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Verizon won't give it's employees so much as a screwdriver to work with. Good luck with getting them to improve phone service. The work can't be done without the tools required
Good luck with Verizon!! they are very poor and dont give a dam about there workers or there customers. I had many many problems finally 0told them I was ending my service thier reply was sir for every one we loose we gain 3 amazing. They are to big and a very big monopoly we mean nothing to them.
I would like to talk to one person from Verizon that (give a dam in the head office and tell them my story)Does anyone know when the next meeting is so I can attend it.
The only thing a company understands is money. There should have been fines included in the agreement, fines for work not done, not done on time, or having to be done more than once.
The State of Massachusetts needs to demand more from Verizon for it residents. Wired phone and DSL services are anemic for most residents in rural MA. Wire condition does make a difference, more importantly, its the distance for a Verizon depot to our homes, that's too far. Verizon should be required, by the State to build more infrastructure or lose it licensed monopoly.
Verison was forced out of Vermont. I lived in VT for several years and Verison was such a joke going up on rates several times a year,faulty lines,and poor service. They had also promised for several years to upgrade the lines so rural parts of VT could have internet and wifi. The state finally bought out Verison's rights and brought in Time Warner and another phone company.
It's good to see Verizon settled this case just two weeks after Rep. Mark's election after dragging their feet for so long. The added pressure he was bringing must have forced their hand. Now keep it up and get high-speed internet out here too!
You'll Westerners do not want Verizon's DSL. My Saugus service has been intermittent (up / down) since 04DEC10 - 29DEC10. Today I find that there are some Web sites that I can not connect with period. I suspect a larger regional problem, but they (India Tech. support) do not know or will not tell you the truth. Typically the conversation(s) begin with sorry, and they are SORRY. I know that it is Verizon's DSL connectivity issue because:
www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com
and Comcast customers can connect to the site in (?). The copper phone line quality here is very good, but is it good enough for DSL?
I live out here in Easthampton, and the ONLY high speed internet available here is through Charter Communications. After countless splitter changes, cable box and cable modem issues, I can say they are horrible. Their internet service is worse than dial up! However, at least with dial up my connection was stable. I wish we Verizon had DSL here. I would chage over immediately.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The McCann School Committee on Thursday approved a level-service "vanilla" budget for fiscal 2027.
The total spending plan for the Northern Berkshire Regional Vocational District is $13,218,090, up $564,753 or 3.69 percent over this year. The budget includes a second assistant principal, a special education teacher and interest on the building repair project.
"We frequently refer to our budget as a vanilla budget, and it sort of is this year, with some exceptions," said Finance Committee Chair Daniel Maloney. "The capital part of it is something different than the operating budget, but there will be an impact from that as well. But again, trying to be sensitive to what our communities can afford."
Maloney and Superintendent of Schools James Brosnan stressed the need for an assistant principal, noting how lean the administrative staff was but how much the work has increased.
"I've only got three people from my left that are responsible for this entire school," Brosnan told the School Committee. "There is no school in Massachusetts that only has a principal, assistant principal, director of students. Nothing, zero."
Maloney said it was a matter of "right-sizing" the organization that is running two schools. He pointed to the update from Prinicipal Justin Kratz that covered sports, enrollment, Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System testing, teacher retention and recruitment, student services, reporting to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the state's ongoing debate over graduation requirements.
"You just see by the presentation tonight, by Justin, how much work goes into these things," Maloney said. "And even with our teaching staff, I often wonder how they have time to do their jobs when they've got all this data and all these things put together to feed the state, keep them happy. ...
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