Big Changes Slated for March

"Nationwide coverage" will also include data or will this only work in native cricket areas?

Data and sms are the only real reasons I have a cell phone with occasional calling.
 
very true, unions should only be started if things get really bad... but you need to see things from their point of view, maybe the economy is taking a toll on their finances, but they also could just be getting selfish... but unions will ruin a company and jack up their prices indirectly... their only good if the company literally abuses their employees, cutting pay isn't abuse, your allowed to quit, free country

i'm not blaming you for quitting, or saying your wrong, but don't bad talk them just yet, they may have good reasons is all i'm saying
 
Thank you for the beginning of your post where you document commonly known information. I said nothing about the legality of my comment, only that they 'should' be fired. Furthermore, if I owned a company there would surely be no union workers present. Even if I had to go to the extent of laying off the entire workforce under false bankruptcy and then renaming and opening the business.

I think you are mistaken about the function of unions in out current society. In 1935 there was a great need for unions, as many workers were actually being physically abused amongst many other serious forms of mistreatment. That is not the case today. Today unions stand for something entirely different. It is sad that unions are formed to hammer wages up and up while they are currently being paid fair to more-than-fair. Today there is no wage abuse, physical abuse, nor any of those other extreme abuses that brought about unions in the early 20th century.

Do some research on Nucor. In an industry where all of their US competitors use union labor, Nucor dominates without the use of a single union employee. And they refuse to hire union workers. They have the right model for the American workforce.

On the subject of the "good customer service, passable employee morale, and real job security," that is not a cause of the employer. This is entirely due to a lack of self-motivation, self-respect, and pride in their work of employees across most all service industry fielRAB. I think more than anything it has to do with this false sense of entitlement that run rampant in today's American society, and the world over.

Things like lawsuits from employees on the most ridiculous grounRAB, affirmative action (a racist regulation determined to stop racism in the workplace), and a serious overworking of political correctness are horrible enough for any employer to deal with. But unions as they stand today are the epitome of what is wrong with the American labor force.

There are surely enough government regulatory agencies, courts, private organizations that monitor and control the private business practices of any given company. Why then do we need unions to protect us from abuses as we did in the early 1900s? The answer is, "We don't!" Unions are just a way for self-entitled people to demand they get more for no increase in their productivity and often a decrease.

I am someone that has worked in so many fielRAB, from rough and fine carpentry, restaurants, and day labor, to office and clerical work, government work, and self-employment, and I do not agree with unions being formed in any industry. It's so ****** that an employee can need to be fired but because they are a union worker, they do not get fired (maybe just moved around). How in the **** do you take away an employers right to fire an employee? Look at that teacher from New York that was making comments about children's butts. Not fired and now retired drawing over $100K on pension. What a crock of ****.

Anywho, I could go on and on. you do not have to agree, but if you look objectively and apply a little logic (rather than everybody deserves to have what others have), then you may find yourself moving a little in another direction.
 
I'm not sure. I've had some customers who went to Las Vegas with an real Cricket Moto Z6M and not be able to get coverage even though they had the PEC and dialed *228 before leaving their home area. It seems from that like Cricket could block roaming for customers with non-aws phones in certain areas. Also, I've had serveral people tell me they dial *228 and cannot get coverage in LA, another Metro PCS area.


It may come down to customer and dealer satisfaction. If you tell people they have to buy new phones they don't want in order to get coverage, they will go somewhere else. Also, at some point someone has to think of the economic impact if Cricket does more to hurt flashers. If they eleminate flashing all together, they may lose a lot of dealers. Most people here sell more than one carrier and if they make less money by only having to sell new Cricket phones, they may push other carriers instead of Cricket. I hope for everyones sake that the new roaming agreement will allow phones that are flashed properly by people like the merabers here to work and keep people in business.
 
bb 8530, samsung touchscreen with qwerty keyboard, android as we know, couple more touchscreen phones and basic phones. Just saw some pix from cricket regional managers.
 
