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Originally Posted by Escapee
The pay problem for Technicians/Engineers in the Headend/Switch/Field has always existed, I have always thought it's down to the way the company/senior managers (including HR) feels these employees are like something stuck to the bottom of their shoes. |
Cabletel always were poor payers, I worked for them for about a year & a Half on shift (the shift rates were cr*p but I needed a job quickly!) at the time the annual bonus was included as part of your salary, not extra to as it is today. So you couldn't really quote your annual salary because you didn't know what it would be!! I believe a lot of yankee companies used to operate like this at the time, Nynex for one. The major problems came when they bought the consumer Co division off Cable & Wireless Comms, C&W were really good payers (and still are), this meant a lot of ex CWC staff were being paid much more than "old" Ntl staff and that disparity still exists 4 years down the line!
The "management" didn't like staff to compare notes on salaries (and still don't), saying it was a private & personal matter for each individual, they seem to operate on a divide the staff and rule basis, they don't want to address the problem because they know it would cost them too much wonga.
