Please serious responses only - I am planning to go back to school and I would like to see if I would be able to volunteer for the next round of layoffs and get severance payment. My plan is to quit anyway, and getting that extra money would be an... — read more 

To maintain morale, Claure said his approach is to be very direct with his employees. “Nobody likes to be in a company that is doing layoffs,” Claure said. “The way you beat that is being very honest and transparent.”

I don't know how many, but that Feb 1st date is the day the compensation package gets cut in half. Instead of two weeks per year it's down to one, no $1000 signing bonus to not sue them, and no grandfathering of employees. I'm guessing that's... — read more 

The thing I find interesting is that as usual, the people that made the decisions that got Sprint into this mess in the first place are mostly still around, same board members, same executives. Only the worker bees are getting culled in these... — read more 

Sprint has way too many layoffs. Also, outsourcing jobs to India sucks big time. I am on a contract and will find something more stable.

No layoff issues here but in my store there is no diversity at all. My coworkers (all levers) are almost exclusively Hispanics. This can be tough, especially I work in a very diverse metro area and the store employee profile does not match what my... — read more 

That's my only question - all other rumors are unreliable. Now everyone is talking about Feb 1st as the layoff day, but nobody knows.

Sprint is a great company to work with.I like their politics which is to lower the price compare to competitors but with the amount of debt(sprint is still under the water),they need to weed out their employees n get the best one to cut losses and... — read more 

Sprint treats their employees like a baby treats a diaper. They just make you feel better about it by letting you leave early on Friday even though you work off the extra time by adding a half hour to the remaining days.

Can someone post what our actual severance pay terms are - are there any gotchas? Are there any cases where you would consider not signing the severance agreement (e.g., if you need to sue Sprint for wrongful termination or any other legal reason). I... — read more 

He has NOT done one thing to help make the company profitably - just another drain - Are they offering voluntary separation packages as I haven't heard?

All they are doing is weeding out the bad sales reps honestly. At least at my level. I'm sure the corporate office is feeling the heat though. I'm fine with working for corporate stores.

Retail' safe - or moderately safe: As long as you are in a position that is making, money for the company you are probably safe. Retail rarely lays off. If anything they move people around. Unlike corporate who will tell you to 👣 🏃 step, once they... — read more 

Marcelo and his crew are getting their wish. Long term employees are ready to bolt like rats jumping a sinking ship to get their full severance before the bastards slash it in half February 1st. I totally get needing to cut people and costs when a... — read more 

I was a part of the last group of the "Layoff Plan", and let me say that even with the severance pay plan, and unemployment option after, it is a hard, depressing feeling. In all my years of adulthood, I had never been without a job. I have always... — read more 

Sprint is layoff specialist, they don’t know how to attract or retain their customers, worse higher management. Sprint demotivates their workforce no pay hikes, no promotions, no respect to the hard working employees. Sprint gives more respect to its... — read more 

There is no way to cut 2.5 Billion by March when all the loans are due...I believe call centers will be closed and what is left will go to a vendor site

There was a time when the pin drop meant something, when trenchcoat guy was the respected authority on which mobile provider to go with. Yes, Sprint used to be good but Nextel was great. Nextel was trialing Flarion in Raleigh in 2004, years before... — read more 

They are going to lay off American workers, and outsource more. They are going to change the way thier plans are to eliminate unlimited data (as other companies have) They are going to hire more "vendors" to do business that they aren't smart enough... — read more 

Special early retirement - ------------ They forced me into "special early retirement" (code for ripped me off for 50% of my pension) 8 years ago when the laid me and 5000 other people off. Have fun with your low paying go now where retail job Edgar... — read more 

My Sprint job is not complicated or hard, but I rarely get any new accounts. OK, so they might as well lay me off or let me go - if I am not provided decent new accounts I cannot be successful. Once you go through your base of accounts, it can be... — read more 

Its a good thing that i already resigned and transfer to another company. Its really hard to be laid off..especially when u dont have any savings.

Anyone knows the number?

Sprint paid their last 2 CEO'S $40M and $50M respectively as severence for not doing their job. Meanwhile, employees haven't had a raise in 3 years. Management doesn't want the hear what the employees have to say other than march to the orders from... — read more 

I feel for all of you. I do not work for Sprint but I've been caught in a layoff before. What I found is that life does go on and you can survive this. With severance and/or unemployment, you can make it, but you have to cut your budget to "needs"... — read more 

Somebody mentioned that we may be good for up to 1 year - my husband relocated in Spring (we came - me and 2 kids after the school was over)

This was all over the news, I'll sum it up here - last time we did cuts we were hit big time with a huge lump sum payment in severance. I think this round is going to be even bigger. last time the severance payments exceeded the profits, so it did... — read more 

I just hope that this time around Sprint will really try to pay attention to who is being laid off, what kind of profiles are we after. Typically older workers get hit the most as they are paid more due to their experience and accumulated benefits... — read more 

If you are about to be let go try to not stress much about it as there is very little you can control about it. I can tell you this from my own experience, the executives will have a plan and it'll suck. You cannot change anything there, Sprint has... — read more 

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Getting them to pay even the smallest invoice became a major production involving many calls and faxes - and months. Eventually I decided they were not worth it and simply stopped soliciting their business. My final check came only after sending a... — read more 

Here is the part of the math that I do not get. So, the message is that we'll have to save two billion dollars. Right? And now people are telling us that up to 2,000 people may be laid off. So if I am doing math correctly here, 2,000 * $100,000 gives... — read more 

The new plan offers one week’s pay for each full year at Sprint for those notified after the end of January that they will be laid off, according to a letter to employees. Also, a $1,000 “additional separation lump sum payment is no longer part of... — read more 

Robbiati’s message: “inevitably will result in job reductions,” -- “The main thing to consider when requesting to spend money is to take an owner’s mindset by treating every dollar as if it were your own,” --- “In order to be successful, we must... — read more 

This is what we know so far. Claure wants to cut $2.5 Billion in expenses. How is he going to do this? Well, if he eliminates 3,000 positions, at $75K/year he might be able to do that. We have about 30K employees right now, so laying off 10% of the... — read more