Well its already happening!!!!!! I was just told last week by 1 of the overbuilders that they are shutting the job down until further notice but then in the next sentence they tell me that I might be able to keep working if I rebid the the job to a lower rate than what I was already making. So all you other cable dawgs out there be ready to tighten the old belts in 2001 because you are going to have to work harder to make what you made in 2000. Even if I refuse to work for a cheaper price these people know there will be others standing in line waiting to work at the cheaper rate. I don't really blame the mso's because they know that we will sell out one another for a few bucks less. Then the mso's wonder why they always end up with the contractors that do a half assed job, because the guy waiting to work for the lower price is usally the same guy they run off the job 6 months before for doing a half assed job. Only this time he has renamed his company and they welcome him back with open arms. Well where I come from you always get what you pay for. Pay shit and your going to end up with shit. In the meantime the guys and gals out there that bust there ass trying to do a good job in this industry either end up trying to hang on and scratch out a living or they end up going bust. So I agree with onecableman and until we wise up and say no more we are just going to end up being taken advantage of until we through in the towel. Good luck to all of you this year and I hope what is happing to me does not happen to you.
>My fellow cable brothers we are all about to become bankrupt, start living WELL below what we are accustomed to, or be forced to find another trade. Personally I don’t know anything else but cable & am too old to want to learn another trade. Cable has been good to me in the past, but I see the industry changing for the worse. Gerald I don’t know you from Adam, but I think you’re on the right track. As long as the scalpers don’t put you out of business, or “someone” starts hiring 18 year old hamburger flippers who were making $5.75/hr and “train” them and pay them & 6.5/hr. I’m not saying that a union is what we need either, but we do need to find a happy medium.
>Just take a minute and listen to what I have got to say, take off the blinders, and don’t lie to yourself for the next couple of minutes. AT&T is the largest MSO in the country now. They cut their rates by at least 40% & still want more work done for that 40% cut than before. If they get that work done for that price, then don’t fool yourselves by thinking the other MSO’s won’t cut there rates then. THAT IS ECONOMICS. Look inside your Nike tennis shoes and see where they were made. How many times do you pick something up and it says made in Mexico, but it is an American owed company. These large companies found a way to cut payout rates and make it work. I don’t have the answer, but I can see the problem. Several heads put together is better than one. Also remember that management in MSO’s have as much right to read the posts on this web sites as we do.
>For those of you who have a “good contract” with “good rates” just remember it is probably only good for a year and has to be renewed soon. They can come back with 40% cuts and shity composite pricing to. All with the philosophy that AT&T did it, and made it work so can we. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING, besides cowering down.
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