Thread regarding T-Mobile layoffs

"Those stupid freaking giant picture TVs at HQ (WTF? How many fired employees are included in those pics now?!)"

Don't worry, there is only one person left on the digital team that runs that experience and EVERY Retail screen in the field. Not sure how that last person will prioritize cleaning up the photos...

As a retired curmudgeon engineer in the telecom field, I agree with OP. Telecom business is supposed to unglamorous, low margin high volume business. Our facilities had bare concrete floors, our cubicles farms had threadbare carpeting. We paid for our snacks and coffee from vending machines and packed sandwiches for lunch. Even management did not make ungodly sums of money. But somehow our pensions were funded and most of us could take side jobs and supplement.

D-mb expensive sh-t they spend money on?

Mike Sievert

You'd be disgusted at the amount of money we spend on Talking With Trailblazers. A few years back, budget needed to get burned through end of year so they spent something like 15k on some fancy chairs I'm sure nobody can even locate anymore.

What is even crazier is the viewership numbers, legitimately nobody watches. So much money spent for 50 people to watch, half of which probably forgot it was on in the background.

Janice's org on Halloween a few years ago paid to overnight a pumpkin to everyone so they could carve it on camera together.

i like walled closed cube space to argue with colleagues during technical discussions.Open collaborative office space.....bleh?Spending money on brick and mortar pinky fluff =meh.
i no wear pinky fluff

Free lunch at HQ is literally the only thing I look forward to for having to go into the office. When they get rid of free lunch, there will be rioting in the streets!

all those bullsh-t gifts they used to send me. I got a stress ball and a pack of m&m's overnighted to me one time.

I wish OPS people could have free lunch.

Buliding an outdoor stage for an all hands meeting that was torn down the second the meeting ended. Not to mention they got rained on that day lmao

• Installing pubs at the HQs
• “community” events (seriously? How are cooking and art classes prioritized over the things needed to keep our business successful?)
• Consultant spend (hiring external consultants to come tell our leaders things for $$$$$ because our leaders won’t listen to our own data or trust our own intelligent, talented internal teams)

Lol. And we can't get dang basic office supplies without scavenging, byo, or getting a testy note from your boss about a $10 post-it/pen Amazon order. Corporate 'merica!