I’ve seen some posts on Linkedin where laid off employees are saying forever Magenta. When a company lays you off, they’re telling you that you aren’t important enough to keep. That you don’t have the skills to make a true difference. You look like a simp when you worship a company who doesn’t value your skillset. It makes you look desperate but it also makes you look like the job was too good for you. The world would be such a better place without Linkedin honestly. The non stop humblebrags accompanied with the fake lay off appreciation post is enough to make me want to delete the app completely.
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@c5 TMO was never great, they were on the verge of bankruptcy when AT&T inexplicably gave them a billion in cash and free spectrum. It didn't take a genius to buy a bunch of new radio equipment and bolt it on and then give away service at a lowball price.
Ok, everyone needs to get the vocabulary right. Unless you're going to get called back to work when business picks back up like they do at a steel mill, you weren't laid off, you were FIRED.
I guess thefiring.com was already taken.
@am TMO is led by TMO leaders, d-mba$$.
@bv which company did they ruin. TMO bought Sprint. Damn, you're an id--t.
Working here is strictly a business transaction. They pay me, I show up to work. There's no allegiance, or alliance. You can pour blood, sweat, and tears into this company and once they need to show a better bottom line... You'll get your "Organizational update" and they'll say it's not you, it's us .. blah blah. Working here is strictly transactional. Especially in a right to work state. You'll never see a "Thanks T-Mobile" post from me. If Tuesday is the end of my tenure at T-Mobile, then it's is to the next adventure. Everything Magenta will go in the trash
@cw Shows you know nothing about the core telco network.
T-Mobile's 5G network was retained. Sprint's 5G RAN elements were subsumed into the T-Mobile backend 5G network. Sprint's core legacy 3G and 5G networks were shut down.
Once the legacy Magenta folks did that, a large number of them were laid off in 2023 and the network was handed over to Sprint dweebs who cost less in labor (about 25% based upon Cost of living).
This is a funny thread. Without the decisions Sprint made about 5g T-Mobile wouldn't be on the map. Where are the magenta leaders? There aren't many because all they are is glorified project managers and people that sales people. The retail side may as well go work at Walmart. We have "LEADERS" that don't even come to the office. They have fake backgrounds in teams so it looks like their office so that people don't know where they are. Some even wear the same shirt day after day. Numbers are more important than doing it the right way now more than ever.
It’s been over five years. It’s time to stop blaming sprint for T-MOBILE‘s demise. In business It’s all about adapt and overcome, or evolution, and T-MOBILE was not able to do that well. In large part to poor leadership on both sides.
The ship is taking on water and we are all in it together, regardless of where you started.
The bigger concern for all of us , that we need to be in front of is the outsourcing of all of our jobs to India. I have heard that there are plans to open up more office locations there.
Give it a couple of years and the American presence of T-Mobile will be much smaller at this pace.
@c5 pretty common dynamic though. Boeing OGs generally blame McDonald Douglas execs coming in after Boeing acquired them for all of Boeings problems.
@ag Agreed. No one should be surprised at this point. Quietly clean out your desk and prepare for the meeting if an invite pops up on your calendar.
@ca I am sure that my legacy Sprint Executive VP will be C-Level soon and is already contributing to re-structuring decisions.
@c8 I'm referring to the the C level/SLT, the ones making the decisions about the company restructuring, massive org shift and mass reductions, strategic workforce decisions.
Not true. My entire leadership team from Senior Director to Executive VP are all legacy Sprint. 2 legacy T-Mobile Senior Directors and 1 Senior VP were laid off in December.
@bv It's so bizarre that people continue to blame Sprint for T-Mobile's demise. Even my "bleeds magenta" VP has said several times lately - "that's something Sprint did a lot better than us". None of the people making these decisions are Sprint, DK is the only Sprint leader left. S.G. is from Deutsche. They knew it was time to grow up and stop being the "wild, wild west" magenta was so proud of at merger. That didn't make it a great company, it just meant you were allowed to act like children without consequences and now responsible adults are cleaning up the mess. And they aren't Sprint.
Sprint ruined a once great company.
@OP I don’t think this is true at all. It’s called being smart, thinking about your future, and not burning bridges. It’s about the long game and not being short sighted. I know a lot of people that have left T-Mobile and have come back a few times whether for personal reasons or restructuring.
A friend who was laid off told me his approach to his post was "thank the people" who actually were there for him, helped him etc. but under no circumstances would he "thank the company" that just laid him off. Makes you look grateful where it was appropriate without simping for the company that just canned you.
Those are the people that were there for the failed ATT merger. The ones that grow with the company that was hijacked by worthless Sprint leaders.
Exactly. Say nothing and move on. Your job of kissing magenta a-s in town hall meetings is now officially over.