Managers, directors , vp , etc…. Are you guys even thinking this through ? How is this even remotely healthy working environment for the ones left behind to cover so many sites. I got peers with 200 + sites. We were so thin with the VSP and now this left us broken. I guess who cares about work life balance. I swear if there’s another RIF and you guys touch GNT I think you may cripple the network. I hope you main plan isn’t to replace everyone with contractors. Did you not learn from Hans and sprint ? You want to compete with T-Mobile and At&T but this is not the way. Loosing top talent just to go work for the competitor.
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keep doing what you are doing for 8 hours only. don't say no to any extra work but let them know it's beyond what you can handle properly in the nice manner..
Let your management roll up the issue. Your line manager(AD0 knows the issue. It's not like they had any choice when it comes down from upper management for RIP. That's only thing you can do to let them realize the issues.
if you are able, ,tune up resume and move on to another company
if you decide to stay, just keep yourself up. Network failure is not the issue you are causing. Upper management messed up and lower level employees paid the prices and it's their fault network will not keep up. Your fault is staying with the company with failed upper management who still stays there and didn't pay the price
Your question implies managers were a part of the conversation; they were not. Directors are asked to give a number, which is ignored. The number is converted to a percentage by VP's and up, and directors are told to figure it out. Directors have managers rank their team and then give them a number. Managers have to give names based on the number, which generally come from that ranking (which should be based on past performance and estimated future performance).
There is no analysis of who will do what going forward. There is no negotiation at any step . Here is your number, pick the people. The only analysis occurs after this all done, as managers are told to come up with a plan to go forward with the team they have. The good directors provide support, others just let managers figure it out.
I have been through many of these, and in every case this is how it works.
AI will solve all of our problems
GNT NAE here. There are 5 people on my team with 200+ sites and 2 with nearly 400 sites. It’s simply not sustainable.
With as deep as these cuts went you would think some of these mangers could have been consolidated to save some key front line folks. Seems like AI was involved
@a9 you work 10 to 12 hours a day because you want to. Maybe you can get enough ot, sh-t diff and on all pay saved to leave before poor health. Or work your shift, shut your phone off and go home after 8 hours. Management is the next call when you don't answer for that reason. Management gets the higher pay and bonus for this reason. It's not all about approving everyone's time sheet weekly
According to Dan, you need to get scrappy.
They higher ups dont understand that. They have never worked on sites troubleshooting or the steps involved.
I have been working 10-12+ hours a day to keep up the workload, my sites went from 600 to 1200 in previous year ...
@a3 People don't seem to understand this for some reason. The layoff isn't your problem. It's managment's problem. If the network goes down because you didn't work 9 hours instead of 8, it's their problem for understaffing. Ki-ling yourself trying to keep the network up isn't going to teach them anything.
@OP In Jersey ,they lost about 20% of first liners and about 0% of the 2nd liners ..moral of the story..just be a 2nd liner in Jersey.. EVERYONE.. it's safe here
@OP pretty simple. You work 8 hours, leave, repeat for the total 40 hours a week. Weeks. over. Repeat.
Ryan - I think Dan thinks “we will figure it out “