Protect American Jobs

[cinok]

Just a little way we can help keep some jobs in America. Recently I have needed to make calls to different companies customer support lines, what I noticed is that alot of the calls get routed oversees. What I do is ask is what country they are in an if they are not in the USA i ask(politely at first) to be routed to a center in the US, if they ask why I tell them that I want to feed and house an American and not some overseas.

[Oldman]

cinok, I need to make calls all the time about the phone, computor, or what ever and nearly always get some one I simply can't understand what they are saying.
As soon as I can't understand him or her, I ask for the supervisor. They like to put you on hold and I like to phone the phone down on speaker and do something else until I speak to an Amnerican.
Sometimes I will be on the phone for an hour, but I will be checking on something in a catalog, or whatever the whole time.
I learned not to waste my time on the phone getting mad as all get out. I just play by my rules. ;D I don't let them get me upset with being on hold for a while..
Oldman

[grandmajoy]

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7452561&page=1

Well you'll love this, you're unemployment and food stamps/ child support calls may be outsourced to India. Hows that for a bit of irony. And one of the companies taking bail out money is on of the ones doing it. Also states are doing it to.

joy

[Michael32170]

Here’s the news. Some of you have heard about this already, but to cover it without having to send out a lot of individual messages, here is the press release as an attachment. It was announced late yesterday.



The press release says Sand Springs will ‘potentially’ be shut down. We have contractual obligations to the Union workers to have 60 days of discussions and negotiations about how to handle events like this, and to allow another 30 days for the company to consider it all and make the final decision official. But practically speaking, there doesn’t seem to be anything that could come out of that 90 day period of discussions that could change the shutdown decision.



The combination of bad sustained market conditions, mixed with the large pollution control investments needed and the cut in annual Melt Shop production tonnage that will also occur to bring our Melt Shop into compliance with the new EPA 6% Opacity Rule after the end of 2010 just make it a non-viable situation.



We don’t have a lot of answers yet, but we know that we will not operate too many more weeks. We’ll coordinate a permanent shut down and decommissioning of the plant, as Gerdau does not want it to operate as a steel mill ever again and become a problem for them in the future.



I’ll be around the plant for a while, helping out as long as they need me to do so.



Some of you have been discussing the possibility of future business opportunities with us, but those discussions don’t need to continue any further now. We appreciate your interest, and we especially appreciate the support of all those who have contributed to the accomplishments of the Sand Springs plant over the years, whether as Sheffield Steel or Gerdau Ameristeel.