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Old November 19th 03, 12:52 PM
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Wrong analogy.


No, that's the precise analogy.


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Old November 19th 03, 06:53 PM
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"Tom S." wrote in message
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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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Old November 20th 03, 03:55 AM
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Tom S." wrote in message
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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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Old November 20th 03, 04:02 AM
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Tom S." wrote in message
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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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Old November 20th 03, 04:20 AM
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Tom S." wrote in message
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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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Old December 3rd 03, 08:03 PM
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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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