Thread regarding T-Mobile layoffs

Sprint and it’s bad employees are the human equivalent of malware:

I would not give a $2 dollar food stamp for a Sprint employee.

At time of merger, the Sprint culture was a shock to the TMO. So many Sprint members were mean, slow, lazy, arrogant, & thought they were better & smarter than everyone. Teamwork?!? That was not part of their culture apparently. TMO was the complete opposite. We were energetic, fast, happy, collaborative & super productive. Integrating Sprint was a detriment to every aspect & project of TMO. The SLT told all TMO legacy folks to absorb people, their behavioral problems, delays, loss of progression, project disruptions at all costs. It was a daily sh-t show. Intolerable. SLT did nothing in cases where Sprint folks behaviors were off the charts...HR looked the other way 95% of the time & what was previously NOT ok, was suddenly tolerable if perpetrated by a legacy Sprint person. Many TMO folks (at all levels) quit over the horrid & hypocritical rules and circumstances. Sievert bungled that merger so badly.

..." Name the SLT. List them. TMobile and Sprint. Current and the last...year? Can't leave out any recently departed "Magenta leaders" that just cashed out. Don't count Marcus, he was neither (that was obvious, right)?"

Clueless Marcus was brought in by the T-Mobile SLT, a decision that Callie played a key role in. Unfortunately, Marcus's lack of leadership resulted in significant issues, including the departure of many valuable team members, because he wanted to exert control and burn the digital team. Interestingly, he was eventually let go by the Sprint SLT member. Surprisingly, no member of the T-Mobile SLT took action against Marcus and his enablers (Abi, Melissa, Adam, Reid, Shaun etc..), because they didn't wanted to upset Princess Callie.

What are you talking about, failing company?

T-Mobile is a huge subsidiary (@$80B revenue) of an even larger corporation, Deutsche Telekom AG ($114B).

Just because the company is not exactly what you'd envision it be doesn't mean it's going down the tubes!

The fall of many a great publicly traded company has been at the hands of a overzealous and greedy executive management team and board of directors. As mentioned below, stock price and the anticipation of 'gold in the pocket' drives poor decision making and ultimately, short term profits, at the expense of the long term health of the company. This is the REASON that many companies never go public. Look at Publix and Chick-Fil-A. They are at the top of their game in their respective markets and are privately traded. That is because they don't have to answer to the public stock market. You want a great company? TMO needs to go private and answer to themselves and HOLD MGMT ACCOUNTABLE for bad decisions.

TMO had a culture of ‘do it’. With sprint leadership in all my org, getting anything done is a big process. Too many questions and analysis, that nothing gets done. Process has taken over everything.
Surprised that it is still not showing in earnings.

KrisKringle said that TFB was run by Sprint. Yes, because TMO didn't have TFB, but the engineering side is run by Legacy TMO. TMO has no idea how to run a network, engineer or get results. They only know how to kiss up to customers and give away shinny things. That's how they stayed in business. Sprint had horrible customer service and that's why they failed. Now engineering for TFB is 100% legacy TMO, and it's falling apart. TMOs tier II support that was in shambles with thousands of disgruntled customers got turned around by an effective LS team that turned that into a couple hundred customers and SLA above 85%. They just got rid of the team that did that. Churn rate will be record highs next quarter.

The biggest shareholder is Claure, who's done absolutely nothing since the merger. He's getting pi---d that his portfolio, with 500 million in TMUS, keeps taking a hit. This all wreeks of Claure's sausage like fingers being involved...and he's letting yet another company die.

For anyone who thinks this reorg is a 'Sprint thing' or wants to blame Sprint business practices, it is not. This is a greedy management thing that permeates many large companies. Remember that SLT gets paid when the stock price increases. That is where they will make the most money and where their compensation is fully leveraged. You can fully blame the group who is in SLT and no one else. Remember that at the next 'Pep Rally' with Mr. MS.

The sprint was not this worse .of course Sprint struggled but layoff were less while this time it is bloodshed . From a team of 7 we got reduced to 2 without any knowledge transfer ( as access stoped the same day ) and expecting the 2 folks to continue .
It easy to blame sprint while I can say this not what sprint was even during the last days .
Feeling sad of people who were let go and sad for people who are left .

All the Sprint Fu-ktards are in middle management and VP level, especially in TFB. The C-Suite may have magenta, but the Sprint takeover is very much real where the rubber hits the road. Sprint had a history of running things into the ground (Nextel) and that is exactly what they are doing now with their big telecom culture. Its a culture of sycophancy, where no one would ever question a VP or their ideas. Just nod and say yes, everything is great.

I'm sure you all who worked for Sprint are proud of everything you did there, and you should be. But don't sit here and suggest that the T-Mobile is better than it was. It is definitely not. Pre-merger, people were beating down the doors to work at T-Mobile because it was fun. Now its a sh-t show. And its because we kept the leaders from Sprint. They should have all been let go, day one.

Does step down down mean cashed out?

Wow reverse in our are. Mainly legacy sprint and a couple of under performing TMO in my are. Guess I got lucky or have a better management team. Pretty much it mirrors the og people I knew from when i started 20 years 18 years ago.

I wonder how many of you were OK with what everyone knew was coming, when you thought it would only be Sprint employees laid off? I am sure pre merger that was what you all were led to - and wanted to - believe. Banked on it I am sure.

Well here we are. During an earlier round last August, I was astounded at the shock expressed by Legacy TMO people. How could so many of the impacts have been magenta people? The rest of us, Legacy Sprint....we just waited.

But, the merger based on all lies provided the spectrum. Be care what you ask for.

It’s not a byproduct of the merger. It was designed this way from the very beginning. It wasn’t an accidental case of Sprint cancer spreading, this is what was behind the curtain the whole time even before it was approved.

The blame Sprint game is tired and repeatedly, loudly stipulates that TMobile wasn't ready to run with the big dogs. "We bought Sprint but let them take over our company". Stop. You sound silly.

Name the SLT. List them. TMobile and Sprint. Current and the last...year? Can't leave out any recently departed "Magenta leaders" that just cashed out. Don't count Marcus, he was neither (that was obvious, right)?

List them. Go ahead. Right here..on this board. Do YOU see the pattern?

Can anyone guess what org is still most Sprint

Seems that way, previously SLT are more Tmo veterans then they all step down now majority are Sprint leaders. You can see the pattern.