For anyone who's considering investing with Frontier (Fybr), as someone who worked there for nearly 10 years, the one and ONLY thing that has gotten better around there is their marketing. They still have trash service; their field techs went from... — read more
Layoffs
Will Frontier lay-off Nick?
Stock price!
Wow... this thing was cut in half since February. Great job, everyone!
"Costs higher than our competitors"
Yes, there are many totally unnecessary managers here and they cost the company too much. I wonder if our competitors have so many useless managers who do almost nothing and without whom everything would work much better?
Congrats Nick
For leading FTR stock from over $ 33 a share to a tad over $ 15 today. Well done!
How Much $ Wasted on Dallas Headquarters?
He is the King of Excess. Nick should explain why he chose to rent 4 floors of prime real estate in uptown Dallas for millions of dollars rather than office at Frontier's local buildings. It's all about keeping up appearances for this man. He cares... — read more
So what's the plan?
Is Nick going to take a nice bonus and sell this place or what?
Alien & St. Peter NOC
๐คก๐คก๐คก time upโฆ.turn out the lightsโฆthe party is over. ๐๐๐
CEO E-Mail - While Addressed to Employees, Should Read = "Dear Wall Street"
The 1500 heads out is a pure play for Wall Steet. Frontier stock is at $ 15.76 as I look this morning compared to $ 33.41 in November of 21'. Down over 50%. Great job Frontier! Peer companies are down too, but not by nearly as much. Great job... — read more
Frontier CEO email
Team, Since I joined the company, I’ve always been open and direct, even when it comes to sharing difficult news. This is one of those times. Today we are making changes to our organization that will result in the reduction of our overall... — read more
Frontier Announces 1500 Layoffs
This morning CEO Nick Jeffreys sent an email to all employee's titled "Changes to our organization", that stated 1500 people across the company will be losing their jobs.
INVESTMENT -- INSIDERS KNOW THE TRUTH!
Institutional ownership 5% Institutional mutual fund ownership 2% Mutual fund ownership 4% Insider ownership 7% Other
Putting lipstick on the pig
Since Frontier was purchased by an investment firm. It’s clear the current culture of putting lipstick on the pig, Is entirely for the illusion that frontier can be profitable for an eventual unsuspecting entity to purchase this boat anchor for an... — read more
Dog can't hunt..........
FYBR nearing record lows. The FYBR cheerleading lackeys over at yahoo finance will not save you. Elliott needs to merge this fat pig with Windstream and get it over for the "love of god". Too much old regime New York running this garbage. Subpar... — read more
Leadership
Question: is the leadership and management of all companies useless, corrupt and/or ineffective. You'd think so reading this board. Makes you wonder two things: either it's true, which would make it amazing that our country has become so... — read more
ISPโs to be released any day now in California.
ISP packages to be released any day now for Equipment Maintainers, Customer Service Technician 1, Equipment Installers and SSP Technicians. Rough estimates calling between 30-40 ISP packages to be offered. If not all ISP packages are taken look for... — read more
What's the best...
Layoff you ever did see? Surely we all know some lazy A-s dudes who got it in the neck and we all thought they deserved it to give us all a better chance. Just sayin'. Must be a good layoff we'all wanted to see happen at some point.
I have a Question......
For ya'll on here: Is the best way to defend our jobs to embrace change and make the company successful, or...... Is the best way to defend our jobs to insist that working practices don't change, demand pay goes up and then we all hope things... — read more
Are layoffs always bad?
Or are they sometimes good? VPs, non-union, management etc. Or ones that help the company overall be a success? I assume everyone here thinks these would be good layoffs. Proving the point that not all layoffs, in any function, are bad?
Copper is DEAD ๐ IN CALIFORNIA!
With all this rain and flooding, it should be mandatory 7 days of work right now and yet Frontier has Ghost crews covering wet cables. This is truly a sign of the time as multiple forms of communications have penetrated the Copper Temple. IF YOUR A... — read more
60 More layed off
Any idea which departments this effects?
Vendor takeover
If your position can be moved to fully wah, it can be moved to vendors in India where they work for pennies on the dollar; aka sl@ve labor. Keep that in mind.
Elliott Management
Elliott Management. Immediate review required. Too much top brass not contributing to the bottom line. Elliott Management, we need ROI ! FRONT LINE WORKERS ARE UP TO THE HILT... — read more
FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS CUTS FIBER BUILD BY 300,000 HOMES.
FYBR may face the challenge of funding its fiber expansion goal in a rising rates environment. Frontier expects to have 1.3 million fiber homes in 2023 (a 6% y/y increase), which is lower than the 1.6 million homes it had previously projected (a 30%... — read more
Packages In CA?
Heard something about assignment getting one?
This place is a complete waste!
This new mobile tech portal next nonsense is just as much a piece of junk as the other version, and I heard on the listen live that they are not hiring any more people in IT. I look forward to spending my day waiting on hold to talk to someone. Heck... — read more
INVESTORS - VOICE YOUR COMPLAINTS!
https://www.elliottmgmt.com/make-contact/ Shut down Allen NOC. St. Petersburg, Florida has adequate facilities. MILLIONS CAN BE SAVED NOW! WRITE ELLIOTT! CALL ELLIOTT!
Alien NOC
When are they shutting done Allen NOC and moving to Florida! Do something Elliott we need ROI. The stock has failed to perform since the bankruptcy!
COs
Any rumors re the futures of CA, FL, TX central offices?
FIBER VS COPPER
As many of you know, Frontier has recently stopped selling new Residential Copper DSL in CA, TX, FL & CT. WV and Rochester NY are the most recent additions of that same initiative. An interesting STORM โ๏ธ is brewing in California. The Copper... — read more
I'm curious to know....
For those on there who love to complain about Frontier - if you don't like where the company is going what's stopping ya'll from leaving?
Vendors
It goes without saying that our vendors are are either stupid, lazy or both.
Frontier adds record fiber broadband customers in Q4
Frontier Communications (NASDAQ:FYBR) added 75,000 fiber broadband customers in the fourth quarter of 2022, marking the largest quarterly increase to date. Fiber broadband customer additions outpaced copper broadband customer losses for the fifth... — read more
More Tampa layoffs
Tampa TSO (tech support) got told right before Christmas they are being let go as of 2/17. That’s 16 agents and 2 supervisors. So with the 62 from Tampa dispatch laid off that’s 80 people cut 4th qtr. Nick of course lied about no more layoffs in the... — read more
Get lost cash?
Any rumors maybe not layoffs but packages 2023.Yum carrot instead of ouch stick. where, what groups??
Unfavorable macroeconomic environment dampens fiber buildout expectations
Despite aggressive plans to deploy fiber to residential and commercial premises across the U.S., macroeconomic challenges such as inflation, supply chain and labor pressures have slowed buildouts this year and will remain headwinds for the top fiber... — read more
Americast Cable by GTE
Do any of you remember Americast Cable TV that was owned and operated by GTE. Only lasted about 2 years before GTE shut it down and sold off the cable TV plant. Stupid decisions like to run all new RG7 instead of using the existing RG6 took the... — read more
Frontier Communications Layoffs 2023
This is a master thread about Frontier Communications layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
CALIFORNIA CWA DISTRICT 9 and FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
CWA DISTRICT 9 and FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENT ON CONTRACT. CONGRATULATIONS ๐พ๐๐๐ CALIFORNIA ๐ป ๐บ๐ธ ๐ต๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ท ๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ธ๐ป ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐จ๐บ ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐ท ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ป๐ณ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐น๐ญ ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฌ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐
Just Let This Place Die
That is all.....