AT&T Exec Gives FCC The Finger After T-Mobile Announces Layoffs
Really? I mean, really?
Yesterday, 1,900 T-Mobile employees got some very bad news -- they would all soon be out of jobs, as the company announced their intention to shut down seven call centers. That in and of itself is a shame, but AT&T's reaction to the announcement is even more shameful.
You see, AT&T's Jim Cicconi (their Senior Executive Vice President of External and Legislative Affairs, no less) took to the company's public policy blog to say that "AT&T promised to preserve these very same call centers and jobs if our merger was approved."
Don't you see? AT&T could've saved those jobs, if only the merger was approved! This didn't need to happen!
Please.
source: techcrunch.com
24 Mar 2012
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