Thread regarding CenturyLink layoffs

God i pray all that money in the pension fund is protected when Centutylink goes bankrupt

Take the time and read this court filing. It will give you all a really clear and factual idea of the true Centurylink. In the filing CenturyLink’s legal team claim that they have no customers and provide no services. How then can it stand on its own.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/centurylink-memorandum-arbitration.pdf

I currently work on the enterprise sales side. From what I heard on the global call after the email fiasco is this:

Residential and Small business will remain CenturyLink. Basically the copper side of the business.

Mid size and enterprise fiber network will be rebranded to “Quantum Fiber”

What CTL leadership has been calling “White Space” - things like IT services, network security, SaaS offering... etc. will be rebranded as “Lumen”.

The overall corporate branding as a whole like badges on corporate buildings and such will be Lumen but there is a very Clear separation of the different units. In my opinion it’s for the purposes of selling off parts of the business as they spent a good portion of the months before Covid auditing the company in a very obvious way.

The whole situation is suspect and I’m frankly concerned about what the future looks like.

So, here's the big question.... Lumen... new company... new HR rules/policies.... I can see RIF severance and bonus's being axed immediately!!!! Storey has said many times he doesn't believe in bonus's.

And the sh–ty thing is that we were give all of 10 minutes to join the video, so most of us were not able to attend.... and being rolled out as "exciting!" WTF!!! Same lame management team... What would be exciting is if they cleaned house at the Sr. Director level and above! THAT would be exciting!

If you didn't realize they were trying to dump the residential side and small business you had your head in the sand. It seems no one wants the sleepy old phone company but it sure is funny how companies have come along and pillaged all the money making items and stripped the local company bare. It is no ONE employee or UNIONs fault for the poor management decisions. People want faster internet not PRISM tv. Cant make 80's equipment go faster than 6 MG and you want everyone to sell, that won't even support a ring doorbell..Sadly a lot of great people work for Centurylink and I wish them the best

They have COTs under enterprise. So COTs and COs are going to be Lumen but much the rest of occupational in 14 states is going to stay CenturyLink, such as BB techs and CDTs? So they're drawing a line and are going to cut it there? I'm wondering is COTs that are now Lumen will be told either join Lumen as Mgmt techs or get your job cut? Interesting times I guess.

I am still with the company and I work with a lot of different department to get services delivered to the customer. 99% of the people I work with over the phone or in person work hard to do the same as I do. We want to do our jobs and feel a part of something larger than ourselves, both union and non-union. There are always bad apples but for the most part hard working people wanting to get the job done and then go home to their families. The rub is we are pressed every day, all day. It’s all about the metrics, so someone can get their bonus. I have known and worked for many managers but sad truth is I can think of only two managers that cared more about the employee and customer rather than metrics. Guess where they are now… gone. We should not be fighting and blaming each other. It starts at the top management; notice I do not call them leadership. I know what leaders are; they are not, moving on. They push the metrics to support their “bonuses”. Take a look at what the top management makes is bonuses, it is appalling. I don’t know what the answer is honestly... tread water and pick your battles with management. Good luck all.

It’s funny that I keep seeing that union based workers get blamed for being lazy or for this companies downfalls. (you still get fired for not doing your job) but back to the point I’m making. See that’s the real issue here and with this company.. it’s a culture thing.. instead of the people making decisions at the top taking responsibility for leading this company down into the abyss Or not having reported a positive quarter idk in like 10 years! it’s scape goat tactics let’s blame our union based workers.. makes no sense. Let’s blame the people doing actual work from any position.. it’s sad really. The only real benefit they get is healthcare and benefits like that.. but just the lack of this company taking responsibility at the top shows why they are where there at. I mean the top 3 stories about this company in the news is 3.5% outage, antitrust lawsuit in Bosie, illegal sales practices in Minnesota lawsuit. It’s from the top stop playing yourself. And those stories are just the recent ones! There’s a long list! But let’s blame the people who work at the bottom... you can fool yourself but you can’t fool me lol

No wonder Level3 is creating a new spin-off company. With employees like the ones on this blog who could blame them. The sooner they sale off and lay-off the unionized portions the sooner they can get back to making money.

CenturyLink and the hostel unionized employees deserve what they get. A little time living on unemployment and standing inline at a food bank will do wonders for their hateful attitude.

It seems the name change is compartmentalizing the company to make it easier to sell off the consumer side and "level 3" keeps the fiber backbone. Level 3 was all contractors, no union. Since the hostile takeover of CTL their in over their head dealing with union workers and a federally regulated utility. The minute Jeff Story came in and took all our Christmas bonuses so he could have a 6 million dollar bonus I knew he was a f—ing a–hole. The piece of sh– doesn't give a sh– about all the employees lives he's screwed up with layoffs. He's a heartless, greedy pile of sh–.

To the post below, just doing my time till something better arises then I’m out the door in second and never looking back.

Some really sad angry people on this post. Why are you still working at a company you hate?

I’m getting laid off September 29th, me and 70 other BDB Techs from Minneapolis/St Paul. Good riddance!!!!

I was blessed with a lay-off from this crazy company at the beginning of the year. I heard about the accidental announcement from an ex-co-worker and can only shake my head. Things continue to worsen there. Thankful to no longer have to say I work for CTL. It was an embarrassment. If it’s true that only the business side is getting the name change, then maybe a spin-off of residential is the next big move, but I understood the name change to be for the entire company. Will be interesting to hear what happens next week.

After reading this thread and seeing that there are people in leadership roles talking in a demeaning and sarcastic way it’s just really telling and shows you how sick of a culture this place really is. I can’t wait to move on from a gross company.

