Thread regarding CenturyLink layoffs

You are not alone starting over at 50 or even older, but if you are a tech it is not hard to find work. You are correct about taking the package if offered too, because there will be no more packages, just the cardboard box 10 minute uber plan.

About everyone here is right. The layoffs and Voluntary Seperation packages have come. Over 20 years with this company, 3 kids, and starting over. Im over 50, and have to start over.
Take it and run or be fired later. Its true.

company will keep making cuts to craft and techs until the union is gone, then hire contractors to do all the work, we all know this is what is going on, because the company keeps saying they dont have the dollars yet keep hiring more non union employees for everything from graphics to contract managers. central office, broadband, network and customer techs will follow dispatch, service and area supervisors as level 3 destroys the local areas of the company. Its time to either spin off the utility and service parts of the business so those who have always done all the work and satisfied the customers and end users before all of our customers are so fed up that they will never come back.

They are laying off all mid level management so the bosses can have their golden parachute. Unreal. Been there 19 years and just got the can.

Welcome to the new ENRON

Executives stuffing their pockets !
Used to be proud to work here, I do find it harder and harder everyday.

Challenge anyone of those executive pocket stuffers to perform my duties w/o the proper tools.

"If they would hold employees accountable for their lazy ways, get rid of the non workers. Nope they just cut the ones who were raised for success and care too much. "

Yeah they should start in the facility in Colorado where the Executive Management hangs out. Make decisions without caring about the fallout and repercussions of them.

If they would hold employees accountable for their lazy ways, get rid of the non workers. Nope they just cut the ones who were raised for success and care too much.

I resigned from CenturyLink late June. They dont want to say it or even admit it but everything is being outsourced to some pile where they can pay people a third of the work. CenturyLink customer service and tech support is a joke and getting worse. They sell contracts to 3rd party vendor companies who slam and cram customers with service they didnt ask for. Yet there is no reconciliation or discipline for them. Anyone remember the handful of states that were going to sue CenturyLink. Well you can thank vendors for that. When I worked there 70% of the calls were to fix vendors orders or remove telephone equipment from their properties haha. All CenturyLink cares about is DirecTV at least on the consumer side. That place is a joke and I'm happy to get outta there before it implodes on tha massive amount of debt it has.

I worked for Century in Marion many years ago. i remember the conversations with original owners of going public that 1 day the company would be bought out but they wanted to expand and knew by the time the buyout occurred they would be long gone. when top executive mgmt left, it was over particularly when huge chunks of stock were sold. it’s time to start looking for another job at Century. good luck as you’ll be better off.

I’ll go ahead & say what no one else will say....Jeff Storey is one sorry MF! In all honesty, how are we suppose to keep customers when CTL PURPOSELY hold trouble reports for 3 days before releasing them to be worked! Unless you’re paying our company 1000.00 or more a month, that assh**le doesn’t even want or care for your business. THAT IS FACT! To top it all off, he is stuffing people out of bonuses, stiffing people out of raises, stiffing people out of on call pay, stiffing people out of Christmas bonuses. Said they couldn’t afford Christmas bonuses that would have totaled 7.8 million dollars, but could fork out 7.4 million to the top 4 people trashing a once great company.

No one wants to hear this, but EVERY employee in this company need to come together under 1 union banner & fight for 24 hr commitment times on trouble, reinstate bonuses for as long as the fat cats get theirs & most of all, the termination of Jeff Storey from OUR company!

Has anyone heard of a rumor that CTL will spin-off their local division as a volley to Frontier to purchase it?

Reduction In Force (RIF) is presently in place in FL. Buyout packages were offered and taken in January...one week later, forced reduction in force (fired). Now in April 2019, another "buyout" offering. Get a week of salary for every year with the company and insurance at your current rate for two years (no need for more expensive COBRA). Head games with the workforce...clearly. The industry is changing. Take every penny you can now...and run! The company will be a split of contract employees (making half of the company employees) with no cost to the company of benefits/insurance/equipment. It is common sense business operations to stay sustainable and give the shareholders the dividend they are accoustemed. Don't be mad, Technology, offshore cheaper labor and less customer focus is needed to stay in the game. If you cannot see this, you are foolish.

I'm sitting here wanting to RETIRE. A EVSPP job match would work for me. And to let you know the caliber of people this company is hiring, read this. There is a conference room behind my desk. It's used it for training. This is what one girl said. "I gotta get me some grub. I ain't bring any"/ that's a quote folks. This is the company's future folks.

century link 5G installation 2019

I'm hearing rumors that layoff are happening right now.

5 g will not take over the world. People still have land lines and flip cell phones. Also slower internet speed because they don't want to spend a bunch of money on this stuff.

5G is driving these business changes, residential services as you know it will change for the better with no inside wiring and eventually won't be monopolized by any one carrier. (Good for consumers, bad for Cable monkeys, like me)

Residential media access will be ran much like business is where it could go as far as a 3rd party service provider who will provide media content if they're collocated to the local POP, i.e. if Charter communications wants to provide IP based services to customers in the Phoenix market they'll have to collocate in Phoenix.

