Thread regarding T-Mobile layoffs

Company is dead

Layoffs this week?

forget about performance, the company, or any project. You are there to jack the in dians. that is your purpose. You must do it and not help. If you don't you are feeding the ants and letting your house become full of trash and pestilence. May you discover your purpose us born.

The problem is and always will he the buddy clique leadership. Bloated teams to justify a leaders role. The silos aren't created by employees, they are created by folks trying to rise importance, title and compensation. If you create a box everyone has to check for the sole reason of checking it you can create a dashboard that tracks how often its checked and by whom and then come up with strategies to ensure %100 compliance and layers of oversight. Or...s4!t can the leader and get rid of the box.

I’ve quite quit since the first major cut after the merger. I cant care less if they are expecting people to double their workload to compensate for the lost workers. At this point I’m ready for a package and have been working on my exit out of here. Tmobile is not my life, too many people out here giving their all for a company who wouldn’t think twice about dropping them.

If you think the low/lackluster performers will eventually be cut, you haven't been at T-Mobile long.

Integrity, collaboration, and execution have never and will never be valued or rewarded at this company.

When I look to LinkedIn and see all the employees who I relied on through the years to get things done behind the scenes no longer employed. It makes me wonder how lost tribal knowledge is getting anything accomplished. We all relied on key contacts internally. We knew someone who knew how to cut through the red tape to get past a policy or roadblock, or to toggle a parameter to get something pushed through that was stuck in queues.

Because, let's face it, T-Mobile backend systems are not end-to-end reliable enough unless there's at least someone there to delete and re-add it. If they keep cutting, the combined decades of experience will evaporate overnight and leave the idle staffers struggling to figure out how to reinvent the workaround.

This is all good and well written. What I see is 25 percent who got retain are brown nos-er, who talks but does not produce. When you listen to them, they give big BS and excuse all the time. Those people are dragging this company. I wish STL had identified those BS folks rather. Let’s see what brings next. I am not happy since good people had to leave because of these.

Thank you AI. anonymously😉

I'm sure once the baseline is studied some layoffs to field operations is coming. No one in the field was touched this round. Maybe April, what's the baseline for sites per tech? 100? 200?
Ericsson is looking for work, contract all of fops..

"The bar is being raised..."
At Toxic-Mobile, the bar was raised long ago and brought down on the heads of employees, repeatedly. Post-COVID, Corporate America delights in its sh---y treatment of employees.

The long diatribe in this topic was disgusting. Always remember a sandwich is still a sandwich.

@bm This really does sound like something a Director or VP would say. Maybe not one of the aloof ones, but someone who is at least trying to relate to what they once were. The eradication of switch technicians and moving them to mainly unmanned feels like it was planned for a long time. I'm often curious about those who were pushed out over the last few years. Neville, Ellefson, Mayo, etc, all long timers who built the network and cared about what it meant. Listening to a Field Technology call there are new organizations just created that don't know what they are doing, but hey "we're innovating". If you listen to the words used to describe the reason for the layoffs: "rot", "dead weight", "poor performers". It almost makes you think these people deserved it. Granted there are many organizations in the company, ( I am network side ) but the disdain for those let go is universal. Some people blame sprint employees, I don't. The vast majority of sprint employees that I've encountered are great techs and people. It's the leadership that came with it that is the rot. Yet that is who is running the show now. Thankfully there is at least one old Omnipointer in charge to help the network folks.

And now a message from the C-suite

And the chatter from the marginal coffee badgers begins. Tmo needs solid tech folks that innovate, not grinders that coat tail on the efforts of others.

The company wielded an axe and cut its own legs. Bleed to death it will.

What a wonderful statement and I would agree 100%. Some not all, coaches and Tm’s were a liability to the company.

You have too much time on your hands I wish you were RIF'd.