Lots of great uplifting posts on here since the earnings call. It looks like our great contributors from InsideLumen are posting in here vs there. Thank you for bringing the positivity & trying to quell all the negativity here. We shall overcome <3
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Come on, how about a little kumbaya? Show some love ....
When the Walls, come tumbling down! That’s the company song!
tbh most people often thing their legacy company was the good one. I makes sense, its what you knew, and the new stuff always sux.
my feeling was the original at&t may have been the best and after the gov breakup, when they eventually came back together everything was worse.
uswest had its issues but was far better than the company today
qwest seemed worst and it didn't help the corrupt CEO came in saying how the USW people were bozos, etc. tbh, there were quite a few slackers let go, but then layoffs every year till the CTL merger and no raises I ever heard about
ctl was probably good company also, with good people, but after the merger you had a collision between get-r done el cheapo style ctl small time experienced and large bloated Qworst empire who basically took over ctl whether the name remained or not
then in comes L3 with their better than everyone (but worst at everything) and you get the rebranded lipstick on a pig we call lumen ... L3 really took over despite staying CTL ... typically confusing and messed up
now with Kate its trying to fix things with DTL and being less exclusive and she has no idea the true depth of the problems she inherited ... and the people hired also have no clue either
meanwhile they are now returning to the divisive days of working in isolated groups ... oh your enterprise? oh we are mass markets, oh we are wholesale, no we are quantum and nobody plays well together and everyone does their own thing their own way ... and the silos are returning and nothing good will come from it, except maybe more spin offs
the level dysfunction created by these merger is horrific
the only ones who win are those doing the messed up deals
Only Great company was CenturyTel.
All other mergers destroyed the once darling of Wall Street.
loving being at Colt and no longer tied to this dumspter fire of a Company......good luck all and I hope you can get something before your wonderful leaders finally destroy what is left of this once great Company
love these hilarious posts! But remember, sarcasm is NOT allowed at Lululumen. prepare to be re-educated by brene.
Is that Seeger’s post for real?
Sara did you write that about yourself?
If not you should be flattered that someone saw your post comments to Kate as anything other than su-king up.
Wake up yourself. RFM is more than TDM traffic. Lumen doesn't care any more about the non-legacy network either. The circus has less clowns running the show.
Who the f cares about any of these comments Kate etc who cares they only care about their own lives and their own financial security so they can retire and move to the beach they don’t care about their employees you people are f up how about the lives of those let go now in an abyss f u centurylink lumen Jeff s my dad would call you all shisters
Whom worries about RFM alarms stats is so yesterday.
Lumen doesn't care about that if it involves TDM traffic.
Wake up!
Stay with the company honey, you can have my piece of the sh-t pie they serve to both employees and customers.
The Reality versus the delusion.
RFM currently has a few alarms, 160,000 Critical, 571,000 Majors, 68,000 Minors. It's far from a bed of roses in the network that I can see. Throwback Thursday to when this was unacceptable and maintaining the network was still a urgent daily function.
the last couple comments on here are solid gold
next level stupidity over the years, horrible clueless mis management and an appetite for questionable deals to make a few insiders rich and dubious partners / vendors even richer
many careers were destroyed or wasted being misused and abused by this hot mess of a company
Living thru bankruptcy with one of the earlier companies was way before 2010; let’s just say 1997. So I have lived it and it’s obvious the eventual outcome of this company. Too much debt and not enough revenue and customers. Giving away fiber on intercity routes to hyperscalers at a fraction of the cost it took to build the infrastructure. Bad business model Eventually be ti-s up. So all you koolaid drinkers haven’t lived long enough to understand. Don’t get su-ked into the vortex.
if only these investors knew the complete and utter disfunction within, the continual internal reorgs, and where the real bloat is, they'd be demanding change or cutting their losses and selling off. Lumen can't get out of their own way, and can't do anything right, heck they can't even send out separation papers with the correct name on them.
Hey how about laying off a guy who spent 38.5 years with the company?
Classy move Lumen.
If the naysayers all go.
My share would be so much bigger.
GO!! Leave Now!! 😆
Kate Johnson has posted a comment on Linkedin to the Wall Street Journal author, Drew FitzGerald. I believe she is saying that her bet being made is on the Company, its strategic plan and The Team from which she is just one person.
That's a fair comment which is really saying that she believes in the people at The Company who are being entrusted for making Lumen realize the long term vision of why The Network was built since its beginning.
A long term employee who has been on the journey since Global Crossing was purchased by Level 3 in 2010, made a supporting comment worth noting. Her name is Sara Seegers. Her journey would have included working for CEO's John Legere, James Crowe, as well as Jeff Storey before Kate Johnson and excluding Glen Post which didn't last long after the "reverse merger."
She knows a little bit about change, transitions, transformations, and chaos to be sure, but most of all, endurance.
Employees of this organization would be wise to seek out Sara for understanding where this Company's Network is taking the world if they haven't figured it out yet.
Oh, for the record, we are long term shareholders holding significant unrealized paper losses, though we very much believe in the future of Lumen Technologies expecting that current "equity" will remain in tact. This is for the people barfing on this thread regarding "Yes" men and or woman or any other gender one chooses to be associated with today!
Of course, our future success, not unlike Kate's will depend on all of you wonderful employees continuing to do amazing things at Lumen, and selling a he-l of a lot of those products and services to domestic and global consumers.
Thank you for your time and mind share if it is being applied.
Lumen forgot to send you pink text.
You have been let go.
You can start posting at Walmartlayoff.com 😆 🤣 😂
Yep there's the yes man with kool-aid dripping off his chin. Ya been hiding out under the desk?
Ride this dead horse a little longer, you and the company are going nowhere, except to eventual unemployment and bankruptcy court.
Enjoy the ride!
Everything is awesome! LFG!!!
Man what kind of hallucinogens are u taking?? Must be good stuff. All your post needs is a Russian accent and it might as well be form the old Radio Moscow short wave broadcasts.
There’s the Yes man! Go team go! Ba-f!