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- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: GTE Community Involvment
- Message-ID: <telecom12.708.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 07:30:00 GMT
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- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
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- steven@alchemy.uucp writes:
-
- > Well Mr. Higdon you failed to check your facts on that one.
-
- I beg your pardon. What facts are you talking about? GTE does not even
- have a business presence in this community. How in the hell is it
- supposed to do community involvement? It is a mystery company that
- hides out at the end of an 800 number.
-
- > For years GTE has supplied its people to work with the LA Raiders on
- > its Food Day game. Each year well over 500 GTE people are at the GTE
- > sponsered GTE West Golf Classic which is used to support a shelter for
- > battered wives.
-
- Not around here it doesn't. Oh, I forgot. Northern California does not
- count, even though there are a number of communities here that are
- "served" by GTE.
-
- > It sponsers Public TV programs and many other local community events
- > in its service areas. If you were to contact your area public affairs
- > office they could tell you more.
-
- What do you call a "service area"? Do Morgan Hill, Los Gatos, and
- Novato not qualify as "service areas"? You cannot even pay your bill
- in person in those towns at a GTE office because there are none.
-
- > We were also involved with over 1000 volunteers in the 1984 Olympics
- > in LA. We were at the Super Bowl in Pasadena and will be there again
- > for public service. 'GTE People' is not very well known.
-
- And what will happen when GTE up and moves its puny presence, such as
- it is, out of southern California? Where are these volunteers going to
- come from? Florida? North Carolina? Texas? That IS dedication. It is
- also ridiculous.
-
- > Maybe we should blow our horns more often, but we are more
- > interested in just doing our community service and not caring if
- > anyone really knows about it since we do and that is all that really
- > counts.
-
- What a cheap shot. Pac*Bell does not "blow its horn". I am aware of
- its involvment because I, myself, am involved in community service and
- I happen to bump elbows with Pac*Bell people. I have yet to bump any
- elbows with GTE people. The last time I even saw anyone who worked for
- GTE is when I made a service appointment a week in advance.
-
-
- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 264 4115
- john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: It so happens that GTE has been a benefactor of the
- Lyric Opera here in Chicago in the past; in the Illinois communities
- where they operate they have been involved with school educational
- programs; and Automatic Electric did a number of community-oriented
- things in the northwest suburban area here. PAT]
-