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Old 06-27-2006, 09:08 AM
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Comcast fires employee caught sleeping on camera
Comcast fires employee caught sleeping on camera
More than 300,000 people have viewed video of slumbering worker on video site YouTube.com.

June 27 2006: 7:34 AM EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Cable operator Comcast said Monday it fired an employee who was caught on camera sleeping on a customer's couch after the video clip was shared all over the Web.

The Comcast (Charts) technician was at customer Brian Finkelstein's home when he fell asleep after spending an hour on the phone waiting for his own company's customer service, the Comcast subscriber said.

Finkelstein filmed the operative sleeping, edited and set the video to the Eels pop song "I Need Some Sleep," and shared the 58-second footage on popular online video site YouTube.com.

Titled "A Comcast Technician Sleeping On My Couch," more than 300,000 people have viewed the video since it was posted last Tuesday.

The video is also interspersed with captions complaining about Comcast's customer service.

Comcast said it has fired the employee and apologized to Finkelstein, of Washington, D.C., for the "unsatisfactory customer experience."

"We obviously do not condone what was represented in the video," the cable operator, which has more than 21 million subscribers in the United States, said in a statement.
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Old 06-27-2006, 09:10 AM
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Yeah I watched it today. Funny chit. the guy was on hold with comcast for a hour and dozed off on the couch.
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Yeah I watched it today. Funny chit. the guy was on hold with comcast for a hour and dozed off on the couch.
Hey Deck, can you post the link? I heard about it but never saw it yet thanks.
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Old 06-27-2006, 09:19 AM
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yeah we need link
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C'mon Victor/Cat it's called a search box! Your post used up more keystrokes than going to youtube and typing in "comcast"!
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Old 06-27-2006, 09:22 AM
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C'mon Victor/Cat it's called a search box! Your post used up more keystrokes than going to youtube and typing in "comcast"!
lol got it domafia!
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i dont even know what the hell You Tube is. I am assuming thats the website's name?
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Dom has no patience for us lazy folks. lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvVp7...search=comcast
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Old 06-27-2006, 09:25 AM
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thanks Jack, yeah that video had no humor at all. I was waiting for the funny stuff Deck lol
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Old 06-27-2006, 09:27 AM
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I have to give a hand to the person who filmed that. These idiots at the cable, phone, etc companies frustrate the heck out of us regular people. lol
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lol domafia! Thanks Dr. Jack! Just found it as was going to post it. You beat me to it.
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Old 06-27-2006, 10:09 AM
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did they say how pathetic it is that their own employees have to wait an hour for service? what a joke...LOL
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Old 06-27-2006, 10:52 AM
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the funny thing was the guy sleeping on the couch. I would have woken his butt up and said to get going.
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