Topics regarding layoffs at Dish Network

Topics regarding layoffs at Dish Network

Dysfunctional Dish in Meltdown

As Dish Network becomes increasingly cash strapped, diverting all it's resources, time and attention into desperately trying to make it in Wireless business you can expect more dysfunction at the company. A news report (2/24/23) is out stating... — read more 

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| 1360 views | | 1 reply (March 4, 2023)
Post ID: @OP+1lmaUv77

Best of luck, salesmen

2022 results are in, and DISH is still losing customers and revenue. And now borrowing money at almost 12%, adding to the growing debt-pile. The CEO says enterprise is where it's at- but it takes a long time to sell to those customers. DISH... — read more 

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| 1370 views | | 4 replies (last February 26, 2023)
Post ID: @OP+1llNWkcf

Everyone who works here should know what's coming

Recently, managers are asked by their superiors to rank their employees according to the criticality of their jobs. In all of past major layoffs, people in each work group will be chopped from the bottom up according to the percentages to meet the... — read more 

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Post ID: @OP+1leM7PO2

People are too fatalistic

Yes, there will be layoffs like there were layoffs before but that doesn't mean that Dish is about to go the way of the dodo. I'm not saying things are perfect, far from it. Some changes are needed, that's for sure, but the situation is not nearly as... — read more 

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| 1070 views | | 2 replies (last February 16, 2023)
Post ID: @OP+1l7UazU2

Dish Network - Wireless Layoffs in 2022

Dish just laid off almost 100 people right before Labor Day in their nascent Retail Wireless organization. Everyone was stunned. They’ve have been hiring like crazy while their wireless subscribers have tanked – over 1.5M lost since Boost was... — read more 

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| 2741 views | | 2 replies (last November 28, 2022)
Post ID: @OP+1iGsKe9f

Please, lay me off

I believe I'm not the only one who thinks that a layoff would be a much needed kickstart to get away from this joke of a company and get my career back on track?

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| 1084 views | | 1 reply (October 21, 2022)
Post ID: @OP+1hWaEvb3

DISH Network Layoffs 2022

What's your prediction as it relates to the possiblity of DISH Network layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

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| 1750 views | | 3 replies (last November 14, 2022)
Post ID: @OP+1dLx7fHG

MEDIA: MERGER IN WORKS?

DirecTV, Dish TV May Take Another Whack At Merger 11/12 ... WarnerMedia is expecting layoffs, anywhere from 5% to 7% – around 1,200 to 1,750. Disneyland looks to make more theme parks layoffs, due to being... — read more 

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Post ID: @OP+17TACJb9

Fired the whole department

Worked for the company for 4 years. I moved up 4 times within the company while maintaining exceptional performance appraisals. The most recent position I had was responding to customer surveys individually by email. This was a fairly enjoyable job... — read more 

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| 2570 views | | 3 replies (last February 27, 2021)
Post ID: @OP+15GmXX1U

I Saw This Coming 2 Years Ago

In the summer of 2018 I was at Sling TV in American Fork. The first tranche of a bonus plan tied to subscriber numbers had just been paid. I had zero confidence that the next milestone would be reached. That, plus the toxic culture at Dish/Sling... — read more 

Age discrimination?

There's a running theory that most everyone over 50 was laid-off. I don't know how accurate that is without having names/ages, but it would be interesting to make a case for this.

We got cheated!

EXISTING EMPLOYEES JUST GOT CHEATED FOR THEIR HARD WORK!!! THIS WAS EMAILED TO THEM!! At DISH, we’ve all felt the impacts. We’re working hard to make the best decisions with the information available to us. Things continue to quickly change and... — read more 

Round 2 of Layoffs

Another round of layoffs occurred today within both Sling TV and DISH. It happened across corporate but not sure on how many. Sad to see so many more great people be let go.

This is just the beginning

Dish let go over 1,000 IHS employees in addition to many corporate employees. Dish targeted long tenured (loyal) corporate employees to cut to the tune of 20 percent. This is just the beginning as more cuts will be necessary in order to fund the 5G... — read more 

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Post ID: @OP+14uuSy4B

Dish can s--- it!!

Dish can s— it! They have historically paid their employees below market. We have stayed loyal to a fault for years because have enjoyed the environment. But when Erik makes OVER $5,000,000, and Charlie makes over $3.4 million yearly, it's okay... — read more 

How many were laid off for good?

I left Dish several years ago, but I still have a lot of friends who work there so I came here to see what's going on. From what I see, there were major layoffs, but I can't figure out if these were furloughs, temporary layoffs, or permanent layoffs?... — read more 

Dish laid off employees today

An email was sent out to everyone in the company stating that firing employees was a way of thinking smart for the future of dish financially. Hundreds of employees lost their jobs today

Dish laying off during corona

Team, The environment in which DISH finds itself is unprecedented. The consequences of millions of people sheltering in place is rippling across every segment of our economy. Businesses of all sizes, and in all industries, are grappling with both... — read more 

Dish only cares about money

Dish let 10 of us tenured agents (5-10 years) from Broadband go back in February, all within a week due to "not meeting expectations." i was told weekly in my one on ones that i was doing great, and they didn't know what else I could do to improve... — read more 

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Post ID: @OP+10hncKRH

DISH Network Layoffs 2019

This thread is for info about potential DISH Network Layoffs in 2019 or any other relevant information?

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| 3010 views | | 6 replies (last April 4, 2019)
Post ID: @OP+VTjAbRo

Commercial

Most (if not all at this point) commercial agents have been let go in Tulsa, are they removing commercial completely?

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Post ID: @OP+T6Ysnw1

No more meeting expectations

Agent getting the q1 appraisals are being told it is no longer acceptable to meet expectaions that dish only wants to keep the best well i think by q2 there will be another cleaning house. I know some employees are looking for work else where and who... — read more 

Is this legal?

Well for some who was doing work at home, they offered a lower paying job to stay with the company. That obviously could mean a lot of different things including them being pretty close to the WARN threshold (Do these people count towards their home... — read more 

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| 1690 views | | 1 reply (May 10, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+SPT9K0B

More info on layoffs

Christiansburg site was shut down except for back office and survey response. They will be moved to a smaller building. Corporate rolled up in hummers March 13th and shut it down in a day after telling us they were just going to let us know where we... — read more 

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| 2060 views | | 5 replies (last July 29, 2022)
Post ID: @OP+SCN7Dqg

Resorting to threats

I'm a WAH agent and our coach, who seems too dumb to function sometimes, may be next on the chopping block. She's paid a lot. But she was sent an email threatening us that our performance is being heavily monitored and low performance will not be... — read more 

Layoffs at Dish

Are there layoffs still taking place or are we done for now? There have been so many small layoffs to avoid panic or need for WARN lately, that the latest, somewhat more serious round kind of took me by surprise. Now I'm not sure if it's over or if... — read more 

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| 1820 views | | 2 replies (last April 12, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+SxIzwsf

Getting rid of older employees

Over 100 let go from Tulsa thus far.People are being told it's due to downsizing, yet Dish still actively hiring new agents weekly. This has nothing to do with actual downsizing and everything with getting rid of employees who have been here longer... — read more 

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| 1930 views | | 2 replies (last April 10, 2018)
Post ID: @OP+SwX4xXw

Save a billion dollars!

The company told us they need to save a billion dollars to build out the spectrum so this is part of it. They are bleeding customers left and right from satellite and while having Sling helps it just isn’t as profitable. Just to think of all the work... — read more 

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| 2300 views | | 7 replies (last September 17, 2020)
Post ID: @OP+SvkvCcg

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