Same arrogant executives trying to wash the negativity from customers minds. This place is a joke and the leadership team and CEO are all liars and can’t be trusted for a second. How many times have they failed over and over again and still remain employed? I honestly don’t get it and the investors on the street get it and this company will be BK within 3 years. It’s inevitable and can’t be stopped. They are that incompetent and no nothing about this business. The VP of Service Delivery has little man syndrome. He’s a joke and doesn’t know anything about Service Delivery!

Sane laggard company run by old people

Just heard about CenturyLink / Level3 creating a new spin-off brand name Lumen Technologies.
This can’t be good news for the CenturyLink employees. I smell layoffs in the near future. It’s time to warm up those resumes and start looking for other opportunities before they go bankrupt.

The cable companies are so far ahead of the telcos. What a joke! Telcos are non pro active! They have no clue what there doing!

The unfortunate reality is that the legacy telecom business, and its dealings with unions, are on a steady decline to their ultimate death. They simply cannot compete with newer more agile companies. Nothing against unions, they had/have a place, but those companies that have union employees simply cannot compete with those without them.

I like how the guy from Lumen doesn’t address the problems in this thread he just does a dance and says don’t be negative lol

Let’s face it Lumen, level 3, centurylink within the next 5-10 years these businesses are all going to be phased out with emerging tech. The rapid growth that’s underway in this field even with 5g is going to change a lot of way businesses do business.

Holy cow, ya,ll woke up!

No cooking of the books to the extent claimed below. The government knows that CTL is behind schedule on using government money to install fiber. See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/centurylinks-slow-broadband-deployment-gets-even-slower-in-pandemic/ for example.

I hope the guy from Lumen can do his job better than he does at spelling just shows you how things are here lol ..
lumen is now the proud owner of the hot potato to whom shall it get passed to after them?

I wish someone would be the whistle blower in the company about the government money centurylink received to place fiber and didn’t live up to their side of the deal to distribute it to customers it’s all messed up only if some audited it but that’ll never happen just cook the books

What is going down next week ?

How is the name change would benefit the workforce ? Every quarter there will always be a layoff.

Obviously it’s a sink or swim situation for the CenturyLink division. Their stock price is down 80% over the last ten years. They were heading for bankruptcy and the merger with Level3 didn’t save them for this death spiral. So now they’re on the verge of bankruptcy again. Management and the board of directors are making the wise decision to cut their loses. They should have executed this plan way sooner.

It looks like Monday morning is going to be interesting around the old office cooler.

I’m staying out of the way until the smoke clears.

business side of service name changed to lumen.. residential will remain as centurylink

For someone supposedly in “leadership”, you sure have poor grammar and spelling.

Sounds a lot like Windstream spinning off Uniti then Windstream going bankrupt.

For those that carry around that deep seated negativity for the company. I am writing this to let you know that your leadership team is truly concerned for you. This type of unresolved anger can damage your health. Please do yourselves and the company a favor and quit immediately. It ain't worth the stress. You have nothing to worry about. Talent like yours is in high demand. Walmart is always looking for greeters and for the union folks, you have your union bennies that can be milked till at least next year. I am sure there are plenty of jobs that will allow for your required nappy times during the day. That union will find you another gig in no time...
Back to our concern for your health. You will be amazed at how much better you feel and please don't let yourself worry for even a second about the rest of us at Lumen. We look forward to a culture of people who want to win instead of one full of people blocking progres, people focused on the future not people focused on the stale old past. We will be successful with or without you.
We Look forward to collecting you company belongings and making Lumen a great technology company.
Your truly
Leadership

"Thanks to The Covid, enterprise will suffer and loose money. Who wants to go to a big office and get infected? Residential and small business is where the money will be for a few years. Let sToReY have his Lumen wet dream"

This... Even CTL following suit.

https://boisedev.com/news/2020/09/09/major-downtown-boise-tenant-centurylink-wont-return-after-pandemic/?amp

It doesn’t matter that the email said “confidential”. It was a monumental mistake and it came from a VP who has to own it. I feel bad for the person but you can’t write it off as human error.

I didn’t see anyone say the person isn’t smart but it’s safe to say over their head in their current role.

You can’t ever make a mistake like this one, being the biggest project in the new company’s history and not pay for the consequences. It doesn’t matter who hit send, it matters whose name is on the document. Then the same person decides to to go back and try to pull the emails out of 20K inboxes is insane. It tells you severity of the situation. This caused a major disruption among the workforce and forced the hand of the CEO on the afternoon of 9/11 to have to explain to the entire company.

You can’t blame this on an admn.

You could see the frustration yesterday on the CEO’s face.

It’s an error of epic proportion and isn’t over yet.

This will get to the Board!

New name doesn’t change the incompetent people at the top and throughout. The virtue signaling is out of control. Storey told everyone to support BLM, a terrorist organization. Someone should look into Cotton, a restaurant all the execs go to with pics of slaves picking cotton on the wall.

To whomever asked “where is Glen Post?”

Somewhere laughing his a** off at what a virtue-signaling and unmitigated disaster Centurylink has become since his departure. Stock price at a 1/3 of what it was time of “takeover” by L3 and remained there for 2 years now. Wall Street isn’t buying this junk, either.

Well done, Level 3. Well done.

LMAO at these comments. What part of “treat this as confidential” was hard to understand? If you hate your company that much go work elsewhere. Life’s too short to carry that kinda negativity.

Agree with the person who said MW isn’t stupid. Do you really think she hit send? Some poor person got the wrong distro lists and is no doubt beating themselves up over it.

Behind the scenes Century-link is a super corrupt company from the top down .. should I post the it..