They're making changes again in the gvl office. Combining groups again. Shuffling management. These 'strategic' moves are usually out of panic. Grab a box and hide it. They may be scarce soon.
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I suggest getting another job. Nothing is going to change. And I worked in the Greenville office. These ppl need to wake up!!!
What else do you expect from this bunch of morally bankrupted geniuses.
What is incredibly bad is Windstream is still in bankruptcy and they are allowed to continue to mislead the public. What is their path to emerge bankruptcy as 1 company? They keep stalling. They’re not getting out of the lease. Your 5th largest NEtwork in the country is also dead last in reliability and performance.
I don’t think severance is required ever. Tis subject to change at any time per the severance guide on Windstream benefits.
60 days before letting more than 50 employees go within a 30 day period the WARN act is triggered. That is when to start looking for more empty boxes and extra tissues in the conference rooms
I keep coming back to the same feeling about all of this. Slow. Everything is happening so incredibly slowly. If I was a creditor, I would expect meaningful actions that create dramatic changes. Not here, everything is slow. Its weird. Step one should have been something massive and impatcful, cuts to the bone, down to mission critical levels, something that stopped the bleeding and showed sings of change or indication that care was being taken to protect the creditors interests. Nope. Just slow. Even this last post about merging groups. Its slow, slow to take effect, slow to see any benefit. Its great for keeping people employed in the short term which is great. But weird. My guess is they just arent very good at downsizing which, on the one hand, doesnt surprise me since they arent very good at managing a company, and on the other hand, you would think that they would be good at, since laying people off has been their business model for years. This reshuffling is most likely minimizing work and consolidating some institutional knowledge prior to the actual reduction of people. It should have been part of day one activity, this looks like the first part of letting people go.
Are they offering severance at this point? If the layoffs are kept under a certain number are they required to provide any now that they are in Bankruptcy? If they dont have to pay their bills I doubt they are required to pay severance.