We are in Arizona. Our companies are Wise Connect and ITC Service Group. I'm curious about the Florida area but I'm sure others want to know about where you are too.
And right to hate it
A cash drain with no reasonable return for shareholdes if fixed.
Storey HATES the consumer business
People, understand Storey HATES the consumer business, its a boat anchor around his neck. He would sell it for a dollar if he could fond someone dumb enough to buy it it. Enterprise is all he cares about. He is gonna milk every last drop out of the... — read more
AT&T door to door sales people for Centurylink
Why in the world would Centurylink hire AT&T door to door salesman? Not only that, but we just had one stop by our house and the guy was rude, argumentative and disrespectful! No wonder they are losing customers.
Nice work CenturyLink!
NOT! You now have thousands of ex employees spilling the beans on how you operate and how you treat long time employees! Most of us will not return to make this work as a contractors and we are letting everyone know if you have other options to... — read more
Tech appreciation
Tech appreciation a month before the lay off finishes.
We have hit a new low
So a 911 center calls me directly because they have my cell. Tell me, we called CTL because we have a big phone cable laying on the road because of an accident and a lot of your customers are complaining the are out. They told us 5-7 days to get... — read more
2nd quarter almost over. Its quiet.. Maybe its over for now.
The company will probably look things over in 3rd quarter and make adjustments in 4th quarter when they normally do. Thinking its over for now.
PILOT CENTURYLINK on centurylink job site
Captain - Jet Please ensure that pop-up blockers are disabled in order to proceed. Date: Jun 8, 2018 Sorry, this position has been filled. oh crap I was counting on being Mr Story's personal lear jet pilot
Check out starry internet- 200 mbps for $50 month How does Centurylink compete?
Starry’s 200 mbps up/download service runs $50 a month, which includes installation and the company’s fancy pants touchscreen Starry Station WiFi hub. Check out link below. Its coming to 14 major us cities, includes Denver. Fierce competition... — read more
New technology on the horizon. Low cost Wireless dsl. Centurylink and level 3 will be trying to rid of high cost old technology
https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/01/08/1285005/0/en/Starry-Announces-Groundbreaking-Joint-Initiative-with-Marvell-to-Speed-the-Deployment-of-Fixed-Wireless-5G-Technologies.html... — read more
NOT DONE
Layoffs are no where close to being done, expect them at the end every pay period from now until 2019.
Union excuse
Union guys, only excuse stolen pairs. We're the only people trained in copper. Stfu already. Underground work is only for us. Lol. Initiate phase 3.
Mandatory OT
But still having layoffs here.....
Please leave all union and non union comments on this site.
This is the avenue for the union vs non union comments. Please only put whats happening at centurylink unions or what you are hearing is going to happen. Glad we are all grownups here.
No more Centurylink Center Omaha
CHI Health Center Omaha
Centurylink stock review are like luke warm.
This means that there will still be cuts in employees and in capital expenditures. We are going into the 3rd quarter next month. I for see Changes coming both in 3rd and 4 th quarter. It’s far from over. Both the CEO and the COO have bonuses coming... — read more
Please leave all union and non union comments off this site.
This is not the avenue for the union vs non union comments. Please only put whats happening at centurylink or what you are hearing is going to happen. Lets all be grownups here.
Wow!
Peice rate contractors are going to save the company money. Only a matter of time before they see this and push all work to follow. $37 an install or repair and slot of people lined up for those rates. Lol. You have and will be replaced.
Why are there still so many SRO’s ?
Local management is fudging the numbers. They are moving employees under different SRO’s to bring up the number of employee’s per supervisors. Unsure how many employees each SRO should have. Still confused about the delay to correct the proportion of... — read more
Copper hopefully not dead after all
http://www.telecompetitor.com/assia-chief-dsl-could-support-terabit-speeds/
Centurylink Las Vegas Engineering laid off numerous OSP Engineers recently, Now New job opening for OSP engineering. What with that??
https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=554a2af2baf012af&tk=1cg5meruaauoga5t&from=serp&vjs=3 Centurylink just laid off like 7-10 OSP Engineers in Las Vegas. Guess What, New job listing on INDEED.. For an OSP Engineer in Las Vegas.. Whats with that. Why... — read more
F level3 F CTL
F both these companies.
Jobs are going bye bye!
Everything is going wifi. Upgrading cell towers. 5g is future. Businesses sure you need how many can actually do networking infrastructure for comercial? I'd say maybe 5 percent of you guys. Move on to cell tower jobs... or find new industry just a... — read more
What happens when you run a company by stock price / dividends?
Layoffs are just a visible indicator of a slow death spiral into oblivion for CenturyLink or any company that failed to plan for the future. When you attempt to run a company by quarterly earnings you lose the long term vision of where to invest your... — read more
Any word of the axe swinging today?
Well it's Friday but not pay week so I was just wondering if the axe is swinging anywhere that you were aware of today? I would assume next Friday will be the day since it's payday.
Retail!
Is there anything that has been said about retail stores closing?
Good news!
I took a package. They actually paid me to stop working at the circus. I mean you gonna pay me to leave a company that in the field i was in was bad! Yes please and thank you, because I was job searching and leaving anyway. CenturyLink paid me over... — read more
Been very quiet here, maybe it’s over.
Or it’s the calm before the storm. The supervisors, when you ask them, say they don’t know anything. They are worried about their own job.
Reported on the Denver post. Bonuses if they meet objectives.
Storey, 57, will earn a base annual salary of $1.5 million with annual incentive of up to $2.6 million if he meets performance targets. He’s also eligible for a long-term incentive grant worth about $10.5 million in stock options, plus he receives a... — read more
More stocks news. Not great
https://stocknewsjournal.com/2018/06/11/drilling-down-into-centurylink-ctl/
Layoffs are far from over
Company orig said 2% reduction. It’s more than 2 % now. If they need to reduce their numbers down to 30,000, it’s going to be more like 20% reduction in the end. It’s far from being over. They are just doing it slowly, trying not to draw attention... — read more
Union vs. Non-Union...Who Cares?
I am getting sick of reading posts about lazy union guys and contractors who think they are awesome and vice versa. Guess what? There are awesome union guys and there are sh--ty ones, but that is the same for other CTL employees and contractors too... — read more
Heres another centyurylink post about the stock..
https://marketrealist.com/2018/06/heres-why-centurylink-stock-has-fallen-in-the-last-week?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=feed&yptr=yahoo
latest Centurylink stock review
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/06/08/centurylink-bears-have-it-wrong.aspx?fs_test=True
Jeffery Story, Richard Batelaan, Fred Lawler say : We are chasing short-term gains in order to boost stock prices and put more money in the pock
When CenturyLink bought Qwest they said we now have about 52,000 employees we need to get it down to about 40,000 . Now it is the same game over and over . Buy , liquidate , sell no big surprise here , Level3 bought Wiltel, Broadwing , Time warner... — read more
06.08.18 last day.
Walked out with 34,400, pension, and 401k. Signed the paperwork. Birds up Centurystink. You treated us like s!ht, blew our customers away, stressed us out, pissed us off, harassed us, busted the union, and made company devoted techs walk out. For... — read more
Centurylink orig said 2 % work force reduction, it’s going to be more than that.
Info from iveybusinessjounral.com The greater the workforce consolidation, the more attractive the economic results. With a 30-per-cent workforce reduction, economic measures such as the payback period and annual operating savings are far more... — read more
Still here!
Made it guys hope you did too. Things might be looking up. I heard layoffs are done. Opening books to hire over summer. Relax, drink a beer, smoke some pot.