Watching the recent T-Mobile layoffs has been brutal. So many genuinely talented, hardworking people let go—people who did everything right and still got swept up in a decision that feels cold and mechanical.
What makes it harder is that many of us saw this coming. Large-scale layoffs have a long history in corporate playbooks, and when the signals start flashing, the outcome is rarely a surprise—just deeply disappointing.
The most difficult part to reconcile is who stays. It’s hard to watch strong contributors lose their roles while certain directors with long-standing HR complaints remain untouched. Complaints that have been raised, documented, and somehow consistently minimized or buried. Leadership that relies on yelling, belittling, and intimidation shouldn’t be protected—yet here we are.
It says a lot about an organization when toxic behavior survives restructuring while good people don’t.
My heart goes out to those impacted, and to the teams left behind under leadership that hasn’t earned their trust. You deserved better.