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![]() "Tom S." wrote in message news ![]() Wrong analogy. No, that's the precise analogy. |
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![]() "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net... "Tom S." wrote in message news ![]() Wrong analogy. No, that's the precise analogy. Privatization for the Bells was the end of human Toll Call connection, in favor of automation. Now a collect call for 20 minutes costs less than the first minute of a direct dial toll call once did. |
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![]() "Tarver Engineering" wrote in message news ![]() "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net... "Tom S." wrote in message news ![]() Wrong analogy. No, that's the precise analogy. Privatization for the Bells was the end of human Toll Call connection, in favor of automation. Now a collect call for 20 minutes costs less than the first minute of a direct dial toll call once did. The Bell's were always private companies, but with legal monopolies. It was the introduction of COMPETITION, in the form of MCI (who essentially started it off) and other than drove the Bells to compete. They could not do it with labor intensive processes. |
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![]() "Tom S." wrote in message ... "Tarver Engineering" wrote in message news ![]() "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net... "Tom S." wrote in message news ![]() Wrong analogy. No, that's the precise analogy. Privatization for the Bells was the end of human Toll Call connection, in favor of automation. Now a collect call for 20 minutes costs less than the first minute of a direct dial toll call once did. The Bell's were always private companies, but with legal monopolies. It was the introduction of COMPETITION, in the form of MCI (who essentially started it off) and other than drove the Bells to compete. They could not do it with labor intensive processes. Payroll is where the money is. |
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![]() "Tarver Engineering" wrote in message ... "Tom S." wrote in message ... "Tarver Engineering" wrote in message news ![]() "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net... "Tom S." wrote in message news ![]() Wrong analogy. No, that's the precise analogy. Privatization for the Bells was the end of human Toll Call connection, in favor of automation. Now a collect call for 20 minutes costs less than the first minute of a direct dial toll call once did. The Bell's were always private companies, but with legal monopolies. It was the introduction of COMPETITION, in the form of MCI (who essentially started it off) and other than drove the Bells to compete. They could not do it with labor intensive processes. Payroll is where the money is. And headcount is what gives unions and executives POWER. |
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Tom S. wrote:
Payroll is where the money is. And headcount is what gives unions and executives POWER. This is very important. I actually spent some time working for AT&T post-breakup. We were putting into place automation, as it happens, within various divisions of the company. Managers often resisted this for the "headcount" reason. In fact, one came out and stated quite clearly, in one meeting, that he'd do everything he could to cause our project to fail if it threatened to reduce his staffing levels in any way. On the other hand, on my exit interview I was told a story by the area whatchamacallit. He told me of a time when he built a phone (this was actually while at some company that AT&T later bought). He chose to use internal components, priced in dollars, rather than TI components, priced in pennies. That was because it was his job to promote "the company". Of course, his phone was never released as it couldn't compete. Weird place, with a lot of strange ideas of what is good or bad. - Andrew |
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