Glad to see Cricket is making the prev mentioned changes to coverage, plan offerings, and device offerings (coverage looks fantastic).
My only question - esp with regarRAB to the upcoming devices - what took so long?
Hope they will include taxes in plan offerings (it makes a diff), however, this may not hurt them too bad.
 
understandable, but there was a reason these people threatened a union, Our market blows ***, All the management does is try to figure out ways to screw you over on your bonus, scare you into thinking that your days are nurabered due to poor performance, and figure out more ways to make you work off the clock.

I got tired of all of that stress from unobtainable goals and being accused of things I did not do, you can ask most of the older cricket forum merabers how I thought of cricket when I started. I spoke highly of the company due to the fact that they actually cared about the customers and employees. The only reason they they are changing over to new plans and nationwide roaming now is a futile attempt to regain the ground that they lost due to all of the new unlimited providers and mvno's (e.g. boost,t-mo, page plus, airvoice, platinumtel, & simple mobile). Unless Cricket merges with Metro to become a national carrier it's going to be simply a matter of time before they go under due to all of the pressure from the mvno's & major carriers.

I wish I could tell you what market I am in because all you would have to do is ask any cricket sales rep after hours what they think about how they are treated.
The simple and sweet answer would be to clean out the sales admin and replace all but maybe 2 store managers. I hope Metro clears house and replaces all of this ex-sprint management.


Just to give you a time line of how it worked in our market.

2000 - Cricket launches
Sales rep starting base pay - $17-18.50+
Bonus payouts per year - 4
Average bonus total for year - ~$12,000
employees were not on a quota system

During this whole time it was a great company to work for.

~2007 - Rockey Mountain High (RMH) network expansion period
Sales rep starting base pay - $11.50 - 13.00
Bonus payouts per year - 4
Average bonus total for year - ~$7500
quota system started,

Current day
Sales rep starting base pay - $9.50 - 12.00
Bonus payouts per year - 12
Average bonus total for year - ~$4000
quota system in effect - fail any separate goal for 3 month's straight and you get fired. That means you fail voice acts in Jan, insurance in Feb, and broadband acts in Mar, your done for.
 
Great, now Cricket/MetroPCS's goons are on here snooping around.

On a side note I overheard a conference call in the local corp office a few days back, They let the roughly 90 people in cricket's IT know they would have to be looking for job before mid summer.

The deal has been made for the acquisition and Its just not been announced publicly.
You guys should consider Cricket MetroPCS from this point forward.

Those guys in IT are intelligent people and have the capability to bring your entire network to its knees.

I suggest giving these people a chance or run a serious risk of problems when some pissed employee drops a nasty payload off onto the servers. I was in a ****** company like cricket at one point in time. It only took one smart guy in the network department to bankrupt the company from a virus written into the image of every pc.
He wrote some badass code that zero filled the drive and loaded a corrupt bios.
 
That is some great news, i think its gonna be in all markets. $10 late fee has been gone for a while in Cincinnati market. For the bad news it really is not much of a difference. Cheaper phone no first month free. or first month free and higher priced phones. From a customers view it will be much cheaper to buy a cricket phone than to have theirs flashed that is the only thing i can think of that could be bad news for flashers. Thanks for the info
 
We're told we can continue flashing ourselves without the usage of houdini. We are standard. Customers wants full flashes. I think Cricket will continue accepting outside flash phones. If not, it would hinder Cricket's growth.
 
yup, they dumped just about all of the local IT techs. They are outsourcing it, What kind of durab move is that? Be prepared for pc trouble at the corp stores. I have never ever heard of any wireless provider doing something like this.
 
In a general sense every wireless company has done something along these lines due to increased competition and cost cutting measures.


This one is interesting. Aside from the fact that it costs so much more to train new employees as opposed to fixing current ones, that is not the culture of the company. Makes no sense why this would be SOP and my guess is that it's not something management above the market level is completely aware of.
 
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