Thread regarding T-Mobile layoffs

@dr - Doctor? You might have a doctorate degree from a sc-mhole like India or Pakistan where they don’t even have a means to dispose of sewage aside from routing it into the streets. You should stay in your overpopulated third world country instead of infesting the United States, which needs to purge all you sc-m like flushing a toilet.

@be Ra----d go home. America is for Americans, not some sc-m from a sewer country

Traditionally, layoffs tied to strategic restructuring would result in stock price increases. However, new data indicates that stocks are now declining by an average of 2% when layoffs are linked to automation and technological advancements, according to a report by Fortune.

Goldman Sachs analysts suggest that the market is reacting negatively to layoff announcements, even when companies provide seemingly benign reasons, indicating concerns about the prospects of these companies.

The analysts noted that firms announcing layoffs have been experiencing higher capital expenditures, debt, and interest expenses, along with lower profit growth compared to their industry peers.

I guess investors are becoming smarter than corporations in understanding how the economy. Unemployment eventually leads to less disposable income and recession. What a revelation.

@be I agree. The Caucasians were fooled by the idiocracy of In dian developer houses. Thus nothing works.

@az Do a spell and grammar check on what you just wrote, that should show you why you hillbil--es are falling behind. I'm not the biggest Srini fan myself, but caucasians have been at the head of this ship for a long time, so if you think it's sinking...blame your own people.

T will get get the hardest of any telco 100 percent. most of the customers are aferican american. When they loose their jobs .... they cut lines....don t pay bills. So if the economy and govern burns..... t will burn. It will burn like the cali wild fires. Yes if american are going to get it hard....all the in dia will get it in the f and a ss. cause we don't care about foriengers. ahuh.

Hey chatGPT, summarize that article and paste it here

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗳𝗳𝘀

When Verizon cuts 13,000 jobs, the industry feels it.
The press covers it. LinkedIn explodes. Analysts comment. Employees grieve in public. If you have not seen someone on LinkedIn talking about their last day this past week, you probably have not been on the site.

But not all workforce reductions happen the way Verizon’s have.

Some layoffs are designed to be quiet.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗳𝗳𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
A big number.
A memo.
A single date.

But in telecom, reductions often show up differently.

A WARN notice for 121 people in one state, on one date.
– 𝘍𝘖𝘟13 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦

A “reorg” that forces people to reapply into a new structure.
– 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵

A flattening of management layers that quietly erases whole teams over multiple waves.
– 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘓𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘧𝘧.𝘤𝘰𝘮

A merger narrative that makes workforce loss feel “normal,” even when it goes beyond simple duplication.

𝗧-𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀

T-Mobile has been absorbing major US Cellular assets this year, and US Cellular had already signaled massive job reductions tied to that sale.

Everyone expects duplication. Everyone expects “synergy.”

That expectation is exactly the cover.

Because once you have a merger umbrella, you can reduce more than duplication without drawing the same attention.

Back-office consolidation
IT realignment
Sales org restructuring
Role eliminations framed as “simplification”

And if the reductions are distributed across time and geography, the story never becomes a single story.

It becomes background noise.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁

If you look at employee discussion spaces, you see repeated references to multiple rounds and targeted cuts.

These sources are not polished. They are emotional, messy, and anecdotal.

They are also often the first place the truth shows up, because the official version is optimized for optics.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 “𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗳𝗳𝘀” 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿

Telecom is not a normal consumer business.
It is national infrastructure.
It is emergency communications.
It is economic gravity.

When carriers shrink quietly, the impact is not just internal morale.

It is:
Institutional knowledge walking out the door
Fewer experienced hands maintaining complex systems
Slower problem resolution
Greater dependence on outsourcing and vendor layers
A less resilient network during the moments that matter

And, because the layoffs are “invisible,” the industry never debates the cost.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

If layoffs can happen without headlines, how many are happening without accountability?

Not just at T-Mobile. Across all carriers.

Because the real story is not who had the biggest layoff this month.

The real story is how telecom controls the narrative, even about its own workforce.

And the workforce 𝘪𝘴 the network.
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