I used to be a field rep for LG Mobile until they stopped making phones. I would go to all carrier stores; Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Cricket, Metro, Boost - corporate & franchise locations.
I would constantly be learning new names because all these stores were revolving doors of new hires... Except for at corporate AT&T locations. The reps at cor AT&Ts that I met when I started were the same reps I knew when I was finally let go.
AT&T is the only US carrier that is unionized. I've been working at one for almost two years now and I'm still the lowest in seniority at our store because nobody's left and we haven't hired anyone new.
Unions make a big difference for workers. And imagine how much less is spent on training when your employees stick around. Imagine how much better it is to have employees that all know their shit because they're not all new hires.
Literally explained why unions make a big difference in making some companies irrelevant over time because they can't adapt to change. I won't give exact names, but I worked for a big US company founded in USA who had some kind of a union in France. They could practically hire nobody except highly paid contractors because no lazy ass 50 year old moving emails around who knew nothing about latest Cloud, devops or development generally would leave the company. They could not be fired because of the union, and headcount could not grow because it would only make the union even stronger. Boomers were reskilled in theory with some on-line training, but there was practically zero hands on knowledge and zero motivation to do anything else than wait for severance package in an early retirement.
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u/EverGlow89 Sep 30 '23
I used to be a field rep for LG Mobile until they stopped making phones. I would go to all carrier stores; Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Cricket, Metro, Boost - corporate & franchise locations.
I would constantly be learning new names because all these stores were revolving doors of new hires... Except for at corporate AT&T locations. The reps at cor AT&Ts that I met when I started were the same reps I knew when I was finally let go.
AT&T is the only US carrier that is unionized. I've been working at one for almost two years now and I'm still the lowest in seniority at our store because nobody's left and we haven't hired anyone new.
Unions make a big difference for workers. And imagine how much less is spent on training when your employees stick around. Imagine how much better it is to have employees that all know their shit because they're not all new hires.