Towards the end says it all,
"...will continue to lead his current team with potential future organization alignments later as we work to consolidate network planning."
The writing is on the wall. Be ready, have the resume updated, things are going to happen soon. Wish everyone the best.
Definitely some hurt RF engineers on here. Well RF peeps. Most of our so called RF engineers don’t even have an engineering degree lol. They get their little titles and sit behind a desk and send stars to each other for doing their jobs. lol.
SWOPS seems to be the easiest to be eliminated entirely. RF can be outsourced due to automation and the ability to ”engineer” from anywhere. Keep FOPS because they maintain the towers in rain, shine, snow, ice, inclement weather, imminent danger, grueling traffic, and under stressful conditions.
I am in FOPs and wouldnt know how to reach the manufacturer if I had to and as for calling RF they wouldnt answer. And as far as I know we do not even have an oncall RF tech. The only time we hear from RF is for dropped calls or access failures.
Field Tech from New England
Again, whomever posted this has zero F!;&$ing clue about how anything works. Not one Field tech calls the manufacturer to ask how to fix something when called out overnight. This poster is an uninformed tool.
Most of the field techs, when called out a zero dark thirty, first make a phone call to the RF manufacturer to help them out. They don't do it on their own. Most RF Techs couldn't properly drop a deuce without a MOP telling them what to do.
Hilarious. In our market we don't usually reach out to an RFE. We let them look at their screens and hang in the break room. Field Ops in this market gets things done.
Anybody dissing the Switch and the Field Ops - that's f-g talk and you better cut it out.
Most of the field techs, when called out a zero dark thirty, first make a phone call to the RF manufacturer to help them out. They don't do it on their own. Most RF Techs couldn't properly drop a deuce without a MOP telling them what to do.
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It is sad to see supposed RF Engineers, or any other employee, making personal attacks against, and attempting to discredit the function and work of FOPS, SWOPS, etc. Not only is that indicative of a leadership and cultural problem (having employees feeling compelled to deflect and diminish other teams, out of fear for their own job safety, despite supposed "values in action"), but it clearly shows that some individuals are incapable of cross-functional execution and teamwork. If that is the case, good riddance - because that is the way forward, and there is no room for that kind of shameful mindset in a successful team/company.
I only hope that the people who are making these anonymous comments, kicking their colleagues in the proverbial teeth, are perpetuating their disdain for other teams in the presence of management/leadership. And if those managers/leaders are worth their salt, they will keep the anti-teamwork mentality of those kinds of people in mind, when they are asked to make a decision on organizational structuring and alignment.
Like the quoted poster eluded to, this is the kind of backstabbing and selfishness that causes an organization to implode.
And for sure, I've heard of high level "leadership" being witnessed perpetuating the same kind of rhetoric, along the lines of ops techs being "card monkies," and the like. Therein lies the problem. That kind of mentality and rhetoric has consequences when it reaches the very target of the diminishment and insults. And again, there is no place for that kind of mindset in a successful team. If the contributions of certain teams or team members are not valued, and one feels compelled to verbalize, keep it on the 19th hole; and do not let your disdain reflect in your decisions that impact those contributors that you loathe so much.
Why doesn't the SLT simply lay off the entire company so they can keep all the profits for themselves!
This thread alone shows why TMobile is going to implode.
Great culture TMO has going there Mike. Teams whose sole job it is to keep a network up for the customer delegitimizing each other as they wait for their jobs to be the next to go. Sad how far it's fallen in such a short time.
RF would have time to answer emails and calls if we weren't busy holding hands of the techs in any of the 3 letter acronym teams. Can you guys not tell the difference between handset and network issues? Site resets shouldn't be your only troubleshooting step before calling us, and quite resetting congested sites it doesn't help.
RF can't be outsourced... Where else will we find people that can't speak English and don't respond to emails or phone calls.
"I know dr-g addicts that could get up at 3am for a call out, fix any issue faster and better than you while doing it happily for 10$ an hour. Theyd probably complain less and cutout the 2 hours of talking and just get to work. OT wouldnt have been cut from the field if it wasnt so abused. Ops techs have become so entitled and think their jobs are skilled labor. Anybody can be a card monkey out in the field and anybody can answer phones and send reports in the switch. Your job may have been important at one time but things have changed."
All that Magenta hair dye has you out here talking like Biden.
Crawl back into the the call center or retail store in which you came from and play with the clappers and p-m poms while the adults have a conversation.
I know dr-g addicts that could get up at 3am for a call out, fix any issue faster and better than you while doing it happily for 10$ an hour. Theyd probably complain less and cutout the 2 hours of talking and just get to work. OT wouldnt have been cut from the field if it wasnt so abused. Ops techs have become so entitled and think their jobs are skilled labor. Anybody can be a card monkey out in the field and anybody can answer phones and send reports in the switch. Your job may have been important at one time but things have changed.
I love the comment that says anyone off the street could do field ops or switch tech jobs. What does that person think field ops or switch ops do. Just mow the law or answer phones all day. I have been in both positions and I can guarentee that 90% swops cant do FOPs jobs and fops cant to swops. If they think it's so easy I invite them to join us anytime. Especially the oncall weeks when are woken up at 1 or 2 AM and have to drive to a site 3 hours away that you have never been to and work on an issue. We saw what happened to Sprint when they went contractor base.
Rf engineers are easily outsourced. A little insulting where poster said other groups are weak and hire former store associates. The job of an rf engineer is only as important as the KPI that is being tracked.
T-Mobile can't afford to cut the RF team. They are the lifeblood of the network and the company. Field and Switch can be cut further and replaced with contractors. Anyone off the street could perform their job duties. Both teams have proved it by hiring store reps in their departments.
Sounds like somebody got eliminated in the sentence before your quote. How many did Ulf cut?
Not much change to RF teams per Jennifer.
Baby ruthhhh
Ulf the Destroyer
Neville Ray was such a huge loss
there is be no the layoffs this week and I wood no.
Ulf is the worst