I can't even say I'm surprised anymore.
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Sounds like the Dunning-Kruger effect is alive and well.
In this area there were no “Top Performers” let go, just worthless slugs that presented themselves as something they were not - blowhards that took credit for other people’s work while doing nothing themselves, and responding like children when they’d get called-out. Good riddance!
AI? Very little to do with this round of cuts.
And high performers?
An exaggeration, but imagine having a V12 Bugatti in a Siberian tundra. High performing - yes, but not suitable for its surrounds.
No consolation, I know, but that's some of what we're up against.
“PEAK will be awarded to whomever is left after this.”
There won’t be a peak this year. Hard to have peak when the island Maui was burned down right before these layoffs.
SUSPECT
all you guys in finance or marketing or w/e who follow too many tech influencers on linkedin and think you found secret big brain intel because mike said "AI" in the all hands once need to calm down a bit. no one who actually works in technology here is remotely afraid of AI at this point. we barely get standard apps and automation projects off the ground as it is, if you had any idea the scope of what you're asking compared to how technically slow we are you would realize the SLT kool aid about being a tech company is smoke and mirrors. our jobs are in danger because of good old fashioned corporate greed and politics
unfortunately for massive layoffs like this, performance is rarely a factor. Look at Google or other tech companies layoff last year. Lots of high performance engineers were also let go.
"I do believe high performers are being let go."
Care Trainer here. 9.5 years of tenure and was the number one performing trainer at my site year over year (at least the last few years). I've won a couple different awards, and now that they just got a national stack rank graduated my last class at number 1 in the nation. I was let go last Thursday.
You all think T-Mobile is way further ahead with AI than it is. Aside from some things in care, T-Mobile is actually way behind most respectable companies and has no ability to replace whole jobs with AI any time soon.
PEAK will be awarded to whomever is left after this.
I don't think you guys understand what's going on. I do believe high performers are being let go. While years ago it would've made us scratch our heads, today it doesn't. They are replacing these jobs with AI. They already have it in place. They have been working on the behind the scenes now for years. Just in the past few months have they let us know. I've heard "AI forward" more then enough recently to connect the dots. They are going to us AI for the network, for their data, for their calls. No one is safe.
What's scary, what's going to happen to jobs in the next few years?
Politics often plays a role in these decisions.
It simply means the company doesn't need what that person was doing going forward. That was the old strategy, it's changing direction.
I don't buy it. Some of you have zero clue what a high performer is. Also, remember, a lot of reductions are role eliminations and don't necessarily have a tie to performance.
It makes sense. If you are a top performer that means you make more than other folks. If you make more than other people T-Mobile wants you out asap so they can outsource your job at a fraction of the cost and the difference goes into mikes pocket
It makes no sense, which automatically means that this incompetent leadership thinks it's a great idea.