I'm not sure why everyone is acting so surprised about layoffs. Back in February word was put out CenturyLink was going to cut 12000 jobs worldwide, in the next 18 months. So we are 3 months into this with 15 months to go.
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Not true, this round wraps up May 21st. The sequel will follow.
Dont hold your breath. Was told Salt Lake City was safe as of May 6th with signed documentation, now as of May 8th we were told it was a clerical error and they are still going with the layoff.
I kinda of think if it is true they are hedging on a resurgence of the Virus and this time we won't be allowed to lock down as a country. Work from home types will probably still do that but Essentials need bodies in the field. I would say get any PPE you can now, we will have to be aware of the Stupids out there as well as just the every day stuff we do now. Also with the Election coming up and us doing so many Government projects we may need resources to be able to do those installs and tear downs that are coming for conventions and debates.
They don't want manpower issues to reflect badly on not meeting those kind of commitments which could reflect on future contracts.
Well, Denver had a massive outage impacting multiple states. Q1 earnings reported today topped estimates. Still, Fletcher an old CFO has demanded cuts under his organization which includes technology groups from every corner of the company. They wanted the numbers used in justifying labor to look good and so asked to turn off automated ticketing of system issues to hide the costs. Tickets in certain departments are still sky high. Centurylink pre L3 had awesome tools scoffed at by L3 which allowed us to attack tickets fast. Almost a monkey see monkey do type system leaving only but the most difficult and unique issues causing long mean time to repairs. Those systems are gone, the skeleton teams left over are missing bones. The massive que of tickets these teams are working could have been attacked quickly pre L3, but a CFO couldn’t recognize that reducing labor costs just shifted expenses over to tickets. Let’s say a ticket took 5 minutes to fix, for the sake of the argument we’ll say the ticket costs $30 dollars in impact. With less labor, systems replaced with “better” systems, tickets sit in que for days. This $30 ticket now costs $800+ due to time taken paying high paid people like me in tracking down the solution. Eventually we’ll hit a tipping point which was seen with the outage yesterday. I’m almost positive our infrastructure will collapse shortly after these layoffs, even with just vspp. Not even they allowed to go.
We don't call it ISPP, we call it a SURPLUS. If a surplus is being canceled that's great news !
Involuntary separation pay of $600 per full year of service. VSPP (voluntary separation pay) is $1275 per year.
Involuntary separation. Layoff
What is ispp?