Thread regarding CenturyLink layoffs

How We Got Here

Just listen to this YouTube Tech Talks seminar presentation by Tim Walden from two and a half years ago. Between all of the inane corporate PC culture buzz-word babble such as "It takes a village" (id--t,) you will be able to pick out such treasures as partnering with our competitors to provide local service to new areas. I suppose that way, "there are no losers and everyone gets a trophy," a PC standard of the Obama era. You will also hear a Freudian slip about "how do we get rid of people?" close the end. You will also be able to hear him babbling about the supply chain failures that he has only perpetuated. But he's still there isn't he, and the stock is still tanked. Here's the video.

https://youtu.be/GlTpgUHxJ3c

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"All corporations have a make no wave culture. It is in their DNA. Just like when a VP says something passing by your work station someone hears it and takes off on it as if it was a command.

Thinking in our culture is under rated nor are we really paid for it."

Spoken like a Management type.

In the Field when we hear a VP talk it's more like what an id--t they are so unaware.

Which is what got us here.

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Post ID: @kacj+Zr86dzY

All corporations have a make no wave culture. It is in their DNA. Just like when a VP says something passing by your work station someone hears it and takes off on it as if it was a command.

Thinking in our culture is under rated nor are we really paid for it.

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Post ID: @jbtc+Zr86dzY

1.5 years later and you still post on here? You obviously are NOT done with it, sorry they hurt you so badly but I can tell you that “they” don’t give a single thought of you. So my advice is let it go, stop coming on here wallowing in it and put it in the rear view mirror for real. Unless misery is your true happiness? Find a support group if you need it. In the end every current and former employee are just a number and we all know it’s just a numbers game.

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Post ID: @3zgw+Zr86dzY

its been 1.5 years since i was given the cardboard box and a ride home after 20 yrs , from pulling in the Qwest fiber up 14 stories to all night fiber cuts to 600 mile days it was an adventure , Thanks Jeff Fred, Bruce for the severance stuck it my 401K , sold house , moved out of state . great memories and pride , oh yeah the get the Fiber testing done so we can have the merger go through then lay me off that was a dirty trick but hey its nothing personal its just business , I never got around to sabotage like you feared but some one else did last year around Christmas now that was just your pay back , I don't have time for that , " ROCK ON ! " good luck in your future endeavors .....you wont see me applying for part time contracts with all the other Field engineers , Field techs , , done with this industry forever !

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Post ID: @3awk+Zr86dzY

Walden is just another who once meant well, but soul. The “make no waves” comments are so true. When there are the occasional skip level meetings the supervisors/managers only select yes men to attend. If you dare to speak out about problems, even when offering to contribute to the solution, you are labeled as negative and punished financially. Look what happened to the whistleblower who told Glenn about customer billing fraud. The current pres of consumer markets once told a crowd when she was over engineering that those who spoke out against problems were just “victims” not adjusting to change. With 10 men to 3 women execs her job is stable for now. They just keep going with poor leadership right to where they are now.

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Post ID: @ijh+Zr86dzY

So actually, if you took the time to listen to the presentation, you will see that Walden in talking about streamlining the service delivery process. Actually, this is exactly what our engineers have been telling their local managers for a very long time, but their input is chopped off at the local management level, and never makes it to the ivory towers of where Mr. Walden and the other see, hear, and speak on evil senior executives reside. The greatest complaint is the rigid, antiquated, antiquated patchwork of information systems that are required to process a product for delivery to the customer. But did you hear Mr. Walden say anything about that? He's like the captain of a ship who is issuing an order to turn the ship after he has been ignoring the team in the engine room as they have been telling him for years that the engine is so patched together that it can barely mover the ship forward, much less turn the thing. You can't implement changes in supply chain procedures until you provide engineers with tools that will adapt to the changes you want to implement. There's nothing wrong with the changes that Mr. Walden was pleading for in the video, but he is among the very ones who have created a "make no waves" PC culture a CTL that prevents the men and women in the engine room from advising him that his ideas simply won't work without re-designing their obsolete design and implementation tools. In fact, those who have gone outside of the box to implement their own "workarounds" to speed orders up, have been and/or terminated for daring to do the very things that Mr. Walden says he wants to implement. Personally, I'm way past the give a sh1t level of concern about what any of the "make no waves crowd" at CTL think now, as many are, so expect some waves as the ship's engine grinds to a halt.

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