1 edit | verizon and alltel Its verizon and alltel all over again. This happened with the verizon and alltel merger. People in little rock AR lost their jobs due to the merger. The same thing will happen with century link. | |
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 | | | Re: verizon and alltel my father works for CenturyTel and is now in charge of the business end of both centurytel and embarq... alot going on there. Unfortunately whenever you have a buy out they have to trim the duplication of jobs. Embarq was in money problems to begin with so it prob was just a matter of time. | |
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| TWC and Comcast did it with Adelphia, SBC did it when they took over BS, SBC did it to ATT, it's something that always happens.
And you have to keep in mind, NOT all of Alltel went to VZ. the GSM areas will be going to ATT and the rest of the network will go to ATN.
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|  LocoObviously InsanePremium
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| | Didn't see this coming... At least it appears that most of the cuts were directed to corporate and the field/support techs were spared. | |
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 Z80APremium
join:2009-11-23 | That is the point of the merger To cut cost by eliminating redundant activities. | |
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|  ThrowDemsOutIf you can't convince 'em, confuse 'emPremium
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kudos:4 | Re: That is the point of the merger said by Z80A:To cut cost by eliminating redundant activities. You are right. In mergers the company taken over always loses headquarters, sales, and IT staff. Just part of the process. | |
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| | | | Re: That is the point of the merger It's just funny that in this instance, the smaller company (CenturyTel) took over the larger company (Embarq). Never quite understood that one. | |
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| | |  ChiyoSave Me Konata-ChanPremium
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Charlotte, NC
kudos:1 | Re: That is the point of the merger Was Embarq fat and inefficient? where Century Tel was lean and efficient?
either way in mergers there are always job cuts.
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| Re: That is the point of the merger said by Chiyo:Was Embarq fat and inefficient? where Century Tel was lean and efficient? either way in mergers there are always job cuts. Pretty much. I know Embarq in this territory was geting pretty chubby all around to keep the metaphor rolling. I'd much sooner like to see CenturyTel's staff take total control of the situation which seems like the case with how things have went so far here. Even the CSR's seem to be well on the ball compared to common expectations.
I should also add that Embarq was still topping out with 3/512 service here even though this is a good size town and we are fed off the CO. So they were sorely behind. Now with the CenturyTel merger they are on the move to upgrade that and should have 10/1 service soon (and at the same price Embarq was charging for the 3/512 tier).
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| | | | | | | Re: That is the point of the merger You do realize that any plans in your area to upgrade your speeds was done last year, pre-merger, right? | |
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| Re: That is the point of the merger said by Go Tarheels:You do realize that any plans in your area to upgrade your speeds was done last year, pre-merger, right? A bit belated but actually this has been going on since long before the merger. The last time we had DSL in this area with Embarq was back around '03-'04 and the top tier was still 3/512 back then for the same price it is now. I have no huge miffs with them aside from some shoddy billing practices, but as I said it seems like they have drug their feet on and probably the only reason why they just recently decided to do something (and I am merely speculating here) is due to the impending merger.
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| | | | | | | Not to mention...Embarq's user review average on this very site were on average 10 points ahead of CenturyTel's (mid 70s compared to mid 60s). | |
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| Re: That is the point of the merger said by Hazy Arc:Not to mention...Embarq's user review average on this very site were on average 10 points ahead of CenturyTel's (mid 70s compared to mid 60s). Indeed, but the scores on this site can easily be skewed in both directions in various ways so I don't hold them highly unless a company either is in the dumps or got close to 100s all across the board.
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| | when they start cutting outsourced jobs you can worry then they aren't making any money cause no one in the north american market has a job to pay for stuff cause ...yup they outsourced your job... | |
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| | | Re: when they start cutting outsourced jobs you can worry and more and more its happening to the Union employees.
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