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| | | From: Roozy (Original Message) | Sent: 12/26/2008 9:20 PM |
Warning Warning Warning.
Santa screwed up. He brought my 8 year old son a Shellshocker RC toy for Christmas. This hasn't been on the store shelf for a couple years, so Amazon.com was the choice. Nowhere in the description did it mention about the batteries. Now this isn't your normal "run to Walgreens on Christmas day" type of battery. It's a special 7.2V NiCad and charger. $40 extra (+gas). Now it's really not the extra hour of OT that it takes to pay for it, it's the fact that my 8 year old has this toy he can't play with until we get him the battery. It's not available here in my city of 50,000. So tomorrow morning we drive 100 miles round trip to a town of 8000 to get the only one they have.
Merry Christmas all, it really was a great one. Even with a mishap or two. |
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 And I'm sitting here swearing at having to install a Wii......they even included the batteries. |
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Seems Santa kept the telcos busy this year..... |
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Found this in there too...
http://browser.grik.net/www.fiercetelecom.com/story/2008-year-review-no-rest-labor-unrest/2008-12-23
2008 Year in Review: No rest for labor unrest
December 24, 2008 �?12:54am ET | By Dan O'Shea
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* Windstream looks to cut retiree benefits
* Qwest gets enterprise pricing forbearance
* Verizon, unions extend talks, put off strike
* Telco marketing efforts hit the streets
Labor negotiations are seldom smooth and unfettered by controversy, so perhaps this year's contract disputes between major telcos and their unions are nothing more than business as usual. However, Verizon Communications' contract disagreements with its unions nearly led to a strike, before talks were extended and a deal eventually reached, and Qwest Communications later saw a tentative deal rejected by its union membership. The unions made out fairly well with near-term pay hikes, but in both cases, long-term benefits for some employees were trimmed.
The latter may represent a future that the broader telecom industry workforce could find hard to escape. Embarq and Windstream Communications were among other telcos that stirred retiree anger by their attempts to cut long-term benefits that were costing their operations more and more money. Companies in all types of industries are confronting the difficulties of paying for the livelihood of an increasing large group of retirees. This year's labor difficulties offered just a glimpse of what could be the telecom industry's biggest dilemma this side of shrinking capex in the years to come.
Related articles
Verizon reached a union agreement after tense negotiations
FierceTelecom readers had much to say about the Verizon talks
Qwest and its unions forged a contract agreement in August
The union membership later rejected the Qwest contract
Windstream looked to cut retiree benefits |
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and this...
Embarq retiree lawsuit set to proceed
December 3, 2008 �?10:00am ET | By Dan O'Shea
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* Windstream looks to cut retiree benefits
* Targeted ad tech draws new lawsuit
* BT issues profit warning, eyes pension changes
* Retirees riled by Qwest seeking court costs
A U.S. District Court Judge in Kansas said she would allow a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Embarq retirees over the elimination of healthcare benefits to proceed. This issue, revolving around $300 million in health insurance benefits, first came to light more than a year ago, when the company announced it would no longer provide health insurance or subsidies for Medicare premiums after retirees become eligible for Medicare. Many retirees said the move was particularly annoying because Embarq had dangled ongoing healthcare benefits as encouragement to accept early retirement offers. The decision to drop coverage will affect about 10,000 of the company's 14,500 retirees. Embarq of course now faces a pending acquisition by CenturyTel.
For more:
- The Kansas City Star has this report
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Embarq retirees voice their displeasure in August 2007
Embarq rejected a higher buyout bid to accept CenturyTel's
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Didn't mean to hi-jack your thread Roozy but PPM started it..
Good luck with them batteries, next year buy'em something they can wind up !!! |
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| The wii kicked my ass too PPM, but it is alot of fun... |
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