Thread regarding T-Mobile layoffs

Lots of HQ Engineering roles in Dallas where the NOC is, the major Distribution Center is in Dallas, and MetroPCS was headquartered in Dallas.

They are laying off the people who speak up and don't drink the Kool-aid

I doubt they'll disclose the criteria

TX became an HQ office because that's where Freier is from. Pretty sure it became official when he got his Pres. title

Do you have a pulse and are you disliked because reasons?

As someone who has been a decision maker for layoff selections on multiple occasions, what I'm always trying to achieve is to have the strongest possible team with whoever remains. It's that simple. I never consider tenure, salary, work location, legacy Metro, legacy Sprint or any other non-performance/talent related attributes. I can't speak for every director+ individual making these decisions, but our process is designed for this to be the way. Periodt.

How brown is your nose? How rosy are your lips?

Most of it depends on whether your palm is soft or calloused. Grip strength is also a factor.

This site makes me not want to work at T-Mobile more than the layoffs. Grow the fu-k up

Hi guys!

I’m here to tell you most posts here are to annoy and agitate the weak minded.

Please relax and enjoy my dark humor.

Texas is leftover from MetroPCS.

Layoffs?! You kiddin me! Layoffs?!

Hearing system groups will need to be aligned with headquarters; WA, KS and TX , not sure how Texas became a headquarter but assuming convenient for some. I think this is their way to weed out any remaining legacy Sprint employees that have always been remote. They forced vaccinations on remote employees and then proceed to lay them off , nice!

Managers had to do a talent assessment months ago.. they are using those talent assessments as a gauge. Although if anyone is a performance issue they will surely be on the list. The list was created early august so if you suddenly decided to start working harder after the first week of august.. good luck!

layoff all the riggers first

That's not entirely true.

The first two rounds of layoffs (for technology) had a performance vector.

At least on my team, all of the underperformers have now been separated, so who knows what the next criteria will be.

I know a lot of teams are not backfilling voluntary separations in the hopes that empty reqs will soften the blow if/when they receive more bad news.

Tenure (salary)

Thats about it

People are so wrong about how these decisions are made. First, they're being made by people who understand your performance. Second, it's not random - not even close. Finally, nobody on here is going to be able to answer your question for all orgs in the company.

All of the above. There's no set formula.

Open Excel, create a new file, In column A make a list of names.
In column B, in a cell next to each name, enter the following formula: =RAND()
Sort but column B.

Select as many names as you want based on the new sort order.

Voila! You are all done...

You are a number on a spreadsheet. May the odds be ever in your favor.