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> However, the company obviously employs a TON of _independent contractors_. They are contractors and do what Comcast tell them. "It was a contractor" is the l
by camus2 9y ago
> However, the company obviously employs a TON of _independent contractors_.
They are contractors and do what Comcast tell them. "It was a contractor" is the laziest corporate excuse. But that's one reason why big businesses employ them, plausible deniability when things go wrong.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoYeah, it's weird that the OP emphasizes their contractor status. What they are is undertrained and incompetent employees. What kind of tax form they get is completely irrelevant.
- logfromblammo 9y agoOnce is an accident. Twice is incompetence. Thrice is intentional. What was described in the story is just pure malice. They cut three more lines as the guy was on the phone trying to complain to Comcast about the first cut. Comcast was given a map, and from the story, it looks like they used it to pre-plan the willful destruction of someone else's business and livelihood. If there was a lack of training, it was a dearth of ethics classes. If there was a lack of competence, it was in devising plausible excuses for the cuts.