Crown Castle isn’t typically known for layoffs. The last big one was back in 01 when the market crashed so this has come to be a big surprise for a lot of people, although, the writing has been in the wall for a little over a year now and from my point of view, this was attributed to major mismanagement. For over a year I have been telling my peers that our current org structure makes no sense, it’s not sustainable with the redundancy in roles, lack of systems and processes and lack of proper leadership. Three reorg later and it’s only gotten worse. Multiple layers of VPs reporting to VPs, Directors to Directors and managers to managers. It was obvious what was being done. Just let them go. lol As of today, the network business is ran by legacy fiber management who have 0 idea about the crown culture, B3s, systems and tools, nor how to build a small cell. Let’s not forget the financial business model that crown manages too. To them, a small cell is a repeater or a wifi ap. How hard can it be. So it does not surprise me one bit that when this RIF took place, Fiber VPs chose their buddies and the people they know in fiber over keeping any legacy small cell employees. They lost some amazing talent which will not be replaceable and will take a long time to rebuild.
There was 0 communication down to middle management until the day prior. Managers and directors had no say in who was laid off and no choice but to bend over and take it up the a– by their new VPs who had no business making these decisions as they don’t understand the business let alone know their people. Crown is so big on B3 yet they treated their middle management like trash by not including them. Be real, be an owner, and be accountable. We live those values every day and what happened last week went against those very values. Crown B3s do not exist in networks. Culture is gone.