I thought the article said he was an accountant and threatened to have Comcast investigated by the Accounting Review Board, and his employer did accounting work for Comcast. I may have the details wrong, but that was the gist of it.
So that information was probably not well received by his boss. He claims he never invoked the name of his employer and they looked him up online, whether that’s true or not we don’t know, and it may not matter. If you are McDonalds and one of your employees has a dispute with Comcast and threatens to spit in Comcast’s hamburgers, you’re probably going to fire him. Even if the guy didn’t mention which specific hamburger joint he worked at, and you had to Google him to find out. From: Mark Radabaugh via Af Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 8:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Comcast is getting really ticked about complaints Given that we have all had calls from customers that are complete asses I pretty much have to assume Conal really crossed a line to get that much of a reaction. Mark On 10/8/14, 9:35 AM, Adam Moffett via Af wrote: The original article states that nobody has access to recordings of the phone calls or the contents of the emails. Maybe Conal was the jerk. What would someone have to say before you called his employer and told them they employee was being bad? Something serious I assume. Maybe Conal made threats or something. The fact is we don't know, and slashdot rallies automatically against the cable company because they're the cable company. Not that I love my cable company....but the bias is quite clear. Per the original article it doesn't sound like the guy was being a jerk at all. Comcast was, in fact, the jerk. On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Chris Wright via Af <[email protected]> wrote: That’s pretty shady, but this part of the editorial really ticked me off, “Be careful next time when you exercise your first amendment rights” The first amendment protects the rights of the people to speak freely, but does not protect you from the consequences of being a jerk. Chris Wright Velociter Wireless From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds via Af Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 4:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Comcast is getting really ticked about complaints Yeah I saw that. PS - f@#$ /. beta ;) Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer SPITwSPOTS, www.spitwspots.com On 10/07/2014 02:51 PM, Rory Conaway via Af wrote: http://beta.slashdot.org/story/208189 � Rory P. Conaway 4226 S. 37th Street Phoenix, Az. 85040 602-426-0542 [email protected] www.triadwireless.net � -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex [email protected] 419.837.5015 x 1021
