Thread regarding Crown Castle International Corp. layoffs

3rd Director and above this week leaves due to neglect incompetence!!! Oh boy!

Let’s see… someone was at MCI WorldCom when things got “creative” in all the wrong ways, then on to Level 3 / CenturyLink where “issues” is putting it mildly — and now, lucky us, he’s ours! The next logical step is running D&D too, right? So he can ask random questions, make zero decisions, and delay everything he doesn’t understand which is… ALL of it.

And then there’s his hand-picked partner in confusion a whole different story in a book no one wants to read anymore, it’s a book we can’t give away. At this point, what’s the endgame? Company collapse or collective mental health crisis?

My summary:

“I don’t know who any of you are or what you do but here’s a cr-ppy joke about how JA should use her time off since I’ve made her leave” - SP

A doofus leading product, a consultant VP that can’t spell IT leading IT, and a smug CFO that everyone hates making decisions.

Run.

April, we had the call. MM announced she was “leaving” (translation: being escorted to the exit), then somehow SP pulled off the mystery save no one saw coming. ALL of D&D is still in shock, many cakes ordered canceled.
Fast forward—JA finally had enough after months of MM politics and chaos. SP shows up to the next all-hands looking bored or on his phone while 250+ of us stare into the void, praying for leadership. MM reads her consultant-script monotone, JA gives a heartfelt farewell, and the whole org silently screams: “NOOOOOOO, don’t leave us with them!” MAKE IT STOP!!

More proof they’re clueless. CFO showed up late, VP consultant sat there like a cold voyeur with an evil grin, and the only one who acted like a real leader was JA, class act as always. The last decent leader in D&D clearly took the “graceful exit” escape route, leaving us with the royal duo who looked more annoyed than engaged. Someone must’ve hit pause on the Royal court appointments, sounds like there’s at least one brain left in Oz.

I have been through more transitions than I can count but that was the most awkward one yet. SP made some comments that definitely were tone-def and even MM's face read that she was not welcome. JA looked like she had seen a ghost, just in time for Halloween. I honestly feel for her. Curious about others' reviews.

Well, when you’ve got a communications strategist who was internally over-promoted disguised as an IT VP, do you expect effective decisions?

Apparently, the new org chart strategy is simple:

• Move people with zero engineering background into engineering roles.
• Promote the ones whose main skill is telling her she’s amazing.
• Put the people who can’t do work or lead people in charge of… people.
• And finally — eliminate anyone who’s honest, competent, or has integrity, because that ruins the narrative and gets in the way.

It’s like watching Alice in Wonderland the Corporate Edition. Disagree with her? Off with your head! Later today I heard her new royal family appointments are being announced, I mean process rules and governance are so overrated the monarchy is so underrated!

The insane news isn’t over yet. Word is, someone’s about to break more rules and start appointing people into roles instead of posting them or interviewing anyone. Apparently the goal is total control like a queen on the throne instead of a leader in a publicly traded company.

It’s not the first time this VP has done this either, and this round looks bigger. Internal policies require roles to be posted and filled based on qualifications and merit, not favoritism or convenience. Bypassing those processes doesn’t just hurt morale it crosses into governance and compliance territory, especially for a company under federal oversight.

If the rumors are true, leadership better hit pause before this turns into another headline.

If true, this decision tells you all you need to know about the post divestiture plans for the company. Doesn't seem like anyone is playing the long game.

I can't imagine a more out of touch decision to lead the group going forward. If you polled every person left in D&D, not a single one of them would make this choice in a leader. Not one! The problem is that there is nobody left to promote, and I guess there is no appetite to bring in someone capable this late in the game. Years of terrible hires and departures have led to this.

What a complete disgusting turn of events. The amount of complete ineptitude to allow this to happen is completely mind blowing.

The divestiture will fail due to a lack of technical leadership. SP & MM are the epitome of what the company is currently: inept, out of touch, lack of accountability, and lack of any skills required to lead engineering teams. People will leave, the only guess we can make by this move is that’s what they want. Odd move during a two way divestiture!

