Comcast Treats Employees Like They Are Sub-Human

Ever wonder about the Comcast Technician(s) that come to your house? Ever thought about the pressure they are under, put upon them by Comcast management? This comes from a Comcast employee...

Comcast treats employees like they are sub-human. This might be a problem that would be better addressed by the national labor board… and unionization… across the entire corporate landscape…

Mid-level managers obviously get the push down on policy from the upper level managers about sick leave and time off… but when an employee is coming to work sick and is told that they can’t go home after they are physically sick and toss cookies at work…

Let me rephrase that… employees are not told directly they cannot go home… but there is HEAVY emphasis that if they go home from work, due to physical illness, it means they miss shift. And a missed shift is an “occurrence” which is a euphemism for a written warning about missing work… (or anything else that Comcast policy wants it to be…)

And all occurrences go into the employee file and are tracked for a year and are cumulative and count as suppressors towards “career advancement” (another nice euphemism for wage increases, merit wage increases, and promotions and transfers).

And the mid level managers are adamant that the employee needs to make the decision about going home sick… (We are not talking about hung over drunk or stoned or morning sickness shit here but with obvious upper respiratory illness with flu like symptoms…) but if the employee DOES make that decision to go home IT WILL BE AN OCCURRENCE on that employee’s work record… no question.

Straight up in your face you will be written up for leaving work because you are sick. Not to mention exposing co-workers to coughing, hacking, and congestion with flu like symptoms, which in turn can create a wildfire of sick employees coming into work infecting other employees, ad nauseum. (no pun intended) and all those newly sick employees will then be faced by, and coerced into, having to make a decision or experience the “occurrence” written warning policy…

The same mid level managers are also very quick to point out that Comcast is a “great place to work”, and that they are “employee focused”, and “there is no need for a union when Comcast takes care of their employees”…and a “good work life balance” being important to that good employer hyperbole.

It appears that Hypocrisy prevails… as well as the power and control feature of a company that talks about quality of service and taking care of employees… that in reality has crap customer service with increasing profit margins… and they don’t give a rat’s ass about customer service or the employees.

I wonder what the National Labor Board would have to say about a policy that creates this kind of situation in the work place where coercion, subtle as they may or may not be, creates an environment where people who are seriously and physically sick HAVE to stay at work by that very pressure of coercion.

Perhaps having the entire Comcast corporate workforce talk about unionization, in each hourly wage position, and having strong employee representation through a union with powers to negotiate a contract that eliminates overt coercion like the one mentioned above might make some managers take notice…

That's an in-house employee; how Comcast treats its contractors, is much worse. So the next time, a technician arrives at your house out of time frame, just remember, he's going through HELL just working at Comcast.

Mano of the employees