AT&T throttled me, but....

[pooleman]

I bet if we actually tallied that up we would find that you actually don't. You are not a productive person if you are watching movies all day long. Nice try though...

A very large defense contractor pays my company a lot of money to keep me on "hot standby". My job is primarily to be always available in the event that something breaks and requires repair. I am also paid to consult and design new systems and to integrate new technology into this defense contractors test facility. I can't say much more than that. So when the ***** hits the fan I will end up working several days straight to repair the problem. 18+ hour days until the problem is fixed. If I am on vacation and something goes wrong at work I have to drop whatever I am doing and go to work.

On the other hand there is also a lot of down time where NOTHING is happening. If I do my job correctly, and I always do, things will break infrequently and therefore my presence is not needed. But this company still spends money just to ensure that I am ALWAYS available. So my boss doesn't care what I do in the "slow times". Just as long as I make our company look good when things go wrong. So if I spend time discretely watching Netflix at my desk when things are slow that is fine. Some days I do not even need to come to the office, just as long as I stay close by in the event that I am needed. I have a lot of flexibility. The only downside is that several vacations have been cut short due to a work emergency. That never goes over well with the wife.

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Get well soon, Dick Cheney.

That's just wrong, dude.

 

[wpotere]

A very large defense contractor pays my company a lot of money to keep me on "hot standby". My job is primarily to be always available in the event that something breaks and requires repair. I am also paid to consult and design new systems and to integrate new technology into this defense contractors test facility. I can't say much more than that. So when the ***** hits the fan I will end up working several days straight to repair the problem. 18+ hour days until the problem is fixed. If I am on vacation and something goes wrong at work I have to drop whatever I am doing and go to work.

On the other hand there is also a lot of down time where NOTHING is happening. If I do my job correctly, and I always do, things will break infrequently and therefore my presence is not needed. But this company still spends money just to ensure that I am ALWAYS available. So my boss doesn't care what I do in the "slow times". Just as long as I make our company look good when things go wrong. So if I spend time discretely watching Netflix at my desk when things are slow that is fine. Some days I do not even need to come to the office, just as long as I stay close by in the event that I am needed. I have a lot of flexibility. The only downside is that several vacations have been cut short due to a work emergency. That never goes over well with the wife.

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Considering that I work in that arena right now and know how all of the contracts have been cut, I am not buying it. If your employer caught you watching Netflix all day, you would be fired and you know it. Why else would you have to do it "discretely"? Tell me who you are and your employer and let's find out.

Nevertheless, I don't care what you do.

 

[pooleman]

Considering that I work in that arena right now and know how all of the contracts have been cut, I am not buying it. If your employer caught you watching Netflix all day, you would be fired and you know it. Why else would you have to do it "discretely"? Tell me who you are and your employer and let's find out.

Nevertheless, I don't care what you do.

Oh God. I do it discretely so the other employees would not be upset. But my boss truly doesn't care. His policy is that if nothing goes wrong he doesn't need to hear from me.

If you are in the same field send me your resume. Clearly my company is better than yours and we have a very good employee referral program. I could get a nice bonus for referring a people.

 

[Orlandu]

I was watching episodes of Angel and Firefly on 3G as well and got throttled each month from December on. In February, I decided to see how much data I could use. I got up to 30GB by downloading a 1GB app over and over. When it finished, I'd delete it and start again. This was before the put the hard 3GB limit before throttling and doubling the throttled speeds. I averaged 10kbps in February, but towards the last week of the month it went up to 30kbps while throttled.

 

[PNutts]

Considering that I work in that arena right now and know how all of the contracts have been cut, I am not buying it. If your employer caught you watching Netflix all day, you would be fired and you know it. Why else would you have to do it "discretely"? Tell me who you are and your employer and let's find out.

Nevertheless, I don't care what you do.

Having contracted for the gub'ment a long time ago, it sounds pretty standard for contractors. Too bad they don't stop billing when their folks are watching movies, but it's all part of the contract. What he doesn't understand is that he described most of our jobs, except for the downtime and watching movies because we're still expected to put in our hours even after the night/weekend work and emergencies. It's been a long time since I've been around "I've done my work so I'm not going to do anything" mentality. The problem is actually his boss, and probably his boss, etc.

 

[wpotere]

It isn't like that any longer. They are now performance based contracts. The days of sitting around left several years ago.

 

[wpotere]

If you are in the same field send me your resume. Clearly my company is better than yours and we have a very good employee referral program. I could get a nice bonus for referring a people.

You wouldn't like me. I would likely take your bosses position then fire you for wasting company time.

 

[sulpfiction]

I only criticize the negative ones. If someone calls me an "idiot" but clearly can't spell then I will make a not of that.

Ahhh the irony.

 

[dsenier]

I use an iPhone 4s with "4G" access, /joke, I was grandfathered into Unlimited. I finally got throttled on the AT&T network today. I am getting roughly 256kbps atm a far cry from the normal 2.5mbps I was getting in my local area. I plan to hammer the network as much as possible for the rest of the month letting video after video run and see how far I can run my data use up to. The first 3gb were just normal useage and I do have access to wireless at times so it would have been much higher without that. /rude AT&T they told me to get the 5GB plan if I want more data... Why should I change to a plan that is a downgrade from unlimited????

 

[pooleman]

After I was throttled this month (or rather last month, my billing cycle rolled on the 2nd) I was able to rack up a total of 8 gigs. Although, when I check my past usage on AT&T website they reported that I used 7 gigs more than I actually did last 2 months ago. I don't trust the usage meters that AT&T uses.

And for all you haters out there, I am still on hot standby waiting for work. Don't be made at me, blame the CURRENT administration for reducing defense spending.

 

[terraphantm]

So your just gonna see how much you can use throttled? If you have WIFI why not use that? Why waste the data if you don't need it? This takes away from everyone else!!

Except it doesn't. Speed matters much more than total bandwidth when it comes to network congestion. Which is why Verizon's throttling system makes more sense - if you're in the top 5% for your specific tower, you'll be throttled. As soon as the congestion settles down (or you go to another tower), your speeds are back.

 

[fruitycups]

Wirelessly posted

The phone compaies r bad monopolies. Needs price regulations