No offense taken. Means of cost-cutting is what animates business. Any business. It ain't right, it ain't wrong, it's the way it is. I have heard this same argument going back as far as 1989, and it's still the same. There are three ways to react to it:
A. Accept it.
B. Get out of the business.
C. Build a better mousetrap.
There are any number of things out there people can do, or at least ways of doing things better. And it's usually someone at the front-line level that has the ideas, the ideas just need to be carried out.
A maintenance tech friend of mine once struck out on his own doing nothing but pole transfers. He calculated the cost our employer was paying in time, lost productivity, etc. to do pole transfers and offered to do it as a contractor cheaper. It was cheaper. After six months he had to hire three employees to keep up with the work.
I have a secret way to make 1400 dollars on a DirecTV install. Yes, 1400 dollars. And the best part is it's perfectly legal. But I'm not going to tell you what it is. It's my mousetrap.
There's plenty to go around, and you don't have to be unhappy with things.
Re: because the industry as a whole would go under
Member #: 36232
Registered: 2/16/2005
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Name:
Rob
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Engineer
Location:
Sunny Florida
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