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I worked here years ago, you could write your own paycheck there. Nothing last forever though.

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Since this is the USA, land of the free, i would think that you're free to by MCI products or not... If you don't like their policy you can simply act against it by not buying their products.. That's the way free-markets work..

I think there was a forum about politics where this sort of messages would be on-topic...
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timvw wrote:Since this is the USA, land of the free, i would think that you're free to by MCI products or not... If you don't like their policy you can simply act against it by not buying their products.. That's the way free-markets work..
I thought the USA was the land of the corporate welfare state. It ends up that "free markets" means that companies are free to behave as they want -- usually the same and badly -- not that consumers are free to make choices among companies that behave differently. The telco market in the US is just one of many examples of this.
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warning: keep this level-headed ...

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MCI is just following the trend in corporate America. It's a crazy cycle, but it has to be expected. If outsourcing leads to greater corporate profits then these companies are doing what they are supposed to: maximize their business earning potential by minimizing costs. This allows them to keep their prices relatively stable while being able to stay in business.

Is the a publicy appealing way to do things? No. But if it was your company, and you had millions of dollars in overhead (not just salaries either, all the things that go along with employees) and an opportunity came up for you to be able to minimize this overhead utilizing various methods, including outsourcing, wouldn't you do it? It is certainly not what people want to see, but in our economy today, it is almost necessary. Unless you are Toyota. They just seem to dodge all of these types of bullets.
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agtlewis wrote:I worked here years ago, you could write your own paycheck there. Nothing last forever though.

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Chuckle, I am not surprised. They really should have closed down earlier. :) I have had a couple of friends work there and I used to work on their equipment 4-5 years ago in that same location. It was the most BIZZARE place I had ever seen. It was almost cult-like the way the team leaders did things. They would start chanting things and everyone in their group would have to join in along with clapping. It made creepy fingers crawl up my spine every time I heard them doing their cute little team building nonsense.

The friends who worked there said it was very high pressure and the turn over rate was astronomical as people either burned out quickly or left because they couldn't make any money. Most people left because they couldn't make anything because what you made was based upon what you sold. Also, you had to make a certain number of phone calls per hour or you were penalized.

Cult-like, sweatshop calling center...

I guess there are quite a few desperate people in Springfield considering the very high turn over rate.

How would you like a job where you had to make hundreds of phone calls a day and over 90% of those phone calls the people either hung up on you or cussed you out. :) Unless you are a masochist and crave rejection. ;)
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Everah wrote:If outsourcing leads to greater corporate profits then these companies are doing what they are supposed to: maximize their business earning potential by minimizing costs.
Perhaps simplistic, short term goals like "greater corporate profits" and "maximize their business earning potential" are not that desireable (See Toyota). But America seems addicted to simplistic, short term goals (as, history has shown, are most empires on the way down).
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ok that's it

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