Thread regarding Windstream Corp. layoffs

you would have to be on crack or the loseateam kool aid to to believe this garbage.

Not many people believe this clueless person:

https://www.channelpartnersonline.com/article/windstream-to-cut-partners-increase-commissions-during-bankruptcy/4/

"CP: What’s the vision for Windstream once the chapter 11 process is over?

CA: It’s really an extension of what the vision was, this continued migration away from being primarily a legacy telco and more of a solutions provider with a dynamite network underneath it. In some ways we could argue that this accelerates us there. Certainly we’ll have a different debt profile on the other side of this and you could argue it would be a lot more favorable than the one we had, so in ways that will free us up to more aggressively invest in the battles that we want to fight and win. So other than the headwind this year of running into that breeze of bankruptcy, as you get into 2020 and 2021 and beyond, this probably accelerates us to that next-generation provider that we’ve been pushing to be.

We weren’t anywhere near going bankrupt until Aurelius won that court case with us. So we’re able to address that inside of a financial restructuring, and that’s why we think it may be only nine or 10 months. It’s the same plan going forward."

Clearly he is blowing smoke up somebody's a$$! Lol! 'We weren't anywhere near going bankrupt' - then why was there so many reverse splits, why was the stock in the $3 to $4 range before losing the court case - while before TT became the CEO - the stock was in the $60-$70 range?

Simple - the executives ran the company into the ground on purpose, and it will be business as usual once they get out of Chapter 11. Same clueless zombie executives will be running this shell of a company, until they can find a buyer (s---er) to buy all the legacy equipment.

I won’t say where I was when the name windstream came about however; it

Nuvox got us a big a-- office in Greenville that we couldn’t afford. Along with a slew of people that were grossly over paid. A NOC that was incoherent.

Now let’s talk about KDL, they had a quite prosperous company. But had a pretty high operating expense. Still a good buy in my opinion. We’ve managed to dismantle that now.

Now paetec. A completely broke company with even more grossly paid people than nuvox. Way more. Then we drag almost all of their leadership into windstream. There was a time, I wasn’t sure who bought who. Each time we done this we lost people from the original company and each time, records took the hit. Shall I keep going?

So we buy EL? WTF? We didn’t have to buy EL. We were already in a position to take most of their customers anyway.

So we basically bought ELs Rolodex and payroll.

A 3rd grader can see all of this is a horrible idea

I worked at Nuvox. It was a good company. It sure was better than where I am now. The people that started the company, started another and sold Nuvox. These people started telecom in Greenville. I've worked for them many times

Nuvox was on the verge of being unable.to.meet payroll when it was acquired.

PAETEC required a large loan from WIN to keep them solvent so they could limp along to legal day 1.

ELINK had just as many issues with aging equipment as WIN except somehow managed to have even worse management.

The only decent acquisition we had was QCOMM.

The board is obsessed with making WIN. A growth company and as a result has pursued many poorly considered transactions.

NUVOX was garbage. Sell. Install. Disconnect.

"Most of the dead weight came when Alltel/Windstream purchased a company and the upper management came to Windstream."

This dead weight added already to the clueless zombies in Little Rock - now they could also add the people who were turned into zombies in Greenville. Not to mention a new VP in many groups every few months.

Once WINMQ comes out of Chapter 11 and gets acquired at discounted prices, all these zombies will be gone.

We would see more rational decisions if we actually had MBAs running things.

Windstream was put together with the friends of friends school of business.

Same could be said for every CLEC I have worked for. None of the the 4 mergers ai have been thru were a good idea. Looks great on paper and fails on execution. NUvox was ok, PAETEC was great pre IPO, same goes for the others. All of these MBA'S think they have it figured out but they don't.

Ok Vox folks, y’all were struggling too otherwise Win wouldn’t have acquired you.

Nuvox didn't have our own fiber but we had a great customer base and our service worked. And it was a great place to work

Where can I purchase some EI.

I don’t think Nuvox had any fiber. They sold VoIP and Data bundles with occasional Metroe transport.

Yeah the people that helped dig the ditch now promise to pull us out of it. So motivated to go to work tomorrow!