Layoffs at Lumen is a culture, because we have leadership with no true vision just throwing darts. Only question is not if there will be layoffs but the scale. There are many small layoffs always occurring that we don’t even hear about just one day suddenly a person you were talking to the email comes back bounced
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@ds More like three decades.
@qr another new class. Ugh. Prepare for the pure torture of sitting through that. If people want to self improve they will read her books on their own. You aren’t changing anyone by force feeding this to them. Upper management took it and saw zero difference in anything besides more meetings on the calendar. People want to come to work, majority want to do a good job and get compensation. Waste of time and money. Put the money into IT and tools actually needed, that’s where the ROI will come back. But this is coming from someone who just got the layoff last week. 🤷🏼♀️
@qw agree, 100% she is a fraud and so is everybody that believes in her program it’s another example of management as I say not as I do so much for the clearest kind of bullsh-t
Nobody cares about your opinion
@19a this is so accurate. My manager openly told me about that stupid rating system.
Wrong. Most of my peers have 20+ years. 0 newbies
@OP Never. Layoffs are as common as new hires.
When the "day of reckoning" comes for me, I'll just laugh uncontrollably at them while on the phone/teams when they drop the axe! THEIR LOSS!
The pay and fake culture they promote, su-k. Do not recommend working for Lumen in the constant anxiety-worry if going to be let go. They lie and say no more RIF’s, then rip out the rug again. Hard to motivate your employees. And employees see through this but keep working because of remote opportunity. AI is their focus, they will tell you it’s not job replacing, but it is. The top executive hires get heavier with new job creation but backfill no roles and the front line employees and middle management do all the work and take the hits. No cost of living raises and high goals/expectations that even if you do exceed or achieve, you do not get compensated for because they won’t give you above a MEETs rating. They want you to rate your employees low so easier for them to cut people, and make you rate them lower than they should honestly be rated. They stack rank your teams so they have excuse to get rid of lowest one, even if they are meeting the goals and metrics and will scrutinize personality-behaviors if can’t ding them on work metrics. Bonus and compensation paid out on a meets but they don’t like paying for high performance, only will allow one person in your department to get a high rating, even if you have multiple. If you dare complain or fight for yourself or team you get told, if you don’t like it, go work elsewhere. This company is a mess. The latest layoffs last week were another low blow to some great people leaders and employees. No one is safe below Director level. Welcome to the new AI way, corporate America. The executives get richer the worker bees bust their as--s, drive fixes and changes, for peanuts and a RIF. Bring in Brene Brown all you want, the employees know it’s all for show and money wasted. Give that back to the employees trying to make a living in this economy.
The only ones that are still at this company are newbies. They don't know any better...the Vets are gone and have moved on to brighter futures with some stability!
LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@14s I think 3k would be reported somewhere.
@qt How did you get 3000?
I heard today there were a good number of layoffs in Customer Success just this AM in the . Indirect and Midmarkets.
Last years performance, above average was down-graded to, did not meet, after financial targets were factored in. Here’s the catch, I support sales but don’t have direct comms with the customer to get a contract signature, nor am I associated with a delivery team so I have no way to move the pricing in order to get a customer contract signature.
In addition the financial targets are so unrealistic that the only reason they are being used is to lower the bonus (aka employee salary/compensation) amounts so that the “run-rate” costs are lower and that makes the books look good. Don’t have to RIF if people are doing the work for less $$s.
@qt Brene Brown is a fraud.
From my understanding, it will be around 3,000. They were necessary for the new exciting acquisition and the they have to pay Berne Brown for her new class being taught to hundreds of managers that just started. She is making millions while we send good people out the door.
Quite a few hits in Engineering team
@bj Well rest assure Berne Brown is getting paid, there is whole new course being taught. All of those sheep thinking this crew was different, delusional. They are worse because they tell you they are being transparent and discuss how to lead yet do the complete opposite.
@OP I know of four today. One I know personally.
Indirect team
I just heard people from ticket repair got laid off. AI taking over many of their roles.
@OP Finance
20% what team laid off, if you can advise.
20% of my team was laid off today.
I would say not done. Saw my mid year review and it's based entirely on metrics, no mention of tech.skills. Additionally many of the metrics have been raised so that will be their justification for letting more people go.
#LGK!
@OP It's awfully quiet here. I guess the ones who cried about being sacked have just been sacked.
The layoffs will never stop until everyone is gone.
Copper side will see continuous. down sizing until it's finally turned off
Lumen is addicted to layoffs past decade and it will continue
Only Lumen Knows!
@ap Heard it from the one who knows just by looking. Word is RIFs either will or will not happen, AND they'll either be minor or major.
@ap Heard from a reliable source? Do tell.
Oh, loads and loads of RIFs are coming. No one is safe. I heard that the RIFs will include a range of numbers from none to everyone. Lord help us all.
There will always be more, welcome to corporate America 🇺🇸.