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.@GetSpectrum is the garbage company I have to buy my internet from, due to their monopolistic arrangement with my city, #Burbank.

Charter doesn't give its field techs hazard pay or PPE. Instead they get $25 gift cards for (closed down) restaurants.

pluralistic.net/2020/03/28/unr…

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Charter's CEO, Thomas Rutledge, an asshole, decreed that back-office staff would have to keep going to work, even if they could work from home, on the theory that they would be more productive under the watchful eye of their managers.

pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy…

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(He forced a whistleblower who complained to resign)

You will never, ever guess what happened next.

At least 230 Charter employees now have covid-19. NY AG Letitia James has opened an inquiry into corporate culpability in their illness.

cnbc.com/2020/04/21/new…

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