So what happens to the balance on your Healthcare reimbursement card whenever they give you the axe? Recently let go with a package and have almost four grand on my HRA card. Does Storey put that in his pocket or do they give that to you somehow?... —  read more 

CenturyLink has lost 1.5 billion in market cap since the name change.

Guess managers are p-ss-d off now too. Welcome to the club. You all have been drinking the kool aid and are now figuring out the company does not care about you. This email is spreading like wildfire. Enjoy. Lumen Leadership, —  read more 

Any knowledge on why new OSP projects are not being released by upper management?

You know how your told not to tell anyone? I was a tech 2 field technician. I was making $64,500 plus 10 percent bonus. Please share yours.

Thoughts on the future of local OSP and ISP?

Heard they're letting ALL the COTs go in Minneapolis. Anyone confirm this?

I see there were more layoffs yesterday. I can’t see how letting go of hard working employees can solve the problems this company is facing - especially with the leadership team we have in place. In my opinion most if not ALL should be replaced with... —  read more 

Rumor is most of the current sales force is being axed today.

No lie 8 of us have left in less than a year. The BS was too much, the new director is a complete clown. So happy I'm finally gone . Don't expect anything to get better..it hasn't and it won't!

first LUMEN job posted on all the job websites , Engineering Denver , the link does not describe the position it just takes you to LUMEN .

who's outage is it?

once the non corrupt officials see how centurylink didn't protect the federal data whatsoever, say goodbye to all federal business. ctl is the swamp and the internet outage from january 2019 is likely going to re appear on nov 4 as an internet... —  read more 

Anyone else in Minnesota get an interesting letter from an Attorney’s office this week?

I've been gone for a little over a year. I figured I'd come check this place out one more time and I can't believe I'm saying this, but judging by these posts it looks like things are even worse than when I was shown the door. I was devastated when I... —  read more 

22 years attt plus 14 level 3 then centurylink cam along and on my own moral terms I said this is enough of what I can stand as a human with lying bigotry favoritism and the beat goes on I am free from it now but the pure resentment continues... —  read more 

They lost the info war, the people know telco's are the slowest option. The customers keep leaving for a reason and the stock goes down.

A rose by another name still has the same thorns. Another waste of resources and money in an attempt to make the stock move up from near all time lows.

hearing word of bonus che ks to all employees next week. In honor of New Lumen branding celebration.

He's out and new guy is AT&T guy, dominoes falling fast now.

Hearing that a lot of RIFs coming next week....

All the contractors are training to do fiber optic Installs and maintenance. Contracting companies told to hire more and more techs because they plan on laying off the majority of CTL outside technician work force by the end of the year. I’d be... —  read more 

kept in the dark and fed s**t.........

I am still with the company and I work with a lot of different department to get services delivered to the customer. 99% of the people I work with over the phone or in person work hard to do the same as I do. We want to do our jobs and feel a part of... —  read more 

I currently work on the enterprise sales side. From what I heard on the global call after the email fiasco is this: Residential and Small business will remain CenturyLink. Basically the copper side of the business. Mid size and enterprise fiber... —  read more 

CenturyLink Rebrands as Lumen September 14th, 2020 by Rob Powell · Leave a Comment The big news at CenturyLink that was rumored over the weekend has officially come out. It's primarily a re-branding rather than anything more drastic, looking to... —  read more 

Heard that we may have seen the last of VSPP pkgs. . Should we have been told about this move so we could have made our decision on if we were going to go or not,I mean this is life changing stuff,come on!

Anyone else hearing rumors about something big going down next week

So right before I took the vspp, I had sold 4 gig fiber jobs. Boss tells me oh yeah you'll get paid even though you're gone. Keep your youcan card. Well it's been five months and I don't need to tell you what happened. For a brief second I considered... —  read more 

Haha. Century link with contractors doing copper lines. What’s next ? Doing fiber? Negotiate contacts better. Where is ppe? Gas cost exploding. Broke. Hearing about layoffs before contract expires. Supplies running low.

Major outages this weekend. It was enivetable. You layoff all your talent and keep contracting out, and your end result is outages. It has been happening at lower levels and nobody cares. Now it's happening at higher levels, now will management pay... —  read more 

With century link looking at fiber. Will the one guy bring it down like mentioned before. Big cities to small town in the past or future. So tired of management c-ap. Time to try harder. Vspp. Cobra. Just vote

Centurylink settled at least two cases against them this week. One being with the Department of Justice for antitrust violations, and another a class action by engineers for violation of FLSA overtime wage law. Other lawsuits have been settled... —  read more 

For anyone that took the recent VSPP offers, can you explain how Cobra works. I keep getting different answers from HR. Have upcoming surgery very shortly after my end date. Can't get a straight answer about going from payroll deduction to paying for... —  read more 

Recently One of the best most Knowledgeable managers I ever had in all my years in Telecom Retired and I am sure he was forced out by your out of date " Iron fist " micromanagement, metric style. Yet you keep those directors and managers with... —  read more 

This is from the recent 10Q report. https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000001892620000022/ctl-20200630.htm

Took severance in June, feel like my old happy self again. No more weighted down stress, apologizing all day to customers for being a company that makes ZERO changes to streamline delivery. Changes they do make are counterproductive. I feel for... —  read more