It seems that the layoffs are gaining notoriety in the wireless industry. There is one thing for sure, TMO culture has changed since it’s gone under Sprint and MS leadership. It’s might as well be Sprint 2.0 which John Legere used to call “D-mb and D-mber”. The layoffs occur monthly with less than 500 a month. These are called micro layoffs to avoid having to use the WARN act. The layoffs almost always hit high tenure folks who are usually USA citizen and at least 75% of their pay scale. T-Mobile replaces the laid off with lower positions and folks who are Indian or from another cheap area. Their target is to lower the cost of employees instead of innovating. T-Mobile with its watered down talent and poor morale has certainly taken the crown for d-mb and d-mber. They have data breaches once a month and must pay 350 million for just one of them. This company is sinking. Leave while you still can. If you get laid off, take the severance and never look back. T-Mobile has changed from a good culture with high talent to a new one where it is about the bottom dollar and short term planning.
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I looked at the history of the debt. It looks like TMO used to buy Sprint with 50 billion in debt. I would say that it should be the management that needs to be fired instead of workers. What a d-mb decision to take on so much debt and get so little in return.
Having 71 Billion dollars in debt ties your hands on doing a lot of things. Keeping employees that are not actively contributing to the bottom line is not a sound business process no matter how much company logo gear they wear.
They release articles every month. Last one was just 3 days ago. They even covered the latest rounds of layoffs for retail, metro, care, and headquarters.
This is not new. The article is from August 2022.
They post most of the layoffs and give some context. This is an example that shows the micro layoff strategy.
https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-lays-some-network-engineers-week