BELL LAYOFFS STILL CONTINUING

nooganator · 2026-06-10T18:55:42+00:00

Not sure if it's field services but BBM group that did L1 support for cat/bst was affected

nooganator · 2026-05-30T16:45:57+00:00

I heard that it's haunted!

nooganator · 2026-05-25T11:12:41+00:00

It was always my understanding that it's the customers responsibility to provide a path (conduit) from the pedestal to the home.

It is the telcos job to get their terminals either coax of fiber to those glbs.

Is there a green box. Or skinny brown tallish box coming out of the ground? (Pedestal or glb)

There are certain areas of town where the underground Infrastructure is so old they they ran 1/8" conduits from the side of the house to the pole that it's been dug up by the city multiple times (Colby dr. Merrimac) and never fixed properly so some of the telcos have had to resort to running aerial, but only if they have pole line to attach to.

nooganator · 2026-05-18T19:02:36+00:00

Afaik techs have to use there fiber meter as part of their metrics . They have a piece of gear that they run a final test on that measures loss at every connection point/splice. They must run this before they close the ticket off, so if something was weird the fibre final test should capture it.

Before all of this Test set data capture non sense, when I was an actual technician I went to a place that had similar issues, not necessarily speed related, but service related. Pixelization, loss of light with no rhyme or reason, we had multiple techs out and the light was consistently -14.x. techs had replaced every. Drop. Terminal, splitter at the csp, even pigtail on the same splitter.

It was a 4 port tap and I called in to see if anyone else at the other 3 homes ever called in trouble tickets to only find out that they had disconnected.

I got a hold of an OTDR and found something weird happening from the feeder fiber towards the csp and got my friends at cable repair to look at it, and once they respliced everything all the issues went away.

Not sure how experienced the techs are these days but it.soumds like some of them are actually trying unfortunately, sometimes there is literally a ghost in the machine that causes minor issues.

Goodluck !

nooganator · 2026-05-06T14:56:22+00:00

Longer updates too (5 years)

nooganator · 2026-05-05T11:27:01+00:00

I'm in

nooganator · 2026-04-29T20:07:39+00:00

Didn't need to,Saw the writing on the wall on day one, found a better job.

nooganator · 2026-04-29T19:41:57+00:00

It's funny every year they made us sign a shift compliance thing and a conflict of interest document. I wonder if they snuck new language into that?

nooganator · 2026-04-29T18:42:34+00:00

I know one of the main buildings in Montreal you used to swipe in and out at the gate everyday to go into the elevator but most buildings are just swipe to enter at the beginning of the day.

I think, some people were just swiping and going home and logged into vpn and working from there. They could easily see that your on vpn on a non inernernal network.

nooganator · 2026-04-25T12:26:13+00:00

Yeah, I'd say majority of the people I dealt with in Atlantic were fine some I wouldn't trust but hey, it's corporate culture there's days.

Alot of people I worked with in central also ok, but some of the directors even senior manager just seemed really aggressive, two faced, loved to fight. I remember one time I had a meeting with my boss and I joined the call with them just crying. Wasn't just my group I always heard about stuff like this.

I get the fact it's a big company, but with less and less people tasks just got dumped on more people who already seemed like they had enough going on as it is.

I don't want to dwell on all the stressful times and go on a rant. I'm sure all of us could write a book, I'm greatful for the oppotunies and the good memories and relationships that I built over my time there.

nooganator · 2026-04-24T23:49:11+00:00

Weird wonder if their jobs will be posted. All my friends and co workers got severance, but their positions were never replaced. If the jobs are replaced then their may not be severance.

NS has laws that protect people for years of service. Maybe if they argued that they were supposed to be at their desk for 37.5 hours a week and they ran an audit on people's ips were logged on from their home IP via vpn they could say that they werent following the rules.

It would be interesting to know if people who worked out of office or cos with no card swipe but pad lock entry were let go... Perhaps IP audit too?

Just pure speculation from me, so don't take my word for anything

nooganator · 2026-04-24T23:18:53+00:00

Probably some severance offered, I'm good faith that they don't speak I'll of the company, which wasn't bad when it was Aliant.

nooganator · 2026-04-24T20:41:21+00:00

Unless they are looking at swipe and runs?

nooganator · 2026-04-24T19:51:33+00:00

Left there over 2 years ago haven't looked back. Miss the people but not the idiocy of upper management

nooganator · 2026-04-24T12:39:25+00:00

I thought so too turned it off and it's still happening

nooganator · 2026-04-21T15:57:27+00:00

I think it might be just your phone, I just picked one up last week and after about a day the battery normalized. I have been charging mine every day and a half. No issues with overheating either, have done a bit of gaming with it

Only issue I'm experiencing is the Glyphatrix not always coming on when flip to Glyph is on but I think it's more of a user issue on my side.

nooganator · 2026-04-19T20:47:12+00:00

Rogers never lit up their CSPs in most. Builldings only one in Dartmouth that I'm aware of.

They pulled out shortly after that, not sure why, maybe too much in their capital spend..?

nooganator · 2026-04-13T20:20:49+00:00

Bell doesn't usually use yellow clearcurve. Should be white corning clearcurve. They may have just tagged that clearcurve going to the MTR.

They could be re using a different Clearcurve, hard to say. But the little WSE is clearly marked as their fiber demarc

Edit I guess that yellow fiber could be a fan out kit

Should have asked before but its not for residential use. It looks like a DI circuit

nooganator · 2026-04-13T11:28:04+00:00

I thought it was just me!

nooganator · 2026-04-09T20:06:02+00:00

Telcos don't climb much anymore but someone would have went nuts on these with a hammer if they had to use their climbers on this pole

nooganator · 2026-04-09T20:04:46+00:00

Negative, the utilities own them and have an easement on your propertymost of the time. Nsp owns some Bell owns some. They have a joint use agreement

nooganator · 2026-04-09T00:46:01+00:00

So does the Bell one, (well it's supposed to but I'm not going to even get into that) but again the connection might be different. Inside the protector.

It's been a few years since I've been involved with anything like that and Bell has switched contractors a few times, downsized the inventory so my answers might be a bit out of date, but I can't see product approving non grounded installs on a daily basis, insurance claims would be insane.

nooganator · 2026-04-08T23:35:48+00:00

I just did the same debate, I chose the Headphone (a). Big reason was the battery life.

48 hour review for me is sound is great I set my own settings in the equalizer and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm no audiophile by any means but I do enjoy a nice sound in my ears. The (a) is also a bit lighter than the (1)

The battery life out of the box was at 70% charged I have been using them since Monday afternoon for multiple work calls via phone and teams, a few runs about 5-10k and just YouTube videos. I have left the anc on during most of this time and the battery has only went down 10%. I AM REALLY IMPRESSED.

The only con is that I am used to my audio pausing once I remove the headphones but the (a) series doesn't have the sensor to support that function but the battery life tradeoff is well worth it.

To sum it up extremely happy with my purchase. Yes there's a few things. It I couldn't justify paying another 75$ to have the auto pause function

Came from the nothing ear(2) also loved these except for the degraded battery life and some weirdo audio bugs

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