Why are the “strategy consultants” LN brought in still here that delivered nothing? This VP and her sidekick, the fake “director of data,” are the last of the consultants-leaders. Both under-qualified for the teams they’re on, let alone leading. From an engineering and org stance, irresponsible to let it continue. The CFO thinks this was a good idea, he’s completely clueless.

The only people getting promoted are the ones who nod along and never push back, even when it’s noncompliant or just plain d-mb. One she’s rumored to be promoting is the lowest-skilled ET legacy, but a yes-man. If that happens there’s no hope left.

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A leadership departure and internal investigations happened around the same time earlier this year. The consultant leader VP departure was announced the same day another was terminated, and then not executed without fully reviewing the findings and liability risk. The CFOs history at other companies shows a pattern, adds concern. With the new departure news, direction and culture are deteriorating.

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@a5+1k7fd77j5 oh my sweet summer child…it is unfortunately true. Why do you think MM announced she was leaving the same day ET was fired back in March? She was liable for his bad behavior (and some of her own bad behavior too). The only reason she’s still here is because EC left before her 30-day transition period ended, and she was able to cozy up to SP. Unfortunately, SP was too stupid too read the ER report before he decided to keep her around.

There are people at Crown who have worked with SP at other companies and have watched him run those companies into the ground. With JA leaving and MM in charge, we are well on our way to being one of those companies. Get out now if you aren’t in the perimeter and waiting on a severance/retention package. There is no future here with SP and MM in charge.

As long as they have PowerPoints strategy, who really needs working systems? If all else fails, say AI.

The superficial duo has taken low employee morale to a new low that no one thought possible. It just didn't show in surveys because they were not confidential and everyone knows that LN leftover “strategy” VP consultant, isn’t trying to improve crown their only strategy is their image and taking down credible people they see as a personal threat to their lack of skill and knowledge. When they were being term’d realized they wouldn’t be in that role anywhere else so they ‘consulted’ the new cfo who fell for it all and here we are. Layoffs may not happen now because people are interviewing hard to leave many won’t wait for annual incentives or retention, they have to decide if the abuse is worth it and if you are in their direct line of fire it may not be.

This isn’t a bad dream, leadership doesn’t understand critical systems. The CFO and VP keep making decisions that delay and break systems for no value. They’ve replaced expertise with a consultant-leader that’s a walking liability who speaks buzzword, not tech. His April 1st start date says it all and first move to wrong the right the last EMT leader did, downhill from there. Save yourself this guy is going to ruin us!

Welcome to the show. Your department is getting a taste of what the rest have been dealing with for the past 3 ceos.

A Consultant and CFO are running all of IT, and during a 2-part divestment?

New ceo is too busy yapping than listening, he won’t solve anything. Why do we always get these dolts?

The CFO is difficult to work with and it’s driving good people out, damage. The CONSULTANT is good at the talk snd managing up while ignoring their organization. They have had no delivery, no output and no impact, no reason to think that will change.

Thought it couldn’t get worse? Then a consultant shows up talking about “synergy” and “paradigm shifts,” and suddenly you’re wishing for another memo about TPS reports and a bad CFO believes them, now we all have to pay the price.

Email sent out, this is not a drill but it’s a cruel disturbing joke. If “execution” means slides and slogans, mission accomplished I guess?

“Vision?” Anyone can do that
“Execution?” Still loading…… loading .. loading …. Nothing!
Our new CEO, please save us!

Just announced that the current VP is leaving and the consultant is taking the thrown. Curious who the 2nd person leaving is.

Smart move in terms of cost savings but very risky move in terms of divestiture execution.

If the do-ers leave, the talkers will have to deliver. It's basically putting sports commentators into the superbowl. You might have opinions on hows things should be but now it's your turn to be on the field.

If divesture fails, at what point does the C-suite have accountability? Introducing turmoil and churn during a critical time like this does not benefit the company, the the last man standing in D&D.

Who is rumored to be leaving?

There is no way this is true, someone can't be over all of IT with no experience and when they were "allegedly" to be terminated. That can't happen, it would be too great of a risk.

DT did that in the federal government and then started firing people who didn’t fall in line. Some did quit with or without packages. Maybe they are copying a page from his play book.