At long last, am dumping Dish satellite?!1 What's Time Warner like?
Been with Dish from the EchoStar days, over 15 yrs. Thought they were a semi-Lib outfit, the "Chat with Charlie" sessions potraying the owner Charlie ERGEN as folksy and accessible. Didn't pay attention to those, never really had technical trouble, but the phone employees sounded knowing nothing or uninterested, having trouble even pinpointing the yearly expiration date. But somebody posted this article in GD and Charlie turns out to be an Ahhhnuld/HITLER type, plus he voted for Mc5planes.
My image of Time Warner had been like the Ma Bell of the '70s enemy of us Hippies. But this is the only alternative in my area besides the other satellite DirecTV that used to be MURDOCH's. The Time Warner website shows the same channel line-up I've got with Dish about $10-15 less per month, although I don't trust them. I realize all these HUGH corporate outfits are of the same rapacious ilk. Dish expires this month if I choose.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dish-network-meanest-company-america-194008712.html?page=1
[font size=5]Dish Network, the Meanest Company in America[/font]
For 2012, the website 24/7 Wall St. determined that the worst company to work for in America was the Dish Network (DISH), the Englewood (Colo.)-based company that provides satellite TV to more than 14 million subscribers. To pick its winner, the site began by sifting entries on glassdoor.com, an online service where people gossip about their jobs. It was hardly the most scientific of methods. Still, the volume of miserable tales about Dish is impressive; 346 former or current employees had taken the time to write not-so-nice things about the company. On a scale of 1 to 5, they ranked their company an average of 2.2, beating Dillard’s (DDS) and RadioShack (RSH) for the spot at the bottom. ....
Much of the malice, and value generation, can be traced to one man: Charlie Ergen, 59, the founder and chairman of Dish. Although he turned over the role of chief executive officer to former Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) head Joseph Clayton in 2011, Ergen remains the core of Dish—and its largest shareholder, with 53.2 percent of the outstanding shares and 90.4 percent of the voting rights. ....
Employees, both current and former, describe an Ergen-created culture of condescension and distrust. Vikas Arora, a manager on Dish’s international content acquisition team, had never worked anywhere else in the U.S. until he left the company last year. That’s when he discovered that “outside of Dish, people are actually treated like adults.” ....
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