California is beautiful just like many other third world countries.

Wow, another company with zero guts or principles...

A liberal lawmaker threatens them and all of the sudden the truth no longer matters. Pathetic, but not surprising...

Uh, yeah...close fist and shake diagonally...

So, its OK to close the California call centers but it is not OK to explain that operations are not competitive in the state.

How sad - even more people thrown out of work, even more homes in jeopardy. I'd love to move back to California, but I can't see how it will be possible in the forseeable future. The progs in government there who praise the "worker" don't really want people to work at all.

The first answer is still operative. The second answer is Bravo Sierra. Someone must have held a gun to Comcast's head.

Smart to catch them by surprise. Now split, and the faster the better.

CA state and local will mount immense pressure to reverse this. They already got Comcast to soften its words.

Local and state governments feel you owe them. Leaving is considered an insult. Just read the whining of various officials in this story.

I'm surprised there are any businesses left in CA.

I love the comments from state officials. Gee, we're sorry to lose you, but at least you admitted it wasn't our anti-business environment.

What do you want to bet that it's easier to get rid of unproductive employees in all of those other states as well.

Ayn Rand was right, the wasters are upon us.

That's Comcastic

Heh. What we've got here is failure to communicate:

Comcast owns NBC and its cable station (formerly known as MSNBC) -- liberal and ultra-liberal.

Comcast owners are big libs (Roberts) to support Obama and his minions. I'm sure that Jerry Brown got mucho buckos from Comcast or its affiliates.

Finally: California is bad for business. Comcast and its owners are beginning to comprende.

I wonder how many small businesses have quietly close up shop in CA without any fanfare? Probably in the thousands.

The lesson is... don't say anything, just quietly get out of CA while you can before you open yourself up to threats.

Back in the 90's we were told about that "loud sucking sound" about jobs and Mexico. Now we see it happening in.....California.

Amazing.

" It noted that many customers rely on self-help and online tools to handle their service questions, which meant it doesn't need as many call centers as in the past."

Bull cookies. I absolutely loathe IVR, despise IVR, wish IVR to hell!

The truth is Comcast wants out of the call center business. They don't want to deal directly with customers...period. It's getting where these chickenpoop corporations just want the customer's money, and if they could get same without service of any kind that's exactly what they would do...and are doing.

IVR sucks huevos.

I just hit "0" rapidly until I get somebody.

I hate IVR.

"Whenever we hear a company talking about having a difficult time doing business in the region (or) the state, we'd want to put together a team and go meet with them and resolve the problem," said Robert Burris, senior vice president of SACTO..."

Lot's and lot's of over-paid idiot cousins
to man the badgering team, no doubt.

Millions of Californians have moved to other states. California's only population growth is via illegal aliens.

Sane Americans are moving out and the Mexicans are reclaiming their territory

Wherever liberals abound, it is high taxes and anti-business. I grew up in the Santa Clara Valley in California, and it's never been the same since they bulldozed the orchards and put in freeways and shopping centers in 1968. The last time I tried to live there in 79, I had to stay with my father because it was impossible to find a place to live, and would take two hours to drive the 10 miles from San Jose to Santa Clara. It must be crazy there now with the additional illegal aliens. The Land of Fruits and Nuts.

Well, surprise of surprises-- the middle class and its employers are exiting California, for a net loss of two million people to other states. California is a one-party (Democrat) state. Presiding over this economic train wreck are Steinberg; the obese, homosexual Speaker of the Assemby Perez; and Governor "Bald Tires" Brown, who run the state for the benefit of the very wealthy, the very poor and state employee unions. Unfortunately for me, I don't fall into any of these three groups, and I am plotting and planning my own exit.

Hope that Compost doesn't close all the call centers in my city. That poor woman needs her job.

A few days ago there was a the thread detailing states where ex-Californians were fleeing. Several current CA residents posted their reasons to remain. While those of us who left can sympathize with their denial of what is happening to what was once one of our greatest states, stories like this confirm our decision. CA is a beautiful state, but we live in a big, beautiful country. There are other places in it that have not yet contracted the insanity that infects CA. CA is in need of a political turnaround, and there are no Howard Jarvis' on the horizon.

CA won't be in any real trouble until the dot com folks break free from the annoying and cloistered group think they currently swath themselves in.

It'll take a decade at least, but small leaks in the dam are already appearing here and there.

It'll make the great aerospace/defense collapse that happened a few decades ago look like kids' stuff.

These fleeing democrats who want to live in Utopia but are too stupid to realize their party is incapable of delivering that for them will only re-infest their new digs with their liberal venom. Look at Oregon and Washington. It's full of transplanted Cali lefties.

On kfi640 radio on the John and Ken show today they interviewed a guy who reported on his study. It showed that in the past 10 years more then 2,000,000 people left California.

They also took all their money with them. He stated that in just 5 states that these people went to they brought with them over $18 BILLION! (California deficit this and past years is still greater to get an idea of the over spending).

Texas was the most popular but even North Dakota (500+) and South Dakota got a few thousand Californians.

California local and state gov't spent over $400 billion with over a $100 billion going to schools (with 50+% of the students dropping out). The money is mostly going to pay pensions.

People should look at California and "Obama's America" writ small. Sure, tax the wealthy--it's not like they can move. Sure, institute a "living wage" it's not like a business can't get the same work done for much less somewhere else.

The scary thing for non-Californians, though, should definitely be what will happen to their states when the fleeing Californians arrived. Like aliens from all over, they will try to re-make the familiar and ruin what it was they ran to...

What a waste of a beautiful state.

A call center in Iowa employing 1000, just announced a 500 job increase.

This is too funny. Comcast first said they were closing call centers because of the high cost of doing business in CA. Once Comcast backtracked and said no, it was because those call centers weren't needed anymore because business slacked off, the demoncrats said it was okay for them to close. It's mind boggling that demonrat legislature can't see the forest from the trees. They certainly don't want the finger pointed at them as a reason for businesses to flee.

And they were banking on Facebook capital gains to bail them out. I feel sorry for my California co-workers. They don't want to leave but they admit its nuts out there and going downhill fast.

I have noticed more California tags recently in Atlanta, and we aren't doing that great ourselves anymore.

Comcast's 'turnaround' is so much BS. They were just reminded they need to play nice and PC...the jobs are still gone and it was because of high operating costs they cut the cord...the second story is CYA.

Check Comcast's stock closley this week--- And find out what the investors think about this move.......