Thread regarding Windstream Corp. layoffs

Windstream has gotten worse each year

I've been working for this place for over 10 years. We were bought by Windstream in 2010. Since then, our company has gone to "sh--". Has gotten worse over & over each year. Every time we've had a layoff it has caused more pain and grief for our business. This last riff was it for me. I am going to leave this dump after the first of the year. Windstream has no clue how to run this business at the level above the individual contributors. They do not understand that we run the company.....not the other way around. Middle management is very lost and insignificant other than treating people like we just got out of college.

I have over 18 years experience and "zero" respect from this company. You just don't approach people with an attitude after a mass layoff, cram training down our throats, have a Nextgen mss blackout period while acting like nothing happened to those 900-1300 comrads that just got walked out the door. All while at the end of each year in telecom, people like to settle down during the holidays and take some time off. What a joke!! It's real simple:. They need sales and stop the bleeding. It's too late people! Management has been their problem the past 5 years I've seen more managers fly around to meetings that they bring no value to and talk big but nothing is getting done other than blowing expenses like we grow customers and deals off trees. Now we are hemorrhaging to the point that the new saviors- Layne Levine and team needs to save the day, and quick! Big hat with no cattle!!!! These guys are up a creek without a paddle. All they knew to do was to lay people off just causing more damage than they could afford. It will be an easy sell on the other side so good luck with the suffering, it's not gonna get any better.

OP is @QvtC4La-1gng.

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Well said, Wes. All the best!!

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Post ID: @2ejf+Qz7kjVl

There is life after Windstream, and most likely better!!!

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Post ID: @1cos+Qz7kjVl

If you have over 10 years, your likely the next on the chopping block, what kills me, and the individual on the other post praising us on us old-timers, on I'm sure his catered Thanksgiving feast, is I was never a part of the Alltel days, but came on ~ 6 months after the spin off. Again, shows how clueless C-Level and above is...

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I left for greener grass this year. It was partially the company, partially me. I was ready for the change because I had reached a career dead-end and attempts to change jobs within the company were repeatedly thwarted.

I was able to land at an exceptional company--not just an industry average company. As much as Windstream is spinning its tires, it is doing some stuff right and I appreciate the efforts to turn it around. For me, the decision to leave was based on three factors: Salary Freeze (while an unending hiring of VPs and bonuses for the C-Level), and department restructuring which downgraded all the high-skilled individuals into the same category as entry-level individuals, and finally, the straw that broke the camel's back was when my manager took my MEF/CECP training spot for himself.

I was fortunate to land at a very good company that treats the employees like assets and chooses to reinvest in them in a huge way. Not just lip-service, but tangible ways. Zero tolerance of bullying by bosses too. It's the little things that make a huge difference.

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