I think the customers in this case have the right to complain about paying for bandwidth that through no fault of thier own (and I stress if they are not at fault).
Ultimately the ISP should cover for such worm attacks but I can well understand why they might not want to. It sounds like it would be a good area for insurance.
I don't really see how your credit rating is any business of an employer in the majority of the cases. A lot of folks have been stating how economic conditions are bad and jobs are at a premium. This in itself is an issue, companies essentially use these time periods to get away with murder. The question begs, even if other companies are doing this is it still right?
There are a lot of reasons people can get into bad credit problems, I know quite a few people who through no fault of thier own ended up with bad credit ratings, usually because they dared to fight erroneous charges, mistakes in billing, etc. Not to say there are not those out there that have no clue as to how to balance thier spending. But having been laid off last year, making the payments on bills for such simple things as FOOD were hard enough at times. In short, credit ratings tell squat about a person in most cases and penalize those who are responsible adults that had a spat of bad luck.
Just because an employer(s) can get away with something or have doesn't mean that we should allow them to get away with it.
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I think the customers in this case have the right to complain about paying for bandwidth that through no fault of thier own (and I stress if they are not at fault).
Ultimately the ISP should cover for such worm attacks but I can well understand why they might not want to. It sounds like it would be a good area for insurance.
I don't really see how your credit rating is any business of an employer in the majority of the cases. A lot of folks have been stating how economic conditions are bad and jobs are at a premium. This in itself is an issue, companies essentially use these time periods to get away with murder. The question begs, even if other companies are doing this is it still right? There are a lot of reasons people can get into bad credit problems, I know quite a few people who through no fault of thier own ended up with bad credit ratings, usually because they dared to fight erroneous charges, mistakes in billing, etc. Not to say there are not those out there that have no clue as to how to balance thier spending. But having been laid off last year, making the payments on bills for such simple things as FOOD were hard enough at times. In short, credit ratings tell squat about a person in most cases and penalize those who are responsible adults that had a spat of bad luck. Just because an employer(s) can get away with something or have doesn't mean that we should allow them to get away with it.