So does anyone know or heard anything about the next round of layoffs? Where, when or who? With FCC investigating the recent outage and a massive fine no doubt looming just wondering how many will be let go to make up that $$. Just waiting on my pink slip.
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Got a email from a co-worker in Seattle today (5/3/19). it says: "The company announced they are closing a collections office in Shreveport affecting 166 employees".
The company is doing nothing to stop or slow down the churn.
What does that tell you?
we will all be next after 2020
I'm hearing layoffs today. Can anyone confirm?
The behind the scenes systems are not great. We are beginning to see the price of outsourcing everything to CTL India and those worker turnover rapidly so no knowledge remains. Meanwhile onshore theyvmove the experts remaining into jobs where they no little to nothing and when the big systems go down, nobody knows nothing. The systems to track certain kinds of traffic are either non existent or another abandoned legacy system victim ... i know tons about these systems but work in an area where I can’t ensure they continue to work reliably. It’s c-ap management that’s destroying the company and you remove the remaining experts and you have Homer Simpson running almost everything. Not good.
It just happened today. Six in my old group were let go and from what I am hearing it is company wide across the board.
Some of the young techs have finally taken the rose colored glasses off and are beginning to realize they have no future here. There are still a few who think everything is ok. Anyone with more than 10 years service knows it's NOT ok. 20+ really understand how bad it is. Anyone age 45 and under should be looking HARD for a job.
First they have to create a plausible deniability excuse, Vendor or a Contractor or Equipment defect of some kind, 50 hrs is a long time to not have emergency services. Telling people go to a location instead of calling is also insensitive. ( My dads having a heart attack, let me load him in the car and navigate traffic to get to a Fire Station or ask the partner you live with that had to much holiday spirit and is mad and abusing you to wait till you get to a police station to continue to hit you.) There is a reason they are called emergency services, having them out during the Holidays for this length of time is inexcusable.
There is going to be a lot of fall out over this I am sure, it won't be the Exec's that take the hit however, never is. Funny thing is they want everything on fiber because of the reliability and less maintenance, but in recent years we have had more outages then we had the last 25 years as US West / Ma Bell or even Qwest on that Copper they are in such a hurry to get rid of.
In 2015 they paid 16 million for a 6 hour 911 outage. This one went 50 hours. That would be around 130 million? And lost sales from the bad PR....
Great question. This outage is going to make selling tough. A PR nightmare. It would be nice if leadership would let the workers know what the future holds so we can plan instead of speculate and stress.