They speak of upcoming layoffs next quarter but cannot provide any details.
Meanwhile they move you to a new team and there is no work to do.
They hope you will just quit.
Then they layoff those who have no quit already, but provide no names ever of who was let go.
Rinse, repeat
Rinse, repeat
They ARE doing this!
This company is not good.
Say one thing, do another.
The destruction is intentional.
Unemployment is not even close enough to make up for income in most states, and has a months long wait in some.
Right now this company is trying to be an AI beta tester for MS.
However, the initial experience from many employees was that these products were largely inferior to the MS products they were replacing, so didn't want to use them.
The truth is MS has little to no experience with a telco with this amount of legacy luggage.
So they is little to no interest in anything except QF maybe. And we all can remember MS has already failed as an ISP and even with a monopoly in the PC O/S market, they couldn't win in that ISP space. I doubt they are ready to try it again.
All that supports theory of more headcount loss. Heard on multiple occasions in water cooler chat with coworkers this company is being reduced and cutting as much debt as possible to make it a more viable takeover for Microsoft. MS usually plants leaders in companies they have in radar for takeover
Then saw some Reddit post as well.
That sounds right. 15,000 level 2 managers, Directors and VPs and 5,000 workers. Because you know we need more people watching than doing.
Unfortunately I think more pain is ahead. The way Lumen revenue is right now I think they will be a 15-20k range employee company.
This absolutely tracks. They are limiting team members to the absolute minimum. Thereby, if anyone is out sick would put a strain on the one who remain and cause complaints. Fire the complainers. This is unsustainable and will not help to reduce debt.
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You sound like a manager
Wow. So let them fire you so you can get state unemployment?! Not enough work for 40 hours, so you sit back and get paid for nothing. Then if you're fired for lack of work, then run to the state for unemployment paychecks, so you can continue and get paid for no work. Oh, and if they give you a bad recommendation then sue for more money. You are definitely not a Worker and I doubt you even know what real work is. And people wonder why the company is losing money on overhead. Time to share these posts with anonymous @lumen and hope the do a work audit of technicians. Get a real picture of how much work is really being done in all titles.
these were white collar workers - but treating people poorly and mis using resources is the common theme
I say unless you have an offer you can't refuse, don't quit, let them pull the trigger. By doing so at least you'll get unemployment and if Lumen gives you a bad reference sue their tails off.
Wow. Well said. I see 2 CDT techs who sit in our supply garage just waiting for a ticket. When a ticket comes in, they both leave to work it. I only see them leave about 2x a day. The second time could be for lunch. If there was ever a forced layoff, these 2 would be the first to complain that they are needed and must stay.
Gracious! What job do you have with no work? Must be a net tech, because I hear they are working futures (if any) to stay productive. Or a CPE tech who probably hasn't had a CPE install in years. (Yeah what company is buying phone equipment from CenturyLink?) Or... Maybe your a 911 technician who is dismantling or removing 911 since states and cities are going to another vendor. Which means, there will no longer be 911 services with CenturyLink, so what will those 911 technicians do in the future? Unless you are a cable technician who is being cross trained on GPON so that they can finally get some work to do when there is GPON to place. But even those new GPON units are on backorder, so I wonder what Cable techs will do until then? Must be nice to be paid for 40hrs of work for working less than 20 hours (if any). Then there are those occupational employees who are knee deep in work. Repair Call centers with a constant red queue with no hiring for help. Sales who keep seeing centers close with no help. Billing,CMC all in the same boat. Company really needs to audit all occupational positions and learn really how much work is performed by a month to month basis. Prune those unnecessary branches until you have a solid company of workers.