It seems like no progress is occurring. Working hard for Dish/EchoStar is a waste of time because it's never been best in telecom or anything for that matter! Any optimism for EchoStar/Dish's future is sadly misplaced and akin to saying The Big Guy... — read more
Something good is happening
Seems like some progress is happening. Hope for the best. Let's work hard and make this ship best in the telecom again ❤️
Get out while you can...
This is a sinking ship, on top of the operational expenses being cut, the business is a failure. Quarter after quarter there is an increase in the loss of subscribers across all channels, increases in fraud and churn, and an increase in the failed... — read more
Dish Bondholders Sue Struggling Company Over Asset Transfers
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dish-bondholders-sue-struggling-company-012523236.html What does this mean?
Q1 2024 Predictions
Anyone think layoffs will be announced after the Q1 earnings call like companies are known to do? Still lots of questions on the future and how the company will look. Not sure if a merger reorg/reconstruction has been done yet with the being... — read more
"Dish turns to celebrity pitchman while shuffling cash around" -LightReading Article
URL: https://www.lightreading.com/oss-bss-cx/dish-turns-to-celebrity-pitchman-while-shuffling-cash-around The article briefly talks about financials with the company. From the short few paragraphs, it seems like echostar/dish will easily have enough... — read more
Thoughts on a possible bankruptcy?
Anyone think DISH/Echostar will claim Bankruptcy this quarter? Earnings call is about a month away. Some youtubers guessed a possible layoff before November.
Telecom News
Could DISH be next company to do bankruptcy? https://www.lightreading.com/network-technology/telecom-s-next-big-g-is-bankrupg
Telecom
https://www.lightreading.com/finance/commscope-lumen-dish-named-as-most-distressed-telecom-companies
DISH
https://advanced-television.com/2024/03/25/dish-open-to-directv-merger/
Dish Headquarters Sold for $26MTo Ergen Shell Company
Dish Headquarters Sold for $26MTo Ergen Shell Company More Charlie Ergen trickery. Protecting assets from EchoStar/Dish creditors before the house of cards all collapses under the weight of bankruptcy. EchoStar to sell Littleton DISH Network... — read more
Do you know anything about they are laying off citizens and filing Green card for Internationals
There are rumors that they fired citizens and filling the green card for non citizens, what I heard last time is, it's against law. Please do us know if they are doing it.
Dish Q4 Results
Looking from previous years, Dish usually does Q4 results during the 3rd week of February. It has yet to even announce its Q4 results. Could there be a reason for a delay?
Dish announced 53 will be laid off
Dish notified the Colorado Department of Labor & Employment on Tuesday that it will be laying off employees at its Englewood and Littleton, Colorado, locations. The positions include mostly sales account executives but also data scientists, wireless... — read more
Mike Kelly leaving DISH
Mike Kelly is leaving DISH again after only being back for a handful of months. Whether this is of his own volition, or he was forced out was not disclosed but this could be further signs of executives jumping far away from this sinking ship.
Earth to marketing. Can you hear me now?
Verizon is bragging about their network in Vegas and how it performed at the Super Bowl. Meanwhile Vegas was the launch market for Dish and you'd never know it. Crickets. Whatever the real strategy is, it ain't about being relevant, competitive... — read more
New Round of Boost Mobile/Dish Wireless Layoffs @157 Jobs Coming in March 2024
More layoffs already in early 2024 is a sure tipoff that financial & market results are already trending negative. I feel for my old Boost Mobile co-workers who have to endure yet another round of cutbacks in this terrible company. Unfortunately it's... — read more
Hopefully budget is set for 2024 and no more layoffs
I am hearing this from various managers that now budget is set for 2024 and no more layoffs are on way.
Any more layoffs?
Anyone think there will be more layoffs in the near future?
Laid Off Dish Colorado HQ Workers Off Payroll
Say goodbye to 500+ employees at Dish's Littleton, Colorado headquarters who were given their pink slips YE23. They're officially leaving the (under) Payroll. It's been real but it hasn't been real nice working @Dish. Here's an interesting report on... — read more
DISH Reportedly Accused of Debt Swap Fraud As Creditors Threaten Legal Action
More apparently shady behavior from Charlie Ergen and Dish/EchoStar. This financial engineering reeks of an increasing desperate situation. Expect Dish to take more risks as their market and financial positions continue to deteriorate and their... — read more
Any Customer Service Layoffs?
