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Week Adjourned: 12.18.09

December 18th, 2009. By LucyC

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Coulda Used Employee Directory Assistance? Seems the masters of directory assistance could’ve used some help with their own employee directory—or at least with how they classified certain employees. So, they finally called “overtime” on unpaid overtime at AT&T and its subsidiaries BellSouth Telecommunications Co, and Pacific Bell Telephone Co. The telecom giant got hit with a couple of class action lawsuits this week, alleging that they withheld as much as $1 billion in overtime wages from 5,000 plus first level managers who worked for PacBell in the states where BellSouth does business.

Although most of us can likely guess what the charges are, just for the record AT&T allegedly violated the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), as well as California State Laws by deliberately misclassifying thousands (yes, thousands) of level one managers as being exempt from overtime wages. Yeah, that would probably save shareholders a bundle. Other allegations include not paying for meal and rest breaks—how predictable.

So, who’s eligible? There are two classes:

1) The “Off-the-clock” class consists of “All First Level (or Level One Managers) employed by BellSouth from December 2006 and thereafter who were assigned technicians as direct reports Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ATT, BellSouth, Cintas, MetroPCS
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Waaahhh!…My iPhone MMS was delayed

September 29th, 2009. By AbiK

iphone Waaahhh!...My iPhone MMS was delayed I’m with Dan Nosowitz over at Gizmodo: the class action lawsuit over Apple’s and ATT’s late delivery of MMS is…”awfully silly”.

It’s like listening to a toddler whine on and on about whether he can have his snack because, after all, mommy said he could have it in five minutes—and wouldn’t you know, mommy had to take a phone call. Whoops. So the snack took 8 minutes for delivery…Waaaaahhhhhhh!!

I’m betting that Kyle Irving of Minnesota (who according to Nosowitz’ report received his iPhone in June and was told he’d have MMS, but it took 2 months to arrive) who joined the class action also sits by the clock to monitor whether the Domino’s guy takes over 30 minutes. (Yeah, I know, I know, it’s the principle of it.)

Look, should Apple and ATT have kept their promotional diarrhea in check a bit more till they were absolutely certain of the MMS delivery date? Sure. But c’mon Kyle et al, seriously, all’s well that ends well and no injury or harm or adverse events have been reported as far as I can tell as a result of delayed MMS. So save the litigation for something that really needs to get thru the courts system and save the frivolity for happy hour this Friday.

Tags: Apple, ATT, iPhone, MMS
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