I'll bet the AC is cranking and it's nice and comfortable for the people making videos about how Verizon 2.0 is listening to their employees. Meanwhile here in the CO's it's month 2 of 85, 90, 95 degrees inside the CO and as usual the COT and CO manager is told that "we can't get the parts to fix it" or "we can't order the parts". So nice to have that feeling of the sweat running down the middle of your back all day long for weeks. Here is my suggestion for Verizon 2.0, if you really care a lick about employees - How about if the CEO takes just $20 million a year instead of 25 million and we use that extra money to get the AC fixed in all the buildings?
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sounds like weak local leadership to me
False economy. They’re going end up paying more for service outages, call outs, etc as CO equipment begins to overheat. There’s a reason COs are supposed to be within a certain temperature range and it’ got nothing to do with the comfort of employees.
What... did you think you'd be in optimal working conditions when you signed up to be a pole monkey or co troll????
Nobody wants to hear some lazy union f— complain about the temperature. We're here for layoff information.
THis post had 17 upvotes the other day and now has 41 downvotes? As my teenager would sarcastically say "Seems legit!" Let me guess, the guys and girls sitting in the AC in the media room at Basking Ridge were told to come here and downvote this. Imagine if these people actually performed a useful function for the company instead or making excel sheets telling us that this parameter went from 2.7% last year to 2.82% this year. SMH
CO stands for Central Office.
This also reminds me of a problem they created several years ago trying to save power being drawn by tank heaters in standby diesel generators. They set up a big project to install lower temperature thermostats in the tank heaters. That might of been OK in the southern states but the next winter up in the north they had generators that were too cold and would not start. They had to pay again to have many of them changed back. Unfortunately they don't seem to look at the big picture on some of these initiatives.
A "CO" is a Certificate of Occupancy and all field techs are required to carry so that they can certify who is occupying a particular pair because you don't want to end up with too many people in a pair, which is kind of like too many peas in a pod. But COs are serious business and when you get too many people and too many pairs it can get as hot as hades. I hope this answers your question.
What is a CO?
Whiny COT’s, what else is new?
Yeah, they just put in all new chillers in most of the CO's around me, then some whiz kid had the idea to save money by making it warmer in the co. It's gonna cost a lot to replace all the fans on the equipment that are screaming.
The temp in IT is a steady and low boil till death until SA and VG leave .
Then we need to get Rid of the yes men and women of IT
Fresh start
Saving the money for the new HQ in Irving.
@1kax you obviously never worked in a c.o. the air temp is 80 degrees when you are standing on the floor, it's 100 degrees when you are up a ladder. All year long. You can't dress for the weather. We aren't even allowed to wear shorts
I’m not sure, 1xfd, but I’ll bet the boys down in the manholes will know what temperature is “permitted.”
Or maybe someone on a pole will be able to tell you what the temperature should be in a CO.
SMH.
OP ain’t kidding. Anybody know the temp it’s allowed to be by law?
- 0 can give 2 cents about you and your family..2.0 can give you a raise of 2.o% but they would prefer to give you 2 cents..this is what 2.0 is about ,it's about 2.o and not you.you are of no value to 2.0
Who said they care a lick about employees???
Meanwhile I'm enjoying AC and haven't spent a dime of my VSP had a job lined up hahaha s—ers
There's nothing wrong with the chillers. Buildings was told that the equipment could withstand a return air intake of 80 degrees in the C.Os. So to save money, they upped the temperature on purpose. ON PURPOSE. Now we all sit here sweating and going deaf because the fans are screaming. Kinder, gentler Verizon 2.0 my *ss.