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Originally Posted by Notorious Honey Badger
Maybe your friend who's a nurse didn't have any examples. But my Mom isn't lying when she said surgeries are being cancelled and have to rebooked. I mean I guess that's a meaningless source to you but I'm not here to convince you.
I'm not piling on either, you're just being defensive. What happened here shouldn't have happened and should have been covered by a better system of redundant backups. This isn't a liberal attacking a PC for bad policies and making it political, this is serious stuff. People didn't have 9-1-1. Hospitals were affected. It's really too bad you're trying to spin my posts as "hate".
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I never said your mom was lying, I just said that my source hasn't mentioned anything like that. What were the surgeries that were rebooked? I think rebooking not serious surgeries is a good thing. Right now you probably have a bunch of man power being lost because doing things takes more time. Doctors and nurses should be focused on giving care to the people who need it most and I would bet that people who really need the care are getting it. If that means rebooking a knee surgery here and there a few days later than I'm all for it. Your reaction just seems a little over the top to me.
What happened was probably avoidable yes, but that doesn't mean Shaw is the only company who would have had this issue. I think the redundancies and back up plans you expect are not cost effective and slightly unrealistic. I don't think it's fair to expect life to go on without a hiccup when something of this magnitude happens to ANY company.
As for your 9-1-1 comment a small percentage of Shaw phone users didn't have access to the service for a time period. As someone idicated this was told to them and in writing when they got the service, they knew this was a possibility. I bet if you took a poll of all the people who didn't have access to 9-1-1 with Shaw a huge percentage have a cell phone which does have access to 9-1-1.
I haven't been trying to spin your posts, you just give off a tone like you are kind of overreacting and/or dislike Shaw. Is this a serious event? Yes it is, but with people today being so dependant on technology it is to be expected. Is Shaw to blame? Sure they are, and likely will be punished with lost revenue and bills to change their setup so this is less likely to happen again. Do I think that this is as dire as you are making it sound? No.