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Originally Posted by BFT3K
So you held a $70K a year job in the 1990's, and decided to voluntarily leave?
I guess you did the right thing, as soon thereafter Pacific Bell was bought out by AT&T, who instantly cut the workforce by nearly half.
The big corporations... ummm, I mean. "the job creators" fixed the imbalance for you.
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I was making a lot more than $70k a year when I left.
I worked there five years to the day. I was disgusted by what I saw. I was fresh out of the Marine Corps, highly motivated, and wanted to excel at everything. I worked there a year and was in charge of 250 people who had zero incentive to work harder. It drove me up the wall.
Pacific Bell didn't care much either. They were the local phone company and they were guaranteed to make money - If you wanted a phone, you had to have Pac Bell. The entire company had the same issue - why try harder because we are guaranteed money?
(The only upside to that job was that operator services was mostly staffed by chicks - I was one of five guys who worked at an office with 400 chicks in it!)