I saw some job postings for on site customer service positions both in leadership and on the employee hourly wage level. I read from some comments that some are told ahead of time if they're laid off and then some said they are not. Any recent lay... — read more
Should I join the Dish
Dish is offering me Staff software engineer for AEM. TC is around 165K. But I heard most of people are saying it's not safe and they can layoff me anytime. My current TC is 135k. Should I join Dish.
Buit In's Best Places to Work in Colorado List Mentions Dish
) Dish only MADE the list of many large companies operating in CO, it wasn't singled for being anything special; 2.) Who the heck is Built In anyway?; 3.) The laundry list of Dish's supposedly comprehensive benefits is overinflated as the actual... — read more
DISH to layoff 150+ more workers in Colorado
Drip, drip, drip...that's the sound the sound of Dish & The Wicked Witch of The West, Charlie Ergen, melting away! DISH to layoff 150+ more workers in Colorado Denver — DISH Network will lay off a further 157 workers in March, according to a letter... — read more
No more layoffs in 2024
What I heard from HR and some sources is no more layoffs in 2024. I hope that's true.
DISH Network Layoffs 2024
Anyone would care to chime in with a prediction about potential DISH Network layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
Dish bring back people laid off at lower role/pay
Have now seen multiple examples of people laid off from Dish and now brought back to Boost in a lower role and pay. Absolutely pathetic move by the company. Sad that people are so desperate they have to do this but the people I know that this has... — read more
How To Lose Nearly $20 Billion: Inside The Fall Of Dish Network’s Charles Ergen And His Latest Attempt To Battle Back
Featured article in Forbes from 12/20/23. If anyone has access you can post here to share with your Dish compadres.
Man talks about being laid off by Dish Network (Video)
https://www.9news.com/article/money/business/dish-network-layoffs-employee/73-af900484-9d13-4047-8e3c-1e0d782a6095 Dish laid off nearly 500 people in Colorado. November 12, 2023 ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Englewood-based Dish Network is laying off... — read more
CPAW is Dish's Acronym for B.S.
*Curiosity - I'm curious to see how long Dish will stay solvent? *Pride - I truthfully don't know anyone that's proud to have worked for Dish (except the hard core coolaid types that believe anything spewed from Charlie Ergen's mouth). *Adventure -... — read more
You Have To Be Insane To Stay @Dish
Who in their right mind would want to stay at Dish??! It's the absolute worst company to work at (actually voted #1 Worst Company twice). The pay is extremely low, disrespectful work environment, terriblle benefits, 401k s*cks, no job security, no... — read more
Promotions right after layoffs?
Anyone notice how many are getting promoted right after they announced layoffs. Mostly managers who shmooze their bosses all year long from what I've heard, not a single DEV getting promoted. This is a complete shitshow.
Dish Lays Off More Than 500 Employees
This is just the start of some really hard times for anyone working at Dish. No exaggeration whatsoever with that conclusion as the company is failing on all fronts. Sadly Dish is not even honest with its public statements. Struggling Dish Network... — read more
Racist and Exclusive
Given the insane assessments and interview process this company has, where every final app is reviewed and either denied/approved by Charlie, it’s a shock that people cannot see the blatant racism and exclusion practices HE created. So if Charlie... — read more
No surprises here
Dish is among the 20 worst companies to work for in 2023. I don't think anybody here is shocked by this development. I'm just surprised that we're only in No. 15 on the list and not much higher.
The WARN act
Did anyone receive 60 days of notice or pay? I believe Dish has violated the WARN Act. I’m not signing that letter for two weeks of pay. I’ll wait for the class action lawsuit... — read more
More layoffs coming
Yes. About a 20% reduction in force. Layoffs happened today and will go through tomorrow. Rumor is that another round of layoffs will occur near the end of November. Where is this info coming from? I'm not saying this is not true, but it would be... — read more
Were there layoffs today
I heard that many layoffs happened today, is it true?