Cox has a couple (if not, just one that I know of for sure) of Neighborhoods in Las Vegas that have a semi complete setup like this where the entire subdivision is lit wirelessly and all services are an IP based subscription. If you don't have a Smart TV, a set top box is sent to the customer and is plug and play, but it's all COX at the moment.

Prism had/has something similar to this to speed up access for those savvy enough to get it working, the instructions were pretty straight forward. So it's not completely unconceivable to see Prism to come back from dead in some form.

CenturyLink is bringing fiber to the curb with POPs in every conceivable area with laterals along their fiber routes.

Providing access to carriers who provide media content is where the money is and Jeff Story and Co. See that in CTLs future.

Don't blame Jeff, he's just doing his job who's beholden to the shareholders.

Calling him greedy isn't fair.

If anything needs to change is the lust for making money at any and all costs which is driven by shareholders.

Have there been any Regional Supervisor Layoffs in Colorado in January or February 2019?

Just got back from office. I just do not know how long this company will last. Jeff you greedy bad yard.

up next....Dividend cut.

Just to survive the madness is a miracle.

Telecom is no career. There is ever ending layoffs and while only the beast survive these environments. Do yourself a favor....Set yourself free of the insanity and realize there is hope in building careers outside of telecom.

Layoffs underway in north Fl. (ibew)

Let the rolling begin...

Its not a rumor when you get walked out.

ONA Dept in Monroe RIF'd five to eight more this week

level 3 is destroying what was a great company. The tv service was finally working well, then they sc-apped it with no replacement. We had the best customer service, so they shipped all calls overseas. Now if you have a problem, you will spend hrs on the phone only to be pressured by a Filipino to buy something extra instead of resolving the problem. Even the service tech's calls are going overseas now to a foreigner that can't be understood. Instead of spending money on the outside plant, they are spending millions on technician tracking tools that don't work. Next, you can say goodbye to your telephone line. So, when the power goes out, so does your phone. After years of a hiring freeze and "restructuring", we can barely keep up with customer trouble tickets, now we are facing layoffs. Good job guys! If wanted be as bad as comcast, you're on the right track.

Layoffs started today Naples FL

I was part of this RIF

I was RIF’d this morning at 8 am. Sales took a big hit today and rumor more layoffs coming for my group. Good luck to you who are left.

I see Jeff Storey sold 931 building in Denver, what’s next The the rest of the company? What a greedy b--tard

Funny how when asked about the annual Christmas bonus Jeff Storey said he didn't believe in non performance related incentives yet he himself along with many other SR Execs received huge sign on bonuses as part of the Level 3 hostile takeover of Centurylink that Centurylink financed. In fact Jeff received $6.6 Million dollars as a sign on bonus. https://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/01/level-3-executives-centurylink-acquisition/

Let's all strike f ctl

Level 3 was famous for 1 or 2 layoffs a year. But then again so was XO and every other Telcom company out there.

There will always be layoffs.

CenturyLink downsizing will be happening by end of January 2019 and again at the end of March and yet again by the middle to end of 2nd quarter. Everything will eventually be contracted out to off-shore workers.

Saw 5G in Akron Ohio last month. Also all over Orlando toward Disney World and International Drive area as well as the Airport.

Not to worry, in heavily concentrated area of South American immigrants, they aren't doing it. Tell your customers to get used to 10meg speeds.

That is what they once said about cell service when it first came out years ago. It’s too expensive. It will never take off. Well they were wrong. Cell service took off.

This is the same thing. It’s here. Let’s be real. It’s going to take off.

Man I am sick of saying this. I see these posts about how 5g is going to swallow all of our customers. 5g is nowhere near positioned as the poster would like us to think of overtaking dsl and gpon data service...YET. There is a pseudo form of 5G available in small areas of the us that is being TRIALED now in 3 or 4 cities but it is not the 5g of the future, which requires many many more cell “access points” be installed to support the 5g signal...and these access points have to be backwired to the existing celltowers in a given area, which requires permits from property owners and cities where the 5g install is going to take place. Overall it is is massive effort that will have to done before 5g infrastructure can be in place for the service to occur. This isn’t going to happen for years yet. As misinformed the poster is about 5g, I would disregard anything else he/she says about ctl telecom business.

5G will take the consumer and small business customers. CenturyLink gets 25% plus of its total revenue from those two markets. The RBOCs (legacy Qweat) and LECs (legacy CenturyLink) will become wholesale to the QCC network for local access. Maybe a merger with T-Mobile/Sprint or Amazon AWS. Without either, CenturyLink is going to lose revenue with no way to replace it. I think November layoffs and a restructure needed to complete merger and prep for the new competitive environment in 2019.

My advise to anyone just make the move to another company whether it be telecom or not you'll be so much happier. Making the early move means you get the better job. just a honest opinion.