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Message-ID: <teapsl$kf1$3@dont-email.me>
Date: 26 Aug 2022 17:46:27 +0200
From: "Marco Moock" <mo01@remove-this.posteo.de>
Subject: Re: MN: Local AT&T workers fight against return to office
plan
Am Thu, 25 Aug 2022 21:11:21 +0000
schrieb Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>:
> Local AT&T workers are calling on the company to allow for a permanent
> work from home option for employees.
I hope they will reach that goal.
Message-ID: <20220826175552.GA173701@telecomdigest.us> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 17:55:52 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: MN: Local AT&T workers fight against return to office plan On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 05:46:27PM +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > Am Thu, 25 Aug 2022 21:11:21 +0000 > schrieb Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>: > > > Local AT&T workers are calling on the company to allow for a permanent > > work from home option for employees. > > I hope they will reach that goal. I hope so too, but I doubt it, at least not anytime soon. After swimming in the belly of that beast for 25 years, I realized that most of the "First Line" supervisors at Mother Bell's orphaned children practice what I call "Warm Body Management" - if their subordinates are in their assigned seats and their bodies are still warm, most Supervisors assume that they are productive. On the other hand, there are a variety of tools available to managers whom really want to manage distributed teams competently: tools to report on keyboard activity, websites visited, emails sent and received, etc. Those tools can be misused, of course, especially when untrained supervisors are called to interpret the reports they will receive from them, without experience in dealing with reporting people whom will be trying to fend off their childrens' demands for attention, their husbands/wives asking about their plans for dinner, etc., etc. It's going to take several years before the managerial work force is prepared for the challenge, and it's likely there will be a lot of old buildings converted to "cubicle farms" so that work-at-home employees get the option of working-anywhere-but-home. In the meantime, don't be surprised if the various ILECs demand that their "distributed team" employees attach thermometers to their computers, so as to assure that the bodiess are still warm. Bill -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) Message-ID: <084cfba4-12d7-c6e3-a7ca-c9db13b5d0af@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:19:10 -0400 From: "E. William Horne" <malassimilatQRMion@gmail.com> Subject: T-Mobile and SpaceX Starlink say your 5G phone will connect to satellites next year ‘Coverage Above and Beyond’ promises an end to dead zones – if you can wait By Mitchell Clark and Richard Lawler T-Mobile says it’s getting rid of mobile dead zones, thanks to a new partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet: <https://www.theverge.com/23181342/starlink-rv-review-trees-rain-speed-latency>, at an event hosted by T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and Elon Musk. With their ‘Coverage Above and Beyond’ setup, mobile phones could connect to satellites and use a slice of a connection providing around 2 to 4 Megabits per second connection (total) across a given coverage area. https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/25/23320722/spacex-starlink-t-mobile-satellite-internet-mobile-messaging -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly} Message-ID: <a8c55ab3-a498-c05f-e63b-963acbd33cb3@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:23:49 -0400 From: "E. William Horne" <mQRMalassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: T-Mobile Home Internet Was Great - Until My Service Died By Brandon Hill If you recall, I penned an article late last month about_switching from Spectrum to T-Mobile Home Internet - <https://www.tomshardware.com/opinion/t-mobile-home-internet-how-and-why-i-switched>. The reasons were simple: T-Mobile promised faster speeds, a lower price, no contracts, and many freebies for new signups. After installing the 5G Gateway in my home, everything appeared to go exactly as prescribed by T-Mobile. However, as soon as I discovered (sic), T-Mobile Home Internet ultimately proved to be a disaster for me, forcing me to come crawling back to Spectrum. https://www.tomshardware.com/opinion/t-mobile-home-internet-was-great-until-my-service-died-and-the-company-couldnt-fix-it -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) |
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