In the post about th 4/30 layoffs someone mentioned a 2 week work furlough this summer. It's to be taken unpaid. Anyone else here the same? I have not had a team meeting since we were all working from home?
Anyone know who is affected?
Operations
Service Delivery
?
Non essential workers will be sent home. If you don’t install,repair or sell something your going home.
You can collect unemployment during those weeks in most states. But with the current backlog in the unemployment system you will not get that money anytime soon. You will have to use your savings or cash in some of your retirement, so the LR5 can keep getting their huge bonuses. That bankruptcy judge took a donation to rule in their favor on this one.......
Someone needs to blow Windstream’s cover. So corrupt.
Note, you maybe able to collect unemployment during those two weeks. Check with your state
So we're supposed to take 2 weeks off, without pay, to meet the numbers so TT can get another bonus? Anybody want to let Judge Drain-O know about these shenanigans?
The CLEC carries ILEC traffic, which allows the ILEC to skirt the tariffs they should be paying and increases their profit margin.
Without CLEC, you aren't carrying traffic for the likes of Amazon, Google or the government contracts.
@ TtPOS
Yes, some of them left to go work for frontier. now 2-3 years later they are also being let go,
@ The Red Barron
The CLEC and ILEC businesses have 2 different business models. They don't work together. on the ILEC side you have unions and on-net circuits, regulated as a utility. The CLEC business has to lease circuits from a 3rd party, we used to get wholesale pricing on those thanks to government regulations. Those rules have sunsetted and we don't have competitive pricing on the last mile. We have too many small CLEC's we have never folded into the mix. By the time we do we will have run out of operating cash.
Love to check in and read these posts occasionally. As a former WIN employee I ask you this. Do you know a single former coworker who left Windstream in recent years who’s not way better off now than they were at Windstream? I don’t!!
The death was buying the garbage CLECS. ALLTEL new that model was garbage. Someone should have told the bag. Just think if all that cash would have gone into the network. It would be selling itself right now. As Ron White says, you can’t fix.....
” Yeah, they have no line on refinancing the billions in debt they have. With all the significant losses from this pandemic”
Windstream will shed much of its debt leaving bankruptcy. As of now, only the senior secured lenders are getting anything. The second lien and unsecured creditors’ debt is supposed to be wiped out
Yeah, they have no line on refinancing the billions in debt they have. With all the significant losses from this pandemic I doubt they will find a lender that would be willing to almost certainly take a loss on that loan. And they dont own ANYTHING, Unity now owns everything that used to be Windstream so there is no collateral for this loan either. I dont see them emerging from bankruptcy, makes sense why the rest of the assets went to Unity. Execs jump ship and start over at Unity.
Don’t believe what you read on stream, it’s worse than the bells and whistles they portray. We’ve been in bankruptcy more than a year with no real path out.
Our manager told us this would be discussed by our EVP and during the town hall, stay tuned!
Sounds like more truth than rumor.
"I don't know about furlough but there's definitely more layoffs coming. Windstream is no different than any other company that was affected by the pandemic. People aren't buying what we're selling installs are on hold because customers cannot get into their offices. Revenue is really really bad. "
Again, CLEC and C&C are c-ap. They have been a c-ap business for a long time. The ILEC side of the company is seeing record installs and OT is through the roof because of it.
As usual the enterprise team is over promising, under performing, and s—ing the rest of the company down with it.
Work Furlough - is that the new politically correct way of saying LAYOFF ? R.I.P. Windstream....you are cooked.
@ king richard
Some of us work for fossils that still live in the past and done believe in the new technologies. We have a director that still insists on using a voice bridge for all of our call, not Teams or, UCaaS.
I agree we will have more layoffs in the next few months. Even this "software powerhouse" cannot save us!
"Small agile teams " translates to most of your co-workers will be gone by
the end of the year.
I don't know about furlough but there's definitely more layoffs coming. Windstream is no different than any other company that was affected by the pandemic. People aren't buying what we're selling installs are on hold because customers cannot get into their offices. Revenue is really really bad.
Do we sell teams now? Winteam
your "teams" program does not work? Just because you are "working" from home does not mean meetings can't be held.