Thread regarding CenturyLink layoffs

Layoff is not uncommon

Layoff.... RIF...It's a hot topic. But it's no longer a rarity. Business changes and demands changes. Work style and work expectation change everyday.

If you are near to retirement and already work on the same company for more than 20 yrs ask if you have changed your work style or thinking that length of service warrants recognition? Length of service is no longer equate to performance. Face it and upgrade ourselves so when we are RIF you are still in demand. If near retirement age just enjoy your new life.

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Post ID: @OP+Y1GYKmj

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Correct. No building maintenance unless it's a head shed where the L3 boys are sitting or they bring large customers to shmooze. Our buildings look horrible inside and out. Janitorial services clean once a month. Trash cans overflow onto floors in reporting centers and COs until they show up to clean or the guys get tired of the smell and take it out and use their own trash bags from home. Toilet paper from home and hand soap.

Air conditioning on offices down for months if not years. Rather than replace or fix them, pay a CO guy OT to open doors till things cool off enough to clear the alarms. Shut doors and repeat again. Major hosts without AC. We might have to fix them when summer comes, we will see is the answer. Even the building mechanics are frustrated.

And offices with dead batteries that go down evey time the power is out. No money for batteries either. You get trouble tickets Monday from the weekend and call the customer. Yeah, we came back when the power came on. Our phones go dead every time the power goes out. Been happening for years.

Fiber trailers that you are afraid to tow because the lights don't work and who knows about the brakes cause they haven't been inspected for years. Generators the same thing and lucky if they run or produce electric when you do take them out.

And then there is the no spare cards thing. Customers out of service for who knows how long cause the geniuses took all our spares that we didn't hide from them so we could try to keep the poor remaining customers in service. We won't even talk about piss poor cable or all the temporary hanging or laying around.

Then there is technician morale. It goes on and on. Techs at other companies think you are lying when you tell them how this circus is run. We are doomed. Everyone knows it and upper management thinks we don't realize how done we really are.

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Post ID: @1qrt+Y1GYKmj

When the Qwest merger happened the baseline was forget maintenance it costs money and were in for the short haul and won't see a return, that was passed on to Centurylink the holding company where if it doesn't give you a write off or a return on investment don't do it till it's broke, now it's broke and we tell the customer your on copper were not supporting you. We want customers that pay with 0000's plus not under a 100 dollars.

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Post ID: @1wxc+Y1GYKmj

Anyone with a brain knows when you let your plant get in the condition ours is in, there is no way we can survive.

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Post ID: @yaz+Y1GYKmj

Union, entitlement, dated assets and former blind leadership is a combo for disaster. Hence, where CTL is today.

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Post ID: @tor+Y1GYKmj

Thanks for the wisdom Jeff kisser, but let's get serious. CTL's RIFs are being caused by bad management, not length of employees service. CTL has had an identity crisis for way too long and it's too late to be saved. It's now no more then a dying vehicle for Sr. VPs to catch a golden parachute ride upon.

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