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Dish announced today their call center in Alvin TX will be closed. 550 people work at the facility. They will be offered positions elsewhere in the company.
This is a common business practice. So why post this thread?...
The reason given is Dish executives believe they are doing so well with customer service, they no longer need all of their call centers.
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MikeD-C05
I wonder if they don't really need the csrs , but they just plan on having people talk to foreign csrs or just wait on the lines longer for help. Either way it won't help them in the top 10 hated companies in America list. DISH ranks in the top 10 every year for most hated customer service to do business with.
JSheridan
I wonder if they don't really need the csrs , but they just plan on having people talk to foreign csrs or just wait on the lines longer for help. Either way it won't help them in the top 10 hated companies in America list. DISH ranks in the top 10 every year for most hated customer service to do business with.

Are you and Claude related? :biggrin
boba
Which of our great Presidential Candidates should we vote for?
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Which of our great Presidential Candidates should we vote for?
Donald
Tampa8
If your mindset is it can never change it never will.
That said, I would love to blame business for only looking at the bottom line but that isn't always the case. There are companies who look at the big picture and want to keep jobs here. But policies including health care, minimum wages and others are driving the exodus. I'm not making a judgement in this post about the policies it's simply the facts. Costs imposed on employers like Mcdonald's is literally a risk of putting them in a position to cut jobs over the next year and that's even if they are profitable, if it is like the last two or three years maybe worse. It has cut full time jobs in companies to the lowest level in almost forever. While it's easy to blame unions for what seems like unreasonable contracts like with the Automobile industry, it's the companies that agreed to them in the end. There was a time and still may be that those retired from that industry had better healthcare and income than those still working an unsustainable scenario as they found out. We mistakenly became a service industry driven economy, great when the economy is good, not when it sinks worldwide.
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MikeD-C05
Are you and Claude related? :biggrin
No, not related ,but the facts are the facts. DISH is one of the top 10 companies that Americans love to hate the most. Based on their poor customer service according to the list rules. DISH was the company that did away with most of their U.S. call in centers and went with over seas csrs who were named "Sally and Bob". But their accents were like Apoo off of the Simpsons. They finally learned that this alone was costing them subs ,due to what? Poor customer service due to language barriers. I know that today if I get a foreign csr when I call DISH, I hang up and call again, till I get either an American - I can understand , or I will do an online chat. So now I'm betting they will either out source again to foreign csrs or they will just make you wait longer on the phone for a csr to talk to you .
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Troch77
No, not related ,but the facts are the facts. DISH is one of the top 10 companies that Americans love to hate the most. Based on their poor customer service according to the list rules. DISH was the company that did away with most of their U.S. call in centers and went with over seas csrs who were named "Sally and Bob". But their accents were like Apoo off of the Simpsons. They finally learned that this alone was costing them subs ,due to what? Poor customer service due to language barriers. I know that today if I get a foreign csr when I call DISH, I hang up and call again, till I get either an American - I can understand , or I will do an online chat. So now I'm betting they will either out source again to foreign csrs or they will just make you wait longer on the phone for a csr to talk to you .
I do the same I hang up and call back.
Because it's bad enough to get accurate information out of a CSR to begin with.
The Foreign accents don't make it any easier.

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Tampa8
Yes. It has nothing to do with who is on the other end, if I can understand them and they are in India, or Mexico or wherever it isn't relevant. I've just about given up on the accurate information part no matter where they are.
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Looks like dish is Bankrupt. Filling tomorrow Tuesday June 30th
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SpaceX has held talks with Boost's parent company EchoStar in recent months about launching its own signature wireless service through a deal with the company, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
Musk, the SpaceX CEO, has discussed the deal personally, meeting with EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen last month, according to the people. The potential deal may result in SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile or SpaceX gaining access to its network, which it leases from AT&T and T-Mobile US, the people said.
Access to those lease agreements would be a coup for SpaceX. The back door would allow Musk to make a play for a U.S. wireless market that equity research firm MoffettNathanson estimates is worth $235 billion. But the proposed service may need consent from those carriers for the service to actually launch, the people said.
Scott Greczkowski
Washington Post

