The reductions are not over... we are going to continue to lose employees by the dozens each week around the company. 5 years from now this company will look and feel completely different from what it is today. Unfortunately the business model must change in order to survive. The industry continues to see and feel more pressure to evolve and adapt. Technology and the younger consumers are driving these pressures and changes. We either transform and change or die a fast. I don’t totally trust or agree with everything I’m seeing and hearing but we’re locked into survival mode now. I just wish it wasn’t so painful on so many of my co workers or their families. If there is a bright side to any of this is that they’re some pretty cool companies working on projects that are cutting edge 5G driven products. Smart homes, small cell and incredible WIFI interactive devices and concepts being developed. Most of these companies pay better and have incredible benefits. Where one door closes on a dinosaur another opens to a better and brighter future. I’m looking to exit this painful place soon... after 24 years. Good luck and best wishes.
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https://youtu.be/bub2iCRkyLE
The future is coming the future of 5G
23.50 an hour took 10 years to get from 40k to 49K national field ops laid off
$34.50hr non-union, Mid-Atlantic
Wages for National Field Ops Tech?
National Field Ops techs are getting 60+ hours a week. No shortage of work but you are right avout the contractors fixing cuts. All they want us to do is shoot it with an OTDR and tell them where it's cut ans the contractors take over and hopefully fix it right the first time.
Level3 's management is a whole other animal , they don't care bout the small business, the individual, the consumer, Yet they have bought metro fiber rings all over the country ! so they need the large bandwith customer but they like to run a very lean workforce , in Houston alone they might have 1 fiber cut a week because they don't care about prevention yet they will pay a sub contractor to fix every fiber cut or make the existing employees work 24 straight shifts to repair it.....LEVEL3 ? CenturyLink looks good on paper , looks good on Wallstreet but it is rotten on the inside...
5 g wireless is still an emerging technology and is nowhere near to being deployed yet for consumers.
Like it or not dsl and gpon tech will be with us for awhile still, which means we will still need a workforce capable of maintaining and installing those networks for some time yet. All of these layoffs just crippled ctl’s ability to do those things.
Well said