I am currently working 70+ hours a week. I am salary exempt and if I have a conversation with my leaders, I will simply be coached on time management. T-Mobile has eliminated most of my peers and the workload is piling! T-Mobile speaks of work like balance, but, when PTO is taken I am more stressed because I return to a steaming pile of &(* just waiting for me! So, guess what? I work more hours and wish I had never taken time off! I am not sure how much "skinner" operations can be.
But, here is my question: What would happen if all SFOM's, Operations Managers, and other support partners decided to show their true value? We do so much that goes unnoticed - until well, we do not do it. So, what if we STOPPED doing it for a few days.... What would the outcome be? Total Experience going to pick up? Nope, they pass most items to Operations anyway! And Happy Employee Appreciate Week!
Also, I am currently trying to find time to look outside of the company.
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To the company that keeps telling me how much they want me to “break glass” and “challenge the status quo:”
No. You get better.
Switch the job man
Family is more important than work. Family IS the most important work. Children are more important than careers. Don’t accept the false narrative that putting family above work somehow makes you a failure. Parents: our greatest success in life will not be climbing the corporate ladder, building a business, or hustling our way to the top, but the children we raised and the families we built.Family is more important than work. Family IS the most important work. Children are more important than careers. Don’t accept the false narrative that putting family above work somehow makes you a failure. Parents: our greatest success in life will not be climbing the corporate ladder, building a business, or hustling our way to the top, but the children we raised and the families we built.
Politics and sycophancy is nothing new at Tmo
For the person that said “Don’t blame the company…” It’s obvious that politics is required to get ahead in the new TMO culture. You need to take credit for other people work. You need to be a yes man but give the work to someone else. Also, becomes friends with people in high places. Fantasy football or some door opener. At the end of the day, it’s 80 percent networking and 20 percent work.
Don’t blame the Company for your inability to decide what’s important and what’s not important. Stop doing low priority work and move on. Or does us all a favor and leave.
Embrace the suck.
I had a similar experience at T-Mobile. I worked 70 hours doing nights and weekends. I left several years ago and found a permanent work from home job that is 40 hours. At first, I was shocked with all the time I got back. I used the time to continue my education and travel. I am glad you are leaving. T-Mobile has so many a-s kissers. You are just the utility person that is picking up their slack of the dead weight.