SpaceX has held talks with Boost's parent company EchoStar in recent months about launching its own signature wireless service through a deal with the company, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
Musk, the SpaceX CEO, has discussed the deal personally, meeting with EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen last month, according to the people. The potential deal may result in SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile or SpaceX gaining access to its network, which it leases from AT&T and T-Mobile US, the people said.
Access to those lease agreements would be a coup for SpaceX. The back door would allow Musk to make a play for a U.S. wireless market that equity research firm MoffettNathanson estimates is worth $235 billion. But the proposed service may need consent from those carriers for the service to actually launch, the people said.
Can't remember where or who I saw predict this. :D

It wouldn't surprise me to see Elon soon own all of DISH / Echostar in the future.
Bruce
It wouldn't surprise me to see Elon soon own all of DISH / Echostar in the future.
Again, why would Musk want a TV Service, specially one that is losing over a million subscribers a year.

Phone service…maybe, but not TV.
Scott Greczkowski
Again, why would Musk want a TV Service, specially one that is losing over a million subscribers a year.

Phone service…maybe, but not TV.
I know he wants TV. He wants to deliver EVERYTHING to EVERYWHERE.
Bruce
I know he wants TV. He wants to deliver EVERYTHING to EVERYWHERE.
Again, if so, why would he want Dish/Sling of all the providers?

He could deliver anything without actually owning, for example, watching the Lions game in my Tesla Y on it's screen via the YT app, while on the way to my future in-laws on Sunday.
Bruce
Bruce
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SpaceX has held talks with Boost's parent company EchoStar in recent months about launching its own signature wireless service through a deal with the company, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
Musk, the SpaceX CEO, has discussed the deal personally, meeting with EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen last month, according to the people. The potential deal may result in SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile or SpaceX gaining access to its network, which it leases from AT&T and T-Mobile US, the people said.
Access to those lease agreements would be a coup for SpaceX. The back door would allow Musk to make a play for a U.S. wireless market that equity research firm MoffettNathanson estimates is worth $235 billion. But the proposed service may need consent from those carriers for the service to actually launch, the people said.
If Musk really wants to buy Boost, he might get a great price once Dish Wireless is out of Chapter 11.

Boost just lost 182,000 subs in the 3rd quarter-

M
Is Dish like Iran in one way...they both will totally collapse by end of week :)
Foxbat
Other than the price, my experience with Boost is not that different than what I experienced with my years with Cricket. I will be curious to see what happens if SpaceX takes the reins.
S
Again, if so, why would he want Dish/Sling of all the providers?

He could deliver anything without actually owning, for example, watching the Lions game in my Tesla Y on it's screen via the YT app, while on the way to my future in-laws on Sunday.
dish has new sats dtv does not
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

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Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


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An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Too Much Time on My Hands - Styx
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Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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dfergie
I loved it when Rodney was on the Tonight Show...
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Foxbat
Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
Thanks, I wasn't sure if you had the wrong Subject or the wrong YouTube link.
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osu1991
Was a Don Rickles fan. I've dvr'd most of his appearances on Carson from the antenna tv replays.

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dishstaller
More Dangerfield rapid fire on Carson.


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dishdude
Rodney Dangerfield is great. One of his best one liners - "My wife likes to talk to me during sex, last night she called me from Florida!"

Jackie Gleason is another one of the greats.


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primestar31

Wait, didn't this one come out a few years ago? It was all in Japanese. It was also VERY good!

OK, looked it up, that was Godzilla Minus One
Bruce
Wait, didn't this one come out a few years ago? It was all in Japanese. It was also VERY good!

OK, looked it up, that was Godzilla Minus One
At theaters, only in Japanese, on Disc and Netflix, available in English.
Foxbat
New trailer has dropped:
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long_time_Dish
Looks good! I'm interested...