Dish Network CEO says label as America’s worst company to work for is “ridiculous”

Teehar

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On a somewhat less serious note....I can just see Charlie telling Jim Defranco go mow the grass.:D
 

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Offer any one of the upper management pinheads a proposition. Start at any entry level position, tech/csr/etc. last 6 months. No special treatment, you're just a name and number. And live on that salary. If you happen to get fired along the way you don't go back to your manager job, your employment with dish is over.

Don't see that happening.

It's always easier to "dish" out the rules, but for goodness sakes those rules need not apply to them.
 

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Here is the best summary I've found :


Sincere grievances with the policies are immediately countered with personal attacks (as are vocalized in some of the pro-Dish comments), like so-and-so just has a bad attitude and they should find another job.So, it's not like corporate is deaf, they are actively suppressing feedback. A lot of people do leave and get better jobs, but some people really want to stay for other reasons like having genuinely strong friendships with coworkers, complex immigration situations or geographical reasons.

To be fair, Clayton has little to do with the entrenched culture. He's just maintaining the status quo. It's like the Zimbardo experiments, it takes surprisingly little financial incentive to abuse those under you. Each level of management is like that.

"It's a bad place to work", ignores the active effort that goes into protecting and promoting a sick corporate culture.
 

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Does anyone know when the internal survey being performed by Dish management will be completed? I'd like to know the results...
 

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I'm pretty mad at dish right now over a big back charge. It's not related to my personal account & could have been prevented if they would have notified me before hand instead of letting me do the work, paying for it & then for reasons undetermined at this point, take it all back. I can promise them 1 thing without a doubt. If it can't be resolved & the funds given back, I will intentionally seek out & sell at the minimum 10 out of contract dish customers & switch them to Directv. :mad:
 

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I'm pretty mad at dish right now over a big back charge. It's not related to my personal account & could have been prevented if they would have notified me before hand instead of letting me do the work, paying for it & then for reasons undetermined at this point, take it all back. I can promise them 1 thing without a doubt. If it can't be resolved & the funds given back, I will intentionally seek out & sell at the minimum 10 out of contract dish customers & switch them to Directv. :mad:
What does your status as a subscriber have to do with employee satisfaction (or lack thereof) at DISH???
 

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I've said what I needed & I sure don't have to justify or explain my post to you.
 

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Take it for whatever you want, while I'm not an "employee", I speak from a retail situation.
 

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When he says back charged he doesn't mean as a subscriber. He means as a retailer they will "back-charge" you for a job meaning not pay you for the work that you completed.
 

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When he says back charged he doesn't mean as a subscriber. He means as a retailer they will "back-charge" you for a job meaning not pay you for the work that you completed.
I don't see how anyone could have misunderstood that.
 

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Dish chief executive Joe Clayton called the label “ridiculous.”

“To say this is the worst place to work in America – I’ve worked in a lot worse places. This isn’t one of them,”

Says it all Hey Joe its not 1950's any more
 

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Take it for whatever you want, while I'm not an "employee", I speak from a retail situation.

And then you wonder why DISH has so many business rules it's difficult to install a system without filling out everything in triplicate... If Charlie should have taught you one thing by now, it's that if you screw DISH, they're gonna pop a few Viagra and screw you harder, all morning and night, with no lube. It's also a CONSIDERABLY bad idea to further piss off a group of intelligent and already frustrated employees by making their lives more difficult; least of all when you want them to give you something.

It's not a partnership (I know what Charlie told you at Team Summit, he lied), retailers are bloody 1099 Independant Contractors; employees without benefits, who are treated about as well or better than actual employees. You're on the payroll, don't like it, quit. Do remember that the next time you call or e-mail in, the person you're talking to is probably in the same boat, so if you're treating them like they're fresh out of Burger King drive-thru, they'll probably tell you to go F yourself.

Star ratings, business rules, audit teams, claim denials...each and every single truly aggravating and yet necessary process at DISH were all caused by retailers or subscribers not paying for what they signed up to get, or installing the way they should; wanting something free, not wanting to do something properly or some other scam. Try to keep 14M people from taking you for a ride, or another several thousand retailers from trying the same and see if you can understand why DISH seems forever paranoid. DISH is a master at dealing with professional a*holes (making a few too).
 

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