rls/xil_corp/···tune.htm This was pulled from Paragraph 4.
Xilinx is recognized on this year's list for protecting its employees from the high technology industry downturn by working closely with employees to come up with innovative cost-cutting measures to avoid layoffs, for instance, a sliding scale of pay cuts for everyone except the lowest paid personnel, while CEO Roelandts took a 20 percent pay cut.
Now whether something else was given in turn for taking that pay cut I do not know. |
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boober321
join:2003-07-15
Milwaukee, WI
·ViaTalk
| reply to pnh102
Makes me glad I jumped ship on Earthlink. There were the worst internet company I have ever dealt with. They promised cheap rates, then renigged. They promised retention rates and bonuses and never came through and they never addressed a single line issue I had, they would pawn me off to Roadrunner, who wasn't my carrier. Time Warner fixed every issue I had, whether it was their problem or not. I'd never go back to EL, I hope they die in flames- seeing as almost no American jobs would be lost at this point. |
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indy0365
join:2001-08-25
Franklin, IN | reply to ddg4005
»www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/···35.shtml
day has arrived paycut |
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